Lord Hear Our Prayer! (The Week of March 23, 2020)

"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and 
unsearchable things you do not know." (Jeremiah 33:3)

“Psalm 42”, Nederland Zingt  

Hi Family!!!

It is quite a cloudy day today; however, we know God hides sunshine behind the cloud up high above. Even though we don’t see it now, we know it is there always as God allows it for us. It is God’s creation and those are all for us. No wonder why the weather is getting warmer since we are moving closer to it. How’s your spiritual temperature today and this week as we continue to fight with this unseen enemies for our body and spirit? Are we being clean and keeping distance from it? Yes, we are. Depending on our health, our family, our neighbor, our community, our nation and our world will be getting back to healthier places each and every day.

Since the Wisconsin Conference decided to hold our gatherings until April 5, Palm Sunday, at least, including Sunday Worship Service, we will continue to worship in spirit and truth through online. However, our office will keep the door open during our regular hours (M/W/F from Noon till 4:00 p.m.) and continue to carry the ministry of Christ’s church in Markesan and Princeton area without stopping. 

I want to remind you a few things this week. From now on, until all the danger is cleared, we will take this challenging time as our opportunity to grow deeper and stronger in the presence of God in truth and spirit… even staying at home. In other words, we will pray together more and we will read the words of God more, making those our habits as our Christian character. So please take one tenth of your day (24hours) for those practice with God!!!

When you have to come for dropping off your regular offerings or taking some resources or information from the church or serving, please also keep washing your hands before entering and leaving the building with the hand sanitizer provided as well… and keep the healthy social distancing (at least 6 feet) when you talk each other. We all need to be healthy, such a time as this, to carry the ministry of the church continually until it is over. Victory is ours because of the presence of God through Jesus Christ!

Now our churches will continue to find alternative ways to worship together, to grow together, to pray together as well as to meet together through online. So please keep connected with each other and with our web site for further information.

         Web Site (Online Worship)  
      
       https://sites.google.com/markesanumc.org/markesanumc/home  or 
      
       http://www.markesanumc.org/

Also you will be connected with our social network that our church just created last week.

            -Facebook     https://www.facebook.com/markesan.umc.1

            -Twitter           https://twitter.com/PastorK94649280

            - YouTube      https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXlSvzeZRMx9hbgef4wrKGg/videos

You can also find our weekly prayer list through Pastor’s Blog    https://kyochul.blogspot.com/

And also our weekly Lenten Experience from our Web Page https://sites.google.com/markesanumc.org/markesanumc/home

Now we have our prayer list updated for this week. Let us continue to call upon the name of the Lord as we move out of the dark room of confusion and doubt, pain and suffering in blindness… and as we keep clean and distance from the unseen enemy evil including this coronavirus. We will find the treasure of heaven through this challenging time as we worship God in spirit and truth continually!

Thank you all for joining our online service on Sunday last week as well as Lenten Experience last Wednesday. I was so thankful when you all joined worship there on Sunday morning and I sensed God’s presence when we gathered like that even in that way. So don’t forget to join us those two special online gatherings this week too, one on Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m. and the other on Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m.

If you have any questions or prayer concerns, please don’t hesitation to share with me or through the office. We will be happy to answer you and include you in our prayer list.

One more thing, for this week, when you participate the online worship and Lenten experience or even in our social network, please also leave your comments or any questions on our Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blog or our Home Page. This will be a great growing experience for us to learn from each other and also share our faith with all those who joined our circle inside of our church and outside of the church as well.

If you also want to keep that in private, please also call me, email me or message me and let me know. I will love to hear from you all!

Be clean and keep distance!!

pk

“As the Deer”, Cor Ysgol Y Strade