A family from church, our neighbors, is currently on their European Vacation. They left on Saturday, and will be gone for just over two weeks. They planned their trip months ago, and at the time didn’t realize they would be gone Easter Sunday.

But, they ended up being in London then, and decided to visit NT Wright’s church for Easter service.

Now I have to wait til they get back to hear about it.

At Providence, we have a time of corporate prayer, where we pray for various things. Men are asked before hand (usually the night before) if they would pray, and are given a section (Thanksgivings, Petitions, Ongoing, etc.)

One thing we consistently do is pray for another CREC congregation, and also for a local congregation. Each we we pray for two different churches.

This past Sunday, I was called on to pray the petitions, and the CREC congregation we prayed for was Christ Reformed Evangelical Church in Annapolis, MD. Having met Pastor Sauder a few times, and some of the congregants once, and knowing (in bloggerland) Valerie, it was a nice change. I was able to put some actual faces on the people we were praying for, which makes it that much easier to pray for them, and be sincere in the prayer. Not that I’m not sincere otherwise, but it’s much more real when you know them as actual, flesh and blood people, and not just abstractions.

Now I’m waiting to pray for Christ Church of Searcy, AR, since I sort of (that whole blogger/internet thing) know Mike and Pastor Davis.