Healing and Sympathy

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• For Jim Houston, the husband of Kelly George’s mother, who is entering hospice care.
• For Howard Brown, who fell on a stream/park clean-up and suffered a broken nose.
• For the family and friends of Johanna Wilder, who died on April 3.  
• For the family and friends of Len Delony, a friend of Jaydee Hanson, and husband of Rev. Beka Miles-Deloney, who died recently. We give thanks for the faith and witness of Len as he lived with various cancers for much of his life.  
• For Matthew, who is recovering from a heart attack

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For those battling cancer and long-term illness:

Heather Weir, Cathy Young, David Gantz, Cathy Jones, Cristina Gomez James, Rob Snead, Irene Lyons, David Rohrer, David Hammerly, Karen Watkins, Deirdre, Blanche Blumenfield, Peter Picciano, Pat, Mindy, Elizabeth Carnahan, Fran, Tim, Cynthia Nelson, Miriam Diehl-Weinberg, Phyllis Vail, Cris Breece, Tom, Jana, Kent

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‍Prayers for the World

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• For communities in the U.S. that have celebrated Earth Day for 54 years, as a way of Caring for Creation.
• For the General Conference of The United Methodist Church as it begins its two-week meeting this week. We pray for Karen McElifish, who is a delegate for Virginia Conference and Jaydee Hanson, who is an alternate delegate who is lobbying for changes in church policy on LGBTQ+ and Creation Care issues. 

• For the U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, who has said he plans to advance a long-stalled national security spending package to aid Israel, Ukraine and other American allies.
• For the more than 14,000 workers that electric car company Tesla has announced that it will lay off.
• For peace in Ukraine and Israel.