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Prayer List - July 2026

◙   Prayer List            July

Please remember to keep in your prayers our sisters and brothers of the Saint Barnabas Community during the week.

○ We pray for all churches in the Anglican Communion.

○ We pray for congregations in the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago: Congregations in the Rockford Deanery: Holy Trinity in Belvidere; St. Paul in DeKalb; St. Luke in Dixon; Grace in Freeport; St. Andrew’s-in the-Fields in Farm Ridge; Companion Dioceses of SE Mexico and Renk: La Transfiguración in Oaxaca; St. Michael in Paloch

○ We pray for those who celebrate birthdays: Logan Carlsen (3rd), Mary Beine (14th), Phil Gieschen (14th), CJ Scott (14th), Thomas Kolathu (14th), Mike Czech (15th), Jane Messah-Ericksen (16th), Ava Kolathu (20th), Marie Czech (23rd), Teresa Gunderson (24th), Isabel DuBert (27th), Cate Croteau (27th), Rodney Clapp (30th)

○ We pray for those who celebrate the anniversary of their baptism: Daniel Gunderson, Bonnie Pollworth.

○ We pray for those who celebrate the anniversary of their wedding: Jonathan & Judi Horjus (3rd), Jay & Georgia Baum (12th), Robert & Patty Dixon (29th), Don & Bonnie Pollworth (31st)

○ For those in need of healing: Thomas Cunningham, Deacon Iva, Teresa Gunderson, Marcia Lehe, Beatrice Nkhoma, Ramon Ortiz, Ramona O’Connor, Christine Salisbury-Poncin, Bob Trask, Erin Keables, Dick Holt, Catherine and Craig Howard, Cari Shields, Robert Dixon, Cate Croteau, Cathy Kuna.

○ For those who seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit: Jay & Georgia Baum, Liam Crawford, Cate Croteau, Phil Gieschen, Andrea Saul, CJ Scott, Derek Scott, Suzanne Scott, Eric & Maddie Wetle, Alexis, Catherine and Craig Howard, the Holt family, Logan Carlsen, Jean Spitzer.

○ We pray for the Search Committee in their pursuit of a new rector: James Keables & Eric Seidelman (Co-Chairs), Patty Dixon, Matt Erion, Judi Horjus, Kim Kucaba, Jane Messah-Ericksen, Bonnie Pollworth.

¶ Family and Friends for Whom We Pray

○ Those in need of healing: Alicia (Kraft), Tom L., Debbie, Keely (Baum), Kelli (Boutin), Mark Lukas, Kevin (Pat O’Connor), (Fr.) Bob Macfarlane, Bob S. (Walsh), Peg Pelch (Baum), John Kraft (Kraft), the McBride Family (Kuna/Wiens), Pete Schroeder, Keith (Kuna), Floyd and Mary, Katy Cunningham, Jeannie & Catherine (Raynor), Mark and Ellen (Trask), Seren (Croteau), Terri Kaslow (Croteau), Bryan B. (Kuna), Katie (Kuna), Nick (Kuna), Kathleen H. (Sampsell), John D. (Kuna), Lydia “Phoenix” Coleman (Kuna).

○ Those who seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit: Mariah Baddorf, Jeff, Jenny, Joe Vasco (Holt), Morgan (Kuna), Kim (Wetle), Derek, James Aliete+ (Sudan), + Joseph (Sudan), Megan, Peter, Peter Butros+ (Sudan), Phil & Karen DuBert (missionaries),  Ron & Erin Hesse (missionaries), Andy Baum, Jason Baum, Sid, Visitors to our Community, Matthew Peterson, Oksana L (Dixon), Logan C (Greenman).