Prayer Requests

At our regularly scheduled worship services, we offer corporate prayers for the needs of people in our congregation and the wider world. See "Worshiping" for a schedule. Throughout the rest of the week, please keep the people listed below in your individual and family prayers, as well. If you have a prayer request to add or remove from this list, please e-mail Pastor Teresa at teresa@towergrovechurch.org or call 772-3970.

We pray for those suffering from illness of body, mind, or spirit, especially for:soldiers and civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, and other war-torn places. We also pray for Trudy (Mary Kay Taber's sister, cancer), Judy (Mary Kay Taber's sister, broken hips), Ellie Ball (cancer), Joyce Harris (friend of Gregory McCalip), Virginia Patterson (friend of Phyllis Mithen's, surgery), Julian (blood pressure problems), Carmen (has Dravet syndrome, experiencing more seizures than usual, starting a new, radical diet), John (Richards, pneumonia), Boyd (friend of John Richards, suffering from severe depression, financial hardship), Mason (Reuben's grandson, who has ROHHAD's syndrome and had a set back), Tristan (Jonathan Danieley's young cousin who was in the ICU and now faces months of rehab), Vincent (friend of Bryan Cather's - a teenager who just had surgery on one lung), Ralph & Ann (Jeffrey D.'s friends), David (Mark Brennan's brother),Christine C. (shoulder injury, recovering from surgery), Amanda (Christine's granddaughter), Jeanne (Alex Moore's mother), Gerry (Marcia's friend, stroke), Kris (Muffin's sister, embulism), Steve (cancer), Akio (Phyllis' friend, praying for guidance in business decisions), Barbara (Nancy Bukovic's mother, surgery), Janet (Gina Malone's mother, illness), Meela (Richard Banton's step-mother, recovering from an accident), Rosalie (recovering from knee replacement), Ramona (friend of Barbara McKee, cancer), Dan (Angela Firle's husband, rectal cancer), Sharron (Crowder, back pain), Bob (Nelle's husband, knee replacement), Jackie (breast cancer, friend of Pat Eliot), Denny (Ann Balsamo's father, leg amputation), Bill (recovering from surgery, Scott Moore's father),Tyler (cancer, young friend of Erin & Stephanie Hagan), Christine M. (praying for full remission and healing of the return of cancer and also remission for the rheaumatoid arthritis that is very aggressively deteriating the cartilage in my neck, back, hips and knees), John M. (priest at Good Shepherd, multiple system atrophy), Ann (Aly's friend, Parkinson's), Peter (McKee, mental illness), Pat (Sylvia's sister), Derek (Sylvia's brother), Rick (Sylvia's friend, brain cancer), Wabei (Adrian's friend), Kevin & Carly (Phyllis' neice & nephew, colitus), Ruth (Mitchell, dementia), Jean & Bill (Julian's friends), Haven (Mason's friend, ROHHAD syndrome), Rachel (Allyce's mother), and Aaron (Tabers' son), Frank (Tabers' son), Timothy (Phyllis' son, Teresa's brother), Luke (Tony's brother, deployed in Afghanistan), Michael (Richard's brother, deployed to Afghanistan), Lemon and Fletcher, John Tyler (brain tumor) and all those who suffer from mental illness.

We pray for all families trying to move and/or sell their homes.

We pray for those who have died and those who mourn, especially for:

  • Joanne Malone (David Malek's sister, mourned by Dave & Mark, husband Stephen Malone and daughters Stephanie and Katie Malone)
  • soldiers & civilians killed in war

We give thanks and pray for all who celebrate birthdays and anniversaries in January: Birthdays: Katelynn Voisey, Michael Shirk, Rosalie Knight, Christine Watts, Lucille Danieley, Judith MacDonald, Michael Mancini, Craig McKee, Nancy Bukovic, Austin and Taylor Sweeney, Mark Brennan and Anniversaries - Hank & Cathy Blamy.

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Davis & Chambers window, photo by Bevin Early, 2004
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A detail from our 19th c. pulpit., on permanent loan from St. Peter's, Ladue
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A window in the Narthex (entrance), depicting the 10 Commandments.
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