Germantown Methodist Church Prayer Requests
Updated March 24, 2025
This Week’s Church Prayer Focus: Those who deal with emotional and mental issues.
Ongoing
1. Our Friends, Relatives, Acquaintances, and Neighbors who do not know Jesus as their Savior and our outreach to them.
2. Service personnel: Tina Carr (Virginia), Nick Eby (Alabama), Charles Hayes (Deployed), Carl Martin (North Carolina), Daniel Muñoz (Virginia), Zach Smith (Poland).
3. Our Homebound: Edna Barnhart, Esther Cochran, Martha Cornn, Harold & Lucy Dursch, Kenny Lee, Beverly Simpkins, Janice & Richard Waits, Janice Wallace, Carol Woolcock.
4. For the church staff and leaders as they seek God’s guidance in serving God and leading our church.
5. Our missionaries Kevin, Laura, and Lucy, Margaret, Benjamin Cline, plus baby on the way.
6. Members of our church with cancer: Dan Burns, Donna Cline, Donna Gisewite, Linda Grise, Patti Hayes, Beverly Simpkins, Jerry Steinmetz, JoAnn Weaver.
7. Those dealing with addiction and their families.
March 23-29
8. Quilts: Paul Shaffer (colon cancer); Holly Giles.
9. Emory Askins: in hospital, possibly moving to rehab.
10. Gary Smith: feeling better after a post-op setback.
11. Taylor, Levi, and Noah Heistand: intestinal bug.
12. Richard Hinkle: flying home after severe illness.
13. Linda Grise: surgery on Monday.
14. Julian Moore: in rehab, doing better.
15. Jean Lawson: breast cancer.
16. Allen Smith: military overseas.
17. Vikki Taylor: hip surgery.
18. Kayla, Jean’s granddaughter: traveling; 3 weeks of basic training.
19. Patti Hayes: continued cancer treatments.
20. Diane Hayes: pain management treatments.
21. Charles Hayes: deployment extended at least another month.
22. Carol Shade: 7th great-grandchild on the way.
23. Thank you to everyone who came to the Valley View pancake fundraiser at Alleyway Cafe.
24. Valley View Tennis Team: travelling to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for Spring Break.
25. Jeff Fiessinger: skin biopsy.
26. Melissa Sedlak: working on use of legs and feet. Hoping insurance extends time in rehab.
27. Grandmother of Kathy Kitchel’s friend’s family: 90 years old. She fell, broke ribs, brain bleed.
March 16-22
28. Quilts: Shelia Reveal (heart surgery); Ellen Schemmer (health issues).
29. Charlotte Genslinger: home after being in hospital.
30. John Witherspoon: basal cell carcinoma treatment.
31. Angie Flinders: on a mission trip.
32. Carolyn Holland: cataract surgery 3/18.
33. Carol Bulluck’s family: her memorial service will be Saturday at noon at Dalton’s.
34. Joy Lightcap: end stage leukemia
35. Julie Kurtz: breast cancer.
36. Michele Roberts: breast cancer.
37. Richard Hinkle: still in Sri Lanka with multiple infections.
38. Paul Shaffer: chemo.
39. Bus drivers.
40. Betty Delford: fell.
41. Zach’s wife: delivering a baby.
42. George Cline: home after being in the hospital.
43. Melissa Sedlak: improving.
44. David Metz: throat cancer.
45. Storm victims.
March 9-15
46. Sandy Gephardt: had a procedure, doing well.
47. Jeanne and Alan Noble’s daughter Julie: diagnosed with breast cancer, concerns about spots elsewhere.
48. Angie Cook: home, recovering from heart procedures.
49. Couple who lost their 13-month-old child.
50. Ordination candidates.
51. Taylor Heistand’s mother: kidney stones removed.
March 2-8
52. Patti Hayes: home after being in the hospital.
53. Gary Cox: blood clot in legs.
54. Judy: pneumonia.
55. Family and friends of Carma Hodson who passed away.
56. Greg Brandenburg: ill.
57. Erica’s husband: had a stroke.
58. Marvin Brown.
59. Beth Reed: terminal brain cancer.
February 23-March 1
60. Quilts: Steve Poffenbarger (myeloid leukemia), Joey Latvala (Hodgkins Lymphoma), Sharon Coomer (abdominal surgery).
61. Nancy Weinel: testing.
62. Doris Tudor: fell, home now.
63. Betty Petticrew’s brother-in-law passed away.
64. Scott: had major surgery.
65. Sheila Reveal: open heart surgery.
66. Ellen: knee surgery, recovery not doing well.
67. Family and friends of Ron Johnson who passed away.
68. Jon and Dana Morgan’s in-laws in terrible car accident.
69. Nancy McDonnell’s mother.
70. Kathy Clobiture: MS.
February 16-22
71. Family and friends of Carol Stoutenborough who passed away 2/9.
72. Marshall: young man having heart surgery.
73. Family and friends of Dave Homer who passed away.
74. Heidi: her mother Celeste passed away.
75. Amber Weaver: brain trauma.
76. Brenda Umstot: had brain surgery.
77. Lucy Jones: starting chemo.
Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to Him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21, NLT)