Germantown Methodist Church Prayer Requests
Updated August 13, 2026
This Week’s Church Prayer Focus: For the students, teachers and staff of our schools as they begin a new school year.
Ongoing
1. Our Friends, Relatives, Acquaintances, and Neighbors who do not know Jesus as their Savior and our outreach to them.
2. Service personnel: Evan Benbenek (California), Tina Carr (Virginia), Nick Eby (England), Charles Hayes (Middle East), Carl Martin (North Carolina), Daniel Muñoz (home), Josh Neal (boot camp), Luke Quillen (Montana), Zach Smith (Kentucky).
3. Our Homebound: Edna Barnhart, Esther Cochran, Martha Cornn, Harold and Lucy Dursch, Beverly Simpkins, Janice 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, and Alisa Cline.
6. Members of our church with cancer: Donna Gisewite, Linda Grise, Beverly Simpkins, Jerry Steinmetz, Janet Withrow, Gene Wright.
7. Those dealing with addiction and their families.
August 9-15
8. Family and friends of Charlotte Genslinger who passed away August 13.
9. Eileen Gardner: fell, needed 8 stitches in her face.
10. Sandy Gephart: health issues.
11. Jullian Develbiss: broken foot.
12. Praise: Marlene Flory’s granddaughter Ardela, no cancer.
13. Family and friends of Randy Collins who passed away.
14. Family and friends of Mimi Ault who passed away.
15. Mike Schmidt: home after suffering from pneumonia and a lung infection.
16. Kevin Havixbeck: prostate cancer.
17. Preston Scalo: in a coma, diagnosed with encephalitis.
18. Family and friends of Chris Lewis who passed away.
19. Family and friends of Kenny Lips who passed away.
20. Rachel Shade: abdominal surgery.
21. Mike.
22. Josh Neal: deployed to Kuwait
23. Theresa Crowe’s brother: complications following brain surgery.
24. Britney: had her baby after a high-risk pregnancy.
August 2-8
25. Janet Withrow: home recovering from emergency colon surgery.
26. Larry Weaver.
27. Tom Raab: hospital.
28. Family and friends of Joe Tritt who passed away in a car accident.
29. Paul: four-year-old with leukemia.
30. Family and friends of Edwin Cunningham who passed away.
31. Kara Stiver ongoing treatment for stage 3 ovarian cancer.
32. Melissa Sedlak.
33. Frank McKay: long recovery from hip surgery.
34. Beth Noble: chemo and radiation treatments.
35. Terry and Rob Sanborn: motorcycle accident, both have a broken leg.
36. Baby Zaiden: premee with lung issues.
July 26-August 1
37. Quilts: Debbie Laurienzooberg (needs double lung transplant); Karen Rudd (breast cancer).
38. Larry Gardner: ongoing health issues.
39. Belia Concha: broken hip, having surgery in Chile.
40. Woman who is struggling after shoulder surgery.
41. Doug Williams: end stage.
42. Evelyn Rogers: house flooded.
43. Praise: Annie Masters is in remission.
44. Jo Schmidt: back issues.
45. Family and friends of Ron Scammahorn who passed away.
July 19-25
46. Quilt: Mark Stull (low blood pressure).
47. Vernon Hasty Jr.: under Hospice care, had 2 heart attacks this week.
48. Family and friends of Russell Marchese who passed away.
49. Jou Kurfiss: progressive brain disease.
50. Jennifer Focker: cancer.
51. Jim Orum: lung cancer.
52. Gretchen: recovering from heart surgery.
53. Tamaria: having a baby boy.
54. Shirley: testing.
55. Stacy Taylor: pancreatic cancer.
56. Megan: rectal cancer.
57. US military personnel who died serving their country.
58. Marilyn Oswald: pancreatic cancer.
59. Family and friends of Jenny Minton who passed away.
July 12-18
60. Doris Tudor: had successful pacemaker surgery on 7/13.
61. Mary Wiser: cellulitis.
62. Carol Shade: successful kidney stone procedure.
63. Steve and Brenda: in a car accident.
64. Lynn Owens: ovarian cancer.
65. Gretchen Krafft: heart surgery.
66. Participants in the Montgomery County Fair.
67. Praise: birth of Owen Dale Braga.
68. Deanna Coddle.
69. Praise: birth of Ella Rose.
70. Lydia: ill.
71. Linda Powers: respiratory issues.
72. Behr Wheeler: guidance.
73. David Bishop: Hospice care.
July 5-11
74. Quilt: Jeremiah Hunt (father died).
75. Family and friends of Bill Hanahan who passed away.
76. David Shade: heart catheterization.
77. Tom Carr: cancer.
78. Kelly Quillen: knee replacement.
79. Kathleen Strackman: heading to West Point.
80. Violet Carr’s husband passed away.
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)