Prayers for the Week of June 15, 2025

Please feel free to join us in the prayers prayed in worship Sunday, June 15, 2025:

Creator of all that is,

Heavenly Father, Mothering God,

you have given us this day,

full of sunlight and life,

you’ve blessed us with community,

you have sought us out, and welcomed each of us home.

We give you thanks and praise.

We give you thanks this day for fathers,

and for all who do the challenging and worthy work of parenting.

Thank you for all the ways they love,

for their humble, loving, strength,

for their wisdom, and their laughter, and their hope.

We live in a world roiling in trouble and tumult,

and so we bring you big prayers.

We pray for peace in the Middle East, and everywhere there is war.

We pray especially for the suffering people of Gaza,

who are cut off from access to food and medical supplies and drinking water.

We pray for peace that comes with justice,

and the full restoration to them of the very basics things needed for life,

so that might not only live, but thrive.

In this season of Juneteenth and Pride,

we pray for an end to systemic racism,

and an end to trans- and homo-phobia,

an end to every kind of hate.

We celebrate with you the diversity of your good creation.

Teach us how to live our lives for equity and justice –

and to imagine and create with you a world that celebrates the dignity of all people.

We pray for those who are far from home,

particularly migrating peoples seeking home and shelter in a new land.

Help us live into your command to love the stranger in our midst,

and help us oppose those who target and harm the vulnerable.

We pray for the deep concerns of our heart

we pray -- healing for illness,

comfort in suffering,

food for those who are hungry,

shelter for those living outside,

a hand to hold in all the places we are lonely.

Help us to welcome each other home.

Gathered here, with you and the family of faith,

we join our voices, with the voices of all

who have every prayed the prayer that Jesus taught, praying:

Our Father/Mother, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.