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Praise & Prayer Weekly Update - 12/23/2025

Prayer at MBC

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“I call on you, O God, for you will answer me; give ear to me and hear my prayer.” ~Psalm 17:6​

Praise God:  

  • Praise God for our packing party this past Saturday! With over 100 volunteers, we packed 2,000 items together. 
  • Praise God for the more than 80 people that attended our Blue Christmas Service.  

For our MBC Family & Friends, please pray for:

  • Long time member Mary Barnes went to be with the Lord on 12/13 at the age of 98.  There will be a celebration of life in March.  Click HERE for the obituary.   
  • It is with deep sorrow to let you know that Margaret Hess passed away last Monday evening to be our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Please continue to lift Bob, Jamie, Madi, Trish and their families in prayer at this difficult time.  For those interested, details on services will be forthcoming. Click HERE for the obituary.  
  • Pray for Pat Fritz and her family in the passing of her mother, Mary Jane Cotterell last week at the age of 93. May they find comfort in knowing that Mary Jane is with Jesus, and Pat’s dad. 
  • Pray for the Gero Family as John’s sister and Uncle recently passed away. Please pray for comfort for the Gero family.   
  • Eric Tamashunas’s mother, Clara, has passed away last week. Please pray for comfort for the family.   
  • Dave Palmer fell and broke his hip on December 10th. He had a total hip replacement on 12/12. He has moved to a rehab facility in New Providence.   
  • Please continue to pray for Marie Lindgren. We’re thankful to hear from Gary that she is doing well, though she is still experiencing significant pain and fatigue. Marie is expected to be discharged this week to a rehabilitation facility in Yardley, PA. Please pray for her continued recovery, comfort, strength, and a smooth transition to rehab. Marie and Gary are deeply grateful for all your prayers and support.
  • Marianne Iandiorio’s capsule endoscopy showed no cause for her bleeding or anemia. Please pray that her blood levels stabilize so she can be cleared for aortic valve replacement in the New Year. She has additional blood work and a cardiology appointment on January 7. Marianne is also experiencing ongoing eye issues and will see her retina specialist on January 12. Please continue to pray for her health.  
  • Grace (Jinhua Guo) requests prayer for open doors and provide whatever she needs to take a class from Bo Karen in Princeton Theology School. Master listening skills from God. God provide new roles that alignment with God.  
  • Praise and continued prayer for the First Choice Supreme Court Hearing which seems to have gone very well. The decision will likely be rendered for some time between April and June. Pray for favor with the Supreme Court Justices and for an overwhelming victory for First Choice.  
  • Continue to pray for Marian Miller, she is receiving in home speech/cognitive therapy, PT & soon OT.  Also, she’s receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy each day for the post-concussion syndrome. Please continue to pray for grace, peace, strength, and complete healing for her. Pray for Bill as he cares for her.  They are thankful for your prayers as they see some improvements  
  • Barbara Ahles’s husband Ken is out of ICU and in rehab where he will have PT to regain strength. Please pray for continued healing. Barbara thanks everyone for your prayers
  • Please continue to pray for our expectant mothers, Caroline Pisano, Kim and John McCarthy’s daughter, who is due in January. Madi and Luke Prothero, Ruth Prothero’s son and daughter-in-law, due in late January.   Nelia and Ivan Jones, who are expecting their first child, a boy, due in February. 

Our Church:

  • Please pray for Pastor Bob Erbig as he prepares to preach Christmas Eve Eve and Eve.
  • Please pray for Pastor Dave Hentschel as he concludes our Isaiah series the Sunday 12/28/2025. 

Our nation & those in authority.

1 Timothy 2: 1-2 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

  • Please pray for those in authority in our country. 

Our Extended Family & Friends:

  • Please pray for Bill Miller’s brother, Paul, who’s in the hospital for at least 10 days. He has Guillain-Barre & is going through dialysis to reverse a severe reaction he had last week to treatment. He’s also being tested to see if the cancer has come back.  Please pray for him & his wife, Nancy, for his healing & their salvation.

  • Pray for Robert Meleta’s sister-in-law, Cathy, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and having surgery on 12/26. 

  • Please pray for Sheryl Dun Lake’s daughter, Amanda, and grandson, Jack. They both are dealing with illness. Amanda has pneumonia and Jack has a little cold 
  • Lift up Debra Witte’s preemie granddaughter, Lucia Glory Sibaja, and her health issues. 
  • Please pray for Pete, the husband of Lenore Tosi’s cousin. He recently underwent open-heart surgery—please pray for a smooth and speedy recovery. Please also lift him up as he mourns the passing of his mother this week, who had been struggling with Alzheimer’s.
  • Sue Turner’s cousin, Beck, recently has surgery. The surgery went well. Please pray for healing.  
  • Palma Finati’s husband, Fred, who is suffering from dementia, fell and required assistance to help him up. Please pray for the family during this stressful time. 
  • Patty Deiringer, is requesting prayer for two kinds of cancer, endometrial and another which is more aggressive.  Testing, CT scans and surgery (Jan. 6) are all scheduled.  Patty is leaning on Jesus and would appreciate prayers that the aggressive cancer has not spread 
  • Matthew Bennet is asking for prayer for his uncle Rob. He is battling cancer and he is currently having his final rounds of chemo. Pray that he is healed.      
  • Lenore Tosi’s cousin, Nancy. Pray for speech setbacks and the fracture she endured with a recent fall. Pray that Nancy’s heart will be receptive to Lenore’s witness.      

Missionary Partner for the week: 

Missionary Partner for the week: Lindsey Williams – Athletes In Action 

Lindsey Williams is on the operations staff of Athletes in Action, which is an organization that brings the Gospel to college athletes across America. She works alongside the national campus staff to run finances, plan events, and anticipate the needs of campus teams and directors. Lindsey, her husband Greg, and their three children live in Michigan. Praise the Lord for their baby boy, Adé Jonathan Williams, who was born on October 25. 

 Please pray for their bi-weekly ‘Timeout’ multi-campus meetings hosted at the Williams’ home church, where students come for competition. Pray that they may grow in their faith and those who are unchurched can be invited into community as well. 

 Praise the Lord that two new graduates (who were previously student leaders with the ministry) were accepted for internships with their team. This is an encouraging answer to prayer that the Lord would add laborers to join their team which was experiencing a steep staff to student ratio. 

 Please continue to pray for Lindsey and her ministry for students and also within her family. And for a joyous time spent with her family back here in NJ for Christmas. 

Persecuted Church:

Christian Widow, Family Members Face Threats

A Christian widow and certain family members are facing expulsion from their village in northern Laos for their faith. Chan, 63, first welcomed the message of the gospel in February 2025, hoping to be healed from liver cancer. She and the four children and two grandchildren who live with her came to faith in Christ on the same day. Physical healing has not come, yet they love the Lord and have continued to grow stronger in their faith, attending worship services every week and listening to Christian radio programs. Though Chan is now in the final stage of liver cancer, the rest of her family and village have cursed and boycotted Chan’s household and are now threatening to expel them from the community. Pray that, as this family perseveres through illness and persecution, they will continue to grow in faith and keep their eyes fixed on Jesus Christ.

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