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Praise & Prayer Weekly Update - 12/9/2025

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 the Women’s Christmas Event last Saturday and all the women that attended the event. 

For our MBC Family & Friends, please pray for:

  • 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 .
  • Pray for Marie Lindgren who is scheduled for jaw surgery on 12/15. Also pray for arrangements for her mother’s care while Marie is recovering. Lift up Gary as well as he manages caregiving responsibilities. 
  • 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 & complete healing for her.  Bill needs grace, peace & strength as he cares for her.  They are thankful for your prayers as they see some improvements
  • Barbara Ahles’ husband is in ICU.  Please pray for healing and that he is receptive to Barbara’s witness.   
  • Dave & Kristine Kaye request prayer for God’s direction in finding a new church. Prayer request also for their younger son, Tim, as he will deploy again in February. 
  • Marianne Iandiorio is having a capsule endoscopy to determine where she is bleeding. She has been anemic for several months, so they are hoping to find the cause. Marianne is also having issues with her eyes. She has had retina problems for the past 10 years, and now her right eye seems to be filled with fluid, and her left eye is swollen. She asks for continued prayer for these health issues.   
  • Please pray for our sister Julianne Lavornia who has a diagnosis of progressive neuromuscular mitochondrial disease. Pray for the receiving of a CPAP machine to help with breathing and symptom management. Pray for the next steps and acceptance to a specialized treatment facility.  
  • The Meditz family requests prayer during this challenging season. They are struggling to balance homeschooling two teenagers, running a business, and caring for aging parents. Please pray for strength, wisdom, and peace.  
  • Please pray for Margaret Hess as she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.  Keep Bob and the family in your prayers as they navigate this difficult time.  
  • Betty Wagner now that healing has gone well following her surgery she will begin medication for her breast cancer. The medication can have severe side effects, so please pray for tolerance and no serious issues.
  • Please pray for Dave Palmer who fell and broke his hip on Wednesday night. He is at Overlook hospital soon to be transferred to Morristown and awaiting surgery. Please keep Dave and Mary in 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 Dave Hentschel as he continues our Isaiah series the Sunday 12/14/2025.   
  • Please pray for the Men’s Breakfast scheduled for this Saturday, December 13, for a strong turnout, inspiring program, for the panelists, for new men to come out and connect meaningfully with the Men of MBC, and for all who attend to be strengthened in their walk with Christ.   
  • Pray for the Blue Christmas service on December 17, that we may extend invitations to friends and family who need this type of ministry during the holiday season. 

  

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:

  • Praise God for the birth of Debra Witte’s grandbaby, Lucia Glory Sibaja. Please continue in prayer for Lucia’s health and growth.  
  • 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.  
  • Sheryl Dun Lake’s friend Michael was diagnosed with cancer, stage 4. Pray for him as he starts chemo and for Sheryl and her son Will as they are traveling down to see him in Florida.    
  • Adora Avaltroni’s father-in-law was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. Please pray for a miracle of healing. It’s a very dim chance of survival success, but Adora’s family knows they serve a big God and that when many lift up their voices to him, He listens.   
  • Please pray that Mike Artale will come to know Jesus personally.     
  • Please pray for Pat Fritz’s mother who is in hospice. Please pray that they can keep her comfortable and that she moves smoothly from this world to heaven to be with Jesus and Pat’s dad.

Missionary Partner for the week: 

Bogdan & Diana Anton – Romania – Josiah Venture

Bogdan and Diana minister in the Bucharest area, primarily to teenage boys through sports.  Diana also ministers to women internationally.  Pray for Bogdan as he travels to Armenia with the men from their missional community December 11-14. Praise for Bogan’s ordination as a church elder on December 14. The church’s process is elder-led and lasted over one year.  Bogdan will be the fourth elder on the team. Pray for Bogdan’s parents and sister and her family who will be there that God would speak to them through the singing or the sermon or the ordination ceremony. Pray for easy interactions and the rare opportunity to share the Gospel while they spend time with both sets of parents on December 15. 

Persecuted Church:

Three Language Groups to Have Bible for First Time

Front-line workers in Nepal report that three language groups will soon have Bibles available in print for the first time. Praise the Lord for the years of faithful translation work that have been completed and for the culmination of this work. Pray for the next steps of the printing and distribution of God’s Word to people who have long waited to have it in their own languages. Finally, pray that every Bible produced in these new translations will reach fertile ground and lead to spiritual maturity and church growth among all of Nepal’s people groups.

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