I’ve been out of town for a few days attending the National Youth Workers Convention sponsored by YouthSpecialties in Nashville. It’s been a great experience for us to get out of town and have some spiritual renewal. We worshipped with over 7,500 other youth workers from around the world…tre awesome. Anyway, I whisked back into town Sunday night just in time for Huddles and we had some special prayer requests that came out of our time together. I pass them on to you and ask you to join us on our knees in praying for these individuals.

– Taylor Emerson asked that we pray for him this week. Those of you who are a part of MYM know Taylor; for those of you who do not know him, Taylor is one of our 11th grade students. He’s also our resident AV guru. Taylor will be going under the knife this week to have his wisdom teeth removed (ouch!). And, week of all weeks, he’s having this surgery just before Thanksgiving. Pray for Taylor this week. As we know, there’s no such thing as minor surgery. Here’s hoping you have an uneventful surgery and a swifty recovery, Taylor.

– Rodney Bowerman asked that we pray for his mother. Again, you MYMers got to know Rodney and his wife Paige at our SH Retreat a few weeks back. Rodney’s mom has been recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She’ll be having surgery to remove the cancer sometime in the next week or so. Please keep Mrs. Bowerman in your prayers, too.

– For the past week or two, my family has been praying for Brody Besherse, the newborn son of Jon & Stacey Besherse. I’ve known Jon & Stacey for a couple months now. Early in their pregnancy, Stacey was put on bedrest for fear she might go into pre-term labor. Baby Brody was born last week and by all accounts, he’s doing just fine. But because he was born a bit early, he’ll need to stay in the hospital until he gains a little more weight. I know how difficult it was for us when we had our babies and we had to leave them at the hospital; I probably have never prayed as much as I did during those days. I know it means a lot to Jon & Stacey to have other people praying for Brody. Our prayer is that he’ll continue to be healthy & that he’ll gain weight quickly so he can come home ASAP to his Mommy & Daddy!

If those of you who read this could just take a minute or two and pray for these things, I’d appreciate it. And if there are some other things we can pray for, feel free to post in the comments section.

Hear my prayer, Lord;
listen to my cry for mercy. — Psalm 86:6