Prayer Concerns

Please contact the church at 254-939-5703 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for information about the prayer concerns of our church. If you call after hours, wait for the voice mail to start and press 8.

Prayer Request: Please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our troops around the world. Of all the gifts you could give a Marine, Soldier, Sailor, Airman, & others deployed in harm's way, prayer is the very best one. GOD BLESS YOU!

Prayer: 'Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen.'

For at least the last eight years our church has participated in an outreach called the PrayFast Initiative. This is a prayer warrior support group for deployed soldiers from Ft. Hood. When it first began each person was assigned one soldier to pray for, by the next year, the ratio increased to each person being asked to have three soldiers to pray for! Below is a letter received by the coordinator of the program. Please take the time to read about the positive impact this ministry has had on so many of our troops. We will be once again recruiting new volunteers for our involvement in this program If you are a current prayer warrior, please Contact me and let me know if you wish to continue to do this. If you would like to be a new volunteer, please let me know. Thank you.

Belton FUMC - PrayFast Coordinator,

Elizabeth Smith

(939-5703)

Fellow Prayer Warriors,

I want to take the time to touch base with each of you on behalf of our many deployed Soldiers to express my sincere appreciation for your dedication in praying for others. I have some exciting news to share with each of you but am also saddened with a burden that the PrayFAST team shares with me.

The exciting news is that our Soldiers are returning home little by little and I believe it’s because of your prayers over them by name. Your PrayFAST initiative is growing exponentially with Soldiers seeing and feeling the positive power of prayer. So many that would not have had the chance to experience the unhampered love of others and the Father are finally realizing that our combined prayers are keeping them safe while they are away from their families. They also know that their separation from loved ones is truly helping to protect our nation from acts of terrorism within the continental United States.

Please continue to put on your daily heart monitors and pray for your Soldiers whenever and wherever prompted by the Spirit. Take the time to set apart special times during the day or night to call upon His name and raise your Soldier names to Him for divine protection.

Growing exponentially is great news but it is also a burden on our PrayFAST team’s hearts. Fort Hood is now a major hub for Soldier deployments. We have Soldiers from all over the United States coming through Fort Hood on their way overseas. With more soldiers going through the deployment process, additional prayer warriors are needed to meet the request for prayer. I could sure use another 2000 Prayer Warriors taking 3 Soldiers each under their wing of prayer. Yes, there are that many Soldiers still requesting prayer. We continue to reach out to new churches and faith groups through radio interviews, web interviews, magazine articles, and denominational messaging. However one of the most effective ways of bringing new prayer warriors to the ministry has been through word-of-mouth: by you sharing the blessings of this prayer outreach with people you know.

I need you to all do something for me. Tell your friends, your family, your neighborhood churches, that our Soldiers that keep you free (or keep us free) need your help by uplifting them in prayer. Contact your POC to sign up for more Soldier names. There aren’t any boundaries wide enough to restrict the power of your prayers.

In the name of the Most High,

Cecil Wolfe

PrayFAST Coordinator, Fort Hood, Texas