Care Circles – A new twist on a very old thing.
In a time when the world seems so chaotic, any one of us can begin to think, no one cares about me; I’m not appreciated. As we try to manage ourselves in our personal life and balance that with everything going on around us and in the world, it can be overwhelming. Evil, if you believe in such a thing, creeps into these small fractures and pushes people apart, exacerbating an already difficult situation. To counteract this, I invite us to engage in a simple task – pray for each other – by name. I know, I know…You want us to add yet another thing to this craziness?! Yes. We care because God first cared for us. By taking 60 sec/day to lift each other to God in prayer, we care for ourselves while we care for others. By the Holy Spirit, we are nourished through this simple act of praying for another. By caring, we diminish the power of evil to separate and divide. To accomplish this, we are forming Care Circles.
A Care Circle is a random group of church members and friends who will pray for each other. The Care and Visitation Team will create these Circles by using our current list of members and friends, keeping family units together. If you wish to be in a different Circle than your partner/spouse/parent/children, please let the church office know. Near the end of May, you will receive a list of folks who are in your Care Circle. (If you do not receive a list by May 26, please contact the church office. No one will be left out intentionally but with all our changes this past year some names and emails might slip through the cracks.)
To kick off this venture, a Care Circle lunch is planned for Sunday, May 31st – more details to follow. This is an opportunity to meet the folks on your list and for us to talk about the ways we can pray. In conjunction with this venture, we would like to have a church directory out and available by that date. The directory will only be available to the people who are in the directory. We need two things from you to do that:
- Permission to list you and your family in the directory to include: phone, email, mailing address and a picture. Please let the church office know what of your information we can include.
- A picture of you and/or your family.
May the struggles of the world bring us together rather than pull us apart. Let’s care to lift each other in prayer.
– Jennifer
Read the full May 2026 Spire here.