The Prayer Room

Well, feel free to play around and discover. Do let me know if you need help finding anything or have suggestions. This is our brand-new home and I want it to be as comfortable as possible for everyone, so anything I can do to make it more homey is on my list. At least if it's something I can do.

I'll be happy to help anyone find where they are looking for. Just tell me what you can't find and I'll find it and set up a link for you. I'll be checking in every so often.

Beckie there you are! I've been praying for you.

Dream, I say again how much I appreciate your quick action on the tag cloud. It's so much more peaceful in here now, especially for this thread!

Anita mae.

Hi Kim,

I can relate to your dilemma. I am also faithful and love God. I do attend church regularly ( most of the time).  I had quit going to church for a while. You know how it is. You miss  a couple of Sundays, then all of a sudden you just don't go anymore. Well that's what happened to me a few years ago. When my son was three, I knew I needed to get him into church so he would be trained up right as the Bible says. I just made up my mind and started going back. Now, three years later I'm there almost every Sunday. Our church is super small. There are only  handful of children in our church, a few elderly men ( very few) and a few more elderly women.  A handful of us in the thirties, fourties ect. Anyway, my son started attended Sunday school three years ago, but the Sunday school teacher (who happens to be my cousin) lost her daughter back in September. (She was fifteen and had all sorts of medical problems- paralyzed in  a wheel chair, lived on oxygen and had learning difficulties, but she had a heart of gold and loved church and God. She loved Sunday school and since all the children were in the same class her mother was the only teacher.  After her daughter died, the mother has not been able to teach Sunday school.  I was approached about taking over the class. ( I teach third grade, so I know about kids and learning) but I wasn't so sure about Sunday school.  I selfishly really didn't want anymore obligations, but I also knew I wanted my son to go to Sunday School and since I was basically the only one even remotely considering it, I decided to give it a try.  Now, I can truly say I absolutely love it.  The kids -though young and few in number- really enjoy coming.  To make a very long story short, I think you should certainly pray about it, then if it feels right go ahead and do it.  If my child were in your class, I certainly wouldn't have any qualms about it.  Besides, this may be God's way of getting you back into church. You know He does have his reasons for everything. I'm sure he laid your name on the Reverand's heart or he wouldn't have called you.  Sorry this is so long. It's just my two cents.

Kim, I have done it and really enjoyed it. I'm even thinking of doing it again next year because I retired from teaching. I'm a teacher at heart.

I will pray you make the right decision, whatever that is.

Margaret

Hi Ladewolfe and congrats for de-lurking. I haven't had a chance to put much in my bio. I live in Western NY about 50 miles south of Buffalo.

Thank you everyone for answering my question. It will all help me in making this decision. It is a very small church so keeping the kids involved and loving it is very important for the future of the church. It is going to take a lot praying to figure out if I could help or hinder. I'm still in a low state of shock, lol.

Hello everyone. Its my first day here on the new boards. Praying for everyone.

PTL - my student teaching is going very well (5th grade). I have only finished 7 days and it looks like I am going to start doing all the teaching Monday. Winter quarter is short, so I have to accomplish what is normallly done in 12 weeks in only 8 1/2 weeks so she is letting me jump right in. The teacher I am working with is fabulous. God is good!

But please pray for me. As a single mom, I come home and I am exhausted by the time the kids are in bed and I have prepared for the next day.  I have a lot of paper work to do for my college in regards to my student teaching - plus my computer is still dead (I am on some one else's right now). Please pray that I somehow have the time and energy to get it all done!

I used to read this thread rather sporadically, but decided I'd try to be better at it with the new boards! 

Sunday School---that's a big decision.  I think we all go through times where we 'fall off' honestly, I thought I would NEVER do that.  But after my Dad passed away, my best friend moved to another country, and my dog moved to another state, and I lost my job all within months of each other, it was just too much upheaval and I felt so disconnected and irritated I became one of those.  It is important to be in church regularly for the community worship of God, we are called to it.  As humans there are times that something knocks us off the path.....this might be your call to get back on the path, back into the community of believers and the regular worship of God. 

Anita Mae, please relay to Hope that we miss her and I'm praying for her and her mom and hope we get to see her soon!!

Roger. 

You're welcome, Janet.

This is what Hope is up against: "I can't get in!  I was just telling Margaret earlier, I've tried practically everything, but it just won't load.  I've had it trying to load all day today, yesterday, day before yesterday....  I can't remember the last time I DID get in.........and I have challenge blogs ready to post, too.    It sits there for the longest time "loading," and then the page comes up saying that it cannot load the page.....    I have it trying to load at this very moment (for the last five hours, off and on, pausing to eat).  At least it did let me get in and fix my password, but the community pages just refuse to load.  I'm so frustrated.  I have had trouble with my ISP all week.  It's slower than Christmas (old saying; actually Christmas came and went pretty quickly last year!), and sometimes I have to refresh to get something to load, even my e-mail.  Mom and I are talking about switching to the service from the local phone company."

If anyone has any words of wisdom for her, please email her at:  hope_chastain at yahoo.com  (replace at with symbol and join all together)

Ladywolfe --

I didn't find the reviews you mentioned, but thanks for posting one on a book of mine.  I always love it when someone enters into a book with me and sees what I see in the story.

We all miss Hope -- hope she gets help soon and comes back!

Janet

I understand being tired. As a working mom, I totally relate. Not only do I do this, but I work during tax season preparing taxes. Of course, during the off-season, I teach taxes, so I work mostly year-round. Yep, busy season is starting for me. It's hard with kiddos, so I'll be praying for you.

As for helping Hope, first off, let her know that we do have others with the same issue and tech is working on a solution. However, she (and anyone else who can't get on) can try the following.

1. Clear your cache 

2. Make sure all of your eHarlequin cookies are deleted. This program is highly dependent on cookies, and we're finding that some people have cookies that have been corrupted. So delete those guys, then re-log in to get the new cookies.

3. Do a hard refresh. To do that, you click ctrl and refresh at the same time.

Unfortunately, we've found that folks may need to do these things more than once to make it work. We're not sure why. Try those things and see what happens. If it still doesn't work, have her (or anyone else) email me letting me know what they've done, and what the result was. We've been logging them and are hoping to find a solution soon.