• Jim Meyer, Steve Meyer’s father, who is having abdominal surgery.
• Tony Sestak, Carrie Kapl’s father, who is in the hospital recovering from triple bypass surgery.
• Terry Johnson, son of Pete and Marge Johnson and brother of Tonya Baise and Trudy Baise-Fessler, who suffered a stroke.
• Diane, daughter of Sharon Davis who is home recovering from gall bladder surgery.
• Randy, 13-yr.-old friend of the Hillman family, struggling with emotional problems.
• Chris Kiemel, who will continue testing for weakness and dizziness.
• Rich Boerema, friend of Marcia Doyle, son of Treesa Boerema, undergoing testing for GI distress.
• Lindsay Brewer, who is pregnant and going through chemotherapy for lymphoma.
• Joyce Hoff, Kelly Sol’s aunt, who has started chemotherapy and is having difficulties.
• Macy Bella Ganz, 2 yr. old daughter of Michelle and Chris (a Lemont firefighter), who is battling 2 types of cancer (kidney, which spread to her brain, and leukemia).
• Karen, Tom Brackenbury’s sister, during her chemotherapy.
• Paul Montague, friend of the Brackenburys, who is fighting pancreatic cancer.

Please pray for protection and strength for the following people:

• The family of Christopher Russo who passed away last week.
• The family of Alex Pizza who passed away recently.

Please pray for protection and strength for the following people:

• Our missionary families Wendy Ludovici and Greg and Ruth DeHaan in Kenya, Al and Sue Schreu-der in Chiapas, Marlin and Sally Vis in Israel, and Del and Deb Braaksma in the Sudan.
• Adam Santos, son of Jody Zylke, in Lesotho, Africa with the Peace Corps.

Please keep all our military troops in your prayers, especially:

David Keltner, friend of Adam De Groot; Steve Jackowski, son-in-law of Herb and Laurel Bartels; Corey Chavez, friend of Kelly and Kevin Sol; Kyle Wagner, Clint and Lara Moore’s nephew, and Norma Wag-ner’s grandson; Stephen Gunggoll, the nephew of Dave and Lisa Gunggoll; Tim James, son of Gail James-Cherco; Jim Van Howe, Lisa Gorney’s brother; Todd Hendrikse, nephew of Pat Hendrikse; Mike Kent, son of Beverly and Paul Kent; Heath Kerns, Herb and Laurel Bartels' nephew; Scott Tomlinson, nephew of Joyce Bailey; and Mark Hamstra, nephew of Pete and Marcia Bolt.

Please also keep in your hearts and minds:

Scott Mitchell, the son-in-law of Jack and Patti Kraai; Sharon Davis; Karen Decker; Ken Nork; Alex Pizza; Ryan Stringham; Lauren McGovern, 2-year-old friend of Scott Joseph; Bob Honig; Cindy Tisinai, Lisa De Angelis’ sister; Tres Terwiel; Ida Scholtens; Jim Hart, Caitlin Van Groningen’s grandfather; Suzie Wiegers, Mike Van Wyhe’s sister; June Veenstra; Jen Post; Bob Macauley; and Thomas, Pete and Marcia Bolt’s nephew.
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During March the Classis of Chicago will be lifting up in prayer:

Downers Grove Community Church, in Downers Grove, Pastor Angie Mabry-Nauta and her husband, Eric.