From the Pastor and our Board of Directors

In our desire to seek and accomplish God’s mission through Oconee River Church, we are earnestly asking for your prayers that through the ministry of our church, six individuals in our community will either find their salvation or rededicate themselves to a surrendered personal relationship to Jesus Christ within the next six months.

We are calling upon you as individual members of The River to pray throughout the month of October for the souls of your family, your friends, your neighbors -- that they would find their own living connection to God through the love and power of Jesus Christ. Please pray this prayer with us every day:

Living and loving God, open my eyes to the love You so freely offer us. Open my ears to the voice of Jesus who bids us follow Him. Open my mind and heart to a new outpouring of Your Holy Spirit in our lives. Help me to surrender my will to your will. Help me to daily ask for your grace and

forgiveness and power. Do not let any distraction or disappointment or sorrow, harden my heart toward You. Awaken me to the purposes you have for me for this day. Help me to remember that someone I love is counting on me to be faithful to You. Strengthen my desire to be a follower of Jesus. Help me want to be willing to open my hands to grasp the hands of the person whose pain you have revealed to me by the voice of Your Spirit.

With my brothers and sisters in the faith at The River, I ask that you draw six individuals to look toward the cross and the One who was there high and lifted up. Touch those six lives. In their anxieties and fears, in their restlessness and frustration, in their disappointments and sorrows, prepare them to offer you a surrendered heart that they may find in You their rest, their peace, their joy and their direction in life. We pray that you will so transform these six lives that

their salvation shall be made obvious to everyone through word and deed, through Jesus Christ our Lord. In particular, I pray that among those six individuals is the following individual, ___________, who I specifically pray for by name. Amen.

We are asking God to help us know that these prayers are answered by our hearing testimonies from these six people to salvation through God’s transforming power through Jesus Christ on or before April 1, 2012.

-Pastor Hoard and Your Board of Directors.