Canaan Week of Fasting and Day of Prayer

Happy New Year to the Canaan Family and to all our friends around the world who keep in touch via our Website. Our prayer is that 2010 will be a year of good health and prosperity for each of you. This week, January 4-9, Canaan is observing of week of fasting and prayer. On Wednesday, January 6, the sanctuary will be set aside for a day of silent prayer. You are invited to come to Canaan between the hours of 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. and prayer with others as we seek help and guidance from the Lord. For those of you who may not be able to attend, please remember Canaan in your private and public petitions to God. To assist you, I am providing a list of our prayer concerns and other information relative to our Day of Prayer.

Canaan Baptist Church of Christ
Harlem, NY
Our Theme for 2010 – WE BELIEVE! (Philippians 4)

Day of Prayer
Wednesday, January 6, 2009
9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.

”And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” Matthew 21:22

Throughout this day, our church family gathers to express our thanks to the Savior and to beseech the help of The Almighty to aid us in this season of challenge. We encourage each disciple to enter the sanctuary and spend to with God in prayer. Listed below is a list of prayer concerns for which we ask you to take before the Lord.

· For Forgiveness of our sins
· For peace in the United States and around the world
· For Canaan Baptist Church of Christ and each of her disciples
· For Our Senior Pastor, Rev. Dr. Thomas D. Johnson, Sr. and his family
· For our Pastor Emeritus, Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker and his family
· For our Pastoral and Administrative Staff
· For the Vision God has placed among us through our Senior Pastor
· For Unity within our Church Family
· For our outgoing Chairs of the Official Board, Deacons Marvin Pettus, Anthony Petersen and Robert Turner and their families
· For the incoming Officers of the Official Board Deacons Johnnie Davis, Louise Gadsen and Walter Mayo and their families
· For outgoing members of our Board of Trustees including Chairman William Bazemore
· For incoming trustees including our new Chair Gertene Winston-Luccas and their families
· For the sick and shut-in disciples of our church family
· For the poor and grieving families among us
· For all commissions and ministries in our congregation

Reverse side
· For the Holy Spirit to inspire love and true fellowship among us
· For the end of this economic recession and the increase of employment opportunities for our disciples and others around the nation
· For Tommy Rembert and Leslie Powell, parents of the late Kyle Rembert
· For strengthening of our stewardship and financial blessings upon Canaan and each of her disciples
· For President Barack Obama; Governor David Paterson and all others who lead us during this time of economic crisis.
· For the end of war in Iraq, Afghanistan and in other places in the world

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Please Feel Free to Add Your Prayer Request and Leave for others as they enter for Prayer!
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God,Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,the Courage to change the things I canand the Wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;Enjoying one moment at a time;Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life,and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.
Amen.

May God richly bless you and remember, "We Believe!"