Prayer Requests

The Lost

Pray for the lost in your family, school/ job, neighborhood and community.
Pray for specific people to be born again, disciples, and to lead others to faith and make disciples.
Pray for possible church plants in our area.

Skinners

The latest update on Elliana: She is back in the hospital.
Pray for Joy. She is doing well. She will have a test coming up this weekend for her heart.
Karen’s Dad was diagnosed with advanced but slow progressing prostate cancer. He is still doing well and they plan to go to Florida early.
Pray for the family of Baby Kymora who was in the NICU with Elliana. She passed away this past week.
Mike’s dad continues to do ok. His medications have been changed. He is still on his own.
Anthony and Kimmey, who were struggling to have a child, are expecting but her placenta is thin. Pray she can go full term. Update: They are doing well so far.
Skinner’s friend, Kevin Dillman, is still waiting for a kidney transplant.
Matt’s wife, Joy’s dad, is on dialysis and hoping to get a kidney transplant within a year.
Praise: Karen’s niece is pregnant. They have struggled with much loss in the past, so this is a huge praise. Pray that things go well for them.
Please pray for Jerry. He is the dad of some good friends of Skinners. He is battling COVID. He was just placed in intensive care.

Kokotans

Pray for more physical growth for their grandson, Matthew.
Sandra’s brother-in-law, Jerry is refusing treatments. Pray for his wife Linda and for God’s leading and healing.
Sue B’s (worked with Sandra) son in law, Kyle, has terrible pain in his head. Doctors have not been able to figure out what is wrong yet.
Jim and Char go back soon for PET scans soon. Jim has to take a lot of steroids, which can cause issues with his diabetes. Please pray for them.

Carolyn

Carolyn’s dad just turned 95 and still living at home.
Carolyn’s former co-worker, Todd, has a rare eye disease. He started new medicine and it is working. Please pray for healing.

School

Pray for the administration during this time with school being back in session.
The bond for stage 2 of the new school passed, pray for the school/Nick H. as the endeavor to build the new building!
Teachers/administration
Pray for our church to be a gospel and kingdom blessing to the school.

Berglands

Pray for Sky’s extended family.
Sky’s dad’s Huntington’s disease is still getting worse.
Nate is going to begin new medications for Crohn’s disease. The last one didn’t do so well. This new one seems to be doing really good.

Other Prayer

Judy Ferron’s mom is nearing the end of life and is receiving hospice care.
The Cooper’s extended family (on both sides) have ongoing issues.
Lori Tapke’s test came back fine, she is feeling much better.
Suellyn has a spot on her kidneys. Her next appointment is October 19th.
Mark Widdel has severe arthritis in his tibia. Pray for the pain to go away.
Praise: Jaxon Hanson is home! (Jaxon is the nephew of Andrea Johnson and Holly Mathias. He was in a diving accident)
Pray for Patty and her extended family. There is just a lot of stuff going on right now!
Please pray for Maurice’s leg, which seems to be getting better with a special honey!
Nadine’s tumor has grown a little. Here is her latest Caringbridge post.
Pray for the Brooks with the ongoing transition with Max and Ben.
Thelma is sleeping better, but still has lots of back pain. She still has Asthma and COPD, along with a lot of back pain.

DBC and Community Upcoming Events

Praise: Sarah didn’t have a pulmonary embolism.
Sarah and Matt had their baby, Carter Kai Bennett.
Madison Neisen was able to have a virtual pinning for her nursing degree. Not exactly how they wanted it to go, but she did receive it.
Stacy (Teddy’s daughter’s mother-in-law) is recovering from breast cancer. Update: She is doing well.
Candace Yount’s boss fell and broke her elbow. She is elderly and lives alone. Update: She is back to work on light duty!
Tori Schroeder, who is a part of our middle school youth group, had foot surgery January 15th. She still has a ways to go for recovery. Update: She is out of her boot! She is very happy about this.
Karrie’s dad has Barrett’s disease. Update: He is doing much better after adjusting some meds so he has an appetite again.
Michaela’s friend, Brad Wilson, is cancer free, but has to wear a colostomy bag the rest of his life, but is adjusting well.
Huge Praise: Russ’s brother, Jim, is cancer-free! He will be taking a pill for a while to try keep the cancer away. Jim’s Wife, Char, is also doing well!
Mike Skinner’s dad found out he does NOT have cancer after being told a while ago that he did!
Officer Matt got a new job in the Minneapolis area.
Elliana came home!
Jaxon Hansen came home!