Prayers for the Neighborhood

As country music star Travis Tritt said, “There’s some hard times in the neighborhood…”

There’s several things I’d love to have your prayers for around the neighborhood.

First, neighbors are rallying together to try to figure out what to do to support an 8 year old child who called the police when he found his mother murdered and father committed suicide in their home.  You can read the story here.

Its an unimaginable tragedy.

The young boy apparently has no other family in state and will likely be moved to Detroit.

Its one of those situations where you feel like you so badly want to do something.  This happened just a few streets away from us, yet we didn’t know the family.  So we don’t really feel there’s a lot we can do but pray for the boy.

We would also love to elicit your prayers.

As we also know, the Lord delights in taking awful situations like this and finding a way to make good of it.  We are paying close attention to see what He may be doing to try to make this egregious crime a wake up call to the neighborhood.  I have been talking to some people who feel like me, that they badly want to help but don’t know how.

I wrote a post on the Next Door app (its basically Facebook but only for your neighborhood) to begin to encourage others to use this as fuel to ignite the fire within them to become a better neighbor.

Imagine a neighborhood where we knew each other so intimately we could actually help our neighbors with their marriages…

Imagine a relationship so good with your neighbors kids that they would first run to you when tragedy strikes.

We long for this kind of change in our neighborhood and will do our best to make the best of something unimaginably awful.

Also, please pray for my neighbor Bob.  We have become very close over the past 8 months.  He found out yesterday that his PSA levels are through the roof and they are going to test him for prostate cancer next week.

We spend a while this morning talking and praying together.

Pray for a miracle in his life so obvious that his non-Christian family members would come to know the Healer.

Thank you for your continued partnership in prayer.  I thank the Lord for you all often.