This is a Prayer that Pastor Dave wrote and offered at Kacie Stratton's going away worship service after her many years as the founder and Executive Director of The GreenHouse in Gardenland/Northgate.
It is all about you, God. Kacie said that if people looked at the GreenHouse and said, “What nice people, what great things they do,” we are missing the boat. But if people look at what is happening here and say, “What a great God they serve!” then that will be really something.
God you are showing your heart of love for all people by what you are doing at The GreenHouse. This whole work is about your gifting of your people and your call on our lives. You desire for all of your beloved children to turn to you in worship. That is the vision that you gave Kacie and that we carry on.
Kacie told me about a dream she had where the children and families of her neighborhood, my neighborhood, Gardenland/Northgate, were gathered together, raising our hands, raising our voices in many languages, praising you, our creator who made us all lovingly in your image, with beauty and talent that you want us to use to accomplish your purposes right here in this place we call home.
You have called us to partner with you so that your will can be done, on earth as it is in heaven. So that your will may be done on Northfiled and Northview, your will may be done in Ninos Park, on Northgate and El Camino, So that your will may be done at Smythe, and Strauch, and Rio Tierra, Dos Rios, Grant and all schools. May your will be done in Del Paso Heights, North Sacramento, Natomas, North Highlands, Oak Park and all the neighborhoods of this great city. And may your will be done in each of us, changing us so that we may be agents of change wherever it is that you send us. Even Oakland.
God gather us into communities of love and care where we can grow to know and enjoy you, where we can be real with each other, recognizing the pain and brokenness that pervades the beautiful world that you have made, the brokenness that touches us all equally and that requires a savior, a savior whose great love and mercy offers healing to each heart, each family, each neighborhood in the whole world- every inch belongs to you, our Lord.
God you are showing your heart of love for all people by what you are doing at The GreenHouse. This whole work is about your gifting of your people and your call on our lives. You desire for all of your beloved children to turn to you in worship. That is the vision that you gave Kacie and that we carry on.
Kacie told me about a dream she had where the children and families of her neighborhood, my neighborhood, Gardenland/Northgate, were gathered together, raising our hands, raising our voices in many languages, praising you, our creator who made us all lovingly in your image, with beauty and talent that you want us to use to accomplish your purposes right here in this place we call home.
You have called us to partner with you so that your will can be done, on earth as it is in heaven. So that your will may be done on Northfiled and Northview, your will may be done in Ninos Park, on Northgate and El Camino, So that your will may be done at Smythe, and Strauch, and Rio Tierra, Dos Rios, Grant and all schools. May your will be done in Del Paso Heights, North Sacramento, Natomas, North Highlands, Oak Park and all the neighborhoods of this great city. And may your will be done in each of us, changing us so that we may be agents of change wherever it is that you send us. Even Oakland.
God gather us into communities of love and care where we can grow to know and enjoy you, where we can be real with each other, recognizing the pain and brokenness that pervades the beautiful world that you have made, the brokenness that touches us all equally and that requires a savior, a savior whose great love and mercy offers healing to each heart, each family, each neighborhood in the whole world- every inch belongs to you, our Lord.
In his name we pray: Jesus
Amen
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