St. Louis, Missouri is also known as the Gateway to the West. In an earlier time in American history, this city marked the border between cities and towns and unexplored and unsettled territories. The city also has a special place for me because it is my adopted son’s birthplace. It is the city he called home for the first four years of his life. I made two journeys there as part of the adoption process. The first was to meet him and spend a couple of days learning about each other. The second was to pick him up and begin our lives as mother and child.
This weekend, nearly 900 delegates will make the journey to St. Louis for the special General Conference, called in 2016. It will be a pivotal time for all who attend, and all who watch the livestream provided by our Conferences and other Conferences around the world.
I ask that each of us take time out to pray for those in attendance, to pray for each and to remember that our love for the Lord and for one another still binds us as children of the living God. May the Lord bless each of us now and in the days to come. And Amen.
Bishop Bard’s Congregational Prayer for Feb. 24 is HERE
Watch the GC 2019 livestream HERE
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