Devote Ourselves to God Part 1: Pray

The first goal for our mission is to devote ourselves to God. Revelations 3:20 states: "Behold I..." It does not say him, her, us, or them. It says I. I am the one who is called to do the work for God. Before doing anything else, we must make sure that we are ready to serve by giving ourselves first to God. I have broken this goal down into four parts:

1. Pray
2. Priority Time
3. Train
4. Prepare

This week we will focus on the first and most important part of this goal: prayer. We must be strong in our prayer time to God. If we are strong in our personal prayer time, we should carry it over into our classrooms on Sunday. When I started this goal, I had trouble with consistently praying to God. Since devoting that week to strengthening my prayer time, I now consistently pray to God every day in the morning and at night.
My assignment for you this week is to:

1. Find one thing you can do to improve your personal prayer time
2. Find something you can do to make prayer a priority in the classroom.

Prayer must be a priority and we must show our classes that it is important by how important you make it in the classroom. Think about what you can do or are already doing besides just opening and closing with prayer. Be willing to report and share your ideas and plans. You can also comment below.
We will be following the class time line this Sunday. These meetings will be models for the classroom, which means I will be enlisting people for jobs to assist me with. Here are the positions so far:

Teaching Coordinator: Mike Knowles
Discipleship Coordinator: Dee Culpepper
Administrative Coordinator: Troy Bartlett
Fellowship Leader: Mike Bixler
Evangelism Coordinator: Janet Zayas

There will be more positions to come. Please pray for us as we develop these positions for the future.
I have one other report of note:

College and Career: 2 New Members
Drew Allen
Melanie Cox

This puts our Sunday School enrollment at 124.
I look forward to Sunday when we turn back the clock and discuss the results of the fall festival.