Please offer prayers on behalf of Steve Riley. Steve has been coordinating a large community outreach effort at the congregation where my parents work and worship in Tennessee. He is scheduled to preach in this event April 6-9. He hand wrote and sent over 300 letters to friends and neighbors of the members of the congregation. There has been a very favorable response in the community, including from my mother-in-law who raved over the letter she received. My parents have 13 people coming just from their own friends and others are reporting similar response.

Steve is scheduled for open heart surgery on Monday, April 14. The doctors have told him his condition is very serious. They have given him the go-ahead to preach in this event but have warned him to not get "all worked up". He plans to go forth and proclaim God's word regardless.

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--Laura

O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.
Jeremiah 10:23 (NKJV)