The Conference can be wonderful, and can be exhausting, and is sometimes, unfortunately, can sometimes be affected by significant conflict over legislation. Generally speaking, someone who cares enough about the church to attend General Conference will have some deeply held convictions about the church, and even the best of us can become frustrated with each other as in the slow, difficult work of a democracy.

So I invite you, if you aren’t already, to begin praying for General Conference, for our delegates and for the church as a whole. It is my prayer that we come out of Conference more unified and less divided, that the delegates listen to each other with love, humility, and generosity, and that we find enough resolution on some of the more difficult issues that we can move forward focusing more on ministry than legislation. I hope that you’ll pray with me.

I’ll see you on Sunday—

Becky

Prayer

God of love, God of the whole church, we ask that you bless our General Conference, including that delegates can arrive safely. We pray that their worship together will be rich, reminding all present of all that they have in common, and of whose they are and whose the church is. We pray for the delegates, for continued health, for endurance, and for the ability to hear each other with love, humility, and generosity as they work together for your church. We pray, too, that the conference be a celebration of who you are, and that that spirit of celebration leads us all to serve you more freely and more fully as we live out your call in the world. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.