Devotional – June 2, 2025

Here are the Prayers Of The People from Sunday, June 1, 2025 at Mayfair Heights United Methodist Church.  

We celebrated Pride Sunday along with Mosaic Community Church as well as the birthdays of both congregations.  Mosaic was formed as the merger of the Leland Clegg United Methodist Church and the Epworth United Methodist Church congregations.  They began Mosaic on June 1, 2015.  

The Mayfair Heights United Methodist Church was formed on June 8, 1952 as the Mayfair Heights Methodist church with 8 families forming the nucleus of this congregation’s beginning.  

Knowing this may help us hear this Prayer a bit differently today. 

Prayer Of The People – A Prayer On Pride Sunday

Holy One, known to us in many ways but still unknown to us,

we are together and we ask for your blessings as we rejoice as a community.

Bless our pride together.

May it also be a humble reflection of gratitude for who it is you have created us to be, each of us and us together.

Bless our celebration that it be an expression of our joy in love and in health.

Bless our laughter and let it be something that builds friendships and relationships. Bless our tears also and for the same reasons.

If we encounter anyone who opposes us, bless them too. We humbly ask that fear and anger don’t find a voice today. We humbly ask that love gets the last word and the clearest expression.

Bless our differences as a source of our strength and a sign of our respect for one another and our love for you.

Bless those for whom it takes great courage to be here that they may feel the abundance of life in such a way that it’s no longer just words on a page.

We feel that we are called to speak and to hear your vision of justice and of peace. Help us do that well and do it faithfully.

Bless each one of us here today with your presence and our presence, one with another.

You are faithful to us, we want to be faithful to you, to each other and to the community around us.  Amen.

Peace Be With You. – Paul