Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church.

Monday, Nov. 14: We give thanks to God for second-career pastors who, in the course of their lives and work, have sensed and responded to God’s calling to serve as ordained ministers of Word and Sacrament in the church.

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