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.

Thursday, Aug. 10: Pray that every congregation will discover, use and carefully manage their diverse assets, resources of their community and abundance for growing the church, serving their neighbors, equipping and nurturing their members, and doing God’s work in the world.

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