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, April 23: ELCA outdoor ministry leaders are meeting at the LOM Executive Directors’ Gathering in Tallapoosa, Ga., to explore the most relevant and important questions facing their work today. Ask God to deepen their collective wisdom and inspire them to arrive at real-world solutions and approaches to ministry with people of all ages and backgrounds.

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