Join us each Wednesday at 9AM in the sanctuary for a time of focused prayer. We take prayer requests and read over the verse(s) in the prayer guide for the week. Then we take time for corporate prayer. Everyone who like to pray may do so. This is a great chance to learn how to pray and be encouraged by fellow church members. If you have any questions or would like to request prayer, see Bro. Will. Also let us know if there is a specific area that you would like to recommend be the focus of our weekly prayer guides.
 
If you have a specific need, we encourage you to reach out to the Deacon of the week and Sunday School class. You may also let us know specific prayer requests here. Be sure to note if it okay to share the request with the weekly prayer group.

2026 Annie Armstrong Week: March 1-8

Each year, we take time around Easter to remember the important work of missionaries at home. We are called to be salt and light right her in the United States and Canada. We will have daily focused prayer in addition to collecting money to help support the important work of sharing the Gospel here in our nation. For more information, visit https://anniearmstrong.com/. To give here at Sharon Heights, simply use a special envelope for “Annie Armstrong” or in your online giving, choose “Other” and specify the purpose as “Annie Armstrong.”
 
See the daily prayer guide below:

Day 1: Jordan & Jessamy Adams

Higher Education: West Lafayette, Indiana

“I’m seeing things I’ve never seen before.”
That’s what Jordan Adams said the morning after a three-hour, standing-room-only worship service where his church plant baptized 38 college students. “When we came in 2023, I knew God was going to work,” he says. “But I never imagined auditoriums overflowing, all these people getting baptized—this is more than anything we ever could’ve dreamed up.” Jordan and his wife, Jessamy, are church planting missionaries in West Lafayette, Indiana, the home of Purdue University. “There are 41,000 students here,” Jessamy says, “and most of them are at that stage of life where they’re looking for something to live for. That makes this a perfect place to plant a church.” Now, students can leave Purdue with something more valuable than a college degree. “We have students meeting Christ, getting discipled, then graduating saying, ‘Where’s the next church plant? I want to move there,’ ” Jordan says. “We’re sending them out as ambassadors for Christ. Now, I’m certain God’s going to change our world, and He’s going to do it through college students.”
 
Watch the story at AnnieArmstrong.com/Adams
 
PRAY FOR:
• Thousands of students to meet Jesus at Purdue.
• God to send mature adults to the Adams’ church plant who can disciple new believers.
• God to equip and send graduating students to other communities where they can help plant more new churches.
 
PRAY FOR:
• Students in The Fix’s recovery and discipleship program to grow in their walk with Christ.
• More encounters on the streets of Richmond that lead to gospel conversations.
• Opportunities for Fred and Casey to start similar ministries and church plants in other cities.

Day 2: Fred & Casey Weymouth

The Fix: Tappahannock, Virginia

And yet, for church planting missionaries Fred and Casey Weymouth, “fix” is a multipurpose word with a variety of meanings—some sad, some sacred. In a previous life, Fred and Casey were homeless heroin addicts, and a “fix” was a shameful thing. “We spent many nights sleeping in the backseat of our car,” Fred says. “Every waking moment was chasing the next fix.” But when Fred and Casey met Christ, “something,” Casey says, “got rearranged inside us. We’d been through every program and nothing worked until we came to the Lord. Turns out, Jesus was our fix. He transformed us and called us to ministry.” Fred and Casey started a residential recovery and discipleship program for those trapped in addiction and living on the streets of Richmond. It was appropriately enough called “The Fix.” Out of that grew a church plant that now ministers to those in recovery, their families, and the local community. “We’re seeing things we never thought possible,” Fred says. “We have junkies receiving Christ, then never picking up a needle again. Only Jesus can make that happen. He is the ultimate Fix.”
 
Watch the story at AnnieArmstrong.com/Weymouth1

Day 3: Weymouths + Will Buchanan

Where There’s A Will: Tappahannock, Virginia

Will Buchanan cleans up well. Every Sunday morning, Will, the pastor of Hillcrest Baptist Church in Hanover, Virginia, shows up wearing his best gray suit. He’s definitely not what he once was. “I used to be lost in addiction,” he says. “First it was pills, then heroin. And if I could’ve found anything worse, I would’ve done that too. But then God radically changed me, and now I don’t even look like the person I used to be.” Will is one of Fred Weymouth’s favorite success stories. They met when Will was at his drug-addicted worst, not long after Fred, along with his wife, Casey, started The Fix, a church plant and residential recovery program aimed at reaching people who are struggling with homelessness, drug addiction, and alcoholism. “We spend a year with people,” Fred says. “We walk them through recovery, we teach them about Jesus, and now we also make sure we introduce them to Will. When he came here, God made him a new person. Our students see him pastoring and can know God has a plan for their lives, too.
 
 
PRAY FOR:
• God to thoroughly equip Will so he can lead his new church well.
• The men and women at The Fix to discover the gospel purpose God has for their lives.
• Fred and others at The Fix to build witnessing relationships with people who need healing and hope.
 
PRAY FOR:
•  More fruit to come from Friday night on-the-street gospel conversations.
• God to call and equip church planting interns out of Andrew Mark’s church who will help plant more new works.
• More Christians to come and share Christ with the 99% of people in Quebec who are lost.

Day 4: Andrew Mark & Petra Adil

Frequently Asked Questions: Montreal, Quebec

“At first, people look at you like you’re a unicorn.” That’s the initial reaction Andrew Mark and Petra Adil get when they strike up gospel conversations with people in downtown Montreal. “Quebec is less than 1% evangelical and very ethnically diverse,” Andrew Mark says. “So when people here meet a Christian, they’re actually very curious. They ask all kinds of questions like, ‘How can we know the Bible is true?’ or ‘What’s the difference between your God and my god?’ ” Every Friday night, Andrew Mark and his evangelism team— “And when we say, ‘team’ ” he says, “we mean our whole church” —go out to the busy sidewalks lined with restaurants and shops to talk with people. “Answering questions, sharing the gospel,” he says, “it’s our favorite thing to do.” It’s not surprising, then, that their church plant is growing faster than anyone ever imagined. “For us to baptize ten people in our first year and then to double in size in less than two years—that’s unheard of in Montreal,” Andrew Mark says. “Only a big God can take a small church plant like ours and do such amazing things.”
 
Watch the story at AnnieArmstrong.com/Adil.

Day 5: Troy & Chanel Gause

Raised From the Dead: Marerro, Louisianna

Church business meetings are not normally fertile ground for happy accidents. But Ames Boulevard Baptist Church’s tiny remnant of elderly members unintentionally set a miracle in motion when they voted to hire Troy Gause to mow their grass. “That’s how I got to know the church,” Troy says. “I started taking care of their property and learned how they’d dwindled down to just a few faithful members. They were probably just a couple months away from closing their doors.” When longtime Ames members like Linda Morrow realized “Troy Gause, Landscaper” was also “Troy Gause, Church Planting Missionary,” they began to pray. “He’d just started a church but needed a place to meet,” she says. “When we met, it was so clear God was putting us together to replant something new.” Now, the sign out front says Cross Community Church, and the name is not the only thing that’s changed. “There’s life back in this building,” Troy says, “Baptisms are happening, salvations are happening, and this church has been raised from the dead.”
 
Watch the story at AnnieArmstrong.com/Gause1.
 
PRAY FOR:
• Humility and understanding as members of Cross Community Church face change.
• The new believers Troy has baptized to grow in their faith.
• Growth and a gospel witness that the surrounding community will see and be drawn to.
 
PRAY FOR:
• More of Leon and Javon’s family to hear the gospel and give their lives to Christ.
• God to draw more unchurched families from the surrounding community to the new church.
• Troy and Chanel to continue to faithfully represent Christ and His kingdom.

Day 6: Troy & Chanel Gause

A God-sized Story: Marerro, Louisianna

It was the parking lot that got their attention. Leon and Javon Every had been driving by the Baptist church on Ames Boulevard for years, but they’d never seen anything momentous happening there. It wasn’t until one morning when they noticed a suddenly packed parking lot that their curiosity got the better of them. “Out of the blue,” Javon says, “we said, ‘We should go to that church.’ So the next Sunday, we went. And the rest is history.” That new life at an old church was the result of God calling church planting missionaries Troy and Chanel Gause. They joined with the struggling congregation of what had been Ames Boulevard Baptist Church and, together, they birthed Cross Community Church to reach people like the Everys. “The Everys were unchurched,” Troy says. “We got to know them and learned that even though they’d been together for 35 years, they weren’t married.” “They gave us a beautiful wedding, and we kept going back every Sunday,” Javon says. “We brought our family, and seven of our kids and grandkids got saved. It’s amazing. I always wanted us all to follow Jesus, and this new church—this is how it happened.”
 
Watch the story at AnnieArmstrong.com/Gause2.

Day 7: Oscar & Wendy Ortiz

Dream Big: Rio Grande, Puerto Rico

Their church plant is small. But their vision is big. When Oscar Ortiz started Iglesia Bautista Esperanza Eterna in Río Grande, Puerto Rico, he knew one new church would not be enough. “Here, there are 46,000 people and almost no gospel witness,” Oscar says. “We can’t wait until we have lots of people and resources. We need to plant more churches now.” Fortunately, Oscar and his wife, Wendy, have help. Send Relief, Southern Baptists’ compassion ministry arm, is sending volunteer mission teams to Loíza, a needy community where Oscar and Wendy hope to plant another new work. “Loíza is a spiritually dark place,” Wendy says, “but by serving the community, Send Relief is helping open doors for us there. They’re repairing homes and enabling us to build witnessing relationships.” Now, a foundation is being laid for what will one day be a new church in Loíza. “We want to be a church plant that plants churches,” Oscar says. “And even though we’re small, now we’re seeing how God is able to do so much more with us than we can imagine.”
 
Watch the story at AnnieArmstrong.com/Ortiz.
 
PRAY FOR:
• Send Relief teams to connect Oscar and Wendy to more people in Loíza who are open to hearing the gospel.
• God to raise up leaders in the church plant who can help start and grow a new work in Loíza.
• Doors to open in other nearby communities that need a gospel presence.
 
PRAY FOR:
• North American missionaries to reach more lost people who need the hope and love of Christ.
• North American missionaries to have all the resources and encouragement they need to plant churches and meet needs.
• God to call and equip more missionaries to make Jesus known in North America.

Day 8: Hernandez + Glymph + Lahey

More Than a Gift

There’s a group of people with a unique view of how God abundantly uses the Week of Prayer and Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. Those are the featured missionaries.
 
Jefferson and Carol Hernandez were profiled in 2024. Afterward, their church plant in Sterling, Virginia, more than doubled in size. “We heard from thousands of churches that were praying for us,” Jefferson says. “God answered those prayers in a big way.”
 
Churches all over North America also heard Josh and Beth Glymph’s ministry story and sent mission teams to Jacksonville, Florida, to help reach their community. “Now, we have more churches coming and partnering with us,” Josh says. “You can’t put a price tag on that.”
 
Thousands of encouragement cards and letters from church groups and individuals—“it felt like a tsunami”—landed in Matt and Ruth Lahey’s mailbox in St. John’s, Newfoundland. “We’re not alone,” Matt says. “Just knowing that fueled us to keep going in planting our church.”
 
God is going above and beyond through the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. You are a vital part. Your prayer for a missionary is more than a few spoken words. Your gift is much more than a gift.
 

2026 National Day of Prayer: May 7

Each May, people from across the United States gather together in purpose to seek God on behalf of the nation. This year the theme calls us to “Glorify God Among the Nations, Seeking Him in All Generations” as part of our celebration of America’s 250th birthday. It is inspired by the passionate prayer of Thanksgiving prayed by King David in 1 Chronicles 16 after bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem.
 
Tell of His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all the peoples. – 1 Chronicles 16:24 NASB
 
 
You can learn more by visiting https://www.nationaldayofprayer.org/.
 
In addition, the President has requested that Christians everywhere unite in prayer in 2026 in preparation for our 250th birthday celebration. This is not about politics. This is about uniting for a bigger purpose.
 
The Ask: What if one million Americans dedicated one hour a week to praying for our country and our people?
 
The Invitation: Will you join with at least 10 people to meet each week for one hour to pray for America?
 
The Opportunity: As we celebrate 250 years of freedom, this is an opportunity to rededicate ourselves to the principles that gave birth to this land of liberty. As George Washington famously said in his Farewell Address, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.”
This dedicated time of prayer is not only for our nation, but for its people because a nation is only as strong as its citizens.
 
You can learn more by visiting the special White House site called America Prays.

2026 National Prayer

Almighty God, King of Glory, we confess our sins and repent of our pride that

sought our own glory and comfort, allowing evil to take root instead of Your

fruit in our hearts, homes, culture, and country.

Please forgive us. 

 

Now, with this declaration of rededication, we humble ourselves, pray, and seek Your

face, turning from our wicked ways, that You would heal our lives and our land.

Please purify and renew our hearts with holy attributes, affections, attitudes, and

actions-to love You with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

We give You glory as we repent and rededicate our lives and our nation to You. 

For 250 years You have guarded and guided America in wisdom, grace, mercy, and love.

We praise and thank You for our Founding Fathers, for all who sought You in fervent prayer

throughout history and answered Your call to defend justice and freedom; to protect and serve,

preach and teach, innovate, communicate, learn, work, worship, and establish our laws.

May Your Kingdom come, and Your will be done in our lives, our Families, the Church, Education,

Business, Military, Government, Arts, Entertainment and Media as it is in heaven.

We prayerfully commit to “Glorify God Among the Nations, Seeking Him in All Generations.” 
 
In Jesus’ name, Amen!