Pray for VRBC's Local Missions Partners

VRBC partners with several local agencies to serve those in need in our community. Today we want to spotlight one of those organizations who has been a valuable partner to our church:

www.parentingalone.org

Parenting Alone is a ministry to single parents and their children. Located in Carrollton, they offer a one-stop resource and relationship center for single parents that will help meet their physical, emotional and spiritual needs.   Free professional counseling, financial crisis coaching, budgeting, grief recovery, legal and career counseling are just some of the many services offered to the community.

VRBC has learned a lot from Parenting Alone in how we can best help families in need who might seek benevolence assistance from our church. They are helping to train VRBC volunteers to serve on a support team and walk alongside someone in need for a period of six months, providing accountability, encouragement and links to resources. We are so grateful they would use their experience and expertise to help our church improve our ministry to the community in this way.

Please take a moment to pray through some of the requests from the single parents in Parenting Alone's ministry:

• A mother whose child had their first seizure
• A mother who needs a washer with five children
• A mother who was in a car accident
• Mother whose sister lives with her and has cancer- she is unable to come to our workshops
• Mothers with discipline and authority problems with their sons
• Fathers with teenage daughters
• Father who is providing for his family, more than just his children
• All our parents with children with autism and other special needs
• At least 5 mothers without a job
• Mothers with car problems
• A mother asked us to pray for her and especially for guidance
• Financial needs
• Father in distress with two young daughters
• A mother about to lose her house and behind in bills
• A mother and daughter living in an unhealthy environment with a violent neighbor
• Grief of a spouse dying with children
• The salvation of some of our clients
• Support systems for our parents
• Mother with mother in the hospital with a lot of complications after brain surgery
• Single mother’s daughter in college for strength and faith through troubling time at school
• Financial breakthrough for a mother who is going to court for more financial support
• Strength and patience for a mother each with three babies (she wants the best for them)

As you see, there are many needs that need prayer.  Being a parent is hard enough, but it's even harder when there is only one parent. Take this opportunity to also pray for the single parents who are a part of our church family, as well as those single-parent families in our community who do not have a church home. Pray that they would have peace, guidance, and comfort.