February 2026
Pray for the Coming of God’s Realm in Metropolitan Richmond.
Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:9-10 RSV)
February 1, 2026. We pray for the coming of God’s realm in Metropolitan Richmond: For a spirit of unity and cooperation among all people in all jurisdictions. To earnestly seek the common welfare of this metropolitan city. To express compassion and care for our natural environment.
February 8, 2026. We pray for the coming of God’s realm in Metropolitan Richmond: For healthy economic development which enhances the Metropolitan community, employs the unemployed, and contributes to the common good.
February 15, 2026. We pray for the coming of God’s realm in Metropolitan Richmond: For redemption of the divisions, prejudices, pettiness, despair, and discrimination of the past.
February 22, 2026. We pray for the coming of God’s realm in Metropolitan Richmond: For the enhancement of our common life through the Holy Spirit, and for the resurrection of metropolitan Richmond as a modern metropolitan city of hope for the world.
March 2026
Pray for Churches and Religious Institutions of Metropolitan Richmond.
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body – Jews or Greeks, slaves or free – and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. (I Corinthians 12:12-14 NRSV)
March 1, 2026. We pray for the churches and religious institutions of Metropolitan Richmond: For the Church to remain faithful to Christ above all, rejecting the entanglement of faith with political power, and embracing love, justice, and humility as true witnesses of God’s realm.
March 8, 2026. We pray for the churches and religious institutions of Metropolitan Richmond: For all who seek God on behalf of others; for pastors, ministers, missionaries, lay leaders, congregants, intercessors, and other servants of Christ.
March 15, 2026. We pray for the churches and religious institutions of Metropolitan Richmond: For all religious communities, abbeys, orders, brotherhoods, sisterhoods, religious societies, and para-church organizations.
March 22, 2026. We pray for the churches and religious institutions of Metropolitan Richmond: For seminaries, bible colleges, and schools training persons for vocations in ministry; for the students, faculty, and staff of these institutions.
March 29, 2026. We pray for the churches and religious institutions of Metropolitan Richmond: For a spirit of unity, mutuality, cooperation, reconciliation, reform, and common ministry within the faith community.
The weekly prayer cycle begins in March each year.