Marbury Church of God

Our church is known for its prayer ministry. People sometimes will call just to get a name on the prayer list, because it is well known that we take prayer seriously, not being unrealistic but asking in faith, and, often, seeing miraculous results.  But there’s a curious thing about human nature: it’s easy to just move on to the next need, the next urgent problem, and lose track of the victories we have seen along the way.  So as a way of reminding one another of God’s goodness, some of our leaders got together and constructed an “answers to prayer” tree.  It was set up in the narthex on New Years Day 2008, and will remain there until the turn of the next new year. Here’s how it works.

In the basket to the left of the “tree” is a supply of paper “leaves” and some mini-clothespins.  Whenever a significant answer to prayer has been received, members are encouraged to take a “leaf,” then write, if they choose, the nature of the answer on the back of the leaf, and using one of the mini-clothespins, attach that leaf to the tree.  Each week a few more leaves appear on the tree.  We’ll let that process go forward and see how “fruitful” our tree is by the end of the year.

[At the beginning of Advent 2008 in an evening celebration with other churches also assembled, we read aloud many of the dozens of "leaves" on the tree.]