[hospitality: the practice of welcoming others into our lives with kindness and generosity]
Theme: Extending hospitality to tourists and visitors.
Challenge: As our peninsula becomes flooded with tourists, adjust your attitude toward being a welcoming presence to those who visit. Look for a chance to offer help to others as a way to ensure their time here is special and memorable. Maybe even invite someone to go fishing with you?
Daily Prayer: One way God creates a hospitable spirit within us is through prayer. Throughout the month of June, let us together bring before God these specific prayers for visitors and tourists among our community.
Sunday: Look for a new face in our worship service this morning (or someone you don’t normally interact with). Introduce yourself and pray for them by name when you go home today.
Monday: As you are driving along on busier streets and notice the RVs and camper vans becoming more common, pick one out and ask God to be present with that family during their time in Alaska.
Tuesday: We’ve all been tourists at some point. Recall what that was like for you and any people who helped make your time as a tourist memorable and special. Pray that God might work through you to extend the same blessing.
Wednesday: Summertime is when many of us show hospitality to our own family and friends. Pray with or for them while they are here. Do so each day of their stay.
Thursday: Rather than seeing the influx of people as a disruption to the enjoyment of our quiet, pray that God would give us eyes to see people as He sees them; to give us His heart for others.
Friday: Throughout the biblical story, foreigners and aliens have a special place in God’s heart. Consider how we are also tourists waiting for the fullness of God’s Kingdom to come. Invite God’s Kingdom to come today as in heaven.
Saturday: Pray for the local businesses in our area who will welcome an influx of people, that they might have the manpower and patience and kindness for all who enter into their doors.
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