Prayer and Praise

December 8, 2025

• Emphasis — History and Political Studies Department
• Anonymous — Please pray for a successful end to the semester for students who are struggling with grades

December 1, 2025

• Emphasis — Mathematics Department
• Anonymous — Please pray for Jamie and Janice, as well as Fredrick F, who is serving as a student missionary
• PSL — for my knee problems

November 17, 2025

• Emphasis — Physical Therapy Assistant Program
• Anonymous — Pray for Pastor A. Wallace
• Anonymous — Please pray for Abishur Moses, a new alumnus
• Anonymous — Pray for my family

November 10, 2025

• Emphasis — School of Music
• Dale — Please pray for my wife, Laurie, in all she does for the choir and orchestra.
• Erica — Classes and upcoming tests.
• Anonymous — Gustavo who was recently baptized.
• Anonymous — Praise for gifts given to Southern and that they may be multiplied.

November 3, 2025

• Emphasis — School of Social Work
• Anonymous — Lamar Phillips who is in the hospital
• Anonymous – Pricilla Prato, who is just 27, has terminal cancer.
• Anonymous — Granchildren who are teaching and studying overseas

October 27, 2025

• Emphasis – Recruitment and Admissions
• Cheryl – Praise for a wonderful Homecoming Weekend. The weather was wonderful, and the connections were even better.
• Homecoming Weekend Prayer Tree Requests – Pray for my children – Take care of my brother Ace  For God's will to be made known to me – For God to lead us through marriage

There were dozens more prayer requests collected during Homecoming Weekend. Let's remember them all in prayer.

October 20, 2025

• Emphasis – Plant Services and Service Department
• Tatiana  – Direction for my career and future education.
• Cheryl – All those traveling to Homecoming Weekend, and for it to be a joyful and spirit-filled time for all who attend.

October 13, 2025

• Emphasis – School of Computing
• Anonymous – For Caitlyn and Michael Babianco and their mission in Japan.
• Annie – For the Holy Spirit to fill the church and for faith and victory over sin for me and my family.
• Cheryl – Final details and plans for Homecoming Weekend at Southern.

October 6, 2025

• Emphasis – School of Business
• Mary – Praise to God for all who have learned and seen Him in their lives while serving and attending SAU, for answered and unanswered prayers. Thank You God for all who serve at SAU. May God's Spirit continue to be seen in all departments.

September 29, 2025

• Emphasis - School of Engineering and Physics
  • ABET accreditation evaluators will be on campus from this coming Sunday through Tuesday. The outcome of this process has been years in the making and is so important to our students’ future careers, so we very much covet your prayers. But even more than a positive outcome, our engineering team has been praying that in some way God’s name, rather than ours, will be glorified through this accreditation process.
• Cheryl - the family of Beverly Wilson, a long-time volunteer at Southern, who just passed away

September 22, 2025

• Emphasis - School of Health and Kinesiology
• Liz - I ask for prayers for Mrs. Blood.  That she has a quick recovery because the theology department wants and needs her back. 
• Blanca - Pray for my 4 children. I praise God for His continual mercy and care.

September 15, 2025

• Emphasis - School of Journalism and Communication
• Rob - May the hands of the Lord be over our lifes, over my daughters and my son, over our health, over my job, my finances, and my faith.
• Sara - I praise God for inspiring my daughter to lead a life group. May God equip all the life group leaders with the specific gifts they need for their group. May each meeting be a blessing to both leaders and participants.
• Oscar - For my son Noah to have a life changing year at Southern. With 16 units this semester he needs a lot of prayer for wisdom and guidance.
• Esperanza - My husband, mother, and I were in a severe car accident, and my mother sustained multiple serious injuries. Please pray for recovery for her and the 17-year-old in the other vehicle.

September 8, 2025

• Emphasis - New school year.
• Jevelyn - That her son will be able to surmount any obstacles and challenges he is facing right now as he prepares to graduate in December.
• Keli - Continue guiding the graduated Seniors in finding God’s will in their lives. Be with my son Seth as he continues making life choices with God's guidance.
• Rob - May the hands of the Lord be over our lifes, over my daughters and my son, over our health, over my job, my finances, and my faith.
• Sara - I praise God for inspiring my daughter to lead a life group. May God equip all the life group leaders with the specific gifts they need for their group. May each meeting be a blessing to both leaders and participants.
• Oscar - For my son Noah to have a life changing year at Southern. With 16 units this semester he needs a lot of prayer for wisdom and guidance.
• Esperanza - My husband, mother, and I were in a severe car accident, and my mother sustained multiple serious injuries. Please pray for recovery for her and the 17-year-old in the other vehicle.

May 12, 2025

• John - Guidance for the graduating seniors, especially for those who are still figuring out what they will do after graduation.
• Greg - Guidance as the School of Religion seeks a new faculty member.
• Lisa & Esperanza - Protection for their daughters as they leave Southern for the summer.

May 5, 2025

• Emphasis - Finals
• Sana - Prayers for her daughter's faith and community.
• Esperanza - A prayer for her daughter as she's preparing for finals and wrapping up her junior year.
• Keli - Prayers of faithful protection as the SVA Honors Music trip returned from, Nashville, Highland Academy, Madison Academy & SUCASA CHURCH right near SAU. Thank you to the many SVA alumni who attend Southern & who came to participate in the concert last Sabbath. Praise be to God for their Witness. Be with the SAU students as they enter their exams.

April 28, 2025

• Emphasis – Service Department, Transportation Services, and Plant Services
• SJQ – Daughter's faith and her cohort
• Sharon – Prayers for Cindy who lost her husband unexpectedly and needs comfort and strength
• Esperanza – Pray for our daughter's spiritual life
• Cheryl – To prepare the community for Rain, our upcoming week of prayer and to use the week of prayer to bring your Holy Spirit over us
• Carlos – Pray for students beginning to prepare for finals and end of semester, and those still figuring out their plans for the summer and post-graduation.
• Kelli – Please pray for summer plans/ intern / post graduation guidance and may Gods plans unfold boldly in front of our SAU students. May they retain much studied knowledge for their exams ahead.

April 21, 2025

• Emphasis - Recruitment and Admissions
• Doug - Pray for students who are graduating soon and that they will be equipped and inspired to share the Gospel wherever they go.
• John - That God will touch the hearts of those who are experiencing the story of Christ's greatest gift for the first time during SonRise.
• Anonymous – PRAISE: Thank you Dear Jesus for HEALING STEVE BREMNER’s leg from cancer. (This prayer was prayed on January 6: Pray for Steve Bremner who is struggling with cancer in his leg for three years now)
• Jackie Rose – Prayers for wisdom and healing as he has been struggling with allergies and congestion in his throat for a year. Doctors and allergists have not helped so far. (We prayed for this on January 6: be tested for yeast in his throat, feel at ease enough to trust God to strengthen him as he asks the Doctor to do a bronchoscopy into his lungs to determine the cause of his difficulty with congestion.)
• Anonymous – Please be with our 2 SAU students, as they make life changing decisions Re: their careers and summer work. Thank you Jesus

Week of April 14, 2025

• Emphasis – Schools of Social Work and Visual Art & Design
• Dick – Dealing with a health issue at the moment!
• Anonymous – Please pray for 2 of our Southern students who lost their father 4/7/25 in the evening.  Comfort them and give their mother and family peace in the days ahead. Soon, so soon, the angels will blow their trumpets and Jesus will pierce the sky as He comes to take us to Heaven. 

Week of April 7, 2025

• Emphasis – School of Music
• Lori – I am requesting prayers for my nephew, Johnny. He had an accident on his motorbike and broke his 5th vertebra. He had to be flown to the hospital for surgery on his spine, and doctors don't know yet if he'll recover or if the injury will result in paralysis in his legs. Please pray for healing.

Week of March 31, 2025

• Emphasis – School of Journalism and Communication
• Elaine Hayden – Sister-in-law struggling since the passing of my brother. Name is Gail.
• Elaine Hayden – Praise that our CACREP visit for Counseling program is confirmed for April. Prayers for God's blessing on all involved in this visit.
• Sandy Damm – I’d like to make a prayer request for my son Jephter Moura student/Grad of Arts of Film Production who will be traveling this week with his classmates to attend the Film Festival in Loma Linda. May God guide and protect them during the trip and bring them back safely to SAU. May God bless them in their accomplishments at the Festival as well.
• Sharon Robberson – A family member is in ICU last two weeks and may be succumbing to his struggle with ALS. Please remember him and our family as we trust in Gods love and mercy.
• Sana Quijada – Pray for my daughter's faith.
• E. Rodgers – To be able to send her other son to Southern.
• Kris Eckenroth – That the Holy Spirit will pour out over the campus, community, alumni, and families of Southern.

Week of March 24, 2025

• Emphasis – School of Health and Kinesiology
  
  

Week of March 17, 2025

Emphasis: School of Engineering and Physics

• Keli Sheer Mace – For every SAU student traveling for Spring Break. Please guide them with traveling mercies.
• Les– Thanks to God for years of health raising my family and now asking the LORD’s wisdom to know His choice of remedies to pursue for an ailment and His healing mercies as He wills.  Thank you.
• Esperanza Morales – For the students to have safe travels coming back from spring break
• Emily Hall – For Streams of Light group passing out 50,000 Great Controversies in the greater Chattanooga area.

Week of March 10, 2025

Emphasis: School of Computing and Food Service Staff

• Computing Staff – Guidance as we seek a new faculty member.

Week of March 3, 2025

Emphasis: School of Business

• Jessica – Guidance for my daughter as she chooses her major
• Anonymous – Protection from distractions for all of us, especially Jennifer, who is praying for spiritual peace, rest, and for guidance.
• Rina – For my daughter Ashly who is studying education at Southern.
• Rouja – For my son Kris
• Jevelyn Frias – For my son Jyle whi is in his last year at Southern. I pray that he will be able to take on all his responsiblities and assignements well.
• Esperanza – For my daughter as she finished her junior year and gears up for the last year. Also as she makes big decisions about her life and career.

Week of Feb. 24, 2025

Emphasis: Physical Therapy Assistant Department

• Sharon Rogers – Guidance with a challenging contract she's working on for work.

Week of Feb 17, 2025

Emphasis: Modern Languages Department and Hulsey Wellness Center Staff

• Anonymous – Pray for the delegates and decisions to be made in the upcoming GC session.
• Rina – Pray for my daughter Ashly
• Anonymous – Prayers for a smooth transition for the new person who has filled the position in the School of Psychology, Education, and Counseling and for the right candidate to fill the open position.
• Cheri Durst – For the Student Success and Retention team and the students they help and support.

Week of Feb. 10, 2025

Emphasis: Math Department & WSMC Radio Station

• Anonymous – Financial blessings and assistance with my ministry.
• Anonymous – For the millions of people around the world impacted by the devastating pause to US foreign aid which provides life-saving medicine, education, food, and disaster relief; may the Lord remind our leaders of their responsibility to uphold human dignity and give strength to those who have dedicated their lives to answering the gospel call to serve the least of these and have been unable to do their work, including humanitarians as well as civil servants.
• Anonymous – A PRAISE OF PROTECTION from Our God… After leaving a West VA ski resort 1 hr before dark, we drove 20 min. when the water pump failed in our car on the TOP of a mountain with NO CELL SERVICE, only a fine clear connection to Jesus. It wasn’t long before he sent a long-haul trucker and then a 70-year-old “angel” named Molly. Her phone worked and we were able to call AAA. One hour of visiting later we were towed safely home 2.50 hrs away. But the story doesn’t end there: Molly's 16 yr old granddaughter has a brain cyst causing seizures and needs our prayers. Her son-in-law has a reoccurrence of leukemia - please pray for both of Molly's loved ones.
• WSM Radio Station Staff – We need wisdom for how to overcome some very major budget challenges and soft hearts where they are needed.
  Several of our students are planning to go as student missionaries next school year. We pray for them to receive the right placement and for us to have the ability to find good replacements for them and get them up and ready in time.
  Several among our WSMC family have recently experienced the loss of loved ones, so lift them and their families up in prayer.
  Our listeners—we are a friendship evangelism tool that purposely refrains from the “hard sell” of an invitation. We air the church service and a program called “Gentle Hour of Inspiration”, but the rest of our programming is music. We pray for all our listeners, but especially those who would be considered antagonistic toward the Gospel. 
• Math Department Staff – Prayer for the students in math classes who find them intimidating and wisdom for the professors.

Week of Feb. 3, 2025

Emphasis: History & Political Studies Department

• Anonymous – Praise the Lord for my son, Jephter, who has the privilege to be studying at SAU and will be graduating this year, it’s a huge blessing for us! I pray that God keep guiding him and all graduates giving the strength they need while they face so many challenges this last semester and in the new chapter of their lives. A special blessing to all professors and facilities who have been used by God to teach our precious jewels. 
• Rita Paunganwa – Prayers for Vance who is seeking to know God; that God will show Himself to the young man and win his heart.
• Doug Jacobs – Prayers for all students affected by the newly enforced immigration laws.

Week of Jan. 27, 2025

Emphasis: English Department

• Anonymous – Asking for guidance for planning an upcoming conference and praying for positive impact for attendees.
• Anonymous – Big special prayer for an epidemic of prayer in the dorms.
• Anonymous – Pray that no student remains lonely.
• Anonymous – Prayers for the upcoming dorm LifeGroup.
• Anonymous – Prayers that the students are building spiritually-centered lifelong friendships.
• Anonymous – Pray that all financial barriers to attending Southern will be overcome for every person who wishes to study here.
• Anonymous – Prayers from parents for their kids here at Southern, especially Kris, Bradon, Brielle, Jacob, Natalie, Eliana, Caydon, Aaron, Arabella, Arika.
• John Boone – Pray for Renita Moore who works with freshmen to build community at Southern.
• Anonymous – Prayers for Bertha's daughter and prayers for her son, who just gave his heart to God.

Week of Jan. 6, 2025

• Anonymous – Pray for the many affected by the fires in California.
• Anonymous – Pray for Steve Bremner who is struggling with cancer in his leg for three years now.
• Jackie Rose – Prayers for wisdom and healing as he has been struggling with allergies and congestion in his throat for a year. Doctors and allergists have not helped so far.
• Anonymous – Pray for students who may be worried about friends and family who may be in danger of being deported.

Week of Dec. 30, 2024

• Jackie Rose – Please pray for Catherine Corcoran she came from Local 3 to talk to us about the Village Market advertising with them. I shared with her about our Adventist beliefs. I told her of the joy of knowing Jesus and emphasized to her that there is no greater joy in knowing Him. She came back to talk to me on how I became an SDA. She is really interested in knowing Jesus. Pray for her as she seeks! Pray for Steve Bremner who is struggling with cancer in his leg for three years now.
• Christopher Sorensen – Asking prayer for my father, Mark Sorensen , who is battling prostate cancer and begins radiation therapy on Jan. 9, 2025.  Praying for healing according to God's will and for His glory!
• Anonymous – Prayers for the workers at the Aladdin Print Shop who are facing an unknown situation with the owner's unexpected passing and also for her family who have just lost a loved one.
• Kris Eckenroth – Speedy healing for Levi, who has strep throat (son of alum, Kris).
• Rita Paunganwa – Prayers for Rita's Daughter Evona
• Anonymous – Praise and prayers for blessing over the unsung heroes at Southern - the employees who may fly under the radar most of the time but have an incredible impact and service-oriented dedication.
• Anonymous – Prayers for a special blessing on Dennis Negron, who has an incredibly challenging job of connecting with, supporting, and investing in the students while also holding them accountable.

Week of Nov. 18, 2024

• Anonymous – Praise and gratitude for answered prayers for Savanna, her second surgery was successful and a complete recovery is expected. 
  Continued prayers for strength and courage for Mike Ryan and Gordon Bietz while they are in cancer treatment.  Prayers for their medical teams and their families throughout the process. 
  Prayers for all the student missionaries and the ministries they are serving. For their safekeeping and ability to touch lives as they serve others far from home. Praying for blessings to unfold for the givers and those receiving.  May HIS name be praised!! 
• Christopher Sorenson – Praying for God's Vision, Providence and Provision as we prepare for our third mission assignment with AFM in Southern Thailand.  Surat Thani city has 140,000 people and no Thai Adventist believers.
• Anonymous – Prayers for those who have lost loved ones recently: Dennis Negron, Ingrid Skantz, Debbie Duerksen, the Lundquist family, Krystal Bishop, Kate Oliver, and likely many more. Pray that God will wrap His arms around them and keep all of our eyes on our eternal home where we will be together, joyfully, never to part again.
• Anonymous – Praise for the diversity represented on campus and prayers that students, employees, and alumni will be a witness to God's unity and love on campus and in each of our communities.
• Anonymous – Bring a special blessing on the archaeological museum and the comb that is on exhibit. Use this as an opportunity to minister to our community.
• Anonymous – That God may keep us all close, praying, coming together in unity and God's Power.
• Anonymous – Prayers for Baker family - the oldest son was in a near-fatal accident last week, a close friend's daughter just died suddenly, and one of the adjunct professors in the construction management department just passed away.
• Anonymous – Prayers for healing and full recovery for Verna, who had complications during her recent operation.
• Anonymous – Peace, comfort, and rest for Sharon's family member with ALS.
• Anonymous – So many prayers for comfort, peace, and hope, for the students, teachers, families, and community impacted by shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School.
• Anonymous – Pray for those students graduating this week - for those who know where they're going that they'll continue leaning on Christ; for those who don't know what's next yet, that they'll be guided by God into the best future; and for all our students, that their focus will be on the eternal and not the temporal.
• Anonymous – Special prayers for Sam, who is serving as a student missionary teacher on the island of Ebeye in the Marshall Islands, as well as all the student missionaries, especially those who are not able to be with family for the holidays.
• Anonymous – Prayers for God's blessing on the administration and for resources for the Adventist school on the island of Ebeye.

Week of Nov. 4, 2024

• Anonymous – Please remember Claire, daughter of Loren Barnhurst (former faculty member) and Becca.  Prayers for complete healing.
• Anonymous – Savannah, precious 7 yr old  having a very serious and rare surgery. For her parents, and extended family (current employees at SAU.
• Anonymous – Southern's student missionaries around the world and those who are considering serving next year.
• Anonymous – Our students—that their relationship with Jesus will be stronger by the end of the semester, their personal relationships will be healthy and strong, and they will be able to keep their focus on their academics despite any distractions.
• Anonymous – That parents have continued courage and strength to support their children in this important journey.
• Anonymous – That employees remain faithful to the opportunity and privilege they have to fulfill the mission of Southern Adventist University.
• Anonymous – For a special blessing over those alumni and friends who give back to Southern with their time, talent, and treasure.