Pillar Jacksonville ( Brian & Kelli O’Day, Eddie & Mariko Benjamin, Joseph & Elizabeth White )
-Praise God with Pillar Jax for sustaining them throughout the years, they’ve just celebrated their 13th anniversary as a church on Jan 6th!
-Pray for wisdom and discernment for Pillar Jax’s leaders as they navigate leadership transitions in their Church. One of their staff pastors resigned in August and they had a very involved Deacon couple and a few other families depart as well in the same time period. Pray for the Lord’s wisdom as they seek to appoint new leaders in the wake of all of that.
-Praise and thank the Lord for His provision in these past few months as they have already seen God answering prayer for the above request.
-Pray for wisdom and discernment for the elders of Pillar Jax as they also lead the efforts of transition at Pillar Havelock. Pillar Havelock is currently without any fulltime pastors/elders as their pastors/elders resigned at the end of 2025. Pray specifically for Eddie Benjamin, one of Pillar Jax’s elders as he has been leading this effort.
-Praise and thank the Lord for His provision for Brian. He has been restored spiritually and emotionally in profound ways over the past 6 months and is very thankful for it.
-Pray for wisdom and discernment for the O’Day family as they parent and grandparent. There is much transition in their family with now 4 adult children and 1 still at home. Pray that the Lord would help them to know how to navigate all the different life-stages of their children and grandchildren and how to love each of them well.
Pillar Havelock (currently without a fulltime pastor, Eddie Benjamin is filling in from Pillar Jax)
-Pray that God would bring strong and mature families to their congregation to continue the work that He is doing at Pillar Havelock.
-Pray for the Spiritual growth of the core team that is currently there and that God would refresh them in the work.
-Pray that God would call faithful men to their plurality of elders as they seek to lead the body of Christ there in Havelock.