Cheatham Memorial Methodist Church

09/05/2026

General conference 2026 is complete. While I wasn't there, It was awesome to be able to watch It Live on YouTube, considering the conference was being held in South Africa. All the business before the annual conference was actually completed with a few minutes left on the clock and nothing pushed to the next conference. I'll have more to say about this in the coming days.
I invite you to watch the attached video to catch a flavor of the general conference and what happened.
The Global Methodist Church is now 7,400 congregations organized in 48 annual conferences across the United States, Africa, Asia, Eurasia, the Philippines, Europe, and Latin America. We've grown from 0 in 2022 too 4,715 in 2024 to 7,400 in 3.5 years since inception.

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08/15/2026

Tonight is Hope Pregnancy Center annual fundraiser, Legend's Life. It will be hosted at 1st Baptist Canton from 6-7.

07/15/2026

7-15-26 Prayer Meeting

07/08/2026

7/8/26 Prayer Meeting

07/04/2026

250th Anniversary Prayer for the Nation

FOUNDING WITNESS
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin urged the delegates to return to daily prayer, asking, “How has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings?” He confessed, “The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth—that God governs in the affairs of men… I therefore beg leave to move, that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business.”

SCRIPTURE
“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
~ 2 Chronicles 7:14

FOCUS
On this 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding, humble ourselves before God in gratitude and repentance, asking Him to heal what is broken and to bless the next 250 years with righteousness, mercy, and peace.

PRAYER (A Psalm style Prayer for the Nation)
O Lord our God,
You have been our dwelling place through every generation of this land.
You saw a people declare that all are created and endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights,
and You have carried us through war and peace, through failure and fresh beginnings.

Yet we confess: we have often forgotten You.
We have trusted in our own strength and turned against one another.
We have called evil good and good evil;
we have been proud in our prosperity and slow to repent in our sin.

Have mercy on us, God of compassion;
do not repay us according to our transgressions.

Lord Jesus Christ,
Savior of the world and King above every nation,
You shed Your blood to break the power of sin,
You rose to bring new life to people from every tribe and tongue.

Turn our hearts from idols to Yourself;
teach us the narrow way of truth, justice, and sacrificial love.
Holy Spirit, breath of God,
come and move upon this land.

Humble our pride and soften our hardness;
expose what is crooked and cleanse what is unclean.

Teach us to pray when we do not know how;
groan within us for what pleases the Father.
Heal our land by first cleansing our hearts;
revive Your church, renew our homes, correct our leaders,

Lift up the poor, the wounded, and the forgotten;
let righteousness and mercy meet in our streets.

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
You have borne with us for 250 years by grace we did not deserve.
So we entrust the years to come into Your hands:
set Your truth at the center of our common life,
Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream.

Make this nation a place where life is cherished,
where liberty is ordered by love,
Where the longing for happiness
leads many to find their joy in knowing You through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For Yours is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory, now and forever. Amen.

07/03/2026

Some of you may remember Susan Brannen. She faithfully works as the camp nurse every summer at Lakeview taking care of our kids. The lobby of the infirmary was dedicated to her this year.

07/03/2026

7/3/26 Day 40 — God’s Perfect Plan

Founding Witness: The Declaration closes with trust in divine Providence, and the broader founding era often framed national destiny in terms of accountability to God. Christian prayer ends where it begins: not in self-confidence, but in surrender to the wisdom and mercy of the Lord who reigns over history.

Scripture: Romans 8:28. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.

Focus: End this season trusting that God is at work beyond what can be seen, weaving mercy, correction, and providence into His wise purpose for His people.

Prayer Prompt: Faithful God, we place this nation, Your church, and our own lives into Your hands. Complete in us what You have begun, order all things according to Your good purpose, and teach us to walk forward in trust, obedience, and hope.

07/02/2026

7/2/26 - Day 39 — Hope for the Church

Founding Witness: Revival history in America includes repeated seasons of surprising spiritual renewal. Hope for the church rests not in nostalgia, but in the living God who is still able to awaken His people.

Scripture: Ephesians 3:20–21. 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Focus: Renew hope for the church in America, believing that God is able to do far more than present weakness, decline, or fear might suggest.

Prayer Prompt: God of abundant grace, breathe courage into Your church. Where we see weakness, bring renewal; where we see weariness, bring strength; and where we see decline, reveal the surpassing power of Your Spirit.

07/01/2026

7/1/26 - Day 38 — Timely

Founding Witness: The founding generation believed they were living in a decisive hour that required both courage and dependence upon Providence. Wise prayer asks not only for change, but for faithfulness in the season at hand.

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

Focus: Trust God’s timing in the life of the church and the nation, praying for discernment to respond faithfully in the season now before us.

Prayer Prompt: Lord of time and history, teach us to discern the moment in which we live. Keep us from panic and presumption, and help us act faithfully, prayerfully, and courageously in the time You have given us.

06/30/2026

6/30/26 - Day 37 — Be Reconciled

Founding Witness: Shared public life depends upon some measure of covenant, trust, and mutual obligation. Reconciliation is not weakness, but one of the strongest signs that grace is at work among a people.

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:18–20. 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.

Focus: Seek reconciliation first with God and then with neighbor, asking the Lord to heal estrangement, resentment, and division across the nation.

Prayer Prompt: Reconciling God, bring us home to Yourself and teach us how to be reconciled to one another. Heal enmity, soften resentment, and make Your people agents of peace in a divided land.