SASKATOON, SK
Area man Craig Peters, 48, asked his wife Lauren to fill her purse with ballpoint pens this Sunday to make sure his prayer requests got through.
“I hear if you fill out the welcome card in pencil, that the ushers take it out back and change everything,” explained Peters. “I wouldn’t want my prayer for a new Toyota Tacoma to be changed to a request for a Prius or something.”
Peters is also concerned that his name could be changed, so that the truck goes to Henry Janzen rather than him.
“That Henry Janzen has enough trucks as it is,” said Peters. “I don’t need him stealing mine.”
Peters has been posting his concerns about the pencils all over the social media, which had the church leadership quick to respond.
“As always, you may fill out the prayer card using any instrument you want,” said church secretary Anne Berg. “Pen, pencil, marker, crayon. You can even cut out the message in fabric and pin it to the flannelgraph board.”
Unsatisfied with the answer, Peters says you can’t trust anyone these days and plans to take his prayer requests directly to the Lord from now now.