Hello Everyone!
I hope this update finds you all doing well. We’ve had some pretty amazing weather this week – just one step closer to the summer and getting to be together with you all to serve our Lord in Maine!
First of all, I have a correction from last week.
We are praying for Brenda’s friend Amy who is going to Israel. Well, Amy is not only a friend, but even more so… she is Brenda’s daughter! Sorry… I missed the mark on that one!
Praise! Baby Owen is now taking 4 bottles of milk per day! He’s gaining weight and can spend more time with mommy and daddy outside the incubator and off the respirator! Praise God! Continue to pray for his health and growth!
Praise for Scott – the surgery was successful to remove the blockage. Continue to pray for healing as he is having some difficulty with vocabulary. Another praise is that he was doing well enough to be at church on Sunday and even stayed after to talk with friends! Praise God!
Here is a praise/prayer request from Squeaky:
Please keep wedding in prayers…and more importantly my future marriage to Casey…
Casey hasn’t found a job yet.
I’ve been busier than ever (work, traveling, side projects) with very little sign of it slowing down till a month after wedding….
Thanks!
Josh
Squeaky, I love that you want prayer for your wedding, but it shows just how much you love Casey that you realize the wedding is one day and your marriage is for the rest of your life! We will definitely keep both things in our prayers… and that God would give you strength and energy as you are a very busy man for the next couple of weeks! Let’s continue to pray for the job hunt that Casey is going to be continuing on.
Praise from our workcamp staff – Jess and Marc are going to be celebrating their 1 year anniversary! Let’s pray that the Lord blesses their second year even more than their first!
Another praise is that Jess and Marc are now staff at workcamp and that has taken a lot of stress, responsibility and extra jobs from Ken that allows him to focus on other aspects of workcamp and what they are going to be doing through the year!
Please keep my mom (Debbie) in your prayers. She will be going on her first mission trip on the 27th. She is going with a group from our church to Albania to work in an orphanage. She is excited and scared all at the same time. Pray for safety as they travel. Pray especially for my mom as she has fibromyalgia and doesn’t want it to flare up to take away the focus of the trip. She’s a trooper and can get through lots of those painful times but she is very apprehensive about this part of the trip. Traveling is the worst as it causes a lot of pain to be in a plane for a large number of hours.
This week for workcamp I want to focus on the residents. We have many residents that are on the list, and we need to pray that the Lord opens the doors to which residents we are going to enter into a friendship with. Pray for the social workers to be very conscious of what is expected of them and that they will be opening doors for us in this very busy time of year! Pray for Marcia and Julie and the other volunteers that are going to the residents’ homes to determine if we can send our students to them. Pray that the volunteers would have a compassion for these people that just washes over them so that the people they come into contact with would know they are being served by people who love our Lord!
If there are any other prayer requests or praises… let me know!
You all rock!
Mel