Hello my brothers and sisters!
We have a lot of praying to do this week! There are a lot of prayer requests that we need to bring to our Lord this week.
I want to start with a praise. I know the leadership team has been meeting with a lot of the social workers, school administrative people, and other churches about this year’s workcampNE. There have been some great things happening! The Lord continues to open doors that blow us away!
This week, the focus I would like to shed some light on are the churches who are going to be joining us this summer. From the updates we get from Super, there are a lot of churches that are on the roster to call. Let’s pray that the Lord places on their heart the desire to be a part of our ministry this summer. As always, we know there will be church groups that can’t make it. So keep our brothers and sisters in prayers that have not yet made a decision yet. Pray that God would give them the wisdom to know what they should do this summer. Ask the Lord to place a burden on their heart for the ministry that goes on at workcampNE. Also pray for the wisdom to know which leaders and students to join us. There are some youth, and even leaders, that don’t know what it is going to take from them to be a part of workcampNE.
For prayer requests:
Keep Marcia’s dad (John) in your prayers as he is in the hospital with pending heart tests/doctors appts. Pray that John would open his heart to hear the Lord’s call on his life. Pray that he would be surrounded by people who will share the love of Christ with him during this difficult and scary time.
Gloria, a friend of mine and Jamie’s, who has lung cancer. It is inoperable. They are talking treatments, but only to buy her time. Praise is that her daughter is coming home from abroad to be with her mother. Pray for peace, healing and wisdom for Gloria and her family as they make some really difficult decisions. Pray for the wisdom of the doctors to know and see things that they may miss.
Pray for Marc and Jess as they prepare for the mission experience at the end of this month – any updates or specifics that we can pray about for you two?
Speaking of missions… the deadline for application forms for our church missions experience is in 2 weeks. Pray that the Lord would speak to those He has already chosen to go to workcampNE, Mexico and our national mission experience with our Native brothers and sisters.
Please keep Brenda and Tom’s friends in your prayers. Kathy and Steve… Steve was diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. He is in a lot of pain and we need to pray for comfort, healing and the Lords touch on his life. Pray for the family as they go through this with Steve and Kathy.
Marcia had asked about the mother of one of our students who is going through brain cancer. She is on a new medication, and she is responding well to it. Continue to keep her and her family in your prayers. Her name is Donna. She is gradually doing more. Because she would be bombarded at our church, she has been occasionally going to another church, which is a huge victory! She loves being around people, and this is a huge step for her healing!
If anyone else has an update they would like to share, please feel free to share! We love the encouragement and the request to come to the foot of our King to bring praises and requests for His touch!
My friends, it is always a pleasure to pray and sing praises with you all!
You are loved, because He first loved us!
Blessings,
Mel