Hello again to my family spread far and wide!
As of today, June is half over! As of 1 month from today, many of us will be together for week 1 of WC Kennebunk, ME! It just sneaks up on you, doesn’t it! But that doesn’t mean that we don’t have things to pray for. I love hearing how God is working in and through each of our lives. Here’s the updates and some new info too:
Praise:
Jamie and I are back from California – I guess it’s a praise because we had a wonderful time and would like to have more time off, but alas… work continues to pile up as we are not there, so we must go on! Thank you for all the prayers – we had some much needed R&R and the hooding ceremony and graduation were amazing. We even had some great weather with some cooler temperatures… so that’s great for us as we both are not fans of summer all that much! Your prayers were felt and answered, so thank you all!
Prayer request:
An urgent request from our church here in Mississauga: Baby Owen (who was born 3 months early) has passed away suddenly. He had been released from the hospital and had gained a significant amount of weight. Over the weekend he began to vomit and they took him to the hospital where they had to resuscitate him once, but were unsuccessful the second time it was needed. Please pray for Abi and Bhag (Owen’s parents) and their family. This is especially hard as they had been trying to conceive for the past 6 years – please pray for comfort and healing in this family’s time of need. Pray that they would come near to God in their time of great sorrow instead of push Him away.
This is from Super Dave for a member of his church family, Dave:
“I learned from my doctor today that I have colon cancer. It snuck up on me with hardly a symptom. I will be seeing the surgeon early next week to discuss the treatment options. That’s the bad news……Now the good news…….Jesus Christ is in control of everything. It is 27 years ago this month that Trish and I lost our 3 yr old son Ryan to a backyard drowning. We survived that and came out victorious because God is in control and His peace sustained us. Compared to that, cancer is a chump. It cannot stand against the prayers of His people.
All of the kids are on board with this and we will all get to watch God be glorified.
Thanks for your prayers,
Dave”
Wow! What an awesome outlook to have! Please keep Dave and his family in your prayers as they seek healing, wisdom for decisions to make in the near future, and closeness with our Lord as they draw close to Him in this time.
Please continue to keep Tim in your prayers as he is facing the first of many weeks without his lovely wife Gloria. Pray for continued healing and comfort. Tim is very strong in the Lord and our prayer would be that he would only grow stronger and gain a relationship with God that can only be because of the trials he is going through.
Continue to keep Mark in your prayers as he battles prostate cancer. Pray for both he and Kelly as they work through this together. Pray that God would strengthen them as individuals but also in their marriage as they seek the Mighty Physician in the healing of Mark’s body.
Also, please continue to pray for Donna and Lucy in our church who are both battling cancer. Donna had a few setbacks with seizures. Jamie (just) told me that they have given her about a month. This woman is a champ, knowing this and being so gifted in hospitality, she wants our youth groups to come over for the end of the school bar-b-que. She loves people and I know that we serve and love a God who is bigger than all of this! Pray for continued healing for her and the support of her family that they would have strength. For Lucy, the doctors have given her only a few weeks. Pray for her and Jack (her husband) that they would look back on the fond memories and that the next few weeks would not be in hospital, but in rejoicing that the Lord is good and His love endures forever!
I would ask for myself that you would all keep me in prayer as I propose a new avenue in the medical clinic I work at. I’ve been trained in many things, and I keep being told that we are going to expand, with hopes of a raise thanks to them. Fast-forward 2 years later and I’m still waiting. I am proposing to take an investment with the training and product that I have many clients waiting for. Pray for wisdom as I speak to the doctors I work for. Pray also for an understanding of where I’m coming from… waiting 2 years is not exactly ideal when you are waiting for your raise/bonus to come in. Pray for discernment and that my boss and his wife would be open to me expanding the business – that this would be the step that is needed to prove that I can manage this area of our medical clinic. Both are Christians, but it’s a family business. The doctors I work for I consider my boss – his wife, the other doctor, makes all the decisions as to what goes on in the clinic and I feel that there is some doubt on her part.
For workcamp this week, I want to pray for health. It seems that over the past couple of months, it’s like we have been praying non-stop for health issues. This week, let’s pray that any illness or safety issue would not be the case for WC. Ask for protection on our way to WC, while we are there, as well as on our way home. Pray that there would be no issues for Kelly to have to take into account. We want Kelly to be twitteling her thumbs with the couple of weeks she is at camp so that we can get her working with some of the residents or even in front of the camera at the residents’ visits? =)
It’s been a long week for me, so if I have forgotten anyone, please e-mail me and let me know the prayer or praise/answer to prayers!
You are great! Can’t wait for July!!!
Mel