It has been an interesting week. I have a number of praise
reports as well as some prayer requests.
First of all, praise reports: more contributions have come
in! We have another month covered and that much closer to meeting the goal! Thank
you to all who have given. It is such a blessing to me. You are helping to keep
my ministry going over here.
Another praise: While working in the office is fine and
necessary, I’d much rather be working with kids, so one of the blessings of
this week is that we found another youth club for me to partner with and help
out on Tuesday nights! Working with youth and praying for them is very much my
calling and I am so happy to be able to help.
Praise: Thursday evening went great. Thank you to those who
were praying for it. Some of you know that I put a status on FB asking people
to pray against whatever is trying to come against us. And it’s a good thing I
did go then because another volunteer ended up staying home sick and her
husband was going to stay with her. So we were down by another couple of
workers. I know the enemy is threatened by what we’re doing here because of all
the attacks on the workers. Please keep up the prayers for safety and health
for me and my fellow fishermen (fishers’o’men).
So during youth club this week we had something a little
different. I was in charge of the girls, and I taught them all the “Drive The
Bus” dance! To those of you who aren’t from my home church and aren’t familiar
with this is a silly dance put to what sounds like random music. It usually has
dance moves with recognizable names like “the Sprinkler”, “Disco”, and “The
Plumber”. At first the girls thought my antics were ridiculous, which they were,
but on the second time around we got a good sized crowd doing it with me. It
was a lot of fun.
Praise: This girl who's come to church has been continuing to come and continues to bring her friends! God is really doing work in this girl's heart, so please pray that she continues to come and learn about God.
Prayers: We’ve had a number of sicknesses going around, so as
I said, please pray for healing and health.
I’ve had a couple of girls tell me in the evening that they’ve
not eaten all day. I know that one of them is known for exaggerating, so I’m
trying to figure out how much of what she says I should believe. But the other
one we’ve had suspicions of something not-right going on. Please pray that God will
work in both these girls and that He will show them His love.
I know a lot of the behavior and self-harm problems are seen
everywhere in the world, and we’re praying for that to end, but until Christ
comes back, the world will remain imperfect. We can’t help everybody, but we
can help the ones in front of us. Please pray that God gives us wisdom on how
to show His love to these girls.
I had my ipod on shuffle the other day and this song came on
I hadn’t heard before.I’d bought the album for one song so I hadn’t listened
to the rest of it. But when it came on I ended up sobbing. It really paints a
picture of what so many kids are going through. Only Jesus can heal this pain.
It breaks my heart to think of the people who haven’t met Him yet.
Thank you once again for your donations and prayers. Please
keep ‘em up. I love ya’ll.
God is good.
God is good.