Sunday, March 01, 2009

First, thank you for dropping by this page to see how to pray for us, despite the fact that we aren't very good at updating this page. I just noticed the date on the last post - a year ago! Yikes! I suppose we haven't been posting all the updates that have gone out by email on here. We will try to do that from here on. Thank you again for your care for our family and our ministry.

1. Pray for Sean and the Filipino delegates with him who are currently attending the The TMAI Symposium and The Shepherd's Conference. Pray for God to bless the men - that they would be encouraged, challenged, and excited over all that they learn.

2. Pray for Pastor Eloi Caballon in Manila, who is substitute teaching for Sean and Pastor Mark for the New Testament Survey class and Old Testament Survey class. Please pray for God to work through Pastor Eloi and for the students, that all would gain much from this excellent teacher.

3. Pray for Jessica and the kids as they continue life in Manila. Little Tyler's asthma is starting to act up a little, and Isabella is having some major skin reactions to either mosquito bites or some kind of allergy. Jess will try to take her to a doctor this week to find out what's wrong.

4. Pray for two little boys, brothers Aian (2 years old) and Neal (6 months old), who were taken to the hospital the other night. They have both been vomitting and having diarhea for the past 4 days, and now it appears they may have amoeba. They have been admitted as they are dehydrated. We are trying to help them not only with the hospital bills, but mostly with showing the love of God as we care for them. This is Julie Ann's family, who we mentioned in one of the posts here.(Click here to read) The parents are Juan and Wilma, and although they prayed to receive Christ recently, they still have much to learn about Him and His goodness. Wilma is particularly fearful and in a constant state of worry. She seems quite overwhelmed by life's problems. If only she would see that this life is not all there is, that life in eternity is what really matters . . . and that in comparison, this life here really is but a vapor. Please pray that she can learn to really trust God and enjoy the peace that comes out of that, a peace that surpasses all understanding.