Dear Prayer Partners,

     First, your prayers are being heard for my brother.  He is finally 
booked to come next Tue. -- Fri. with his wife to visit us.  (His children can no 
longer come, but God knows the adults are the ones needing to be saved).  
Please pray against Satan's tactics to prevent this even now.  And please pray for 
Paul & Rachele's salvation.  (Remember, we live on the campus of our Church, 
Theological Institute etc. so they will meet a lot of Christians). 
     I have spared you many details but this is a spiritual battle.  It 
always is when we try to "move" people from a dark place to a place where Light 
reigns.  The Prince of Darkness does not want people exposed to the Light.  I 
don't know what the exact theological equation is concerning what part our 
prayers pray in changing things, but as co-laborers, God asks us to intercede.  So, 
prayer is KEY to souls being saved, and children being delivered.  
     Pasted below is another SAD STORY needing MUCH PRAYER.  28 Moldavan 
orphans were supposed to go to the USA for a summer camp and meet potential 
adoptive parents this summer.  The program was organized by precious Joyce Schaller, 
who adopted her son Artur through a similar program.  Artur is now a happy, 
loved boy.  It is tragic that government officials would actually prevent 
children being given a chance to be adopted, and stop them coming to a country 
where much Light is revealed. 
     Please read this carefully and pray.  Pray for the following:
*       that God would reverse this situation and open the door for the 
children to come, and for them to be adopted by Christians,
*         that Joyce would be renewed and strengthened to not give up but to 
go on.  We must hold her up in the battle.
*         that God would allow my husband and I to continue working with the 
precious congressmen we know and love who work with human rights issues, and 
for us to meet more USA government officials who could help with this kind of 
situation.  

E mail from Joyce Schaller :

You just wont believe this! My 28 Moldovan orphans not coming! A repeat of 
Romania last year! read on...

     Well, it is appears that God does not want me to do the summmer programs 
for children. My kids do not appear to be coming in a discouraging repeat of 
last year-only different reasons---but the same bottom line---they aren't here 
and it really doesnt matter why.
     And I wasn't the first group from Moldova----the first group of children 
went to Arizona and returned July 8 to Moldova, no problems, nothing. just a 
wonderful time and the kids found families! Then the Minister of Education got 
demoted the same week they returned. So interim Minister of Education doesn't 
want to repeat the mistakes of her predecessor so we're stuck and all other 
groups are too. 
     But I am not going to cry anymore. The point is pretty clear---I am just 
not meant to do this in fact even if I had a garantee on the kids coming I 
couldn't. I can't tell you the man hours I put into it. Not to mention the 
heart. Not to mention the families. I mean, why would this happen? I close my eyes 
and imagine they are all my children and how I would want someone to fight for 
them if something happened to us---but I am simply not the right person to do 
so. I have fought for two years now---the politicos who dont care about the 
kids or the families but only their secret agendas. And I am done. Elizabeth Cla
rk at the YMCA will surely never commit to a camp again as this is two years 
in a row and I dont blame her. I have no credibility with anyone. And why 
should I have? Of course, a miracle could happen and this Friday the travel order 
could be signed. Lord knows we have gotten everybody and their brother to call 
Moldova and beg to let the kids come and to write letters. But the leaders 
who could do something choose instead to do nothing. And hearts get broken into 
itty bitty bits, and the children who wish only for families have their hopes 
dashed again against the sharp stoic rocks of  important people who dont feel 
for them and don't care. 
     The families, that suddenly thought for the first, or maybe second time 
about maybe opening their home to one of these lost children, have the door 
shut in their face and say, "well everything happens for a reason" which means 
if God wanted them to have this child in their family He would have broken the 
barriers that kept them away. So, 28 more children linger in orphanages 
without mothers and fathers and without the capacity to understand why. 
     And here I am, thinking and believing in God and the Miracles of my 
life, including my son, my daughters, my husband and my home. And I want to shake 
my fist in fury at the Almighty and rant against HIM. I know in the face of 
the millions of children in orphanages across the world that 28 isn't the ripple 
of a drop of water in the ocean. But they are 28 waiting daughters and sons, 
each of them has a face, a name, a heart. And I have never met them, but I 
know them, and all I can do is cry, and rant, and scream against the people with 
no face who keep them away from the light and the hope and the joy that awaits 
them here. Joyce Schaller (adoptive mother of Artur) --  E mail address:  
tmpstuos@...

     Finally, pray for children with broken hearts everywhere.  Please pray 
for miracles.  And contact Joyce if you think you can help.

Blessings,

Janey L. DeMeo
President/founder of ORPHANS FIRST; freelance writer.
 FAWebsite: http://www.orphansfirst.org/
E mail:  Janey@...
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