Dear Prayer Friends,

    Requests to give gifts to needy children are pouring in from all parts of 
the world---from S. America to Africa, India, and throughout Europe.  We 
finally got the Christmas flyers so now we need to pray we can get them into the 
hands of different churches to distribute within their congregations and raise 
money for these children's Christmas presents.  Finances are needed.  

    DIfferent teams have drafted their projects and all seem very worthy, 
especially when we realize that we're talking about showing Christ's love to poor 
children during this season through offering them gifts.  He is the REASON.  
So let's show WHO HE IS by giving gifts in His name, and sharing His message.

    We need to pray for FINANCES for this year's gifts like never before.  
We're bitten off a big bite and I'm in transition so very limited as to what I 
can do myself this year.

    Now, concerning that TRANSITION, this is the latest:
    We arrived in the States last Thursday to begin our "change of 
ministry/sabbatical year".  However, we're still praying about where to live as housing 
has not yet opened up.  Ironically, I get kids off the streets and into homes, 
and my husband is a key church-planter, but we have no home of our own.  
We've left our work in France with good people and we're launching out to reach 
people on a different level, probably in DC.  We're presently in Florida, 
staying in a friend's home with our son and daughter, and will head towards the 
Capital in a week or so, for some key meetings.  Please keep this in prayer and, 
in particular, our need for: housing, a car, phone, everything a person needs 
in a home (bedding, kitchenwear etc.).  Please also continue praying for our 
son to adjust to the American school system.  He has a high IQ but has spent his 
entire life in France, and needs to catch on to his studies.

    Please pray much for the CHRISTMAS PROJECT.  I have been overwhelmed by 
the propositions of church members in foreign lands who are working with the 
poor children.  The stories of the street children, and those in state 
orphanages as well as those in our own homes are overwhelming.  I hope to give you more 
precise details to pray over in the future.  Meanwhile, continue praying for 
all the above details.  And thank you so much for being part of this great 
adventure.

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