Dear Prayer Partners,

    Thank you for praying around the world with me for hurting children, and 
for souls.  Your prayers make a massive difference.

ADOPTION
    We have seen God move in the arena of adoptions.  Please now pray for 
Sonia, a beautiful young girl in St.Petersburg, Russia, who desperately needs to 
be adopted.  Pray also for a couple, Liz & Steve, seeking to adopt.  Pray 
continually for Christians to adopt, or to foster, and for God to open all the 
right doors to make that process possible.

ORPHANAGES
    Continue praying for all our orphanages in different parts of Africa, and 
India, and also for the many state orphanages in which we work, particularly 
in Russia and her surrounding countries.

STREET CHILDREN
Albania
    Thanks for praying for Qibarie. We got him glasses so pray they will help 
his eyes.  Continue praying for Eda & Dori in Albania and the amazing work 
they do with street children.  Pray specifically for:  Xhilda (that she would no 
longer have to beg at all), and for a home for these little ones (who have 
parents for the most part, but who are very, very poor).  Pray also for a 
grandmother who is sick who helps with the children.  And for Dori to have support 
money to continue helping the children.
Russia and surrounding countries
    Continue praying for the street children in Kazan and in Minsk, as well 
as in different parts of Russia.  Pray for all the ministries that participated 
in the Christmas project -- for them to continue working with the children.  

AMERICA
    Continue praying that we could have a children's home in St.Pete, 
Florida.  (I will be going there next week). Pray also for areas here in California 
where there are underprivileged children in bad neighborhoods.  One little girl 
lost her father because the mother killed him (the mother is in prison).  The 
child now lives with an aunt who has many children.  Pray for M****.  Pray 
for the Christian teachers in public schools who try to minister to these little 
ones.  Pray God would show me if there's a way O.F. can help and that a 
structure could be created outside of school whereby the kids could really learn of 
Jesus and have their many needs met.  
Mexico
     The needs are many and we are seeking God as to how we can best help the 
street children in this country.  Urgent priorities have not permitted me to 
make that trip personally but I am praying, and others have gone and brought 
back pictures. 

EXPANSION
    You've prayed for a graphist, and I've had some offers, and I'm looking 
into their possibilities.  But ideally I would need a person right here where I 
am so I could work alongside that person, making alterations as the brochures 
unwinds.  Pray for that, and for all the mediatic ways we can expand to meet 
the great needs.(We are so small).  

FRANCE
    A baby born with a kidney defficiency is suffering because the only 
relief for her problem is through antibiotics which are slowing wearing down her 
body.  She has constant infections, and much discomfort.  Please pray for her.
   Remembering that the number one cause of death in France among young 
people is suicide only magnified my concern when I heard that Mel Gibson's Passion 
movie was banned in France.  But thanks to prayer, we recently heard that the 
film will be showing (curiously, a rich Muslim married to a Catholic 
instigated this change).  NB -- When we pray against demonic strongholds in France, 
this is the kind of warfare we face.  We have seen so many lost people, needy 
children and hurting youths, our heart breaks daily.  Please pray for God to use 
this film mightily, that many would see it, and that masses would be saved.  
Pray that the French Christian community could grasp the importance of such a 
movie, and would unite to pray, promote it, and to stategize ways to use this 
movie as a platform to get the Gospel across. 

Serving you in the battle for the children's lives, arm in arm with the King.

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