ORPHANS FIRST PRAYER REQUESTS – June 5th, 2006 Dear Prayer Friends, As you know, this past weekend marked the Global Weekend of Prayer for Children at Risk! Thank you for praying extra for the suffering children of the world. Please thank your churches and local communities who were able to host this event and encourage prayer. I am sure we’ll see the results of our prayers. The children will forever be grateful. Updates on our orphanages and children’s works All is well on the fields in India, Africa, and Russia…although it’s extremely hot in India so keep the children’s health in prayer. And the street children in Russia are still very needy. Adoption Update Last week, I visited dear friends in Florida who’ve now adopted 5 children (with 2 biological children) and will be adopting two more. Amazing. These friends are also beginning a Christian Adoption Agency – something I’ve dreamed of and prayed about for years. Please pray for them. Pray also for the successful adoptions of Nikita, Alexandria, Alexander, Roman, Sonia…and millions of others. Pray for many more Christians to adopt or foster children. Over 118, 000 await in the USA alone. Dear Girl in Thailand Thailand is notorious for child sex slavery. Imagine a beautiful 9-year-old girl being deaf and living in a slum. How tragically vulnerable. This is Mink’s case, but because O.F. will sponsor her to go to a school for the deaf, her life will have hope. Mink’s picture is on the O.F. website in the June newsletter – _www.orphansfirst.org_ (http://www.orphansfirst.org/) Pray for Mink & her grandmother – that both would fully know Jesus. Abused Girl *From a friend regarding an abused African girl: “…our family has taken in a young lady from Malawi, Africa -- Zandinal. She is 20 years old…She was abused sexually and physically for several years from her youth up until last year just before she came to the U.S. She even has a 6 year old child back in her country. The father of the child is her step-father who is also a minister in a church and was, until last year, her abuser. Her child continues to live in Malawi with the family. He is very influential and we are surprised he allowed her to even leave. I am discipling her for spiritual growth and educational growth. I am not only concerned for her, but also for her child and other siblings… She has negative images that she has to overcome.” Please pray for her and her 6 year old child and any siblings who may be in danger of being abused. Troubled Youths Some progress seen among some of them—thanks to your prayers. But let’s not stop praying… My Travel Schedule. I leave (again) tomorrow for Chicago for Write-to-Publish. Please pray for divine contacts to further God’s Kingdom especially for the needy children. Prayer appreciated also for the many projects I’m trying to juggle to expand O.F. And please let me know if anyone wants more info. on my new parenting book. Forever thanking Him for calling you to pray for the children, Janey L. DeMeo Founder/director of Orphans First; author & freelance writer Website: www.orphansfirst.org / E-mail: Janey@... Subscribe to weekly online prayer chain: welovegod.org/groups/orphansfirst/ -- Browse years of Orphans First Prayer Requests: http://welovegod.org/groups/orphansfirst/ To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: orphansfirst-unsubscribe@...