Orphans First Amazing update and prayers, January 11th, 2002    
*******PRAY SPECIAL FOR JAN.12th & 13th in St. PETE - CHRISTMAS PROJECT.

        To Orphans First Prayer Heros (that's you),

CHRISTMAS in BAKU & RUSSIA
        I'm pasting below a newsletter from our team in Baku describing
some details of young orphans 
getting their Christmas presents.  Awesome.  So precious.  Thank you for
your participation in this
project, especially your prayers.
        Please PRAY SPECIAL for the play and giving of presents to
(hopefully) 3,400 children
this weekend in St. Petersburg, Russia.  Pray for: the team (their
strength, joy, peace etc.), the children to all come,
the presents to all be organized, the weather to miraculously turn warm (or
at least for God to protect children from
feeling the extreme cold), for Jesus' to embrace each child tightly, for
salvations, for the devil to be totally tied
and unable to do anything to hinder this wonderful plan, for God to let us
open up a permanent orphanage. 

AFRICA
        A team will be traveling to several W. African countries to
initiate and found orphanages there including into
Burkino Faso.  Pray special for Michel representing O.F. and for my husband
-- that there will be places on standby flights
and the needed visas.  Also, pray for our team returning to Morocco and the
work they've ALREADY begun with poor children.

ALBANIA, INDIA & ELSEWHERE
        The Christmas team will leave in February to give presents to 500
children in ALBANIA.  Meanwhile, in INDIA, 
our orphanage in the south doing well, but still so many more on the
streets........

SPECIAL PRAYER
        Pray especially for some projects I'm undertaking over the next
week and a half which could really boost the 
efficacity of O.F. Pray for divine guidance, wisdom, contacts, protection,
and provision to meet the mission to reach
many more suffering children in the world.
 
BAKU
        Results from Christmas Project in Baku seen clearly in this
newsletter from Nina:
Dear Friends,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We live in our new apartment since December 7. We got a 
support from the foundation "Orphans First" from Baltimore for 
giving Christmas presents to the orphans at the orphanages and 
for the street children. We organized a team for this ministry and 
went to the airport market for shopping. We bought 250 hats, 
gloves, socks, toys and 10 boxes of sweet things. Also we 
bought a hundred kilograms of apples and mandarins. Praise 
God we had a lot of place for packing Christmas presents at our 
new apartment.

On December 26 we gave our presents to the first group - at the 
Baby House. We visit this group of toddlers every Wednesday 
and play with them during an hour and a half. They were so 
happy!  One little boy (his name is Misha) started to speak with 
us that day; he had never done this before. He was so happy to 
have his own "mashina" (a toy car). All of kids put on their new 
hats and gloves and we had a lot of fun! Also we sang Christmas 
songs in Azeri for them and they listened to us very attentively.

We wish you to be happy in Christ!

Nina

        Forever indebted to your labor of love in prayer,
Janey

Janey L. DeMeo       
Founder/director of Orphans First, freelance writer.
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E mail:  janey@...
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