Orphans First Prayer May 27, 2002    

  ********Don't forget Worldwide Day of Prayer for Children at Risk THIS
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From Paris to MOROCCO 
        
        My husband's meeting  in Paris this morning with a government
official concerning religious liberty issues and discrimination against
Christians went well.  Ironically, he landed in Paris at the same time as
Air Force One yesterday (President Bush's visit to France) and was in the
streets when the President's car went past.  Unfortunately, there were
anti-American demonstrations (typical France).  But how interesting to
think Louis' meeting concerned a subject so dear to Pres. Bush's own heart.
 
        Louis is now in Morrocco for a few days with our team there.  We
also have a work with street children begun.  Pray for this, especially in
this Muslim country where teaching children the Bible is not accepted.  

FRANCE/child prostitutes

        There are thousands of orphans, mostly from Romania, aged between 8
and 12 being prostituted by mafia networks in France, particularly in Paris
and Marseille.  The situation was apparently known before but covered up,
and it remains very difficult to get to these children and help them. 
Their childhood has been destroyed.  Furthermore, the last pedophile
condemned in France got only 3 months inprisonment.    
        Please -- pray for these children and for all children sexually
abused or abused in any way.  Pray for pedophiles to be discovered and
severely punished.  Pray for divine intervention into these situations and
for divine healing in the children's lives.

ALBANIA
        
        Our French team in Albania is working with street children in
several areas.  Pray for a Hall in Uzina so that the children's club would
have a structure conducive to teaching.  Pray for Eda working with street
children, and for David, a Scottish missionary, and also for Jean-François,
Malou and P. David.  Pray for the many street children in Albania, for more
laborers and for O.F to have a greater impact (orphanages, clubs, homes
etc.)
 
UKRAINE, Odessa
        
        Our orphans  in Odessa,  who are usually kept by the pastor and his
wife there who have been trying to adopt them for years, are now again in
the state orphanage.  The "parent" couple visit them for several hours each
day and invest in many of the other children in this orphanage of 400
orphans, all living under horrible conditions.   The couple bring food to
some of the children, who would otherwise be undernourished, and continue
providing their clothes and all their needs, as well as providing a little
for some of the other orphans.  The oldest sister of the three orphans we
support is almost 18 and therefore able to take legal guardianship, but the
process requires some material complications which could be solved with a
small sum of money.  Pray for the future of these children.  And pray for
more churches to work with the orphans in Urkraine.  

RUSSIA, St. Pete
        Pray for healing for an ear problem of  P. Dennis Ellis, pastor of
the GGWO church in St. Pete.  Pray also for Vadim's support.  These two
factors are important in the establishing of a future orphanage there. 
Pray for street children, orphans etc.  Pray for Valery to be adopted -
URGENTLY.  And for Andrei and Lida, and all the others.    
        Moscow - for many orphans and families to be touched and help by
the team there as they minister to the victims of the recent bomb.

INDIA
        Continue praying for Guntur, and the heat wave, for Nanibabu,
Bramhon, Gorawaiah, the  boy at airport, and other needy children as well
as all our kids there.
And pray for our street children in Mumbai (Bombay) and those in the home.

USA/orphans
        Thank God, He has provided a promising foster home for the teen boy
D*** we've been praying for.   Continue praying for other orphans needing a
home whether in USA or anywhere.

AFRICA
        Continue praying for our children's homes and works in Africa.

PERSONAL etc.
        Please continue praying for schedule, our children's schooling
details, and future travels.  

Forever indebted to you for your part in helping the children,

Janey L. DeMeo

Founder/director of Orphans First, freelance writer.
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