Dear Prayer Partners,
God is hearing you. Don't let up, especially this week. We've already
seen some prayers answered (youth being changed, and expanding horizons to
help orphans). This is the week for prayer for suffering children. This weekend
marks the date for the World Wide Day of Prayer for Children at Risk (visit <A HREF="http://www.viva.org/">
http://www.viva.org/</A> and also see the info. pasted below, at bottom of this E
mail).
Please pray for every possible situation a child could be in from hunger
to imprisonment, sickness, abandonment, fear, abuse, wartime, substance
abuse, cold, hot, loneliness etc. Pray for Christian adoptions.
MISSIONS, FRANCE & ORPHANS FIRST
Pray for our work here at a crucial time. We expect God for a great
miracle this very week in response to prayer and fasting. Pray for God's
deliverance from satanic hindrances sent to destroy His work. Pray for "light,
gladness, joy and honor" (Est.8:16) for God's people so that His work can go
forward to glorify Him.
CHILD PRISONERS
We recently received a video of the work we sponsored in Moscow juvenile
delinguent homes. Some of the children are as young as 7-years-old. Pray
for imprisoned children.
BRAZIL
Friends in Belo Horizonte are praying about beginning a work with street
children. Keep that in prayer.
INDIA, RUSSIA, AFRICA, ALBANIA
Continue praying for the different orphanages and street children's
works. Pray for Eda's work in Albania. Pray particularly for our orphanage in
Burkina Faso as we seek to bring in more children and grow. Pray for the works
in Russia.
POLAND, ROMANIA
Pray for our UKRAINIAN children in Poland. They recently escaped
burning as their home caught on fire. Thank God they and the family are OK but much
material damage was done.
From VIVA - World Wide Day of Prayer For Children At Risk.
We are only one week away from the World Wide day of Prayer for children at
risk. We do hope you are planning to participate, on your own, with others
or in your church services on Sunday 8th.
To access the prayer materials in over 12 languages and find out more
background information, click on the following web address
http://www.viva.org/wwdp and you will be taken to the World Wide Day of
Prayer home page.
We have just added an EVENTS register, accessible from the home page - if you
are running an event please add your event to the list and let us see, over
the course of this week, how wide and well spread the response is to this
call to prayer.
LAST YEAR
Over 4,500 packs were sent out on request and a further 1,500 by email/web.
If the 4% response forms we received from over 60 countries to just the
English and Spanish versions were applied to the total..... 450,000 people
would have taken part, lifting up a total of over a million and a half hours
of prayer(this does not allow for other language editions or for
distribution by partnering international organisations.)
THIS YEAR
Over 7,500 English and Spanish packs have been distributed.
40,000 Portuguese packs have been distributed.
6 more language editions have been produced.
The event has been advertised widely by a number of our International
Associates and added to a host of websites of supporting agencies.
WHAT IMPACT COULD OUR COLLECTIVE PRAYERS MAKE ON BEHALF OF THE CHILDREN? -
PLEASE JOIN US AND COMPLETE THE RESPONSE FORMS TO LET US KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
Viva Network - 'Together for Children'
http://www.viva.org/
PO Box 633, Oxford, England, OX2 0XZ
Tel : +44 1865 320100 Fax : +44 1865 320101
Janey L. DeMeo
President/founder of ORPHANS FIRST; freelance writer.
Website: http://www.orphansfirst.org/
E mail: Janey@...
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