Orphans First Prayer Requests & Praise Reports – 3.31.05
He is Risen! And some of the phenomenal answers to pray I’ll be sharing
below are proof of it. Be encouraged as you read how God is hearing your
prayers. And thank you for taking to heart each prayer request shared here.
ADOPTIONS
Joyce Schaller
(who adopted Artur), tells me several older Russian children have been adopted.
There is also a couple in Texas that is adopting two teens from Kazakhstan.
They could really use some help. Pray for them and their finances.
Joyce shares: “BIG news--Do you remember the story of a girl named Sonia?
She was in Artur's group and was 9 years old when we adopted him. At his
farewell tea party she took the ponytail holder from her hair and put it on his
wrist as she cried. Artur wore it on his wrist until it disintegrated. We were
so moved by her that we inquired as to whether or not she was available, but
sadly, her mother had a mental breakdown and the court process to determine
her mother to be unfit did not happen until just recently! The happy news
here however, is that the court hearing was supposed to happen last spring, and
in anticipation of that I wrote a little article about her for the Front
Porch*, and the same day it was published a family came forward! Now, after much
waiting they will go on April 26 to meet her! And they should have court in
Aug/Sept if not sooner. I am so glad. I have thought of her for all these
years and worried so much about what would happen to her; she is so very, very
beautiful.” - Joyce Schaller
*I have also written an article on Nikita for the “Front Porch” in the
Fredericksburg newspaper which will be out in April. Please pray God will use
this and that someone would adopt Nikita before it’s too late (he only has
just over a year left before he’s too old to be adopted).
More Adoption news:
Two Russian
children are being adopted by the Pekareks who wrote the following: “…part of our
long term vision is to work directly with Russian orphan graduates. We are
entering our training phase for this vision. Two specific prayer requests:
1) We begin our first Bible School class here at Richland Center Fellowship
on
4/10/2005. It will be Fall 2004 ABD. I am the director. And I will be
going
to Russia for the adoption. Pray for the students who will be taking the
class,
and also for a backup administrator that has the same heartbeat for the class
during the period while I am gone (approx. 4 class sessions).
2) When we go to Russia, we intend to leave our biological children
stateside at
our home. Please pray that we can find the right in-home help to be with
them,
particularly for the weekdays as we homeschool them. We think that we have
the
weekends covered.” – the Pekareks.
Our missionary friends in China are adopting baby Tien Ce whose mother is
dying. Pray for all the details involved in this. (O.F. sponsors have
contributed to this project).
Another couple, the Josephs, are also adopting from Russia or a surrounding
country. Please pray for those details.
Pray for another family in Southern California who’ve been pursuing the
adoption of Beatrice in Haiti. Pray that they can finally bring her home.
Pray also for baby Emmy—taken away from her adoptive fostering parents to
be given back to a drug-addict biological mother. Pray for the adoptive
parents.
HAITI
The orphanage in Haiti still needs support, and we still need much wisdom to
access the situation. Pray for God’s clear leading.
INDIA, RUSSIA, POLAND, AFRICA
Continue praying for our orphans in these different
countries and continents.
MOSCOW STREETCHILDREN
Please pray for the
precious Tadzik children living in the streets, & for Alexandra feeding them.
Pray we can provide a home for them.
CHINA
Pray for Tien Ce and the other
children our friends in China work with. Pray for the many Chinese orphans
still needing to be adopted. Pray for the Yi children and the Christian school
created for them. Pray for God’s guidance as to how O.F. can best co-labor
in this project to support many of the children.
ORPHANS FIRST STRUCTURAL DETAILS
Pray for Jo
making the new brochure. Pray we can also make a final decision on the logo.
Pray we hear God’s voice concerning the new phase Orphans First is entering
into–growth explosion!—and all that it entails. The children we help, by God’
s grace, depend on these details which form the backbone. Please also pray
for the French branch of Orphans First which is suffering some struggles in
management since I moved stateside.
Timely
thought: As we helplessly watch brain impaired Terri Shiavo starve to death, I’m
reminded that we’re living in dark times when life is left to die. To some it
is more convenient to NOT FEED a handicapped person rather than put the
right elements in place to save her. How similar this is to the work of God.
Some abstain from fighting and withdraw when troubles arise. But God has
given us LIFE and He asks us to choose life (Deut. 30:19). May we bring His
light. Our prayers do just that for the lives of the suffering children. Thank
you for praying.
Thankful to you for serving Him in prayer,
Janey
Janey L. DeMeo
President/founder of ORPHANS FIRST - freelance writer
Website: http://www.orphansfirst.org/
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