Pray for these girls:
Nicole (team) is discipling Taher (her daughter) who is discipling Nah (left of Nicole) and Paw Lah (left of Taher) who is discipling Mee Meh (far left).
Specifics:
Pray especially for Mee Meh and her family as their father died yesterday morning.
Pray for Nah, younger sister of Martina who you have been praying for quite a bit already, that her family will allow her to grow in making disciples.
Praise God with these kids! Remember to have faith like a child.
Please pray for these girls:
(See pic)
Katie (team member) is discipling Mah Pah (white shirt) who is discipling Moo Eh (back) and Paw Eh (green shorts) who is discipling Sha Sha (front).
Specific requests:
Pray especially for Mah Pah and her family (Buddhist except for one brother, Kyaw) as their father died this week. Pray that God will comfort them and provide for them and soften their hearts to hear him.
Pray for Mah Pah and Kyaw that they stay strong in their faith during this time and are protected from enemy attacks.
Tomorrow is the first day of class for the Keystone Academy, the alternative middle school for refugee boys that has been on our heart as a team since we first began to know the people here back in 2010.
We began a trial run with just a few students over the spring semester of this year. Tomorrow we will be starting a new school year with 12 students!
Praise God for the opportunity to raise these boys up as leaders among their people!
Pray for their hearts to be open and prepared for the challenging growth they are about to experience this year, academically, spiritually, and in every area of their lives.
Praise God for two of these boys, San Oo and Lah Kpro, who gave their lives to Christ and committed to discipleship just yesterday!
Pray for the three teachers and administrative couple (baby coming any day now) from the Houston Team as they do last minute preparations. Pray that they will have spiritual eyes to see and lead these boys as Christ does.
Here are some specific needs:
(1) We are taking a bunch of our kids to camp this weekend with Sugar Creek Baptist church
[pray for unity among staff/counselors and for understanding/breakthrough with campers]
(2) Next week our school, Keystone Academy, starts up again, this time with 12 students/2 teachers/and a new couple acting as admin/principal
[pray for staff as they're crunched for time to prep everything and for the students that their hearts are prepared as well]
(3) Also, Joe and Keri (admin couple) are going to have a baby any day in the next two weeks.
[pray for their transition into parenthood and school leadership to be filled with the Spirit and grace]
Thank you!
Thank you for your continued prayers for Martina. Here is our most recent update on her growth from KP team member, Catherine, who is discipling her:
"I talked with Martina about Jesus telling us that making disciples WILL bring
persecution. I encouraged her to see this [opposition from her parents and other authority figures] as a spiritual attack, but not to fear, and that this was confirmation that God wants to use her. When I asked if she wanted to keep meeting and making disciples even though her parents will not support her, she decided yes. She seems determined but will likely face more opposition. Please pray for strength for her and wisdom for me."
Recently Martina's parents have been asking her (as the member of the family with the highest level of English) to help them find a new apartment in a different part of town so that they can get away from our team. She is obedient and willing to help in this process, but so far every time she gets ready to go look for a new apartment, her parents tell her not to worry about it right then.
Other times discipleship activities with Martina are interrupted because her mom asks her to babysit or loads her with other household responsibilities and errands just at the time when they were planning to go and share Christ with someone else.
è Praise God:
- Martina is willing to continue pursuing the Lord through discipleship
- That faithfulness in the face of persecution is being built into her DNA of what it means to be a follower of Christ
è Please pray:
- For strength for Martina in the daily spiritual battle in her home
- For wisdom for Catherine as she leads her disciple through this process, knowing how to walk the line of honoring her parents while obeying Christ
- Against the enemy's work in Martina's parents, specifically that they will...
a. decide not to move away
b. not interrupt important discipleship activities with household responsibilities that can be accomplished at a different time.
- That Martina's parents will supernaturally encounter Christ and that strongholds may be broken down
Please forgive the delay in posting this information. Thank you so much for your prayers last Saturday regarding the spa stakeout.
By the grace of God we were able to find out where two of the women live along with quite a bit of other useful information.
Spiritually speaking it seems as though we have kicked the hornets' nest.
Please pray for wisdom and clear direction as we pray about how to move forward from here.
Thank you for doing battle with us!
