Please pray for the family of Dr. Dennis Stuart and his wife Irene. She has endured several years of surgeries, including stem cell surgery, and they have recently learned that the cancer is now in her bones. They have 5 children - 1 in college, the others still at home.
Dr. Stuart is the first cousin of my friend Desiree.
Thank you.
Gary
Good morning.
I received this yesterday from my friend Scott. I asked him for information regarding donations to this cause. The name and address follows. Please keep these folks in your prayers.
Thanks,
Gary
Mission LINK International 1677 Avon Street Extd. Charlottesville VA 22902
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Hello friends,
Some of you may know Rick Sadler, our friend who leads a ministry based in Charlottesville. I went to Uganda with him last February. I don't share everything with everyone but I felt to share this one. Pray if you will and give if you are so led.
Thanks for your time and prayers,
Scott/E.W.
From: Rick Sadler
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:06 AM
To: Scott
Subject: Update from Mission LINK International
Friends of Mission Link:
Terrible Crisis! There is a terrible shortage of RICE and the price has gone off the chart. Our friend in the mid-west purchased their last load of rice at $38.95 per 100 pounds. That is double what we paid 15 months ago. We need to order between 20.000 & 30,000 pounds. Best Price is $34.00 plus shipping. We are in the process of packaging food for Tanzania to be shipped to our warehouse in Kigoma (West Tanzania). This shipment (upwards of 285,000 meals) will end up at the refugee camp near the Congo border.
Pray:
We will need extra funds to purchase RICE.
Our storage building is almost out of room; pray that we will be able to find an alternative.
With the world food shortage, prayer that people will capture the vision of helping us feed hungry children.
Thank you for taking the time to read this brief update. God bless you so much.
Thank you for your listening ear and prayers.
In Him and for Him,
Dr. Rick Sadler, President
Mission LINK International
We received an email from Pastor Euticauls Wambua, whom I met last February in Nairobi, Kenya asking for prayer for a 10 year old girl named Leah. Pastor Wambua has taken her into his home because she is being sexually abused by her father and uncle. This apparently is not uncommon, especially in the slums of Nairobi where they all live. This is an ugly and possibly dangerous situation; the father has threatened violence. Leah has younger siblings who also need care. Everyone involved needs prayer, but especially Leah, and perhaps countless others like her we don't know about.
Thanks,
Scott
Received this morning from my friend Scott.
Hello friends,
Below is an email from Godfrey, director of Arise Africa, the Uganda-based ministry Tanya and I have worked with on our short term missions. Please remember pastor Joseph, who is grieving a daughter and who is himself ill.
Thanks,
Scott
From Godfrey….
I regret to let you know that our staff Pastor Joshua Wako has lost his 5 year old daughter. She died of malaria fever. And Joshua himself has been diagnosed with TB. Malaria and TB has become a very big threat to us and our families.
Please pray for him, his family and for the staff of Arise Africa International and for the people in Uganda.
In Christ,
Godfrey
Received this morning from my friend Scott:
Hello friends,
Yesterday I learned that the father of a lady who works with my company discovered unexpectedly that he has cancer in two areas of his body. He is to have surgery Friday to learn the extent of the threat, which sounds grave. I know nothing of his spiritual condition nor his name. My coworker's name is Kat. By the way, I was asked to pray for them by an unbelieving coworker; his name is Steve. Remember him also, if you will.
May God bless you today as you live this day for Him. Thanks for your prayers.
Scott Paulette
Hello friends,
You may have heard about the trouble and violence in Kenya. Please remember these folks in your prayers. We also got an email from a missionary friend who serves in Uganda who is here in the States at the moment. His email is below, followed by another email from Pastor Anthony, a dear fellow who lives and serves the Lord in Kenya.
Thank you for your prayers on their behalf.
Scott Paulette
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From Terry Nester, missionary to Uganda…
I just got off IM with a missionary in Uganda and the crisis in Kenya is causing a lot of trouble for the people of Uganda. Here's what we know so far:
There is NO fuel in Uganda now. That means NO public transportation, no taxis, no buses, etc... The last day fuel was available (8 days ago), the price was $21.60 per gallon! The country is almost at a standstill!
All food, containers, and petrol deliveries have stopped at the border of Kenya with nothing coming in or out of the country.
It looks like Uganda will be having a food shortage and ALL prices in the country will be sky-rocketing. All of the missionaries are stocking up on food and supplies. I just sent money ahead for two 30 lb. kegs of cooking gas and it cost me almost $300!
The IMB Seminary has canceled all classes for this next term. Many of their students come from very far away and there is no public transportation available.
Please pray for Uganda and all of the East African countries that are affected by this Kenya crisis. Pray for a CALM resolution for the two political sides in Kenya to meet and settle things peacefully. Pray for my family and I as we plan to return to Uganda in just a few weeks time. Pray for God's timing!
Thank you for praying!
Terry Nester
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From Pastor Anthony of Kenya
it is sad to let you know that there is al ot of chaos-loss of lives and property in our country for the past five days. more than 300 people have lost their lives in the skirmishes.the painful one was when people were lynched to death in a church where they had ran for refuge.pray with kenya.
as i write thre is tension and no one knows what will happen next.cnn news is posting this chaos.
i cant write much now but just know that we are going thru a trying moment in the history of this country.all these is due to post election presidential result.many homes have been burnt.we have many displaced people.looting is high.
i wish you a happy new year.
anthony
Please, please pray for very close, long-time friends of ours:
1) Their college-aged daughter is coping with the emotional aftermath of a point-blank range shooting on Monday - the Lord miraculously spared her and her boyfriend's lives... Her boyfriend is hospitalized and will recover - the bullets shot into his limbs missed a vital artery by just millimeters. She too was spared miraculously with a bullet entering and exiting the pillow on which she was huddled.
2) This same daughter was in a car wreck just 2 weeks ago in which her car was totaled. She was uninjured.
3) This same daughter is a VT student and lost her best friend, Rema, in the massacre. She was not on campus at the time.
4) This same daughter's uncle was found dead the day of the VT massacre
(our good friend's brother).
5) This same daughter's grandfather died just after Christmas (our good
friend's father)
6) This same daughter has just lost another relative today.
Her folks, our dear friends, have almost lost their daughter, have lost her dad and brother and another family member within 5 months.
Her folks have given permission for us to ask for prayer for themselves and their daughter (her dad is not a believer): for a counselor for her that is skilled in post-traumatic stress disorder; for healing and recovery of her boyfriend from his wounds; he is also having nightmares; for physical protection - the shooter is still at large; for her innocence to be restored; for her life to return to "normal"...
May we add that her dad would realize God's Hand in all of this and come to a saving knowledge of the Lord - Thank you for praying for this traumatized family as they cope...