Missionary Monday

I would love to splash pictures all over this entry and give you lots of details but unfortunately I can't. You will just have to use your imagination and bear with my vague details but please, oh please, do bear with me without images and descriptive hooks to lure you. For my friends need you. They really, really need your prayers right now.

There is one precious group with two young children and another on the way that are facing immense odds of even being able to safely stop out of their doorway right now. Yet they stay in this foreign land. Why? Because they know that if they are abruptly ushered into the next life they will be better off and with their precious Savior forever. And they know that the multitudes around them will have absolutely no chance of joining them unless they stay to tell them of hope and salvation and redemption and forgiveness that only can be found in the Christ of whom that they have never heard. So pray. For their safety and for some miracle to happen to allow them to reach the hurting lost.

There is another couple who have long since passed the age of having their own children but are blessed almost daily with new babies to care for and tend to and to somehow find the means and energy to raise dozens of these orphans. Many of these are abandoned due to the poverty. Many have one or more physical deformities or illnesses. None of them would hear the good news of Christ without the isolated Christian orphanage in this region. Their neighbors did not want to hear the Good News yet they are beginning to open up because for several years now they have seen what Jesus' love can do for unwanted children. Pray for strength, an easing of persecution, and financial provision for this couple. They learned the truth of the gospel through an elderly lady in their village who had heard from a missionary during WWII. "His Word will not return void." May they find strength and love from their Savior and encouragement from fellow believers who although we are far apart in miles are close together in heart and Spirit.

Thank you for praying today.