Prayer Requests for Romania

So we leave tomorrow morning to NYC to fly out of JFK tomorrow evening to Romania. If you would like to pray, here are some requests. I'm going to try and keep up with this blog during the trip when we have access to the Internet! Thanks for your prayers!

Prayer Requests for Romania:

1. To see with God’s eyes, hear with His ears...so that we’ll be sensitive to His leading.
3. That we would understand the Father’s love and that His love would be apparent, visible, and received.
4. That God would teach us to pray and pray boldly. As we pray, that His power would be let loose and we would see miracles...!
5. Unity for the team.
6. Safety for the team.
7. Health!!!
8. For the language barrier.
9. That people would be open to God and His Love.

July 4-9: Valenii de Munte, a small village in Southern Romania
Here we will work with Pastor Viktor, be living with older orphans in the Dorcas Home, and we’ll be ministering to 60 young girls in a local state-run orphanage doing soccer camps, art (& music!) camp, and English camp.\We will also minister in Pastor Viktor’s church via a worship concert and sharing testimonies. Finally, we will be having Bible Studies with the Dorcas Girls (the older orphans).

Please pray for us as we serve in Valenii de Munte!

July 9-14: Brasov, a large city in Central Romania
Here, we’ll help our friend Kati establish and expose the Petros Association, a foundation that we are helping begin to bring help and hope to those in need in Romania. We will do this through worship concerts, and by helping begin renovation on a facility donated to the Petros Association.
We intend also to visit orphanages and elderly homes where we will have parties and spend time singing, dancing, face painting, playing games, doing music, giving hand massages....basically we want to love on them! We also hope to work in an infant orphanage to do touch therapy.

Please pray for our work in Brasov!

Prayer for My Cousin

Click here for an update on my cousin who deploys with the Army sometime next month. I'm so proud of him and of his sacrifice for us and his country. Whatever you may feel about war, please pray for those serving and laying down their lives. I cried as I read. Soldiers are even dearer to my heart these days! Thanks for your prayers!

Heading to Romania

In nine days Austin and I along with 8 other church members will be traveling to Romania for a mission trip. We are getting so excited. We will be working with a church and other Romanian Christians to minister to orphans and the poor in Romania. We will be doing some construction to repair a building for the beginnings of Petros Association, a Christian ministry that will reach out to widows and older orphans, abandoned by the government. We will also put on programs for orphanages and give testimonies as well as encourage churches and do prayer ministry in the streets! Romania has just joined the EU, but is still struggling as they have just been coming out of communist rule in the past 10 years or so. They are struggling under uprising prices, but not increasing salaries and jobs. Pray for those who are hurting and we are being called to minister to.

I love going to other countries. This will be like the 12th country I have been to on a mission trip. This trip is even more special because it is my first mission trip as a married woman and I am blessed to get to go with my husband. The Lord allowed us to raise the money we needed for both of us to go! What a joy!! I can't wait to share overseas ministry with my hubbie! Our team is incredible and I think it is going to be a great time. We will be traveling to Vienna, Austria and 2 cities in Romania on our trip and will be gone 17 days. We would love to have your prayers as we travel and minister!

Encouragement for those helping in Myanmar

Here is an email I received. If you want to send messages to my email I will collect them and add them to the email I send. My email is vannclan05@yahoo.com.

Hi, I am inviting you to write an encouraging message to your national brothers and sisters over here and I will compile the messages and send them on to them.

The situation:
There are believers here who have been working tirelessly since the storm to help the suffering. They are exhausted and sometimes feel very alone because of the "road blocks" placed upon their situation. They feel helpless because of the enormity of the situation. Many of them must go through flooded places, not only flooded with water but dead bodies which are still there, to reach the survivors. The people who were in refugee camps have mostly been taken back to their homelands with no roofs, no livelihood, and no promise for help.
The brothers and sisters you will write to are the ones who are going out, feeding, doctoring, saving, loving, transporting these victims. They are completely exhausted and have no encouraging words left. They know they are not alone, but they feel alone. Just to tell them that they have brothers and sisters all over the world who are praying for them was encouraging, but I thought to actually hear from you would be exponentially more encouraging.
You can include a scripture. Please, pray about this. They come back in to the city one time a week, confer with each other, replenish supplies, have meetings and update each other on the situation. As they come back in I would like to line their meeting room walls with real words of encouragement that come from real people who are praying for them. Include your first name and a generic description of where you live (i.e., John in Denver, Colorado).

My Best Friend Had Her Baby!

YAY!! My best friend had her very first baby boy, Nathan Lee Hickey, last Friday evening! I'm so proud of her and her baby is just precious. I get to be unofficial auntie to him and wish I could be there to hold him and help his momma out! Love you Sarah! Check out their page at my links The Hickeys!!