Dear Family & Friends,
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7-8 NET
Our God loves to provide for His children. He desires for us to come to Him in faith asking for what we need. When we do, He will provide. We can ask for forgiveness, wisdom, strength, perseverance, relief from stress, healing, financial help, or the changing of circumstances to name a few items. Knowing this is true why do we often first try to do it on our own? Join us in choosing to ask God to provide before acting on our own.
We continue to ask that you pray for the ministry of The Home of God’s Love. Three more of the children went to stay with their parents recently. This brings the total number of children to 11. With only one social worker we will be able to take 3 more children. We continue to pray for another social worker to be hired to share the load and to allow THoGL to accept even more children.
While we have been in the US our discipleship groups have continued to meet. Two ladies from Youth With A Mission have been leading the Wednesday evening and Thursday evening groups. This was the last week they would be helping. We ask that you pray for the people who attend these groups as they must choose how to proceed while we are gone. Pray that they will choose to stay connected to both God and each other.
Thank you for praying for Andrew and his team. Andrew should receive his passport in plenty of time before he needs to return to the US. Please continue to pray for his team as they serve those who need assistance and as help the local people learn about Jesus. The rest of this note is from Andrew.
We get to play soccer four times a week so that’s been fun. Each time it’s a different age group and gender, so older boys, then younger boys, then older girls, then younger girls.
The first week we were here we painted an elderly folks’ home. The elders there have all had leprosy but they had all been cured. They all had so much joy and compassion though so that was cool to see. They wouldn’t let any of us sit in the sun or anything.
This past week the team has been working on planting trees and flowers at the kids compound. All the kids wanted to help, or at least attempt to help, while we were doing everything.
The language barrier is annoying but also never disappoints to bring up laughs. They can’t say my name all too well here because it doesn’t seem they have much of an “ew” sound, so they’ve doctored it into Drow.
Thank you for praying!
God Bless,
John & Cheryl
1. Pray that we learn to seek God first before we act.
2. Please continue to pray for THoGL to hire another social worker and for the children who went back to live with their parents.
3. Please pray for those in our discipleship groups to continue connect with God and each other.
4. Thank you for praying for Andrew and his team.
Posted on April 24th, 2021 by dunns
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