Praises & Prayers

Praises
Greetings! We have had so much rain and cold!? I think we are all ready for some warmth! April & May are behind us now and hopefully we will see the rains cease so we can start on the Girls Dorms you have generously gave to. The rains have been heavy and frequent enough, even here in June but we are counting on the slowdown. One of the problems here, if you hire the crew to be on site, and the rains delay, you pay the crew regardless. Which is fair.
The final paperwork to start the build should be ready anytime and the rains should reduce?! We are looking forward to starting.
Every year I think about June being the longest day of the year in Colorado, and December the shortest. Why, I don’t know but I do think about it?! I have women all over the globe and those in the south are headed to winter and you in the north have this time of year that I love in Colorado. A time to plant and be excited about the summertime there.
All days here are about 12 hours, with a slight change as the rotation occurs. Its interesting to see the very small change here. I’m including a sunrise/sunset cycle for you.
We thank God that we had April and May to work on the chickens. My oh my what a learning session and curve. For so many reasons and for all of those contributing to the success. We have just sold off the first batch that were delivered and looking forward to the second batch within the next two weeks being sold. Some complications, we’re trying to adjust and order the next set. We should have a better success rate, we had a 10% mortality rate, should be closer to 5%.
Of course chickens are really a departure of our normal work, please pray the team can carry on without much more effort from me or Clare. There is some repairs that will put the next purchase on hold for a couple of weeks.
I don’t mind helping but they need to be able to function without hand-holding. I think they’re close!! Clare’s always too busy!!

More Praises & Challenges!

We’ve mentioned the white furball Mootska. I know you all are not pet, or maybe just not cat lovers but we sure love this guy. You may remember that his right ear is gone because of cancer. Early March Bill had to go for a training session out of town and Moots became very ill. We thought we would lose him then but he has made an incredible recovery for which we are grateful. I tell you this to make a spiritual principle connection.
I am Moots person. He loves everyone, but I’m his person of choice. I will pick him up and he will try to get closer to me by grabbing me by the collar and pulling himself up as close as he can get. Unfortunately sometimes my collar is really my skin. Oh, I digress. My point is I have been reminded by God, am I like that with Him? Do I seek to be in His presence, or as close to His Face as I can be? And of course there are times I am, but how often am I distracted by a gazillion other things. Too often for sure!
With BSF off for the summer months, I’m blessed with one of my younger members in India that has put all the efforts in to lead/host twice monthly for our group to get together and study & fellowship. This of course helps me. Not that I have an especially hard time staying in the Word and keeping on track where I’m pulling myself closer to the Lord. I do have a tendency of not being as structured while on break. So this is helpful in adding a bit of structure, as well as desiring to seek His Face and be in His presence. It is a break for me from leading and great opportunity for Jolly to grow and spread her wings in this setting! As well as a Hebrews 10:24-25 time!! Win, win!!
Another blessing for Laura and I, we traveled across the country to Jinja and attended the Journey Women’s conference again in April. I did agree to photo taking and put a little video together for the group. I also brought goodies and helped where I could. There are women from all over the world that are serving here that attend these and it is always a time of insight and refreshment. I wish there were men’s conferences that Bill could go to but we never hear of any; the only one was in Kenya.

Prayers

 Please continue to pray for the new staff at FMLK to be honest and upright, including the Chicken House crew!! Prayer that the unseen is seen!!
 Pray for another couple of streams of funding for FMLK. This is an ongoing prayer. We certainly see God providing from these young Spanish volunteers and even in this there are parameters and stops. Please keep the relationship in pray-er between the founders of both groups. For a little more understanding, the Spanish team is branching out yet still will be involved with FMLK but is also taking the volunteers to new schools. One of the hardest parts is that the kids are the ones that don’t understand so we are trying to address the ability for them to work without having the children impacted!
 Pray for the fundraiser for the Fencing (not on the docket yet?) needed as the requirement from the government. We are fully funded for the dorm!! Thanks to you!!
 Please continue to pray as Bill teaches at the 3 churches. He has many pastor trainings to do but getting the groups scheduled is an issue since those pastors have to arrange meeting places, transport and food. Please pray for he and George to be successful getting these scheduled. Also pray that more of the young Christian adults would be willing to be trained in godly leadership. Too many just want money and are not willing to do success God’s way. Please pray as I work with the Remand House (youth detention center), that it is part of His Kingdom building and not just an activity. I’m using scripture to assist in teaching English!
 Please continue to pray for the Muslim community. Pray for the Lord to invite these friends into a deeper relationship with the Christian community, dreams/visions, and the Lord Himself. This is the Ramadan season.
 Pray for the Muslim woman I love and having great Spiritual conversations with and that it is all worthy of her considering Christ. There are always tricky things with her husband who’ I’ve purchased some of his work for ourselves, the conferences and gifts. He doesn’t respect boundaries and I need to be firm with him.
 Pray as we serve to see with Spiritual eyes and boldness in these days. Pray that our every effort will make God known and pleasing to Him.
 Join us in prayer, for all of us to see Him as the author and finisher of our days and the desire to fulfill His purpose for each of us!! You too!!
 Pray as Bill works with Robert who is in agreement to work with the FMLK Chapel. He is new to “truth teaching” but is willing and teachable. Praise God that he is there to learn and this will impact many long term!!
 Pray for injury from Princess. I’m I’d say 95% good, June 20 is 6 months. I have a bit to go and looking forward to being drug free. So grateful!

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Even so it is not the will of your father

In Mathew 18 Jesus teaches his disciples not to despise anyone who believes in Him. People in this world pay attention to the rich and prosperous, but God’s people are to care for the least and the lowest among them. Everyone is precious to God. Even more, many great victories in the Bible were performed through the least and lowest. Sometimes God chooses and uses the least to conquer the greatest. David and Goliath is only one of such examples. That is what we have experienced on this mission field a lot.

ESL students

It is interesting to see how God is working in the hearts of our students. Some of them were far away from the Lord when they first came to us. Now they have changed in many regards toward the church and Christianity. We praise the Lord for his slow but steady work. Our continuing prayer is for all of them that the Lord continues to change their minds to see the truth. Pray that those non-Christian attenders would perhaps decide to make a next step to visit our Church’s picnic on May 9th.

Praise and Prayer Points

We had a workshop for our leaders in March. It was a great time where everyone felt led by the Spirit. Please pray that our leaders continue to make disciples in an effective way. Also, pray for our church’s picnic on May 9th. Continue to pray for the preparation for our Summer Family Camp. Pray for our Easter celebration on April 20th that the worship halls will be full on this day. We were invited to attend a conference in early May. Since it’s outside of our budget we humbly pray for some assistance of $300 to make the trip.

Friends and Family

Christina turned 9 last weekend. We had a great birthday party with her unchristian friends. They come to our house and see our lives and that Christians are normal people despite society giving them wrong impressions of evangelical Christians. Pray for us that we continue to have opportunities to share the good news through this channel of opportunity.
Thank you for your prayer and your part of the work!

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