Continual Rains / Mudslides / Effects of the Flooding Hit the 10/40 Window

While watching the news early this morning I was struck by the numerous disasters in Asia and rising tensions in the Middle East and around the world.  The death toll rising, sickness and disease, homeless, starving and numerous millions of families hurt in one way or another or morning for lost loved ones from these recent events.

Continued rains and mudslides in China, the deluge continues in Pakistan and a school collapsed in northern India from excessive rains.  With all these disasters, many have died, more that twenty million affected in Pakistan alone, the short term conditions are deplorable and disease is spreading in Pakistan and may elsewhere as a result of these conditions.

We need to pray for all these things and people and especially for the Christians in these areas. In Pakistan alone I have received several reports from inside of Pakistan from pastors that the aid that is coming in is far less than what is needed to even sustain them, but the relief that is coming is not being distributed to the Christian population in this country. 

Pray that the Lord will supernaturally sustain the Christians in these areas as a witness to the lost and dying that there is a God who loves them and wants them to know Him.  Pray that the doors will open for the Christian aid agencies to be able to go in freely with out restriction to serve, assist, and bring aid and the Word of the Lord.
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Our Return From Eastern Asia

I wanted to thank everyone who was praying for us while we were out in Eastern Asia. The Lord was with us in so many ways and His protection and guidance was amazing.
We saw many things become fruitful. Thank you so much for your prayers for our whole team and continue to pray for the people we came into contact with while we were there.
There are opportunities for us to continue our work there and we would appreciate your prayers in this matter for the Lord's guidance and provision.

Calling On All Those With A Heart For Eastern Asia

The current prayer focus is Eastern Asia. We are calling on all those with a heart for Eastern Asia. There is a team leaving for Eastern Asia soon and they deeply need your prayers. The team will be gone for approximately three weeks with a great task ahead of them.

The plans are for them to meet and tour while coming together as a team with prayer and training time in the evenings. They will be preparing for the character training camp they will be teaching during the last week of the trip.

The character training camp will be to teach true character qualities to many children from the ages of 5 to 15. The specific character qualities that will be taught are Love, Compassion, Gratefulness, Obedience and Humility. The team will be doing this in cooperation with a private school in Eastern Asia. Already several students have signed up to participate for that week. Saturday will focus on an all day seminar for the parents dealing with effective parenting skills.

We know this is a great opportunity the Lord has opened at this time. We believe this team will be the lead team of many more; including even opening doors to establish a permanent presence in Eastern Asia.

Here are some specific prayer requests:

• The health and safety of each team member
• That there will be no one sick on the plane for flight over to Eastern Asia. This would cause delays for the team if there is anyone sick on the plane. (This is due to the problems the Swine Flu has caused worldwide.)
• For each team member to grow in the grace and mercy of the Lord and that their personal relationship with Him will grow exponentially on this trip.
• Finances for each team member
• Prayer support for each team member
• The Lord will prepare the way and make the paths level and straight for the team
• The Lord will prepare the hearts of the youth and adults that the team will be working with.
• The Lord will give an abundance of Wisdom and Favor to the leaders with God and man.