Prayer Warrior
August 2010
TheBridge, Ottumwa, IA. Marty and Jenny Schmidt. We are having a huge dream session on August 5th that will
include our spiritual leaders, full, and part time staff. I am very excited
about this meeting and am praying for unity, joy, and God ideas. Please pray
for a house that a member of thebridge is looking to
purchase and offer out to a bridge family for low rent. We have been partnering with a coffee
shop that is coming to Ottumwa in August. Pray for thevine! We are praying over our next Cambodia
trip and will be purchasing tickets the second week of August hopefully. Pray
for low fares! :)
Crossroads
Church, Estherville, IA. Rev.
Jason and Kristen Olson. Please
pray for our church as we continue to work toward putting together a
comprehensive small group program. Please also pray for Pastor Jason and
wife as they travel to Ethiopia August 6-14 to pick up two children they are
adopting to add to the family of four children. Please pray for health,
safety and a safe return. In addition please pray for our mission team
who were scheduled to travel to Reynosa, Mexico and had to cancel the trip due
to the violence. The team raised over $6,000 doing a variety of
fundraisers and were not able to take the trip. Pray for Rio Bravo
Ministries and the orphanages that are affected by this inability for groups to
come and bless them.
Bridge of
Hope, Waterloo, IA. Rev. Kevin Van
Wyk and Armond Floyd. - Pray
for a building. We like the theatre, but need something for mid-week discipleship.
That's it! Just pray it over and over. Thanks.
Don DeKok, Church Planting Missionary.
á Please
pray for Rev. Barb Huisman who has been hired to help
us begin an organic ministry in Ft. Dodge. Please pay that God will
enable Barb to bring together a group of people committed to forwarding this
ministry. Please pray for GodŐs Spirit to be poured out on this new
ministry initiative.
á
Please pray for GodŐs leading as to whether we
should pursue a new church plant in the Black Hills area.
á Give God
huge thanks for the growing outdoors ministry at First Reformed in Sheldon
called ŇCall of the Wild Ministries.Ó God is reaching people!
Serve Our
Youth, Des Moines, IA. Bernie Van Roekel, Director.
SOYŐs annual fundraising
banquet is scheduled for September 30 at the Foxboro Conference Center in
Johnston. We are thankful that Jim Hallihan,
the Executive Director of the Iowa Sports Foundation and the Iowa Games, will
be our keynote speaker. Please pray for GodŐs direction and lead as we
attempt to secure sponsors to underwrite the cost of this event and that we
will receive donated items for our silent auction. Also, we pray that God
will provide table hosts and that they will be able to secure guests to attend
our banquet. Pray for GodŐs favor for a grant proposal that was recently
submitted.
Center of
Hope, Sioux Falls, SD. Rev. Fred Wilgenburg, Director. Thank-you for your
prayers! We continue to plan for how to best utilize our space within the
upcoming Sioux Falls Ministry Center. We anticipate our move to be around
February 2011. We will see many more people and we want to do effective
Gospel-outreach ministry there. Please pray for us as we plan for this exciting
transition. In about 6 weeks, we will begin school year programs such as Sports
Night, a Kids Hangout, and adult Bible studies. Please already be in prayer for
good programs and good attendance. We are very excited to have a team to attend
THRIVE, an RCA church planting seminar in August. As we have a potential new
staff member --- a Native American man from Oklahoma named Brian --- join our
team at THRIVE, please pray over the event and the getting-acquainted time with
Brian. Please also pray over the potential for a focused Gospel outreach to
Native American people in the Sioux Falls area.
Peace
Reformed Church, Sioux City, IA.
Rev. Bob and Holli Rook. Give thanks that we are in the
midst of the actual building part of the building program. May the fact
that work is being done get people excited about the possibilities of ministry
that are ahead for Peace. As we prepare for that time pray that we will
be led by the creative and powerful hand of God so that we may enter into the
work that God is already doing in our community and our world. Pray also
that the building process will go well and that workers will be protected and
blessed in their labor. We will be interviewing some candidates for our
Christian Education Director so pray that God will lead that process and bless
the work of the one who is hired. May God stretch us and grow our
ministry.
Crossroads Church, Norwalk, IA. Rev. Glen and Sally Blumer. Please pray that you
help Crossroads as we prepare for our Sports Camp (kind of like VBS) next
week. Pray that children will come to know Jesus through this.
Harbor
Church, Prior Lake, MN. Josh and
Nikki Johnson. Prayers that the Harbor community continues to be energized by God's
work. Prayers that 40 days of community opens
up doors for relationships and small group growth. Prayers that God
continues to grow our little family one person at a time.