Those mama days when your children are sick and you have to let everything else go and just nurture. and bleach. and patient. and wash your hands. and count to 10 before you snap :)
Ben ran a fever from this time last night until now. Between 101 and 104 without breaking all night and all day today, the poor child is utterly miserable, crying and moaning continually, and wailing if Matt or I aren't holding him.
Please be praying for my kiddos. There are a lot lot of people sick right now, and we're just not through the storm I thought was finished. Please pray for Matt and I to hold strong...we're carrying a lot right now and He's been so faithful to help us and share His grace and strength with us!
We also want to ask your prayers for Matt's childhood pastor, friend, member of the Emmaus board and his wife, who lost their middle son last year and lost their oldest son suddenly this weekend. We love Doug and Julie and so many of you do too...our hearts are just broken for them, and for Andrew's wife and little girl.
Pray for all the many activities this week as we prepare for alumni day Thursday, Graduates Banquet Friday and Graduation Saturday. All I need to say is 8. million. details. Thank you!
Please be praying for Paulcine and Yves, kitchen and security staff and friends, whose son almost lost his life Saturday in a motorcycle accident and is undergoing extensive surgeries now, putting bars into his shattered foot, leg, arm and hand. They rejoice he is still with us, but he is in agony and undergoing complicated and dangerous surgeries.
Please be praying for Junel, maintenance staff and friend, whose son fell out of a tree Saturday and broke his arm in two places, only to get to the city hospital and find it on strike. Again. Only to go to church on Sunday and have both he and his wife's phones stolen. In church. As long as what happens at church is the same as what happens everywhere else, friends....worthless salt that's lost its flavor.
Finally, please be praying for our Emmaus missions trips this summer! The first one is May 5th to May 13th to Gaudin, with 15 beautiful students joining the local church in evangelism mornings, Bible study afternoons, and worship and preaching services every night for 8 days. I'm kind of in awe at how quickly fifteen students stepped up to go, literally the day after graduation and a week after a really busy and full school year! They'll be living and eating in church-member's homes, working together for the Gospel in the heart-langauge of the people, in culturally relevant ways, sharing the Gospel through relationship (four of these 15 students did their internships at Gaudin this year), alongside the local church for sustainability, eating and living with the people, participating in evangelism throughout the entire area, AND in discipleship. (Sorry, I'm uber passionate about this kind of thing. One day, I'm going to apply to be the missions pastor at Emmaus :) Until then, pray for our student team, led by Elitha, Levelt and Bony.
The second trip is equally exciting and also needs your prayers, led by 2nd year student Jonas and with 10 other students to Gonaives, living and ministering in the orphanage where he grew up, working in a little community right next to it. We selected the last week of July because every year that community remembers and celebrates a horrific past voodou victory.
No longer is that week just being set aside for darkness. No longer will people hear and talk about the work of Satan that week in that community without hearing and experiencing, boldly, our God at work. That celebration of slavery will be met this year with a celebration and extending of true freedom, by passionate, young, equipped Haitian missionaries who KNOW the celebrations, who KNOW the culture, who speak the mother tongue and dialect, and most importantly, who KNOW the Living God. I'm excited. BOTH these trips still need help with funding! If you want to be a part of them, you can, here, with "missions" in the notes.
THANK YOU for being His praying people, boldly approaching His throne of grace, with us.
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