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This past May, I had quadruple bypass open-heart surgery. Please pray for my wife and me as I return to work. Pray for safety and for effectiveness in ministry as I work with correctional staff and inmates.
We are moving into a new worship space. We are praying God will give us favor and bless our move in this new neighborhood. Pray God would give our church plant four mature families and four more church partners to help strengthen our church.
We recently renegotiated our rental contract so we can continue meeting in the same building for the next six months. Please pray for the transition, as we do have to make some changes, including moving our children’s ministry to another area. We would love to have prayers for a core servant leader who feels called to help direct our children’s ministry. We also are in need of more volunteers to teach our children so the few volunteers we do have do not get burned out. Please continue to pray for us as we hold membership interviews with those interested in covenanting with the church. Please pray according to Psalm 1, which we as a church are trying to memorize together this summer. We desire to see disciples who delight and meditate on God’s Word as living water so they bear much fruit.
We praise God for the 21 inmates who were baptized in June. Pray for continued spiritual growth for those who are believers and pray more will turn to the Lord. Pray for Brother Peter, who has worked tirelessly and continues to minister on B yard of Pleasant Valley State Prison. Pray for me as I consider starting ministry in a different yard in the same prison. Continue praying for the Bulldog gang. They are not responding. They don’t want to go to chapel.
We thank the Lord for sparing our lives to see the second half of this year. We praise the name of the Lord for the salvation and decision for the baptism of the members of our church. We thank the Lord for every provision and supply from above. We pray for His grace, strength and sound health to carry us through the remaining days, weeks and months of this year. We pray for God’s blessings upon our ministry partners and their families. We pray that our teenagers will not be influenced negatively by their peer groups and for their protection during this summer holiday. Pray we would have more divine appointments and opportunities for gospel conversation.
Please keep our F.A.I.T.H. Riders motorcycle ministry in prayer as they travel from all parts of the nation to Sturgis, South Dakota. They will be delivering the gospel to thousands of people over a 10-day period.
We would love your prayers as we move into the busy season of the year with missions teams and outreaches. Pray God will continue to light our path to the tasks He has laid in front of us. Pray we will not try to do it all but do what He has called us to do well.
Please pray for healing for my wife, Susan, as she suffers from mycobacterium avium complex. This is a serious lung infection that requires her to take three strong antibiotics for an entire year.
Please pray for me. Donna, my dear wife of 50 years, passed away April 17. I need God’s help to stop grieving so much. Thank you.
Pray God will provide the men and women we need for our core team through the summer. Pray He will provide wisdom as we define the church and move forward in His will.
Please pray for my wife, as she is a little sick. Also, on July 17 (today), I am leaving for Bangladesh for a four-week mission trip. I will speak in two revival meetings, teach in two church planting trainings, visit the churches I previously planted in Bangladesh, baptize some new believers and visit our orphanage, “Home of the Champions.” Please pray for my safe travels and for the necessary funds.
Pray for my family, which includes my wife, Jane, my son, Anderson, my daughter-in-law, Fabiola, and my grandchildren, Breno (22) and Beatriz (5). Pray for the new conversions and baptisms and for the new families who are coming to the church. We thank the church, Waddill Baptist Church, which opened its doors to our Brazilian church in January 2024. Before then, our church services were held in our house. This month we celebrate one year of planting the church.
Please pray for us as we begin planning for the fall season and promoting our addiction recovery ministry. We will be starting this ministry in September and will spend the summer inviting numerous people from our neighborhood. Pray God will draw people out of their addictions and into a transforming relationship with Him.
First, I would like to start with two praises. Two of our ladies volunteered to begin a monthly ministry serving the widows in our community, and six people volunteered to serve in our weekly lunch service, where we serve around 1,100 lunches to the children in our community! Please pray God would bring us a person of peace in our neighborhood. Our community is 53% Black, 38% white and 5% Hispanic. We are a neighborhood church. As we are in hurricane season, pray it will be a quiet season. Pray that The Bridge will be ready to respond to any need that may arise. Please pray for our daughter, who is a single mom in the US Air Force and is preparing for her first deployment. The best thing is for her children to stay with us, but there are a lot of legal matters she is having to line up just right with their father. Thank you for your prayers.