Care and Prayer for Missionaries

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Permalink Reply by Brenda Baker on September 25, 2009 at 3:47pm

John, this is wonderful! I am so glad to hear of the news that you were an encouragement to Pete and his family in Utah, and their growing church there. This will definitely be a place I will follow as more and more folks post their prayer requests and praises from missions work. Thanks for getting this up and running!
Brenda

Permalink Reply by Jim and Heather Frazier on December 23, 2009 at 11:15am

Here are our prayer requests and praises from the month of December, as emailed to our prayer supporters:

Hello wonderful prayer supporters!

You may have noticed that we missed contacting you in November completely... let that be the first prayer request! As we get closer to our departure (late June!) life gets busier and busier. At times we really struggle with balance and perspective. Pray that we have the energy and enthusiasm to use our time so that it glorifies God, and that the "to-do's" fall into place in a way that is God-ordained and stress-minimizing! There is always plenty to do, which is teaching us to say "no", "later", and "alright, God, YOU have to make this work!" Good lessons for the mission field, we are sure!

So here's a complete list to add to the above request:

We are praising God for the time we got to spend with family and friends last month, as well as this month.

One of the special times we got to share with friends was a little unexpected. Our good friends Benjer and Jennifer McVeigh now live in Utah and welcomed their second daughter on October 26th. Ten days later, she was taken to the hospital where she spent four more weeks. I (Heather) had the honor to go and visit for a few days before Thanksgiving. You can read more on our blog, which is also linked to theirs. The praise is... Samantha is home! She arrived home on December 2nd and has settled in well. Pray that her health only improves, for provision for this family's needs and for a "normal" adjustment to being a family of four after this excitement.

We received word this evening from Jim's parent's church, Paonia Friends, that our support from them was approved. This means we jumped from 26% of our monthly funds pledged to 76%! This is an incredible blessing to us, and we are just praising the Lord for this partnership.

And please pray for:

For the past two years, Faith has battled a fungus problem with her feet. After trying over-the-counter creams for quite a while, we now have a prescription for her that contains steroids and will hopefully kick it... pardon the pun. :) Our main concern with this, other than her discomfort, is having open sores on her feet while we are in Kenya. "Bugs" are much more likely to enter her system through her feet in Kenya, so it would be nice to not have to worry about that.

Most importantly, please continue to pray for our marriage. That we can strengthen our bond in the next few months, while juggling everything here, so that when we enter into our move and those two months of transition to RVA we are strong support for each other, and for Faith and Joel.

Let us know how we can pray for you this month. We are so grateful to have all of you petitioning the Lord for us. We are humbled by your support and treasure your love. We do pray that this Christmas season has you eagerly awaiting the arrival of our Savior!

Blessings and love,
Jim and Heather