Prayer and Praise

THANKS FOR YOUR PRAYERS!

I know I haven't got the word out to many of you about this spot, but for those of you that saw the prayer requests from last week and prayed with us...THANK YOU, and THANK YOU, LORD! :) Lots of good reports...I'll use the old "Praise Report/ Prayer Request" method my good OLD youth pastor taught us when I was in High School...(I've responded to all the requests from the week before, so check those out if you want more info)...

PRAISE REPORTS

• As you can see, I'm working on the ol' blog spot, so far so good!
• Just a few days after this request for Zhenia's salary was posted, a friend said that her family wanted to start donating on a regular basis...and she hadn't even seen this blog site prayer request! Praise God! He truly does know our needs before we even think or ask! For me, it's not even important how much that gift will be, it's more that it is just the encouragement I needed that God knows our needs and WILL supply them always! Zhenia was really encouraged and saw it as further confirmation that she is in the right place. :)
• The conference was great! More on this in the Tree of Life link (look on the left hand sidebar on The View From Here page). I woke up the first day with a migraine, but God healed it quicker than usual and by lunch I was able to be back at the books (literally, ha!).
• My young helper had a good time and met up with another young gal (Ukrainian) who had recently translated for my friend's father not long ago in another part of Ukraine. What a small world! They were both the only "visitors" at this church conference and it was neat to see God's hand in bringing them both someone to hang out with (since everyone else already knew each other). God cares for each small detail in our lives, huh? :)

PRAYER REQUESTS

• Still pray about the van possibility. I will meet with the owners tomorrow to hear all the ins and outs. The owners are friends, missionaries who attended our church, and I trust them completely. They are moving back to Canada. The price is very good ($3,500.) and would be a huge blessing for us, what with hauling books all over the place, etc. BUT having a car in the city is a big step...so please pray for wisdom and for God's provision if this is of Him. I will (don't worry!) be having a friend who is very "car-savvy" check it out before I make any decision.
• There is a young Ukrainian girl who, sadly, was convinced to take a "street - promoter job" (that's what it was called) in the United Arab Emirates. She doesn't speak Arabic or English and they picked her up in a car in the middle of the night. :( They didn't show her any paperwork (what kind of visa - if any - that she has, etc.). You can see what our fear is. :( She couldn't be convinced before she left that this was probably one of the many scams in Ukraine used to traffic girls into prostitution, etc. I have contacts in an anti-trafficking NGO and we will try to see if anything can be done now, but it is unlikely. PLEASE PRAY that God would protect Anya and bring her back safely. She was supposed to only be gone two weeks. It has only been 4 days now.
• As always, I need your prayers for strength, grace, wisdom....there is always so much to do and only so much I can. Also for physical protection as winter comes on us and the flu season with it and for the fact that there have been a lot of break-ins in my area, specifically foreign citizen occupied apartments. Thankfully they look for "European" remodeled windows to show that the occupants have money and I have neither, ha! :)