Hi NGL prayer partners,
Thanks for your prayers.
I. Prayer Concerns:
1. Betty Braswell, is doing better physically after being taken by ambulance from Carbondale to Springfield. She has moved from Carbondale to Springfield and adjusting very well. I was talking with her by phone yesterday and she interrupted me and said that she had to go because her friends were there to go to lunch with her. Ya gotta love it!
2. Ron Kuhnert, our chief cook and coordinator's wife, who is also a favorite cousin of mine, is on hospice, but her attitude is good. Her sister, Peg, and her husband have come from Seattle to be a help and encouragement. Roger Lipe is being the biggest help with is daily Scriptures of wisdom and encouragement.
3. Our secretary/office manager, Abby, is having health problems and needs your prayers. This is the time of year when everything kicks into gear toward the Men's Retreat and Mardi Gras.
II. Needs
1. Pray for Bill and Sue McDonald as they are in the States but will be going back to Viet Nam soon.
2. Pray for Jeff Bealmear on a mission trip to Africa
3. Pray for Bob Gay on a mission trip to Honduras and Guatemala
4. Pray for our Board meeting this Friday night.
A. Roger Lipe will lead us through the "Small Group" questions we will be using at Mardi Gras. This gives us a chance to "fine tune" the questions.
B. We will be meeting at the Sunfield UMC where I was saved as a boy. We meet there each year in August to take us all the way back to where it all began for me. I still go there often to pray and enjoy the Lord. They gave me a key to the church. So I stop in and pray each week when I go down to work at the office. I always feel God's presence there is such a warm, gentle and assuring way. I first turn on the light behind the stained glass window of the three crosses and a sun in the background. I start out on the back row and gradually move forward worshiping until I end up at the altar, the third "clover leaf" from the left representing where I gave my life to the Lord at the age of 14. I feel His presence just writing about it to you.
C. We will look at the t-shirt design that Jeff Bealmear has designed for the coming year to get feedback on it.
D. Pray for these 20 plus men on the Board. Their faithfulness never ceases to amaze and inspire me. They are the greatest! Some of them have been with me for 40 years. Shucks, I went "eek" when I just got through counting up the years. There is nothing more precious than lasting friendships. Tom McDaniel and Rudy Rice have been with me the longest. Carl Johnson was the first man I worked with back in San Antonio back in 1974 when the ministry was getting ready to start.
Thanks so much for your love, prayers and support. It is such a blessing and honor to have you people as my friends and to see how the Lord through your prayers turns the devil's onslaughts on their ears. I have never see it fail. I owe all of you so much.
Love ya's,
Fred
Proverbs 17:17 (AMP), "A friend loves at all times, and is born, as is a brother, for adversity."
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