PRAISES:
Bagua Village Water
As people recover from the earthquakes in Nepal, clean drinking water can be a challenge to find. Recently, Nazarene Compassionate Ministries (NCM) trained residents in the Bagua village how to use Sawyer water filters. Now, villagers can start filtering clean water to drink!
PRAY FOR:
GLOBAL MINISTRY REQUESTS
Kenya Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Because of the AIDS pandemic in Africa, more than 11 million children have been orphaned—in Kenya alone, more than 1 million. Pray for NCM Kenya’s Orphans and Vulnerable Children program that helps provide essential services to children who have been orphaned and who are vulnerable. Click here to read more on NCM’s website.
Kenya Orphans and Vulnerable Children
GIVING CODE: ACM1467
REGION: Africa
THE NEED: $10,000.00
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About the project
COUNTRY: Kenya
THE NEED
According to UNICEF, in 2012, there were 1 million children in Kenya alone who had lost one or both parents due to AIDS. Some estimate that number will jump to 2 million by 2015. Communities in Kenya have had to figure out how to support these children when many people there already live without access to enough resources to support themselves, especially in rural areas.
OUR WORK
Since 2004, NCM in Kenya has been working in five Kenyan districts (Siaya, Kisumu, Nyando, Migori, and Homa Bay) to provide essential services, such as food and nutrition, shelter, physical protection, health care, psychosocial support, education and vocational training, and economic opportunity, to children who have been orphaned and who are vulnerable. Through NCM’s partnership with 143 local congregations, these services have reached over 10,000 children.
NCM has provided trainings and education for the community in the areas of HIV and AIDS awareness, legal issues for orphaned children, nutrition, psychosocial support, business, agriculture, and volunteerism. The program has also supported income-generating projects for children and their caregivers to help them be able to take care of themselves on their own.
HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE
By giving to the Kenya Orphans and Vulnerable Children project, you will help continue already existing efforts to support children who are orphaned and their caregivers who offer them a second chance at life. You will add to local resources and initiative to build strong communities who care for the most vulnerable among them. You will also support efforts to expand the income generating projects program to more women and older orphaned children (age 15-17). Through NCM’s vocational training, they will become mechanics, welders, dressmakers, carpenters, animal farmers, and horticulturalists.
June Missionary Prayer Focus
Here are prayer requests submitted by missionaries who are part of the June Prayer Focus. Thank you for praying for:
Glenn and Nancy Culbertson, serving in the Philippines
Please pray for:
Adjustment to the new culture. Even for Nancy who is from the Philippines, her native country has changed during her 12 years in the U.S.
Spiritual protection and traveling mercies. We will travel with the field strategy coordinator to the islands of Luzon and Visayan.
The manifestation of the Holy Spirit's presence and blessing as we meet with churches, schools, pastors, and others
Click here to read more requests from the Culbertson’s in the printable version of PML.
David and Marquita Mosher, serving in Malawi
Please pray:
That we find God's perfect will in the service we will continue to do for Him after our retirement on August 15.
That we find the house that God wants for us in the location that best suits His will for us.
That Marquita's health continues to improve.
Click here to read more requests from the Moshers in the printable version of PML.
Dwight and Carolyn Rich, serving in Ecuador
Please pray for:
Our first two grandsons expected in September to Stefanie and Aaron Phelps and to Bryan and Jennifer Rich
National Pastor’s Retreats for Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, July 24 to August 8
Prayer for elderly but active parents—Harry and Marion Rich and Louise Frazier.
Miguel and Irene Garita, serving in Costa Rica
Pray for our ministry as we work with couples in the Mesoamerica region
Pray for us, as we are interested in writing a book. We are also interested in reaching families via multimedia.
Pray that we will find wisdom and strength daily to honor God in all we do.
Click here to read more about the Garitas in the Engage magazine profile.
Gil and Sarah Thibault, serving in Kosovo
Please pray for the process of purchasing a location for the Prishtina Ministry Center. Pray that God will be in the midst of the details. Pray for the people of this new neighborhood and that we would be a light in their lives for Christ.
Please pray for the ongoing work and believers in the town of Suhareka – that God would move in a big way in this place.
Please pray for the families serving the Kingdom of God here in Kosovo, specifically the pastors and their families and our family.
Click here to read more requests from the Thibaults in the printable version of PML.
Steven and Amanda Pettit, serving in Dominica
Please pray
That God would continue to equip, empower, and enable us to fulfill the His mission
For our kids who are wrapping up their first year of online schooling
For the three Work & Witness teams coming in June, July, and August
Pray for the days ahead as we bring resources, training, and encouragement to help Dominica become a Phase 2 District.
HEALTH-RELATED REQUESTS
John Anderson
Please pray for retired missionary John Anderson who is dealing with the return of prostate cancer and is considering treatment options. Pray for John and his wife, Doris. The Andersons served for 31 years in India.
Paty Alvarez—UPDATE
We've been praying for Paty Alvarez from Ecuador and her battle with breast cancer. We gave praise when we heard that the cancer had not spread to other organs. Last week we learned that Paty's cancer is extremely aggressive and she is hospitalized in critical condition. We ask God for a miracle healing for Paty. She is a member of the team in Quito, Ecuador, and fills a vital role in the work of the church.
Alex Mkandawire
Pray for Alex Mkandawire, the Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Coordinator in Malawi. He has been hospitalized and doctors are trying to determine the cause and treatment for his illness.
BEREAVEMENT
Family of Robert Ashley
Retired missionary Robert “Bob” Ashley passed away on June 3. Bob, together with his late wife, Ina, served in Belize and San Lucia for 28 years. The Ashleys also served as directors at Casa Robles Missionary Retirement Home for many years. A memorial celebration will be held in late July at Pasadena First Church of the Nazarene, also in California. Pray for the Ashley family as they grieve Bob’s passing.
Thank you for praying.
Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.[Philip Yancey, The Question That Never Goes Away]
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Here are prayer requests submitted by missionaries who are part of the June Prayer Focus. Thank you for praying for:
Glenn and Nancy Culbertson, serving in the Philippines
Please pray for:
Adjustment to the new culture. Even for Nancy who is from the Philippines, her native country has changed during her 12 years in the U.S.
Spiritual protection and traveling mercies. We will travel with the field strategy coordinator to the islands of Luzon and Visayan.
The manifestation of the Holy Spirit's presence and blessing as we meet with churches, schools, pastors, and others
Click here to read more requests from the Culbertson’s in the printable version of PML.
David and Marquita Mosher, serving in Malawi
Please pray:
That we find God's perfect will in the service we will continue to do for Him after our retirement on August 15.
That we find the house that God wants for us in the location that best suits His will for us.
That Marquita's health continues to improve.
Click here to read more requests from the Moshers in the printable version of PML.
Dwight and Carolyn Rich, serving in Ecuador
Please pray for:
Our first two grandsons expected in September to Stefanie and Aaron Phelps and to Bryan and Jennifer Rich
National Pastor’s Retreats for Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, July 24 to August 8
Prayer for elderly but active parents—Harry and Marion Rich and Louise Frazier.
Miguel and Irene Garita, serving in Costa Rica
Pray for our ministry as we work with couples in the Mesoamerica region
Pray for us, as we are interested in writing a book. We are also interested in reaching families via multimedia.
Pray that we will find wisdom and strength daily to honor God in all we do.
Click here to read more about the Garitas in the Engage magazine profile.
Gil and Sarah Thibault, serving in Kosovo
Please pray for the process of purchasing a location for the Prishtina Ministry Center. Pray that God will be in the midst of the details. Pray for the people of this new neighborhood and that we would be a light in their lives for Christ.
Please pray for the ongoing work and believers in the town of Suhareka – that God would move in a big way in this place.
Please pray for the families serving the Kingdom of God here in Kosovo, specifically the pastors and their families and our family.
Click here to read more requests from the Thibaults in the printable version of PML.
Steven and Amanda Pettit, serving in Dominica
Please pray
That God would continue to equip, empower, and enable us to fulfill the His mission
For our kids who are wrapping up their first year of online schooling
For the three Work & Witness teams coming in June, July, and August
Pray for the days ahead as we bring resources, training, and encouragement to help Dominica become a Phase 2 District.
HEALTH-RELATED REQUESTS
John Anderson
Please pray for retired missionary John Anderson who is dealing with the return of prostate cancer and is considering treatment options. Pray for John and his wife, Doris. The Andersons served for 31 years in India.
Paty Alvarez—UPDATE
We've been praying for Paty Alvarez from Ecuador and her battle with breast cancer. We gave praise when we heard that the cancer had not spread to other organs. Last week we learned that Paty's cancer is extremely aggressive and she is hospitalized in critical condition. We ask God for a miracle healing for Paty. She is a member of the team in Quito, Ecuador, and fills a vital role in the work of the church.
Alex Mkandawire
Pray for Alex Mkandawire, the Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Coordinator in Malawi. He has been hospitalized and doctors are trying to determine the cause and treatment for his illness.
BEREAVEMENT
Family of Robert Ashley
Retired missionary Robert “Bob” Ashley passed away on June 3. Bob, together with his late wife, Ina, served in Belize and San Lucia for 28 years. The Ashleys also served as directors at Casa Robles Missionary Retirement Home for many years. A memorial celebration will be held in late July at Pasadena First Church of the Nazarene, also in California. Pray for the Ashley family as they grieve Bob’s passing.
Thank you for praying.
Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.[Philip Yancey, The Question That Never Goes Away]
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