Weekly Prayer Mail

Dear Partners in Prayer,

Peace be with you.
This is our weekly public prayer mail.

Thanksgivings:

1) Orientation week at seminary is off and running.

2) A special healing time in a person's home went well on Sunday afternoon. We had a surprise visit by someone to our apartment; then we all traveled to another district. We prayed for healing. There was a healing, and that led to one person after another asking for healing prayer. The Holy Spirit was very gracious.

3) The ordination process (which Julie is coordinating) continues to move along nicely.

4) We believe that the new monthly apartment maintenance-fee process is going smoothly, after a rocky start.

5) Julie has become involved in the music ministry on Sunday mornings at La Ascencion in the Surco District of Lima. She had been leading music rehearsals. Now, in addition and when we are at la Ascencion, she is playing a keyboard with a mind of its own (prayers for a better keyboard would be good.

Prayers:

1) For the relationships, ministries, finances, planning, and priorities associated with the Diocese of Peru, Saints Augustine seminary, and the Missionaries in Peru (including us).

2) For the courses and orientation, for the preparations for the graduation service in April, and for the matriculation service on February 20.

3) For the Albany short term mission trip plans in late July, and the mission trip preparation discussions that continue to take place.

4) For our landlady, her husband, and the others in our apartment building. One of our next door neighbors died on Sunday morning at 3 am.

5) For Julie at New Wineskins and the SAMS worldwide conference in April in North Carolina, and for Julie, Lydia, and I in Pennsylvania and New York State/Connecticut in May/June, including our Diocesan Convention.

6) For the students and faculty of the seminary. For the improved access to the library and proper use of the computer system and the photocopy machine. For the course registration process, student matriculation process, and various other administrative matters.

7) For the people in the Bishop Suffragan process.

8) For our ability to go back and forth to Sunday services at Jesus el Salvador in the Villa el Salvador District, in the next two weeks. Our usual transportation arrangement is not possible.

9) That the Holy Spirit would raise up the next clerical leadership for Jesus el Salvador, soon. We are helping out, there, in the interim.

10) For the CEMO process (commission on ministry equivalent), and the ordination examination process. I am assisting Julie with the ordination examination ideas. Please pray for the people who will be ordained in a few months, and for those who are waiting in the wings.

Thank you for praying for us. It makes a difference. I pray for you every day.

God bless you.
In Christ,
Shaw, and on behalf of Julie and Lydia
Lima, Peru

Optional reading:

Hope you are enjoying the Olympics. We miss watching them. It is not possible to get more than printed summaries on-line about the Olympics, because NBC does not broadcast competitions on-line outside the US and its territories.

Fútbol (soccer) is the main sport in the headlines in Peru at the moment.
Fútbol is the most followed sport in Perú and around the world. At some point in the year, usually, there is even a special fútbol game each year in which all the heads of state from the different countries in South America play a fútbol game together, though there was reluctance to hold the game last year, I understand, because of some uncomfortableness between certain nations.

For people in Peru, having the winter Olympic games take place in February in Canada, is for North Americans like having the winter Olympic games taking place in August in Chile.]