Prayer Mail

Dear Partners in Prayer,

Peace be with you.

This is our weekly public prayer mail. Autumn begins soon, and the winds are a bit cooler at night.

Thanksgivings:

1) For the interest in prayer and healing ministries among the students at the seminary.

2) For all the hard work that people put into their studies, parish and mission ministries, and spreading the Gospel.

3) For the answers to prayer this week, from bus routes to language learning to the mission trip preparations, and more. Thank you for praying.

4) Praise God for the movement of the Holy Spirit in our prayer times.

5) For the Diocese of Albany Salary and Benefits Committee work these past few weeks, across two continents. We are just about ready to forward our report for Diocesan Convention 2010, by email, in time for the pre-convention book deadline. The facility to do this across such a distance, as though we were simply across the street from each other, is an amazing feat. The committee is a great team to work with. I am honored to continue to serve as Chair.

6) We have heard that there was a 5.0 earthquake in Lima last week, but we did not feel anything. Praise God.

Prayers:

1) For the people, relationships, ministries, finances, resources, and priorities associated with the Diocese of Peru, Saints Augustine seminary, and the Missionaries in Peru (including us). This is an on-going prayer, but it is a crucial one and is never out of style.

2) For the seminary courses and for the students. For the improved student access to the library.

3) For the Albany short term mission trip plans in late July. Pray for the on-going preparations in the Diocese of Peru and the Diocese of Albany.

4) For our landlady, her husband, and the others in our apartment building. We are waiting to hear further about her intent to raise the rent.

5) For Julie at the 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 people in and involved with the Bishop Suffragan election process in Peru. The Synod is March 26-27.

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

8) For the CEMO (ordination) process.

Thank you for praying for us. It makes a difference. I pray for you every day, snow or no snow.

God bless you.

In Christ,
Shaw, and on behalf of Julie and Lydia
Lima, Peru