Prayer Mail

Dear Partners in Prayer,

Peace be with you.

This is our weekly public prayer mail.

If you are interested in pictures of the graduation at the seminary about two weeks ago, I refer you to the pictures taken by Jeff Rawn on my Facebook page.
There are also very good pictures of the service itself on the blogsite of the Diocesan Administrator Lic. Rosario Saavedra Placencia
(Charo, and she is the one who took the pictures), http://www.oficinadiocesana.blogspot.com/.

Thank you to Torre Bissell and Jeanne Gizara for their prayer ministry emails. They mean a lot to us.

Additional Thanksgivings:

1) For Lydia's response to the SAT tests, yesterday. She felt comfortable with them. By evening, they were ancient history.

2) For the great insights and inspiration that we continue to receive for our teaching strategy.

3) For the blessings of friends whom we know.

4) For the opportunities of the Holy Spirit to transform people's lives by what we do, and to be able to make a difference.

5) For all our supporters: those supporting us financially, and those praying for us.

6) For Bp. Bill and Bp. Dan and their ministry to the Diocese of Albany. For Bp. Godfrey and his ministry to the Diocese of Peru.

7) For the guitar playing by Fr. Alberto Valdivia at La Ascension in the Surco District in Lima. He is truly awesome.

Prayers:

1) For the seminary students as they enter their final week of studies before exam week.

2) For our ministry in Lima, keeping first things, first.

3) That we would help transform many lives by what we do, especially in the classes we teach, and the healing and prayer ministries.

4) ) For the outcome and steps of the Peruvian Suffragan Bishop election process as it proceeds through the Province, here.

5) 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, and it is a crucial one.

6) For the Albany short term mission trip plans in late July. Pray for the on-going preparations for this trip in the Diocese of Peru and the Diocese of Albany. There are some deadlines and administrative matters looming.

7) For our landlady, her husband, and the others in our apartment building. We sign our next lease this week, sometime.

8) For our plans and presence at the Albany Diocesan Convention, the missions seminar at St. John's in Troy, the ordinations at the Cathedral in June, the graduation at TSM in May, our visits to relatives, and at other events over the next month or so; that the Holy Spirit would bless people by our presence and what we say.

9) For the plans over the next three years of the Diocese of Peru and the Anglican seminary here. That the Holy Spirit would lead us down fruitful paths for the Kingdom of Heaven, and keep us away from any unfruitful areas, as necessary.

10) I have been blessed by quite of number of friends, new friends, and re-aquaintances over Facebook in the past week across 3 to 5 continents if I understand the circumstances correctly, and in some cases, people I have not seen in decades, including a friend of mine from grade-school who has spent time in Lima. Please pray that the Holy Spirit would touch each person and bless them in a fruitful way, this week, and answer the different prayers that they need answered.

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