Pray

Prayer Requests for  May 2012

Mondays:

Give thanks for

• the work that Edwin (senior volunteer) and his team of volunteers are doing in Polokwane. Their intervention work to help children enter school or stay in school has been so effective that many other government schools in the area have invited OSWW to help them.
• the response to the launch of two wonderful children’s books in Northern Ireland.  Rosemary Fletcher, the writer, is donating the profits from the sale of her books to OSWW.

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Tuesdays:

Please pray for:

• Dorian as he trains a team of volunteers from Iris Ministries in Zimbabwe 8-14 May. Pray for safety on the long journey by road from Johannesburg to Harare. He will also be meeting with other potential partners; pray that the Lord will lead him to good future projects.
• Mandla, Dorian and Paulette as they lead a Master Training event in Swaziland May 25-26. Pray that those trained will be able to build up a team of volunteers across Swaziland to help the many marginalised children.

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Wednesdays:

Please pray for

• Phil Renicks and Alan McIlhenny as they prepare the agenda and reports for the International Board meeting of Open Schools Worldwide next month at the TWR Headquarters in North Carolina.
• Phil had a recent health scare, pray that he will continue to make good progress and give thanks for the skills of the doctors.

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Thursdays:

Please pray:

• That a successor can be found for Alan as International Director of Open Schools Worldwide. Alan is not stepping away from Open Schools and will continue to serve as needed but recognises that he should hand over the major leadership responsibility to someone who is not some years over retirement age!

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Fridays:

Please pray for:

• The children we work with. Many do not know what it is like to live in a loving family; pray that through the care, concern and words of our volunteers they will come to know that they are special and loved.

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Weekends:

Please pray for funding:

• We give thanks for the good donations we have received this year but our staff workload is heavy and we really need one more person to be based at our head office in Johannesburg. We also need funding for Samson Benjamin’s work in Eastern Cape.
• We have received requests for help from Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya in recent weeks. The need is huge but we do not have the resources to respond.
• We give thanks that we have sufficient funding to provide 500 Route 86:11 games for our life skills programmes in South Africa and Swaziland. A number of youth groups , schools, churches and families in the UK and USA are interested in purchasing the game for their own ministry use but also as fund raising for OSWW. Pray that we can find sponsors to help us purchase at least 1000 games to sell in these two countries.