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Serving the Lord with our Hearts and Hands |
Don & Christine Ames |
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We are smiling brightly because we love the Lord and the work He has called us to do. We are also so thankful and humbled as we realize we can not do any of these projects without our family and friends joining us at His throne in prayer. We are so thankful to see you here. |
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Current Prayer Requests |
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We requested prayer last month for safety and strength as we traveled to Haiti. We worked with an orphanage called Ruuska Village. You can check out their website at www.reachouttohaiti.com for news and updates. They asked us to go for a month, but we only made it for three weeks. This was the hardest trip we have ever been on and we will need your prayers as we heal spiritually, physically, and emotionally from this experience. Pray also for the Haitian people that can’t just leave as we did, but are stuck in the reality that is their life. We are also praying for other workers and volunteers from around the world that have gone in to help. Haiti is a hard place in which to minister in the best of times but it is especially tough now. Pray for us as we continue to seek God’s face, His desires, and His plan for us. Don is recovering from the flu, a sinus infection, and now a root canal, while we also recover from the emotions that overwhelmed us in Haiti.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10 NASB). |
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Many people have asked how they can best pray for us, or other questions about our support, such as what percentage of our budget have we raised? We have struggled with the questions concerning support since before we went full time in 1996. We had originally started with a proposed budget of $2000.00 per month back then, and that was with our housing and medical insurance paid by the ministry (not the case since 2000). Praise the Lord we finally received our 1996 budget amount in 2008, and all of our bills are paid. The best advice we can give concerning our budget or our support level is to pray to the Lord for His guidance, because that is what we do. He has blessed us with good health instead of supplying the funds for insurance. He also provided a free clinic when we needed several things done. He has also provided several cars over the years as we had need. In fact He has supplied all of our needs even though they fluctuate drastically from one month to the next depending on travel and living situations at the different project sites.
So we would ask you to pray with us, that our daily needs are met. Pray about finally getting some testing done that we have had to avoid for several years. If the Lord should lay it on your heart to send a donation to La Mission for our support, we know you will be blessed as we are. We continue to be humbled by those who are led to join us financially in His ministry. We are reminded of what the Lord is teaching us, that it is all about relationships. |
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People Have Asked... |
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Colossians 1:9-14 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light. For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. |
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Please Pray as Paul Prayed |
