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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 are praising the Lord as Christmas nears. We celebrate His birth with all of you and particularly with our family. At this time we are visiting Christine’s Mom, and her sister and family. We also are making time for all of our eight grandchildren and most of our children. Don’s family is in FL and CA so we will need to meet up with them at other times. Pray for Don as he joins 9 other men on a mission trip to Port-au-Prince, Haiti to work for about ten days on the studios for Radio Lumiere. They will be doing extensive rewiring of the main electrical service, transfer switches, new panels, inverter system, and building wiring. They will also be laying the groundwork for a future solar panel system. Pray for Radio Lumiere as they seek funding for this future phase of the project. Pray for safety for the men as there has been recent attacks on Americans helping ministries like this. We continue to Pray for the Lord’s will, His safety, His wisdom, and sweet fellowship with His people in all we do. May we also bring glory and honor to our heavenly Father in all that we say and do, amen.
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 medical 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.
March 2009 |
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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 |
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We Praise the Lord who has richly blessed us over these past 15 years in ministry & we continue to trust Him each day as we seek to serve Him. Thank you for praying with us and helping us financially. |
