Mustard
Seed Jersey Prayer Update February 4th 2016
Please
continue to pray for our work – we really do believe that PRAYER CHANGES THINGS
and we do see changes in some of the various situations we prayed for.
GIVE
THANKS - In December 2015 we asked for
your prayers for our Bread appeal and also for our need for funds for firewood.
I am happy to tell you that in January we were able to send sufficient funds to
continue the bread distribution to the end of the winter and to provide
firewood for the neediest for the coldest months of the winter. We thank God
for people’s generosity.
GIVE
THANKS & PRAY - In August 2014, we
asked for your prayers for several of the Romanian social workers we knew who had
had a series of miscarriages. The great news is that during 2015 two out of
three of those young women gave birth to healthy babies. Thank the Lord for
those. There is still one social worker
who continues to suffer miscarriages, please pray for God’s healing for her.
We
plan to send our present TRAILER to Romania in May on a one-way ticket and then
to convert it to accommodation for the homeless in Romania. Please pray that
this will work out, as there are various logistical problems to overcome. Pray
too that the money will be provided for the cost of insulating and fitting out
the trailer ready for a homeless family. (Nelu
reckons the cost of approx. £4500)
We plan to
continue to send aid to Romania but using another container.
CHANGED
LIVES – please pray that the needed funds will come in to enable us to fund the
building of walls and roof of the planned building. Nelu
from the FI charity is anxious that this should be achieved this year. (The
building will offer 2 units of accommodation, washing and shower facilities for
all the homes on the site and storage for relief aid). Pray for Nelu for good health.
TINATHON
– on May 20th Mustard Seed Jersey and the Shelter Trust will be
collecting tinned food which will be shared between Shelter for those in need
in Jersey and Mustard Seed for the poorest of the poor in Romania. Please pray
the arrangements go well.
MILDER
WEATHER – thinking of those unable to afford much or any heating we give thanks
to God that the weather is milder in Romania as well as over here.
Pray
for WISDOM for all the social workers involved in determining who they can help
and who they cannot help with limited resources, remembering ALEX & RODY,
NELU & CRISTINA, VASILE & FLORINA, TUDOR & VIOLETA. Pray for each
for good health.
In
Jersey we pray for GOOD HEALTH and God’s real blessing on our volunteers, some
of whom keep supporting us while battling with health problems. And we ask that
God will bring others in with the skills that are needed.
In
Jersey we GIVE THANKS for the life of Kath, one of our (more or less completely)
retired very faithful volunteers. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
I
have received no specific prayer requests from any of the Romanian trusts since
Christmas.
Please
continue to keep Mustard Seed Jersey in your prayers, for we do believe PRAYER
CHANGES THINGS.
Yours
in Christ
Rose
Helie
PS
Last year I aimed to send out prayer updates once a month; this year I aim to
send out prayer updates every 6 weeks to 2 months, unless something occurs that
we want you to pray for urgently. Please
do give me feedback as to what timing/format you feel is better.