"My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God; on behalf of a man he pleads with God as a man pleads for his friend."    Job 16:20.21

Prayer Advocates are both individuals and groups who have made a commitment to pray for specific projects, needs, or georgraphical region in the world. Even though their own needs may seem great they are willing, out of love and compassion, to pray for others.

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Report from Anne-Marie & Rob (Haiti)  Just 710 miles from Florida, four devasting storms and hurricanses have caused chronic food shortages, starvation, and disease on the most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere.  In a country where more than half the population subsists on less than a dollar a day, the unemployment rates has risen to over 80 per cent.  Now, they are in the process of picking up the pieces.  The weak and the children are the one's who suffer.  Anne-Marie and Rob have gone way beyond the call to serve these impoverished and suffering people.  Jesus said, "Then those 'sheep' are going to say, 'Master, what are you talking about? When did we ever see you hungry and feed you, thirsty and give you a drink? And when did we ever see you sick or in prison and come to you?' Then the King will say, 'I'm telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me.'" (Matthew 25:37-40)

 "Food has been brought in with helecopters 16 times and still we were not able to feed all the people in this area. Some become angry, some threatened to steal food, some cried.  (more)

There is a 40 bed hospital in Passe Catabois with 100 patients.  Their clinic is full with surgery patients.  Every day and night people come seeking medical help, financial help, housing, and food.  Helicopters have brought food more than 30 times and there still is not enough.  The people are starving.  UNICEF brings baby formula for the severely malnourished babies.  The rain has hampered ground transporation and destroys what few gardens that are left.

UGANDA

Read the courageous testimony of Anna Travis (Soroti, Uganda) or her latest email.

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male prostitute and serving time in jail. GOD IS ALIVE AND WELL. 

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LESSONS LEARNED AND TO BE LEARNED

“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.  And let steadfastness have it full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” (James 1:2-4)

There are great lessons to be learned as we look back on the stages of our lives.  What we are  today is not the same as what we were years ago.  This is true for individuals, families, communities, nations, and the world.  People were made to develop over time.  We don’t stay the same from year to year.

“Here are the stages in the journey of the Israelites when they came out of Egypt by divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.”  (Numbers 33:1)

Our lives are continually changing.  We don’t stay the same.  Our spiritual lives are constantly being developed.  Looking back, we can see how the hand of God has sustained us through the years,  protected us and brought us out of danger, and drew close into an intimate relationship with him.

“He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor  your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.” (Deuteronomy 8:3)

Just about the time we have it all together and everything in life is running smoothly something happens.  Suddenly we face a major crisis: an accident, illness, financial trouble, marital problems, you name it.  These are things that brings us to our knees.  Who do we turn to for help?

"Stay on good terms with each other, held together by love.  Be ready with a meal or a bed when it's needed.  Why, some have extended hospitality to angels without ever knowing it!  Regard prisoners as if you were in prison with them.  Look on victims of abuse as if what happened to them had happened to you."  Hebrews 13: 1-3 (The Message, a Bible paraphrase)

Someone wrote the other day talking about being a friend to those in bondage by their circumstances.  They told how the North American Indian had a more eloquent word for 'friend' than English.  The word friend in their language litterally means, "the one who carries my sorrows on his back."

When god moves individuals to pray

Last month the Methodist Church in Cuba inaugurated a new theological seminary in a quite special place - a massive building complex that once belonged to them, but that the government confiscated after the Communist revolution of the late 1950's. At that time all religious activity was forbidden and the Christians had to leave the premises. However, a young couple that had an apartment in the building refused to move out. They believed the government had no right to the building, as it was dedicated to God.

As there is a law in Cuba that prohibits people being cast out of their house onto the street, the government eventually permitted them to stay, and they are still living in the building today at a very high age. During all these years they have been praying faithfully for God's purposes with the place, and now the Lord has rewarded them. The government returned the building and gave the Methodist Church permission to start a theological seminary. This is the first seminary of its kind opened in Cuba since the revolution.

Source: Erling Thu  Joel News, www.joelnews.org

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Leonard Ravenhill, in The Gospel of Prayer, tells: "One day I was at a conference with Dr. V. Raymond Edman of Wheaton College, one of the greatest Christian eduators in this country.  He told us of an experience he had while he was in Ecuador as a missionary.  He hadn't been there long before he was sick and dying.  He was so near death that they had already dug his grave...suddenly he sat straight up in bed and said to his wife, 'Bring me my clothes!'  Nobody knew what happened...Many years later he was retelling the story in Boston.  Afterward, a little old lady with a small, dog-eared, beaten-up book, approached him and asked, 'What day did you say you were dying?  What time was it in Ecuador?  What time would it be in Boston?'  When he answered her, her wrinkled face lit up.  Pointing to her book, she said.  'There it is, you see?  At 2 a.m. God said to get up and pray - the devil's trying to kill Raymond Edman in Ecuador.'  And she got up and prayed."""""

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In the middle of the night I began to hear the screams of small children, their voices crying out for help.   I could see their faces with tears pouring down their cheeks.  I, too, began to cry.  For more than an hour I prayed that God would save these defenseless children.  I continued to pray until peace came over me.  Three days later, on the front page of a major newspaper, there was a picture of the same children I had seen.  It was a time of war.  It was Viet Nam.

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Even though I am not Episcopalian, I often would stop by a local church to pray.  One particular Friday evening I sat quietly praying.  My wife work late at a local Seattle hospital and I prayed waiting to go pick her up after work.  Strange, but as I prayed I had a deep feeling that someone was in trouble.  I looked around and the church was deserted.  As I continued to pray, I knew someone was in trouble.  Having experienced such feelings in the past I prayed, knowing that whoever it was, God would intervene.  Shortly afterwards I got in my car and drove to the hospital to pick up my wife.  As I drove along I made a wrong turn.  I drove quickly through the deserted streets to get to the hospital on time.  I glanced down a side street and saw an older man pushing a young woman into an alley.  I slammed on my breaks and raced to the alley.  When I got out of the car the man threatened me.  I told him to shut up.  I asked the frightened young girl where she lived.  She pointed to a nearby building.  I said, "Go!"  The man stood frozen in his tracks not saying a word.  I quickly drove off leaving him where he stood.