Prayer Requests

The team from PBA arrives tomorrow. Today is the last day of preparations consisting of grocery shopping for a team of merely 30, our biggest team yet, preparing the finances for Ken to "pay as we go" this next week and then preparing at home, laundry and securing the house as we go out the next few days to the island and minister alongside the team. Today, I also have a doctor's appointment to have repeat biopsies for my uterine cancer, but I trust that God is in control of those results already!

Isla de Chira, where we will first be ministering with the team is a remote island off the Western coast of the country reachable only by boat. We will get up Saturday morning at 2 a.m. and drive a little over four hours by bus to get the team there, unpack the bus of our supplies and load our supplies on to boats, travel the channel by boat to the island, unpack the boats and then pack trucks with our supplies to travel to the church where we will set up our clinics that we will hold over three days. The majority of the people on the island have never been able to travel off the island themselves because the boat ride is $30 one way. It s a very poor area. We will bring in fruits and vegetables to help nutritionally meet the needs of the people there. The conditions will be very hot this time of year and we will sleep in tents on concrete flooring inside the church building. It will be much like missionary service from "days of old".

How you can pray:
1. Pray for the team coming from PBA as they travel to Costa Rica tomorrow for safety.
2. Pray for the physicians who are volunteering their time to work with us.
3. Pray for Ken, David & Katherine and myself as we work together and do final preparations today for this team.
4. Pray for the people of Isla de Chira that have physical as well as spiritual needs; that the physicians that we bring with us will be able to meet medical needs and that the Lord will prepare the way for us to minister to spiritual needs.
5. Pray for the medical clinic on Wednesday in a church in Cartago.
6. Pray for the team's free day and souvenir shopping day; that they will have fun and get some rest.
7. Pray for the team as they travel back to Florida next Friday.