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March 3, 2009
March Prayer Letter
Dear Friends,
The Global Ministries Conference at Multnomah Bible College went very well for me last week. I had help from four other OMF colleagues and we were able to have many good conversations with students who came to the OMF display booth. Many seniors, especially those in the Intercultural and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) study programs were looking for short-term and longer term missions opportunities in East Asia. Please pray with me that these students will continue to seek and discover God’s good will for their lives in service to Him. Pray too that I will be able to follow-up and encourage them along the way. I am also following up on two couples from Western Seminary here in Portland. Pray for them as well as they are seeking God’s direction for ministry overseas. One couple will be finishing studies this May and the other is just beginning.
A week ago I returned to the Friday night international student ministry in downtown Portland. Karen and I started going to this weekly outreach for students of Portland State University last September. The majority of these foreign students are Asian and we enjoyed the interaction with them. It took time for me to feel able to return to this without Karen but now I think I can. Pray for good contacts and opportunities to share God’s love and good news with these students that are here from countries all over East Asia.
On the home front:
Wil is facing deadlines for college and scholarship applications. Just yesterday we missed one application deadline be one day. Pray that we can keep ahead of these and that the Lord will clearly direct Wil into the right school for this coming year. Our struggle is that Karen was the one who kept all these details in mind. Without her we are at a definite disadvantage. Wil continues to do well academically, and his extracurricular schedule is full, especially now as rehearsals for this year’s school play are starting this week. He has the role of Daddy Warbucks in the musical production of “Annie.” The play will be presented at the end of April and beginning of May.
I will be attending a “GriefShare” support group starting March 8. This is a 12 week course that meets on Sunday afternoons in a nearby church. A good friend of mine who also lost his wife last year recommended that I look into participating in this course and I discovered this one being offered very near my home. Pray that this will prove helpful to me in my grieving and healing process and that I will discover things that Wil and I can talk through and find helpful in our grieving together.
Thank you once again for standing by us in prayer, Dave & Wil
Posted by David at 11:38 AM