A call for prayer from friends afar

This is an e-mail that arrived from our missionary friends just a day ago. Remember that for safety's sake I have left their name out of the e-mail.

"My husband has just returned from a four week ministry trip to Bangladesh and India. One of the team members on that trip was a Pastor who oversees seven churches and four Bible schools in his home country of Myanmar/Burma.

While the Pastor was on the trip, his country was hit by a category 3 hurricane that produced tens of thousands, and as is currently being reported, possibly up to 100,000 deaths. It is estimated that 1-1 ½ million people may have lost their homes in the disaster as the hurricane cut a swath through the central part of the country. The military dictatorship there has been slow to respond and reluctant to give visas to aid agency workers who have offered to help.

Please pray for us as my husband will be trying to get a visa to Myanmar this next week. He has been working on relationships in Myanmar for the last 20 years, and is friends with the head of the Baptist Convention with over a million members. He speaks Karen, which is the language of ten percent of the population, and there are Karen people in leadership positions around the country. Many top leaders also have wives who are Karen.

When he was in Shillong, NE India at the All Nations House of Prayer, the quotation from the Book of Esther was shared in the meeting by a YWAM leader that God had been saying we were coming into a season where it would be essential to recognize that God has positioned people “for such a time as this”

Please pray that permissions and the visas will be released so that the churches may be able to minister to their neighbors in need in the speediest and yet precise timing of God.

In Jesus"