Points for Prayer ( 2 May, 2011 )

Please read our new requests and updates below (in italics)

2011-007. We travel tomorrow to China to visit Peter & Anna Kim and OTC. Please pray for us and the team there as we help make plans for the future.

2011-006. Eric & Karyn Sorenson are praying about future directions in their ministry. They have been at Pacific Islands University & seminary four years as project missionaries.

• Please keep praying for Eric & Karyn.

2011-005. Pray for Jun Pejji and his family as they live in the midst of a mess while their house is renovated to become the future meeting place of the Pasig City church in Metro Manila.

• Jun writes that the church/house remodel is moving along well after some holidays when the workers took off.
  

2011-004. MVF is still waiting for permission to import vitamins and minerals to go in our blended flour.

• Answered! The Thai FDA finally gave approval for 2 of the 3 products we needed to import. The last one, also, is not expected to be a problem. We hope to clear these products through customs in a week or two. Thanks for praying!
  

2011-003. Missionaries and churches in Japan are mobilizing to bring relief and care for the suffering people of northern Japan.

• Dave Husby, Director of Covenant World Relief, made a quick visit just before we arrived in Japan. Curt Peterson and Gary Walter will be traveling north this week. Rolling Hills Covenant Church sent a team, including their senior pastor, Byron MacDonald, paid a visit and are considering making Japan and this relief effort one of 3 strategic foci. Samaritan's Purse, Food for the Hungry, and many other quality organizations have teams in the field. Praise God for this quick response! Please keep praying for the thousands who have lost family members.

2011-001. Kevin and Ramona are searching for jobs now in L.A. After a year working in Laos, our son and daughter-in-law, are back in Orange County contemplating further studies, and looking for work.

• Answered! Both Kevin and Ramona have found jobs. Kevin will be working as assistant manager in a branch of Starbucks. Ramona will be working with an NGO which responds to people around the world in need of wheel chairs.