Saturday

“When He saw the multitudes,

He was moved with compassion for them,

because they were weary and scattered,

like sheep having no shepherd.

Then He said to His disciples,

‘The harvest truly is plentiful,

but the laborers are few.

Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest

to send out laborers into His harvest’.”

~Matthew 9:36-38, NKJV~

Mr Philip Harrell was admitted into the Greensburg Hospital today, they are running test to discover what is wrong with him.

Please pray for him, and keep him in your thoughts.

Bill (Frazier)Prayer requests

KOMpray

Kids on Mission Pray

 

“Let the little children come to Me,

and don’t stop them,

because the kingdom of God

belongs to such as these,”

~Luke 18:16b~

SILLY HIPPO TALK

“Why do you talk like a man who has been cut in half by a hippo?” This is literally what the Dinka people of Southern Sudan say when someone is talking silly. The Dinka people believe that if you are cut in half by a hippo and your top half is in the water, you will still be able to talk for awhile. You won’t make much sense, but you’ll be able to talk.

The Dinka culture is full of stories!

Another of their stories says that a dog brought fire to ancient Dinka people. Before fire, they cooked by the heat of the sun.

Since the Dinka people love stories, they are willing to listen to the stories of the Bible. Pray for them to understand that they are more than stories. Bible stories are the truth of God. Ask God to speak to their hearts through Bible stories so that they will want to know Jesus, the Savior.

MORE PRAYER REQUESTS FROM MISSIONARY KIDS

I live pretty far away from any other MKs and expatriates. Even though I love the people, it gets lonely, and I crave times when I can see MK friends or just hear a sermon in English. Also, my brother is going to college soon…he’s been like my best friend and it’s gonna hurt when he’s gone. DANIEL, age 16, (Central, Eastern and Southern Africa)

Please pray that 6th grade will go well. KATI, age 10 (Pacific Rim)

Please pray that Miss Rachel will stay well, and pray that Rebeca will be okay. CORNELIUS, age 10 (South Asia)

Pray for Sashy that her lungs will clear up and for Ms. Hannah and Ms. Rachael. GABRIELLA, age 8 (South Asia)

Please pray for me, my sister and brother that we will be healthy. And please pray for the people in Indonesia that they will come to know the Savior Lord and God. MIKAYLA, age 7 (Pacific Rim)

I need prayer for God to help me make more Indian friends, so that I can share with them. And my mom, that God keeps her healthy because she gets sick very easily. She has had malaria and other sicknesses. TILLY, age 12 (South Asia)

SHOWING GOD’S LOVE

Doug Nichols went to India to be a missionary, but while he was just starting to study the language he became infected with tuberculosis and had to be put in a sanitarium. It was not a very good place to be. It was not very clean and conditions were difficult because there were so many sick people there. But Doug decided to do the best he could in that situation. So he took a bunch of Christian books and tracts and tried to share the gospel with the other patients in the sanitarium.

But when he tried to pass out tracts, no one wanted them. He tried to hand out books, but no one would take them. He tried to talk with them, but he was handicapped because of his inability to communicate in their language, and he felt so discouraged. There he was. Because of his illness he would be there a long time. But it seemed like the work that he had been sent to do would not be done because no one would listen to him.

Because of his tuberculosis, every night at about 2 o’clock he would wake up with chronic coughing that wouldn’t quit. Then one night when he awoke he noticed across the aisle an old man trying to get out of bed. He said the man would roll himself up into a little ball and teeter back and forth trying to get up the momentum to get up and stand on his feet. But he just couldn’t do it. He was too weak. Finally, after several attempts the old man laid back and wept.

The next morning Doug understood why the man was weeping. He was trying to get up to go to the bathroom and didn’t have enough strength to do that. So his bed was a mess and there was a smell in the air. The other patients made fun of the old man. The nurses came to clean up his bed and they weren’t kind to him, either. In fact, one of them even slapped him in the face. Doug said that the old man just laid there and cried.

Doug said, “That next night about 2 o’clock I started coughing again. I looked across the way and there was the old man trying to get out of bed once more. I really didn’t want to do it, but somehow I managed to get up and I walked across the aisle and I helped the old man stand up.” But he was too weak to walk.

Doug said, “I took him in my arms and carried him like a baby. He was so light that it wasn’t a difficult task. I took him into the bathroom, which was nothing more than a dirty hole in the floor, and I stood behind him and cradled him in my arms as he took care of himself. Then I carried him back to his bed and laid him down. As I turned to leave he reached up and grabbed my face and pulled me close and kissed me on the cheek and said what I think was `Thank you.'”

Doug said, “The next morning there were patients waiting when I awoke and they asked if they could read some of the books and tracts that I had brought. Others had questions about the God I worshiped and His only begotten Son who came into the world to die for their sins.” In the next few weeks Doug Nichols gave out all the literature that he had brought, and many of the doctors and nurses and patients in that sanitarium came to know Jesus Christ, too.

He said, “Now what did I do? I didn’t preach a sermon. I couldn’t even communicate in their language. I didn’t have a great lesson to teach them. I didn’t have wonderful things to offer. All I did was take an old man to the bathroom and anyone can do that.”

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” (1 John 4:7-8)

What can you do to express the love of God to people around you today?

Have a great day!

Alan Smith
Helen Street Church of Christ
Fayetteville, North Carolina

Have a great day!

Anna Lee