We need a prayer Commitment!

Fourth of July holiday greetings to everybody! Hope you all have been blessed as we remember in the US our struggle for independence and freedom. Our short-term mission team just got back from Chile, where we had a wonderful and wet experience. Along with Jim and Cheryl, the team consisted of Robby and Jason Kennedy (a father-son team of Hillcrest Christian School fame), Kaitlyn Brochu (Hillcrest senior 2011), and Andrew Green (Greens' grandson, Chile native, Palmdale High junior). We built a cover for a dry play area for Chilean earthquake victims still living in the small houses, distributed lots of really cool rain boots to kids, and later did welding and plumbing work on the house that will be offices in the future school. Pictures at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/album.php?aid=10517&id=100000797428280

The house looks good and is 85% done. It appears that we have enough to finish its conversion to offices. That's the good news.

Now the bad news. (Well, only if you believe that God won't provide!) With all the costs of personnel, advertising, maintenance, and other details, we basically need to have available $5000 per month for the next 18 months.

The purpose of this letter is NOT to ask you for more money. Rather, I'm asking for something we haven't been very diligent about.

WE NEED TO KNOW THAT THIS MINISTRY IS COVERED IN PRAYER EVERY WAKING HOUR. People close to the school project have been praying, we know. But who knows if "we" have the words and wisdom that God is wanting to hear? There are gifted prayer warriors out there.

SO, WOULD YOU DO 'TWO' THINGS RIGHT NOW?

1. Please click on http://www.christianstandard.com/articledisplay.asp?id=1565 and read the article. It was a bit eerie for me, since the need mentioned in the article was $2.5 million in capital within six months. That is where we stand, also needing $2.5 million in six months in order to open in March 2012!

After, and only after, you have read the article...

2. Please hit "REPLY" to this email and state a date beginning on July 12 and ending on August 20. We are asking you to pray for 30 seconds or more at the top of each waking hour on the date you choose, e.g. 8:00, 9:00, etc. Please pray that God would show you all the "great and unsearchable things" (Jeremiah 33:3) he has in mind for the work of our school in Chile. Pray EXPECTING ANSWERS. Let us know what it you are learning. For those who call on him, he promises "healing and abundant peace" after the time of struggle (Jeremiah 33:6). Right now I pray that God would do all that for you.

We can't set up a sign-up sheet with everybody so spread out, so we'll depend on the Holy Spirit to cover all the dates. With about 300 on our email list, we should have every day covered with at least 7 people.

WILL YOU DO IT? Please do. Hit 'REPLY' right now.
We need you and the blessing you can provide through your prayer.God bless you richly!