SCRIPTURE VERSE
"If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen."
1 Peter 4:11
PRAISES

Praise the Lord for His provision and protection on the WaYfm team members who are currently serving in Honduras; the team has been able to make a huge impact for the Lord. Click here to read about Bryan, a young Honduran man living and working in the city dump in Tegucigalpa. Bryan came to know the Lord this week as a result of the teams faithfulness in sharing Christ's love and grace. Continue to pray for the team, they are scheduled to return to the U.S. on Saturday, June 27.

Praise the Lord for His perfect timing and provisions; the container filled with playground equipment arrived in Honduras just in time for the WaYfm team's arrival.  The playground has now been built and dedicated.  What a wonderful gift to the children of this community - a safe and clean place to play and be kids.


PRAYER REQUEST

Guatemala
Please pray that God's hand would be upon the final steps of forming a non-governmental organization in Guatemala.  Wilson and Judy Williams, Mike Douris, Amy Norton, and Gloria Caceres will be in Guatemala on June 27 for the signing of the final documents.

Pray for the team from Christ Church of Plano serving in Guatemala this week. Pray for continued blessing on their time with the girls at the Manchen home.  Praise that the hearts of each girl are being touched through the team's time of worship and testimonies and the love the team has shown to them.  Pray for health for the team and especially pray for Caroline, our Orphan Outreach intern, who is not feeling well.  Pray for the 21 girls who are having their quincenearas on Friday and that the Lord would especially bless each of them as they grow into young women, that they will follow after Him and continue to know that he is Lord of their lives.

Honduras
A team member currently serving in Honduras suffered a bad fall this week and has broken his pelvis.  Please pray for him as he is transported from Honduras back to the United States today. Pray for comfort, healing and recovery.

India
The Anand Home for Girls has recently received 9 new girls into the home. Pray that these girls would adapt well to their new environment and that the current 11 girls living at the home would make them feel welcome. Please also pray that God would provide a vehicle to transport the girls to and from school each day.

Five new children have recently joined the Santvana Home in Pune and one more boy is expected to arrive at the home soon.  Please pray for these children who were recently rescued from the Red Light Area of Mumbai.  Please also pray for additional caretakers for Santvana Home as it continues to grows.  Click here to read more about Santvana Home and their ministry in Pune.

Please pray for the children living at the Suryodoya Home for Boys. The children returned this week from summer break to the Suryodoya Home for Boys. Unfortunately, five boys did not return because their families kept them in the camps in order to receive government monetary assistance.  Pray for these five boys as well as the boys who have come back to Suryodoya Home.  Pray for God's blessing on this ministry.  Click here to read more about the Suryodoya Home for Boys.

Please pray that the Muneer School in Delhi would receive permission from the local government to install needed tube wells in the community around the school.  The community residents are in desperate need of clean water.

Russia
Pray for Hannah's Hands ("I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the LORD. For his whole life he will be given over to the LORD." — 1 Samuel 1:27-28), a new Orphan Outreach program that provides love and compassion to children who have recently been abandoned in St. Petersburg. We are currently funding four Christian ladies who nurture and care for infants and toddlers when they arrive at Crisis Center #15. Without these ladies, there would only be one caregiver to comfort the children when they arrive at the Crisis Center. There are approximately thirty infants and toddlers living at the Crisis Center on a daily basis. Please pray for these children. They are scared and lonely when they arrive. Pray for the women who comfort them and for discernment for the Russian government as they place these children in orphanages throughout Russia. Pray also that the Lord will provide the funding needed to enable these ladies to work full-time. There is a great need for these ladies to be at the Crisis Center more; they currently work in shifts to try and be with the children as much as possible.

Each year many children graduate from the orphanage system in Russia and are forced to live on their own when they are as young as 15 years old.  Pray that the recent graduates would have wisdom from God and that He would protect them.  Click here to read more about the graduate orphans in Russia.

Mission Trips
Orphan Outreach currently has 9 Summer Interns serving in Guatemala and Honduras; nine more Summer Interns will head out for Russia and India in early July.  Please pray for their safety and health as they travel to and live in a new country.  Pray also that God would be glorified in their work and that they would each come home with a more clear understanding of God and His amazing Love.

Also pray for the many summer teams that will be traveling around the world to serve children in Guatemala, Honduras, India and Russia.  Pray for health, safety, and that God would be glorified in their ministry.  Click here to see an itinerary of upcoming trips.



Please Pray for
Pollito
in Honduras.

Taken from Rey and Elise Diaz's blog, Project Transformation.

“He is well known among the garbage sorters as the little boy raised in the trash. His mom is a drug addict and he has been in the garbage every day without fail since he was one year old. Now that he is eight, there has never been a harder worker. The older guys call him “Pollito,” which means “little chicken,” because they think of him as sort of a pet. You can see he takes pride in being allowed to hang around them. I suspect no one gives him attention “at home” – wherever that is.

How long, little Pollito, will you grow up in garbage? Will you ever learn to play instead of lift heavy bags twice your size? For seven years, since AFE began, Pollito has been the subject of our hopes and prayers. Every time we encounter him, he promises to come to school the next day. But for seven years, the next day found him in the trash once more. Until last week.

On Monday, and mouths dropped open when Pollito and his little sister walked through AFE’s doors, clean and ready to learn. They were not alone. Their mother, sober for the first time, brought them and enrolled them in classes immediately. Since that day, Pollito and his sister have not missed one class, have arrived promptly every day, and even came to church on Sunday! There is no other explanation than God’s timing, and we can do nothing but thank God for this miracle.”

Praise God for bringing Pollito and his sister to AFE. Pray for Pollito and his family; pray that they would grow in knowledge of Jesus and come to experience his great love for them. Also pray for their education as they learn the skills to develop into productive individuals who don’t have to return to the dump.

To read more about what God is doing through AFE and the dump community, click here.  
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