Prayer Requests for April

Now that the craziness of visitors, holidays, and adventures around Africa has died down, I wanted to share a few things that I would love all of you to be praying for...

First - I realized today that I only have a month left in Kenya before returning to the States for a while over the summer - it seems like time is flying by! I would really appreciate your prayers that I would be intentional with my time here over the next month. Right now I have a huge list of "big picture" things to be working on, and I need some wisdom and discernment to figure out the best way to accomplish those things, along with the random other issues that come up on a daily basis. Also, I would love prayers for God to begin opening doors in America for the summer, as I will be fundraising again to support my return to Kenya in July.

Second - we have several centers that are currently in, or will be soon starting, the process of recruiting groups of clients. This is a difficult, time-consuming, and sometimes frustrating job for our center workers, so please pray for Joseph and Margaret at Banana Hill and John and Sarah at Gachie as they search for good candidates for the CFA program. Pray for energy and persistence, as well as for guidance in finding the people who are really desperate for help. Pray that God would open doors and give them supernatural access to people who might be hiding because of stigma, and pray that they would meet each person with open arms and the love of Christ.

Third - please pray for Justin and everyone else who is helping with fundraising and marketing efforts in the US. CARE for AIDS is working on a few new strategies for advertising and recruiting donors, and we really need the provision of God to help us reach out to new networks of people and relay to them what is going on in Kenya. Please pray that God would bring people with open hearts into contact with the vision of CFA, and pray that He would provide the funding that we need to open new centers in the coming months.

Thank you so much for your continued prayers! It brings me so much peace and joy to know that friends and family back in the US are praying for me, the rest of our staff in Kenya, and everyone involved with CARE for AIDS. I believe that God has huge things in store for this ministry in the coming months and years, and I count it an incredible blessing to get to be a part of it!