HI FIVE!! MN Christian Prayer Request Thread Continues .......

[CaptainDippy]

Hello there!!

"Never doubt that a community of thoughtful, committed women, filled with the power and the love of God, using gifts they have identified and developed, and pursuing passions planted in them by God - never doubt that these women can change the world"

Need I say more (thanks for that quote MaryBS!)

Well, here's a summary of July's requests - Do update if you can!!

MaryBS - Prayers for her mum coming to terms with her vocation. Been having vivid dreams and would like for them to stop (have they?) DH's nephew was adopted at the age of 3 and is now exhibiting some bad behavioural problems, mum and dad asking about "giving him back" etc. Very difficult situation. Prayers for study etc as she undertakes the course to become a Reader at church. Difficult situation regarding the church hall needs to be resolved. DD has a class mate who keeps hitting her etc, MaryBS unsure of how to handle the situation. Lots of prayers for non-Chiristian DH as he becomes more involved in church life (YEY! ) Prayers for situation between Vicar and a member of choir and finally prayers for a friend who has been meeting with Social Workers re: possibly adopting today! Pudmog - Feeling nauseous still (16 weeks PG, due on Jan 17th) and has chest infection. Has been struggling to control DS' asthma and has been really, really struggling with church (one couple in particular making it very hard.) Continuing prayers for the situation regarding racist accusations levelled at her children's school.

Twiga - DH's Uncle has Oesophogeal cancer and is very, very ill.

harrisey - Has found somewhere to live when her and her family move to Glasgow to attend Bible College in Sept. Praise God!!

Xavielli - Dad is home from hospital and is doing well. Lots of prayers for her sister who has had to have an abortion following the discovery that her unborn baby had Edward's Syndrome. Prayers as they cope with this loss.

longwaytogo - Ongoing prayers for her DD's health problems, especially for her as she attends Allergy Clinic on Aug 31st Prayers too for her nan and grandad who were involved in a car accident; although they were not seriously hurt, they are battered and bruised and coming to terms with the shock of it all. Lots of prayers for her friend who is going to adopt a little boy - they are meeting up for the 1st time very soon!!

JessicaandRebeccasMummy - DH had another operation on July 5th - Is going to be discharged from the army very soon, lots of prayers for them as a family - finding new job, home etc etc.

Nanou1 - DH didn't get job in the end. Feeling very and right now - lots of prayers needed for reassurance and acceptance - and for another to job to come up very soon!! How did DD do in France Nanou1 btw??

TigerT - DD had to have another op on her head on July 6th as wound was becoming infected - praying that her little DD is ok, the infection is gone and she is on the road to recovery.

footprint - Struggling with depression and anxiety - has been doing better and was last seen going off on her hols with her family! How are you doing honey??

katzg - Didn't get job , but is feeling positive and praying hard that another job opportunity will come up soon as her contract on her current job runs out on Aug 31st. Also prayers for her DD who is under Consultant care for the skin condition Cutaneous Mastocytosis.

PandaG - Currently off on lots of hols - so praying she is having a lovely time! Her youth leader who had cancer died and the service was a beautiful tribute to her.

CatJ - DD4 is still in hospital and is improving, but she is going to require lots of ongoing prayers as she is going to spend quite a bit of time in hospital over the coming weeks / months etc .... Lots of prayers for all the LO's that DD4 is in hospital with.

NotQuiteSoTiredMum - DS2's excema is very bad and keeping them all up at night - Prayers for sleep in that household!!

puddingz - Prayers for the family of a little boy (8 yrs) who was tragically killed in a Hit and Run incident.

naerlythree - Prayers for baby DS who has been very poorly.

Kate100 - Prayers for communication issues between her and her dad.

melbournemum - Prayers for her DB and SIL who are about 9 weeks PG. They have lost a number of children through miscarriage - Praying that this "Little Bean" holds on!!

waswondering - Prayers for cousin's 2 week old DD2 who is in hospital with a viral infection.

CaptainDippy - As ever, ongoing prayers for job situation (hers and DH's), house situation and driving lessons (going well btw ) Prayers for friends who are struggling with new baby DS and for friends who are coming to terms with the fact that they will never grow old together as DH has diagnosed with terminal cancer. I think that is all for me - for now!

Love and Prayers to you all. xxxx

Hi there my name is Jay. Hope you don't mind me joining in. I presume you are all christians on here. I was blessed to be brought up in a christian home and married a lovely christian man fifteen years ago next March. We have a son who will be two the end of October! He's a little blessing! Am happy to join in if anyone has any prayer requests!

Hello AngelJay!! Good to have you join us - Welcome!! I think the majority of us regular posters are Christians, but this is an open thread and anyone, of any faith (or no faith!) is welcome to join us - We accept prayer requests in any currency!! There's a "round-up" of all the prayer requests from July below and they'll be a round-up for August (& a new thread!) coming very soooooon!! Good to have you with us!!

Hi AngelJay, pleased to meet you. We're a pretty friendly bunch here, glad you could join us!

My SIL and her other half arrived here safely at 2.15 am, I found it hard to sleep after they arrived, so am very tired today. They left this morning, but not quite soon enough for us to make it to church! Having a chilled day with the family, is grey and rain is threatening here, so unfortunately we can't go out again. DS is about to learn a magic trick or two, think DH is going to be kept busy!

Love to you all.xx

hello angeljay good to see you, there are so many people posting on this thread now that I have a job to keep up

Hope you all have or have had good day at church today. We were full this morning even though it is middle of August and some are away.

Hey peeps!

Was a great service today. We all ended up in a conga line around the chruch singing "The latter rain" was great fun!

All about using the name of Jesus as a weapon and to cast our burdens! So inspired!!

PRAISE GOD

Hello everyone. Had a lovely carefree week in Devon- now back to earth with a bump! Hate coming back as I realise how much our life is affected by what is going on at church.Poor dh has a wife with the holiday blues!

Awwwww, Pudmog - we all know that post-holiday feeling - glad you had a super-lovely time though - How are you feeling? Less sick, I hope!! Have a look at the link below to see a pic of my DD1 - perhaps it'll cheer you up - she's very cute!!

Glad church was good this morning Xavielli - the Conga sounds wicked - I want to come and visit!!

God Bless you all lots. xxxx

Hiya to everyone and thank you to CaptainDaippy, PandaG and longwaytogo. really appreciate your kind welcome!
I was a bit off colour today so didn't make church unfortunately but really missed it. It's so lively and our son loves the worship (as do we) and kids church!
Have promised DH I won't get on here for too long so my apologies if I don't get to reply tonight but I pray you all have a great, blessed week full of awesome stuff!

Love Jay
xxx

Thanks cd- your dd is gorgeous! Sickness much better now - 20 wk scan in 11 days time!!! Thinking of you cd- how exciting!

Hia everyone! my name is sooz, I have a 10yo ds and twins 3 in oct, ds & dd.

I am a christian but my dh is not, which is a shame, he's missing out on such alot. Although at the moment I have chosen to stay away from church as my twins are a bit loud (understatement) and treat church a bit like a playground ducking and diving in and out of the choir stalls, trying to take the sermon etc.... and I refuse to take them into the vestry, there's no point going to church if I did that!

I miss it sooo much, and our vicar suddenly died a year ago, I miss him so much aswell, just isn't the same without him.

Anyway hia to you all, hope you don't mind a newcomer, just need a little guidance at the moment, so reading friendly stories will be good for me!

Ooooooh - two newbies in one day - how exciting!!

Welcome Sooz - All hail mother of twins!! There's a couple of Christians whose DH's don't "share the faith" who post regularly on here (MaryBS is one, althugh she's on her hols atm - be sure to "bump" into her when she returns - she is awesome!! ) I am sorry to hear about your Vicar and about the whole church situation - I am also of the opinion that if I have to sit in a room with my children for the entire service, then what is the point in me being there!!!? Hoping it will get better as they get older - our church takes the LO's out to a room on their own. It is manned on a rota basis so all the parents get a good break!! Not all parents like leaving their children and not all children like being left so that doesn't work for everyone; but it certainly works for me - I think my girls are quite glad of the break from me!! (I'm a terrible embarrasment to them, I'm afraid!!) Anyway - praying for you and your DH and for the church situation - Would he allow you and your oldest to go to church while the DT's stay at home with him by any chance?? At least you'd be getting some input and "nourishment" that way!!? Just a thought .......

Your church sounds great AngelJay - I like the word "awesome"!!

Glad the sickness is getting better Pudmog - prayers answered!! Nearly 20 week scan - how exciting!! Are you going to find out whether it is a boy or a girl?? [hugs]

Going to bed (gosh I am getting sad in my old age!! )

Thank you CD for your help, yes my dh would look after twins, but I find it a shame they can't have the calmness and wonderful surrounding that I feel, I know they are too young but I just have that nice feeling about my family when we are all together in church, can't have my cake and eat it though can I?

When at home it's so unorganised and lively that it feels as though the house is going to explode with all the goings on and noise, I am probably expecting too much from the twins! there are plenty of lovely people at church to help me, but the twins won't go to anybody else! AAAAAAH frustration.

Oh well, I'll keep trying. The church know the only way to get me there at the moment is to give me a reading to do - sneaky or what, so I know they miss us, but even on the family services the twins are dynamites!

Sorry, won't moan anymore, but I do miss everyone.

Will look forward to posting with MaryBS, how old are her twins?

Sorry, just read your message again CD, I mis-read MaryBS bit, I realise she doesn't have twins, its the dh non-christian bit, oh crackling candles, I'm going nuts, I told you this house feels like its exploding!

oh sooz I so feel for you (welcome btw) good to see you on this thread. My youngest two are 2&3 and they never sit still during a service, we do have a table set up with books, crayons etc and they do spend a lot of time sitting there but beliecve me they have their moments and sometimes I feel like its not worth being there but its like a magnet I keep getting drawn there. Tbh though when other peoples children are making a noise I hardly notice so I bet you worry about it more than others. Plus if they are giving you readings to do they obviously want you there regardless of whether you children make a noise.

Sorry thats a load of waffle isn't it but welcome anyway

Welcome to the new folks! We are growing! God is good!

Sooz, I recommend leaving the wee ones at home with DH and going to 'fill up' with the word, the calmness will soon rub off on the rest of your family!

CD! It would be great if you came and visited our church! They would love you! Shame it's so far away If you ever fancy the trip i'll give you the address and stuff.. right next to the town's train station if no one fancied driving!

BTW CD ed at how early you can manage to get to bed! It is gone 10pm and I still haven't washed up from dinner! lol been taking DP's trousers up... he is only a shorty, bless him!

morning girls how are we all this morning? Anything excited planned for the day? I really must get round to sorting school uniform out - can't believe how quickly these summer holidays have gone.

Hi all and welcome to the newbies!
Went to see my new Godson yesterday and he is amazing, so beautiful and ever so cuddleable! His mum and dad loved the personalised cloth book i made for them, forgot to photograph it but hey! I'm sure if i ask nicely she will let me!

My DH is a non-believer too.

Hopefully this week i will get my "interview" and then the job will be mine, i use the inverted commas because the interview is just a formallity, but until it is happen i can't do much!

Hello all

Great to meet you Sooz. I can empathise with your predicament - my DH is a christian, and my children are a bit older, 4 and 6, but they can still be jolly noisy in church! In our home church it is generally ok, there are lots of children, and dancing at the front/in the aisles is not only tolerated it is encouraged - and they both love their groups. If we go to someone else's church they can be toe - curlingly embarrassing, and I cannot worship. We now do not go to church when we visit my P's/IL's as my noisy ones just don't fit in.

If you want to chat to a christian with twins you want LovelyMarsLady - she has 5 children - the youngest 2 are twins aged 2 or 3!

Love to you allxx

Thank you all for your support:

Longwaytogo, you sound as if your hands are as full as mine, yes ours are encouraged to dance and sing at the front of the church, but my twins just always take it a step too far, I remember my ds1 10yo when he was 2, he played the organ in prayer time I didn't go back for ages, people always say they miss us though! good job. I would change to a more child friendly church, but I'm too shy, and have attended local church for 45 years. (certain amount of committment)

Xavielli - I think I might take your advice, its strange though, I think I hide behind my children, and don't have much confidence without them, but will give it a go, thanks!

PandaG - look forward to speaking to LovelyMarsLady, however she copes I don't know! 5 children!!!!

will catch up properly later but just wanted to say and could you please pray for a couple we're friends with? They lost thier baby at 16weeks pg and she would have been due around now. Not sure if I should send a card or not to say dh and I are thinking of them - don't want to drag it all up but also don't want them to feel forgotten about - aaargh! Add me to the list of learner drivers on here, got my second lesson in an hour - have had lessons in the past but very nervous behind the wheel - finally feel motivated to do it hurrah! Just a thought for you others who are doing the whole driving thing - "if you don't like the way I drive, stay off the pavement" ! Dd is being looked after by a friend while I have my lesson so I better go and pack her changing back etc while she's still sleeping. See you later!

ps. Hi to the new folk x

Hi guys - here I am again asking for prayers but giving very little. Sorry.

A friend of my dd died on Saturday, following an incident with an air rifle. He is 12 years old. Some other boys were involved too. Please pray for the family of the young boy, for all the others concerned, and for my dd who is understandably very upset.

Not sure if anyone has updated on Cat's dd4 but she is doing OK, still in hospital but on the ward and keeping everyone entertained.

I'm so grateful.

1stly what a fun user name Saggarmakersbottomknocker (if I got that right) how did you come up with that?

2ndly, on a more serious note, our thoughts and prayers are with you, your daughter and her friends family, what an awful accident to happen!

sooz x

omw so many young people dying over the summer hols what a vulnerable time holidays are. Brill that cats baby is doing well.

Had a nice time with friend and her 2 dd's today, tea is in oven, turf to lay when dh gets home.

Quick update as my DH is currently in the bath with two beautiful young ladies!! !!

Hee! Hee!

How is everyone!!?

I'll bet your Godson is completely scrummy katzg - glad you got to see him and have lots of cuddles!! Praying for your interview too - let us know when it is - hope you get the job!! I have an "informal" interview tomorrow morning at 9am - so pray for me too! Thank you!!

I love ing, don't I!!?

So for your friends who lost the wee babe at 16 wks PG Why not just send a little note saying "Thinking of You" - I am sure it won't dredge stuff up cos I am sure they are thinking about it anyway. You are so lovely!! Praying for you about the driving too - I am nearing my test date and am absolutely terrified - can't wait to pass though - the freedom it'll give me will be totally worth it!! Let us know how it went honey!!

Hi SMBK!! Good to "see" you!! Sooooo sorry about your DD's friend - complete at the situation from which his death arose - praying for his family and for the friends who were involved in the incident. Tragic accident - how terribly terribly awful. Don't know what to say except sending up so many prayers for them. xxxx

Been a good day here in DippyLand - love having DH at home - huge pressure release for me!!

I hear screaming, best go and rescue DH from his over-excited ladies!!

Love, [[hugs]] and Prayers to all. xxxx