Is it June already!!? MN Christian Prayer Request Thread June: WEEK ONE.

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June - Good grief!!? Well I am going to try & do this "a week at a time" now ..... hope I can keep up - I'll definitely try my best!!

Here's the "Round-Up" for May .....

lucy5 - Prayers for SIL & BIL who recently gave birth to a stillborn DD. Prayers for strength as they come to terms with their enormous loss.

Podmog - Continued prayers for difficult church situation and for them as they contemplate community living as a solution to not having enough space in their current accomodation!! Also prayers for friend who has 2 children & is mentally unstable atm.

ThatBeetroot - Prayers for MIL, Pat, who has been diagnoised with cancer.

fannyannine - Praise God!!! - For safe arrival of Takunda Myles!! Prayers for FA & her fmaily as they settle down to life as a fivesome! Prayers for their difficult money situation....

NotQuiteGrownUp - Prayers for her DS's, that they can make some good & lasting friendships. Prayers for them as they try to find their "place" in the village they live in. Praying for NQGU as she visits her parents....

katzg - Continued prayers for her DD as they struggle to treat her DD's skin condition, Cutaneous Mastocytosis.

CaptainCaveman - Prayers for work collegue's mum who has bowel cancer & liver mets. Prayers for DH's complicated job situation. Praise that her DSis is improving....Continued prayers for recovery...

notsofarnow - Prayers for strength as she struggles with life and the abscence of her DH. Prayers as she attends Relate & tries to carry on....

matilda57 - Prayers for her friend Pen whose DH died recently, she has 7 children. Lots of prayers for current family turmoil, esp the mental health of her 19 yr old DD.

RoseyLea - Continued prayers for her Crohns. Prayers for her friend who is married to a Muslim and has recently had a baby - finding his strict views v.tough. Prayers for her as she commences ordination ministry training and for her DH to find a much, much better job asap - praying for the RoseyLea family as they struggle with his current v."family unfriendly" job. Prayers for her dad as she has recently undergone surgery.

kilo - Prayers for her & her fmaily as her DH has recently been made redundant.

Mars - Prayers that the lady she posted about had a terrific delivery!!

Twiga - Prayers for her as she looks forward to the imminent arrival of her new baby! Prayers for her DH as he undergoes job interviews....

DutchOma - Prayers for Baby Matthew who has been extrememly poorly in Great Ormand Street. Praise that Janipher Maseko is not going to be deported - prayers that she would find accomodation asap.

Suzy - Prayers for strength in her faith & for her resolve to find a place for her and her LO's to worship ...... Prayers for her & her DH as they seek to set up their gardening business after her DH was made redundant. Prayers for her computer & printer too!!

mumtogusandalbie - Prayers by the bucketload for her as she struggles with meds & panic attacks. Lord wrap her up in your love. xx

SueBaroo - Prayers as she is struggling with PND.

harrisey - Prayers for her and her DH as they juggle studying & family life. Prayers for her DH as he has counselling.

PandaG - Prayers that she does lots of practice for her new job - Movitation....

Vio - Prayers for her & her family as they comes to terms with the skin condition (EB) their new baby James has.

Snuffy - Prayers for her and her DH as they struggle with a special friendship that has fallen apart.

Nanou1 - Prayers for her and her family as they work out what is happening now that DH has been offered a new job in Switzerland - she and her DD will be joining him in Sept.

Hearts - Prayers as she seeks to learn to trust God and for moving house and all the madness that goes with that!!!

Losty - Prayers for friend (K) who has cancer - esp for her family as they cope with this.

mosschops - Hope the flight went well!! Prayers for her dad who is in hospital and her mum who is coping alone.

MaryBS - Prayers as she struggles with a difficult person at church. Prayers as she studies. Prayers for her DS and Ed Psych etc too.

PrincessPeaHead - Prayers for friend who has just started radiotherapy for cancer.

mufti - Prayers the builders finish soon!!

CaptainDippy - Praise God!! for the safe arrival of Phoebe Elisabeth Joan on April 30th - Prayers for the Dippy Family as they adjust to being a family of five!! Prayers for them all as DH embarks on his new job - praying it won't be as terrible as CD thinks it will be .....Eeeeek! Prayers for Dippy's friend whose marraige is on the rocks, she has three children and is PG. There's probably more, but "Baby Daze" has taken over my entire brain!!!

Now GET PRAYING!! .....

Glad you had a fab time!!

Well first session seemed to go well apart from Hannah throwing up all over the shop including over me thanks sweetie!

Lots of friends along to wish us well but no new mums, but would have been suprised if we had had any.

Lots of logistical things to think about and I feel the session is too long, what do people think would be better 9.30 - 11.00 or
10.00 - 11.30 ?

At the moment its 9.30 - 12 which is just too long IMHO.

Panda - Holiday sounds lovely am very the only holiday it looks like we might be having is with my 'ILs which as much as we get on these days wont be overly relaxing, but the kids will love it.

CD - Will be praying for you and Mr Dippy.

Please pray that I get all my work done for tomorrow and not sure how I am going to find the hours between now and tomorrow morning!

Can I come? Without little ones? I like cake but not sure about bouncy castle...

Oops, sorry DO . My mother's proud of me too, even though I'm an apostate . Oo oo oo, didn't tell you lot, (or I dont think I did), that mum is REALLY coming round to my ministry now! She has seen what a huge positive impact it has had on my life, and she's really pleased! Much better than the "going to an Anglican church is better than nothing"!

Panda - glad you had a good holiday!

WB - I would go for 10-11:30. I remember what it was like trying to get out the house early for things like mums&tots! Nice to see you BTW!

DutchOma - yes, come! It would be lovely to meet you! I'll e-mail you this evening - this is just a flying visit in between dinner and bath-time...

Hey, would you like to hear a God-incidence? (yes, of course you would!!! ) Well yesterday's sermon at church was partly about serving God in your workplace...well it really struck me which is why I was posting last night about thinking of setting up a prayer group.

So today at work I felt that God was nudging me to go and just have a chat with the guy who runs the teeenagers' christian club (whom I thought vauguely I knew but wasn't sure). I wasn't sure what I'd say exactly, but one of the kids told me where to find him and off I went. I recognised him immediately, and he recognised me, because he is a member of our church! (altho he only ever goes to the evening service and I rarely go to that service) and we worked out we had lots of friends in common.

But the really amazing thing is that he is off to South America in Sept and is leaving doing the christian club after 9 yrs, and he and the other leader have been praying like mad for another leader to come along who can help run it in Sept. The kids who go to the club I already know well from my work context, and they were all saying 'Miss, you've got to be a leader! We need you!' It just felt like God had led me there and it was Him saying those words to me. So I'm going to meet up with the leaders next week, with a view to starting help lead the club in Sept. Wow! Thank you Lord! (it also turns out that one teenage girl whom I know well recently prayed to become a christian, and another girl I know very well is thinking hard about it...lots of fuel for prayer there!)

I'm still mulling over how I can start a prayer group at work as well...as God has shown me today, He will lead if only we are available!

Sorry to go on but I am so excited about the way God works in our lives!

Ooh flying by. Mary do CAT me with your address and EDWJ is yours.

Only six weeks to the meet up. Ooohhh, lovely! CD I am working on accommodation for you guys! DutchOma it would be lovely to see you - and anyone else who wants to come.

(Warning the bouncy castle is in the pub over the road - hope that's OK if anyone is teatotal!)

There's good news about baby Carys making good progress on the thread in Health, by the way.

Prayers and hugs all round.

In haste. God bless.

Wow Rosey, that is truly fabulous! Praise God for showing you so clearly where to be (I was going to write "where to go" but that sounds rude!!)

How's everyone else this evening? I'm just about to delve back in to my study books to look at partnership working.....

aghhhh just lost post - again

Weirdbird do you know that any group over two hours has to be registered with I think social services, and then has to be inspected etc.

As for times if your targeting mums with other children then maybe 9.30 would be a good time as its just after school drop off. otherwise the later time would be good. Could you get hv's on your side then they could direct mums to you.

Rosey

Hello everyone else.

What do you mean by any group over 2 hours??

We don't look after there kids for them, the parents have to stay. I have helped with toddler groups in the past and have never heard of that!

Am leaning towards the 10.00 to 11.30 as that is the same time as the Bumps and Babes group on the friday.

Have just checked, this applies to playgroups where you are looking after the children for parents, not a toddler group which is what we are providing.

we were always told that it applied to parent and toddler groups i'm sure its in my parent and toddler guide which is now buried somewhere with all the theological/doctrine books we don't use anymore. grrrr

Eeek!!!! Just got back from seeing my tutor(got carried away talking!). First of all she said ?a pass is fine, it means you have done everything we?ve asked of you. A credit is excellent, it means you?ve made some interesting points over and above what is required, which made me think. A distinction is an exceptional piece of work, and has to be deserved?.

I got 2 distinctions and a credit?

The first thing I did was thank God for his help and inspiration whilst I was working on it. I?m nearly in tears, I can?t believe how well its all been received. The credit was for the outline work ? I didn?t expect to do that well on that, because it wasn?t really finished, I wasn't totally clear what was required for it ? certainly didn?t expect to get a credit for it! She?s written some really complimentary things. She said my Reflection was a superb piece of work. Can?t believe it? really can?t believe it!

whoo hoo! WELL DONE!! that is brilliant Mary

Well Done Mary

CONGRATULATIONS Mary, you deserve it, hey 2 distinctions 1 credit, wow wow wow!!!

Roseylea - fantastic god-incident, what a treasure you are to work with teenagers, (they need that nuturing) and a fab idea to set up a prayer group at work!

CC - Partnership working?
are you any better today?

Bless the lord god for answering our prayers for baby Carys, I continue to pray for her

Fabulous Mary - Well done sweetie!

Would be fab to see you at the Meet-Up DutchOma! We'll get you on that bouncy caslte yet, you'll see!

Definitely NOT Tee-Total here!!

• Rosey!!

Good to "see" you nsfn - and WB - praying you get work done sweetie - agree 10 til 11.30 much better. Hi CC!

Off to bed - tiiiiiiired .......

SEE! Done it again, Suzy!!

Don't worry about me everyone, I'm always talking to myself

A quick little prayer that god will guide my DH in buying the right equipment tomorrow [eek] flyers at publishers, business cards arrived, bookings being taken, its all go, I pray for our bank balance and I pray my DH enjoys his last few days at work work!

whilst I gather all the flyers in from the good samaritans

Night God Bless

Hia CD howz things?

Apart from being tiiired!

Yeah, not so bad - you?? Praying lots ,esp in the next couple of days - fkyers should be with you by Thurs - is that ok hon??

RL - fantastic story - seize the opportunity with both hands! A lovely example of an answer to prayer!

Sooz - praying for you and your DH as you set up your business. Wonderful that people have been pitching in and helping!

NQGU - I'm not set up to CAT people, if you email me on "suttonmb" at "talktalk" dot "net", then I'll send you my address - thank you VERY much!

WB - all the mums/tots groups I've been to have been about 90 mins, so there may be something in that... don't know for sure.

No news on Judy - please continue to pray for her and her daughter.

And my brother is now home with his family! Woohoo!

Please pray for Dniece (the adopted just 3yo). She's been having nightmares about "tummy mummy" - this is a repeat to some extent of what her older sister went through last year. Am unsure whether "tummy mummy" means her natural mum, but apparently she's been having v. disturbed nights... she's not old enough to remember her biological mum, but may have picked up bad vibes from her sister.