First Saturday Prayer

 First Saturday Prayer

8:00-9:00 AM  

Pray with us in one of three ways:
1.  At Karen's home (directions? email womenofvisionsouthpugetsound@gmail.com)
2.  Via phone (number? email womenofvisionsouthpugetsound@gmail.com)
3.  Where you are

 Please bathe in prayer the following items relating to our Chapter for the month of October:

 Calendar Items:

• 10/02/10 First Saturday Prayer 8:00-9:00 AM Karen’s Home or via phone or anyplace
• 10/02/10 Speaker Event Portland Chapter: Bill Hillar author of “Taken”
• 10/09/10 Second Saturday Local Project: Network Tacoma
• 10/11/10 Fall-HOTM 1 First lesson Federal Way-Karen’s Home 7:00-8:30PM
• 10/16/10 Leadership Meeting Greener Bean 8:00-12:00
• 10/18/10 Fall-HOTM 1 Second lesson Federal Way-Karen’s Home 7:00-8:30PM
• 10/23/10 Fourth Saturday Local Project: Network Tacoma
• 10/24/10 Re-Entry Partnership Meeting Venue and time to be determined (TBD)
• 10/25/10 Fall-HOTM 1 Third lesson Federal Way-Karen’s Home 7:00-8:30PM
• 10/27/10 Fall-HOTM 2 First Lesson Puyallup-Nazarene Church 7:00-8:30 PM

 Mission Trip: Mongolia

Women from sevral Women of Vision Chapters, including our Patty from South Puget Sound, will be traveling this month to Mongolia for ministry opportunities. We will be lifting them up in prayer as they email their requests to us. The women are: Nancy Johns, Columbia-Willamette Chapte (CW); Patty Dalrymple, Greater Seattle (GS) and South Puget Sound Chapters; Kay Ortman, CW Chapter; Sandy Grubb,CW Chapter;LuAnn Yocky, CW Chapter; April Ruth, GS Chapter,  and Debi Green, GS Chapter.  Check our prayer bloghttp://wovspsprayers.blogspot.com beginning on 10/3/10 for updates.

Repeat of Women of Vision Prayer Points from World Vision Day of Prayer October 1, 2010
Pray for the needs of your sponsored children and chapter projects…
: For awareness of needs within your child’s community.
: For intentionality in getting to know your sponsored children.
: For courage to be an advocate for justice, at every opportunity.
: For opportunities to partner together in chapter projects (or to start a new chapter project). Visit our Projects page to explore new opportunities

Praise God for…
: The opportunities that will be presented to you throughout the year that will bring change to your sponsored communities.

Pray for our elected leaders…
: For wisdom for our leaders as they begin to make decisions about budget priorities.
: That bold action will be taken to provide the necessary investment to fund interventions that alleviate suffering.
: That policies and laws would be put into place that would promote the cause of the oppressed, both locally and globally.
: For leaders to seek God’s will above their own

Praise God for…
: The truth that His love and power reign supreme above world leaders

Pray for the hungry…
: For the children who die from hunger every day.
: For wisdom for government leaders who are seeking effective means to address the food crisis.
: For greater efforts to urge Congress to expand programs that address hunger, child nutrition, and agricultural development, to eradicate child hunger worldwide.
: For God’s guidance in showing us how we can help others to break the cycle of hunger

Praise God for…
: The food aid, agricultural training, nutrition education, and food protection resources made possible by World Vision donors from around the world

Pray for those suffering from HIV and AIDS…
: For the more than 15 million children orphaned and made vulnerable as a result of HIV and AIDS and that those in need would receive adequate care and support.
: For the millions of people living with HIV and AIDS who have been designated eligible to receive anti-retroviral drugs, but have not yet due to insufficient funds and delays

Pray that barriers would be removed so that they might receive treatment.
: That mothers who are HIV positive will be able to access the drugs and other measures necessary to help them prevent transmission of the virus to their unborn child or infant
: For the more than 77,000 caregivers that care for those suffering from HIV and AIDS in AIDS endemic countries

Praise God for…
: The AIDS prevention and care programs that serve the afflicted that World Vision staff,volunteers, and partners operate in more than 60 countries

Pray for children in slavery and bondage…
: For those children who are taken advantage of and suffer greatly ─ that they would be comforted.
: For those who would exploit or enslave others. Pray for a spiritual breakthrough so that they might release their captives and work to prevent the captivity of others.
: For the advocates around the world who are standing against child slavery
: Pray for the success of the CPCA (Child Protection Compact Act), legislation currently in U.S. Congress. This is one way the U.S. can help foreign governments to end the illegal sale of children for sex and slave labor. Read more on our Advocacy page:
: For those who work to help prevent children from falling into slavery and protect and restore those who have survived the ordeal

Praise God for…
: The many policies put into place over the years to protect children from exploitation and bondage: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act, The PROTECT Act, The Child Soldier Prevention Act

Pray for those suffering from malaria…
: That recent efforts focused on ending preventable deaths from malaria by 2015 will be achieved.
: That families threatened by malaria will receive insecticide-treated bed nets and other interventions that they need to protect their families from this killer disease.
: That in this difficult economic period, individuals and governments will still be able to respond with the financial resources needed to protect children and help end malaria (more than $6 billion a year).
: That we might see malaria eradicated in our lifetime

Praise God for…
: The extensive distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets to malaria infected regions around the world, made possibly by World Vision donors.