First Saturday Prayer November

South Puget Sound Chapter Leadership Team 

Fiscal Year 2012

We are just four weeks into our new World Vision (WV) fiscal year (FY) which started October 1, 2011 and have a newly formed Leadership Team as of October 28, 2011. We need much prayer as we are behind several months on planning and projecting for FY2012. 

Here is our new South PUget Sound Chapter Leadership Team. We have two new Co-Chairs, Katrin Deitz and Zeena Smith; new Advocacy Co-Chairs, Brenda Oliver and Diane Zoro; new International Project Chair Melanie Freiberg; new WV Laison, Tina Veer; newly assigned Treasurer, Brenda Shaw; reassigned Partnership Chair, Karen Marion; and continuing Child Sponsor Chair, Patty Dalrymple; continuing Communications Chair, Lynn Arvisais; continuing Education Chair, Annie Brandt; continuing Local Project Chair, Holly Pennington; continuing Domestic Project Chair, Laura Livingston; and continuing Spiritual Life Chair, Karen Marion. We are in need of a secretary for our Chapter.

Prayer

Dear Heavenly Father,

We come before You in the Name of Jesus grateful to be your women and humbled that you entrust us with presenting You to the world. Give us Your perspective, Your wisdom and Your heart for those who suffer and have great need. We ask that You would hear our prayer.

We pray for our Leadership Team. We lift each woman before Your throne and ask that Your Hand of blessing would be upon each member of this Team. We ask that You would speak to the heart of each of these Leaders about what it is that You have called us to do and become through this experience. We pray for unity amongst this Team. We bind away any divisive thoughts, words or deeds, We ask that this Team would be united in You for the common cause of being Your Hands extended to the impoverished and marginalized women and children that we serve.

Lord, You know the weaknesses and the strengths of each of us. We ask that You would guide us to use our strengths to overcome our weaknesses, remembering that You are our strength and that You use our weakness to cause us to rely on You as You show Your strength.

Lord we ask for the miracle of cleared calendars so that we can come together to meet and discuss and plan. Lord, there are always so many choices and so many voices. Help us to filter our calendars through Your Voice and make time decisions based upon Your will and Your call.

Lord, this Team needs to know how much money we should set as our goal for funds raised for our projects. We ask that You would give each of us the sum that You would equip and bless us to raise. Lord, we know that ALL things are possible with You and that Your Hand is not short; but, we acknowledge our frailties. We need You to press on to have the faith, the energy and the wisdom to know the amount we should target to give to our World Vision Projects in Cambodia and Appalachia.

This Team need to know how You would have us raise these funds. We need to know how much we should pledge individually. This Leadership Team needs to know what events that You would want us to present to communities to raise awareness and funds. Show us the way we should go in setting the FY2012 calendar of events to educate and raise money.

Lord, help this Team to find our rhythm during this two-year term. Help us to maintain a balanced, effective and healthy life style. Help us to set boundaries on time so that there is adequate time spent on Women of Vision Chapter responsibilities and adequate time spent with You, family and friends.

Lord, we lift this Team and ask that You would cover each member with the blood of the Lamb of Jesus of Nazareth and keep us safe from harm. Thank You that the attacks of the enemy will be thwarted and that each of us will walk protected by You.

Lord, this Team has so much to do to achieve the goals that are set. We need more partners to under gird this Team with prayer and man hours. Send us 25 new partners at two per month so that we double in size this fiscal year. You know our hearts and that we want to "go big or go home"; yet, we don't want to go big, burn out and bid the group good bye from burn out! Send us more helping hands to do the work of this Chapter.

We lift all of these requests to You. We take on Your Yoke which is easy and light. We ask these things prostrate at Your Feet. Thank you for hearing our prayer.  Amen.