Potter’s Field Kids (Las Manos del Alfarero)
Please pray this month for the children of Potter’s Field Kids Costa Rica. Please pray for their basic needs to be met. Please pray for those living in homes where abuse, both verbal and physical, is an everyday reality. Please pray for those who go hungry. Please pray for those who struggle to read and write well. Please pray for those who are struggling with worldly temptations. Please pray for each one to find their identity in Christ. Please pray for those who are left alone most of the time. Please pray for those whose families live in fear of legends, myths and stories that have been passed down for generations. Please pray that these precious children be set free from the bondage of these lies. Please pray for each one to make the decision to live each day for Christ. Please pray for each one to receive love, grace and mercy at Potter’s Field Kids. Praise God for Potter’s Field Ministries, who make it possible for the team here to minister every day to the children of Villarreal. Praise God for PFK interns, Michaela (back again!), Justine, and Natalie who are serving with us until August. Praise God for children eager to learn, study and apply God’s Word to their lives. Pray against the false teaching that many have received, mainly in the public school system. Pray for God’s Word to infiltrate each heart and that it alone guide and direct each child’s world view. Pray for a firm foundation of faith to be a reality in each child’s life.
For more information about Potter’s Field Ministries see www.pottersfield.org. If you’d like to pray for a specific child in the PFK after school ministry, please contact us for more information.
Praise God with us this month for the unending ways God continues to bless us. His love and mercy and grace never cease to wash over us, even in the tough times. We are so thankful for the invitation we received to be part of the Calvary Chapel Costa Rica missionaries marriage retreat at the beginning of May. Not only did we have the privilege of sitting under the teaching of Pastor Don McClure and his wife Jean, but also were able to hear testimony of God’s great work across Costa Rica. We were greatly encouraged as were our kids. One of the biggest blessings of the retreat was the team that came to specifically minister to the children of the couples at the retreat. There were four adults and a handful of teenagers and young adults to minister to over thirty kids!!! What a huge blessing!!! We also have been spending significant time planning our short furlough this year in the States. We will be back for the month of July and we are so thankful that for the first time in four years we’ll have the opportunity to take a couple mini-vacations with all of our parents! They have patiently waited for this time and we are all very thankful and excited! We also will be staying with good friends and even before we asked, the Lord answered the need of a vehicle for the entire month-long stay! We will be visiting with our home church as well as two other supporting churches. Please pray with us as we look forward to sharing God’s great work in Costa Rica with you all there! We are so thankful for those of you who prayerfully support our family and the ministry and local church here in Villarreal. We are also so thankful for our financial partners, including Potter’s Field Ministries, who make it possible for us to live and serve here. Please continue to pray for our marriage, our children, our neighbors and disciples, and our local church, Calvary Chapel Villarreal, Pastor Phil and his family, and our team mate, Victor Vargas, and his family.
But now, O Lord, You are our
Father, we are the clay, You are the potter;
all of us are the work of Your hand. “ Isaiah 64:8
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