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March 2010 Prayer Calendar 4 THU - Pray for God’s blessing over our upcoming China wheelchair distribution and the first international Family Retreat in China.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over… all the earth...
Genesis 1:26a 5 FRI - Pray God’s guidance for Celena, who has just begun a disability ministry in Detroit. 6 SAT - Min Assoc. Joy Mall: I will be in India through the end of March. Pray for refreshing, strength, good health and much fruit as I train churches in disability ministry. 7 SUN - Pray each shipment of wheelchairs gets through customs to their intended destination.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him. Psalm 8:3-4a 8 MON - JAF Charlotte: Today as we share with potential supporters and volunteers, ask God to open eyes and hearts to His life priorities. 9 TUE - JAF CID: Pray the Lord will provide funding for each ministry intern called to go on our Cause 4 Life outreaches to China, Ethiopia, Ukraine or Romania. May God receive all the glory! 10 WED - Pray for Todd who had spinal surgery recently. He needs help coping with his unrelenting pain. 11 THU - Give thanks for the many fine respite programs serving the disability community, and ask God for others to catch the vision. 12 FRI - Our Wheels for the World program continues because of the hard working Chair Corps members collecting and transporting the chairs to various prisons. Pray many more will agree to participate. 13 SAT - Pray for students in university and seminary settings who are being challenged by the Joni and Friends coursework on the Theology of Suffering.
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
Hebrews 11:10 14 SUN - Pray for Jeremy (4) who is in a coma due to a swing accident. Ask for strength and wisdom for his family and
the medical team. 15 MON - Joni appreciates your prayers to empower and sustain her as she spends a full day recording radio programs. 16 TUE - Pray for our area ministry offices as they begin planning each Family Retreat. Ask God to bless the individuals, families and Short Term Missionaries attending. 17 WED - Thank God for young Caleb who has survived 70 chemo treatments. The doctors are stunned that the cancer is almost gone. Continue to pray as he currently has a serious infection. 18 THU - JAF Knoxville: Pray for the preparation for our first International Family Retreat in Guatemala and each person God calls to participate.
19 FRI - Pray the JAF television episodes will be used to penetrate some of the darkest parts of the world with the gospel of Christ. 20 SAT - JAF Florida: Pray for godly fellowship and outdoor fun as we reach out to the disabled in our community and “Fish with Friends”. 21 SUN - JAF CID Pat Verbal: We are creating small group studies with Regal Books using the JAF TV episodes titled Life in the Balance: Biblical Answers for Issues of Our Day. Pray for everyone involved in writing, publishing, and marketing. 22 MON - Pray the Lord’s guidance for Debra as she helps her husband gain strength after a severe stroke. 23 TUE - JAF SE Michigan: Pray for our dedicated board of directors as they look to the Lord for wisdom and guidance. 24 WED - Please pray for Joni as she speaks at The Master’s College today. May the students be challenged by her message. 25 THU - Jan has MS. As her abilities decrease, pray God’s perspective and joy for her life. 26 FRI - Pray for Quinten, a young man whose bones are brittle and easily break, causing him much pain. May the Gospel bring life to his spirit. 27 SAT - Molly has had 4 significant losses in the recent past and is now raising her grandchildren alone. Pray for a network of support for her.
Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms. 1 Peter 4:10 28 SUN - We’re off to the Wonder Valley Family Retreat (Sanger, CA) with joyful hearts and worn out knees! Pray each camper, Short Term Missionary, and staffer will know their value in Christ and experience His love. 29 MON - Pray for the detailed logistics in moving restored wheelchairs out of the prison shops to their intended destination. 30 TUE - JAF Grand Traverse (MI): Pray for God’s much-needed provision as families sign up for our “More Than Imagined Getaway Weekend”. 31 WED - JAF Min. Assoc. Janine Hults: Praise God for the friendship our high school group offered a young man with developmental delays. Pray for his salvation.
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No we speak of God’s secret wisdom…for ‘no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him’. 1 Corinthians 2:6-9. April 2010 Prayer Calendar 1 THU - We are hosting our first Family Retreat in Serbia. How excited we are to see what God will do! 2 FRI - Pray for families experiencing the challenges of autism and ask God for creative ways to come alongside them. 3 SAT - Pray for families experiencing the challenges of autism and ask God for creative ways to come alongside them. 4 SUN - As Easter dawns, pray for wisdom as our JAF International team seeks out the most effective ways to take the Good News to Muslims around the world.
Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat on it. His countenance was like lightning and his clothing as white as snow. And the guards shook for fear of him, and became like dead men. But the angel answered and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for He is risen!”
Matthew 28:1-6 5 MON - Pray for our Wheels for the World Outreach in Mexico, which will include work in Guadalajara as Dr. Noemi Garza joins forces with a 2x2Therapy Team. 6 TUE - Pray for safety as Joni travels to Lynchburg, VA to challenge the students at Liberty University to consider the Luke 14 mandate and that “Heaven’s first place is reserved for the last, the least, the littlest and the lost”. 7 WED - JAF San Antonio: As our Warrior Getaway begins, may HOPE abound as the truths of the Gospel are made known in each life. 8 THU - Roxanne experiences daily seizures and is going blind. Pray continued grace through her suffering. 9 FRI - JAF Ohio: Pray many more people hear and respond to JAF’s ministries as we share at the Midwest Home School Convention this weekend. 10 SAT - Thank God for each life that will be changed as our Wheels for the World team heads to Ghana with the Gospel of Christ and 200+ personally fitted wheelchairs.
11 SUN - Much learning and networking will take place at our Disability Summit in Pasadena this coming May 7-8. Pray for good attendance. 12 MON - Dominik admits to a ‘broken life’. Pray the body of Christ reaches out to him in his need. 13 TUE - Min Assoc. Dan Adragna: Pray for the upcoming pastors’ Disability Ministry Workshop as Bonnie Bjerre gives attendees the tools needed in their disability ministries.
They will speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty and I will meditate on your wonderful works. They will tell of the power of your awesome works, and I will proclaim your great deeds. Psalm 145:5-6 14 WED - As the team finishes its preparations for the Wheels for the World outreach to Cuba, ask God’s anointing on each detail and divine appointment. 15 THU - JAF Chicago: As we hold our fundraiser luncheons, pray God’s vision to be communicated and people’s hearts to respond. 16 FRI - JAF Phoenix: Pat Verbal is the keynote speaker for our Through the Roof Conference being held tomorrow. The focus is autism and we covet your prayers. 17 SAT - JAF So. Oregon: Pray God’s blessing over our 8th annual Sometimes Miracles Hide luncheon/carnival. May each mom be encouraged and every child know their incredible value. 18 SUN - Min Assoc: Mary Jane Ponten is traveling in Kenya and will be teaching 100 pastors at a disability ministry conference. Pray for His strength and wisdom to abound in and through her. 19 MON - After a mistake in surgery, Thomas’s brain was injured and his parents, Mercy and Gilbert, need God’s peace. 20 TUE - Praise for each radio program being recorded today. Pray each listener would receive a personal touch from the Lord. 21 WED - Pray God’s gracious favor in Kristy’s life as she has experienced repeated tragedy and is barely holding on to life.
22 THU - Pray God’s guidance for Beth and family, as they adopt a boy who is blind from hydrocephalus. 23 FRI - Min. Affil. Elder Source: Praise God for the focus of this ministry—to promote respect and quality of life for seniors. 24 SAT - JAF Grand Traverse (MI): Pray God’s grace for Tim, a Special Delivery recipient, who has been bed-ridden 10 years due to post-polio syndrome.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all…
2 Corinthians 4:16-17a 25 SUN - Jen uses a wheelchair and has trouble getting to church regularly. Pray for all who experience isolation and need the body of Christ to reach out to them. 26 MON - Connie, a newly paralyzed mom with six children needs 24/7 intense care. Pray for needed resources at the reality of life settles in for all.
God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. Job 37:5 27 TUE - Pray God will supply the insurance needs for Mary and her five children with disabilities. 28 WED - Crystal suffers from Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and after 24 surgeries, faces more. Ask God to bring a Christian friend into her life. 29 THU - Thank God with Sharon, who has cerebral palsy, for the God-given victory in her life over abuse and tragedy. 30 FRI - JAF CID: Pray the Holy Spirit’s guidance for Dr. Kathy McReynolds, as she prepares for the Cedarville Bioethics conference this coming fall.
We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty!
2 Peter 1:16
* FR – Family Retreat
+ TTR –Through theRoof
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