A Personal Note: Please Pray

Currently, there is a number of stories in the lives of our missionaries, pastors and even Home Office staff that are just hard: illness, brokenness, circumstance and uncertainty. They run the gamut from sick parents to visa setbacks. I don't have many details, and even where I do I'm not taking liberties to share them -- I have no right to intrude in people's privacy that way. But I'm feeling the hard realities more now than other times. On behalf of our staff here and around the world, I would just like to request prayer for joy (in the midst of sadness), peace, perspective and strength.

May Christ lift his church as we lift his name.