Prayer Community

Rachel and Will

2011-03-03T21:47:00Z

Two friends of my co-worker are both in ICU, on ventilators (at Providence and Island). They have H1N1 complicated by pneumonia. They are both young (20 and 35). They both need prayer but Will especially as it does not appear that he will recover.

Christopher Hastings

2011-01-19T03:22:00Z

To my Church family,

I am writing this on the evening of the day that a family has been given the news that their beloved son will die within the week. This family does not have a personal relationship with Christ. To this day the group that has rallied around them and supported them the most is an amazingly generous Biker gang. This saddens me to know that despite their need for a church, not one in the valley has stepped up to the plate to help them in their time of need.

I know our church family is small and so many of us are struggling with our own needs right now
but I would challenge each and every one of you to tell me what is harder than watching your baby battle for his life? I love our church and I love the people and know the blessing of being a part of the Gathering. I have watched us support one another in times of need and step up when our building was at stake.

My prayer is that tonight, tomorrow and throughout this week you would pray for The Hastings and
consider a gift for them. They will soon have the burden of funeral costs and I can tell you all from my own experience, that is the last thing you want to worry about when a loved one passes. They will need meals that are healthy and easy, food is an afterthought when you are grieving. They have dogs that may need some checking on or feeding. They may need a place to hold a service. I am sure there are many things I have not thought of that you may think of.

Please consider what you can give and above all pray. I still believe in miracles I know that our God heals. Pray that they would hear God calling them to Him. Pray that through us they may find truth and peace and rest and support. Thank you for taking the time to read this and pray

Love,
Alicia Bettger

From Stephanie

2010-12-16T04:40:00Z

Stephanie Cole asked me to pass on a prayer request for her daughter Bess, who lives in California. Bess has been suffering severe back pain and nausea, and the doctors can't seem to find an explanation or a cure. She suffered through some traumatic experiences as a child, and Stephanie suspects that these things might be related to PTSD.

In any case, please pray for Bess and her family, that her health would be restored and that God would be with them all.

Thanks!

Sarah

Prayer for Jeremy Moore

2010-06-22T23:36:00Z

Marc Marion passed this request on to us:

Hey guys,
Jeremy Moore asked me to ask people to pray.
Could you do so and could this go out to the church?
Thanks
Marc

Hi Marc
Thank you for praying for us here in Peru. Opposition is intensifying daily so I am reaching out to everyone back home to be the prayer cavalry. We desperately need your prayers, and I'm hopin you will spread this amongst your church family and any other fellowships you have connections with.
Thank you so much
Jeremy

Here is Jeremy's Facebook profile, with some updates: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1612743523&ref=ts#!/profile.php?id=100000104013332&v=wall&ref=sgm

Prayer for three year old boy with brain cancer

2010-06-22T03:31:00Z

Hello,

My name is Breanne. I do not attend your church but am reaching out to any church I can get a hold of to send out prayers for a very special little boy. His name is Christopher Hartley. Just before Thanksgiving last year, Christopher was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on his brain stem. He was only two and a half. Since then, Christopher has turned three but has spent at least five out of the six months in Children's hospital. He has undergone numerous rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. He lost his ability to walk, sit on his own, and use his left hand. I recently found out that Christopher weighs only 26 pounds and is having to be placed on a feeding tube in order to regain weight. Christopher's father, Allen, quit his job to become Christopher's primary caregiver. His mother, Judy, continues to work to help pay for the bills the family is incurring from this ordeal.

On June 30th, Christopher will receive an MRI to determine what the effects of radiation were on his tumor. Given his recent side effects, it is very possible the tumor has not shrunk at all. No family deserves the pain and suffering that this family is going through. I reach out to your congregation to please send up a prayer for this family and hope that the tumor is shrinking. Pray that this family's suffering will be over soon.

Thank you so much,

Breanne Desmarais

If anyone would like to know more about him, you may visit his caringbridge journal at this address: www.caringbridge.com/visit/christopherhartley

Prayer for Mike and Linda

2010-02-02T21:58:00Z

Hello,

I found your wonderful church web site online, you have a gorgeous church. My name is Linda, and I would like to ask for prayer, when i have difficulties in my life I like to reach out for additional prayer, I love prayer and I have seen so many miracles from prayer in my life, my father was a Sunday School teacher, I was raised a Chrisitan and my family and I are all Chrisitians.

I just have had a heavy heart lately and burdoned with some issues in my life, and would very much appreciate extra prayer for this situation that I would like to see resolved in a favorable way, and to have a favorable answer as soon as possible.

If you could possibly add me and my family to your prayer chain that would be wonderful,

Very Sincerly

Linda and Mike (husband) and please pray for my whole family as well, sisters and brothers and parents etc

and thank you again

God Bless you and your church, we live in Ellensburg, or we would go there to your church I think its a beutiful building.

Prayer for Stephanie

2009-12-08T06:01:00Z

Hi all.

Most of you know my friend Stephanie, who comes to church with me most weeks. (This is Sarah, by the way.) Well, she just called me tonight and asked if I would put in a request for her. She has been struggling with health issues (both physically and emotionally) for quite some time now, and she is feeling very tired and discouraged. So if you could pray for her that God would comfort her and bring her healing and peace, I know that she would be very grateful. I know that God has good things in store for Stephanie, and deep down she knows it too, but life can get very hard sometimes, and right now Stephanie just needs to know that she is loved.

Anyway, please pray for her.

Thanks ever so much!
Sarah Dunn

Prayer for Kyle Dillon

2009-07-09T23:01:00Z

Kyle Dillon has asked for prayer because, due to some administrative mix-up, his Officers' Training has been canceled. This means that he is stuck in St. Louis without housing or a job and that he will have to find a way to replace the lost income. Needless to say, this is quite a stress and frustration for Kyle.

So please pray that God provide for Kyle and that he use this for Kyle's benefit.

Josh

Pray for Pastor Melchor's family

2009-07-06T21:15:00Z

Please pray for Pastor Melchor, his wife Antonia, and their family who recently lost their 11 year old son, Wilbur.

They are from a Oaxacan town called Tiltepec. It is in region of indigenous people called the Chatinos, and is about 3 hours up into the mountains from the mission where we work, Roca Blanca.

Little Wilbur was born with a lethal heart defect, We have known him for a few years and it is amazing to us that he lived this long. Tiny, and unable to even walk due to his condition, he had a deep faith and relationship with the Lord. He was fully expecting to be healed. Finally after a surgical attempt to help him, he passed away and was buried last week.

I remember 2 years ago when he was brought to our clinic, we thought he might die on us then. I sat with his mother, and watched his father tenderly hold his unconscious little boy.

Now I have been told that Antonia is suffering terribly with her loss, and I can only imagine Melchor anquish, I have seen the sorrow that they always carried.

Please pray for God's comfort. We know that Wilbur is whole now, and I know that he is rejoicing.
Please pray for the family's comfort.

Thank you

Prayer NEEDED completely provided for!

2009-05-22T16:41:00Z

Here is the update from the H family FYI!!!

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A quick word to all of you who were faithful to lift up this dad and daughters trip!

They were welcomed home to our apartment just 1 hour ago after 27 hours of travel...

Specifically, the requests that were answered were:

1) On-time connection in Chicago with only a 50 minute layover...no lost luggage

2) No fevers on either the Shanghai (PTL) or Wuhan flights!

3) The policy has been reversed here at our company's site, due to a loosening of the local government's position...and there is now no mandatory quarantine!

Our arms and hearts were thrilled to receive them...and truly...because of your remembering of them this week...I believe they had the BEST international trip any of us have ever experienced!

Our friends

2009-05-21T07:41:00Z

We have friends who have been living in China with their 5 children ages 9 to 3 for the last 10 months. Currently the father of the family is back in the US for one of his two oldest children's High School graduation (there are 7 children total). After graduation he and his oldest daughter will be flying back to China and she will be with them for 3 weeks.

They need prayer because China is a little crazy about the Mexican Flu and will be quarantining them for a total of 7 days if anyone on their return flight has a fever or any sign of illness.

The family would miss a week of their big sisters' visit and mom and dad who are both in their 50's would be split for a prolonged time. With five little ones, teaching at a Chinese school full time and still running you own household all on your own can be overwhelming (shopping via bus rides, cooking, manning nighttime bad dreams, nighttime sips of water/potty breaks, etc.) Mom and dad are also each others company when you live in a country where communication is limited through language.

Pray for the H family a miracle of 100% health for everyone on the return flight to China.

Erin

Prayer Request

2009-04-28T19:58:00Z

Hello All,

I just got a call from Brady Williams. Quentin (Brandi and Brady's one year old son) has a very high temperature and has just had a seizure. He is generally non responsive. Brandi is taking him to the ER now. Please keep them in your prayers.

Thank-you,

Cecil

Prayer Request for My Dad

2009-04-22T05:37:00Z

Hi All~
I am writing to ask for prayer, my dad has had a severe heart attack and is in ICU in southern Oregon. I am leaving in the morning to go visit him, this is a very emotional time for me. My dad and I have a very complex relationship and I really struggled with whether or not I should go, but clearly heard the Lord say to go. To honor and to love him in his time of need and to trust God with the rest. I am asking that you would pray that it would be a healing visit and that my Dad would have eyes and ears that he would see and hear what the Lord is doing and to take hold of God's truth and realize the gifts in his life and His need to receive them.
Thanks so much.
Dejah

Prayer Request

2009-03-18T01:13:00Z

**Update** As of last week, the money has been raised and the UN has told the family that they will be flying to San Diego around April 20th! Hooray! Please continue to pray that they make it safely out of Turkey, and that Vivian's mom gets the medical attention that she needs soon. Thanks so much!

Hi Everyone.

My cousin Robert's wife Vivian is Iraqi (Kurdish Christian), and her family is living in Turkey as refugees. They have been trying desperately to get to the US, and the UN is about to give them a chance to relocate to San Diego (where Vivian and Robert are living now). But Turkey refuses to let them leave the country unless they can pay the Turkish government $15,000 for the honor of living in their refugee camps for the last few years. They have no money, and my cousin has only been able to raise $4,000, and can not get a loan for the rest. If they don't pay soon, they'll have to wait another 7-10 months before the UN will consider their case again (during which they will be trapped in Turkey, and will continue to accrue "rent" debt). Plus, Vivian's mother is sick and in need of a hysterectomy. If you could pray with us that God will make a way for Vivian's family (mom, dad, and three brothers) to come safely to San Diego, and that He would keep his hand on Vivian's mother and heal her, I would be very grateful.

Thanks!
Sarah (Dunn)

PS-Here is a link to a blog that Robert set up when they first started raising money to bring Vivian's family to the US. It hasn't been fully updated yet, so it doesn't have the latest news (the Turkish government raised the fee to $15,000 fairly recently, and although the UN has given the family permission to relocate to the US, they haven't given them an exact date yet). But there are pictures, and there is also a link for donations, should you be so inclined. Thanks so much for your prayers! They mean a whole lot!

http://helpvivsfam.blogspot.com/

A Couple of Prayer Requests

2009-03-10T16:16:00Z

1) After church Sunday I talked to Dr. Dave who is still at Roca Blanca. He told me that the one believing family in the little village of San Lucas, Ixtayutla is being expelled from their home/village. Last year 11 people came to the El Mosco clinic one morning for medicine, and 9 prayed with the pastor's wife. I understand that at that time we had one young woman, Teresa I believe, who was attending the Bible School at Roca Blanca. Apparently the president of Ixtayutla has been called upon to enforce this, and that the intent is to forcibly remove them and then burn down their house. That is all I know.

I am praying for their faith, that they would have a great revelation of Jesus.

We are experiencing more and more opposition in this region where we have had a strong presence since about 2003. There is a government plan to build a hydroelectric project, involving a dam which the people in the region oppose. In their anger they are targeting the "hermanos" i.e. evangelical believers as a group that is supporting the dam. My only thought is that they should think this because the Christian community does have contact and support from the "outside" (like us). Many rumors run wild.

The pastor in El Mosco has restricted the places we go for clinic outreach because of this perceived threat to his church's and our safety.

2) Mary TenBrink (my son-laws' mom) was taken to Harborview. Apparently the leg was to badly swollen to perform surgery. In that she was taken to Harborview makes me think that the risk for her safety and the trauma of the injury is signifigant.

Leeann Kelley

Prayer request

2009-03-03T01:49:00Z

My brother Steve has been battling cancer for over 2 years. In that time he was cancer free for a year. It came back. Today he was granted his freedom from the U of W and Fred Hucheson cancer center where he had a grueling bone marrow removal treatment. Within the hour he was back at the clinic. We have lost so many family members in the last couple years it seems almost unbearable. Please join me in praying for Steve, his wife Kim and their 2 sons, and the rest of my family as we wait for more news. My heart hurts right now so this is tough.

Terrie Grove

Troy

2008-12-23T06:08:00Z

My mom said that Troy is out of surgery. He is not awake yet but the doctors said things went well. He did have an intestinal problem and the doctors were able to remove 66" that had twisted together. They say he will have a recovery of a few weeks so pray for him. Because he is developmentally disabled it can be hard to understand all that is going on and why he is in pain and trapped in a bed. He is a pleaser so pray he will be able to communicate if he is in pain and not always say, "Yes, he is good." Continue to pray for Larry his roommate who will be missing his friend for a few weeks.

Thanks!

The Kaplan's

Troy

2008-12-23T03:59:00Z

Hello all this is Erin,

One of my parents guys who is living in their adult family home started vomiting blood today. They took Troy up to St. Joe's in Bellingham. The doctors think that Troy may have an intestinal blockage but they are not sure. They are taking him into surgery to see about removing a part of his intestines. Troy already is 5'8" and weighs 89lbs and removing intestines will make weight gain even more dificult. However they are not even sure this is his problem.

Pray for his roommate Larry too it will be hard for him to understand and they have been roommates for 18 years.

The Kaplan's

Ted Tedgington & Tami Gibbon's parents

2008-11-21T19:20:00Z

Hey...

Ted asked me to send out an email to the church about his parents getting in a car wreck yesterday..I'm sure you've heard. Would one of you be able to do that please?

I guess his dad is released from the hospital, but his mom is having surgery today. I asked if they needed any help like meals or something, and I will let you know if they say yes, so we can pass the word out about that too.

Thanks!
Christa Wheeler

PS: I just talked to Katie Lyon who said that the accident was very serious and that Ted & Tami's mom is in very serious condition. Josh K.

Prayer request from former attendees

2008-11-18T23:03:00Z

Hello, my name is Paul Buller.
My wife and I used to attend the gathering.
My wife is in need of prayer for healing in her physical body due to several conditions.
We are also are praying for and raising money to get treatment.
We currently live in Oak Harbor.

Prayer would be greatly appreciated.

Here is a link to our newsletter with more specifics on how we need help.

http://www.kandiebuller.com/Newsletter.html