Postby Mangafanatic » Sun Feb 20, 2005 4:39 pm
This summer I will be participating in a missions trip over the summer, and I just wanted to ask you guys for pray for a few related issues, if you would!
1) I need to raise about a thousand dollars. Luckily, I saves a bunch of it last summer with a short term job I did. Currently, I have about $700, and some group fund raisers will take care of atleast another hundred. If you guys would ask God in prayer to provide that for me, I would appreciate. But more importantly, I ask for your prayers for my younger sister who is also going. She doesn't have any of the money. If you would pray for God to miraculously provide for her, that would make me ever happier!
2) Also, please pray that I wouldn't be scared about this. I don't like flying, or leaving the country. Both of the ideas pretty much scares me to death. If you would pray for me to have peace, that would be wonderful!
Thanks everyone!
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Kill. These children, generally ranging from ages 5-12, are brainwashed into murdering in the name of the resistance and into stealing other children from their beds to suffer the same fate.
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