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November 07, 2008

Prayer Requests/Praises 7 Nov 2008

Prayer Requests for the Crowders (7 November 2008)

1. A place to live - with Bev's travel to the US in Nov/Dec, Chris's travel to Sudan and an all-hands Spiritual Life Conference in January, we will not have time to move out of our house prior to Jan. Please pray we can find a little house or townhouse in the next 2 weeks!

2. Praise the Lord for a nice minivan. We decided to avoid auto rental costs by buying a car and the Lord led us to a gently-used Toyota Noah minivan. We've already used it for our team and member care responsibilities. In fact, the first day we had it we loaded it up with 5 people and their luggage. Praise the Lord for this ministry tool.

3. An essential ministry tool of ours is the laptop. We communicate to Sudan, Kenya, and the rest of the SIM world using one. Chris, as director of a 70-member team, uses his laptop as a critical management tool. Sadly, Chris' laptop died and had to be sent back to the US (the Kenya Dell place could not get parts). However, a borrowed laptop has terrible issues so rather than struggle we may tap into ministry funds to get another one for him. Didn't want to do it, but it looks unavoidable now.

4. Bev's travel - Bev will travel with a colleague, plus both our boys to visit the family in the US. Please pray for a survivable journey. Thomas is very very active and does not like to sit still on airplanes.

5. Lift up Maria, the housekeeper of our neighbor who just lost her husband last night. He just slumped over and died. He was only 24 years old and in perfect health.

6. Thank the Lord for a great trip to Ktoum for Chris. He was able to sync up with the ministries there, meet with staff, partners, and even work through some very thorny issues with the church.

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