Current Prayer Requests: (Updated March 2025)
Prayers: Are vital to us! We are so grateful for them!
Praises, Thanking the Lord for:
- Two strangers who helped Fred out of a bind in Canada. (He got stuck with the U-Haul and the car dolly in a parking lot.)
- Safe travels from Fort Wayne IN to Sherbrooke QC.
- Continued contacts our kids are having with their friends in Fort Wayne through a multitude of internet communication platforms.
- The 950-square-foot apartment that we have in Sherbrooke and for how we, as a family, are adjusting to it.
- That the kids were accepted and able to eventually start in the English-speaking public schools in Sherbrooke. (We were unsure for 3 weeks of what was going to happen.)
- A French church that we are attending on Sundays & an English youth program that the kids are attending during the week.
Prayers for:
- That Fred and Lydia will be able learn French well.
- The kids, their continued adjustments to their new schools, their learning, and their being able to make friends. (It is a very different and sometimes hard environment from that of a Christian school.)
- For Noah and help in French learning.
- For Noémi as she is moved to a 2nd grade class and adjusts to a new teacher & class (again) -for friends and a good environment.
- For our friends, colleagues and acquaintances who are suffering.
- Togo, Hôpital Baptiste Biblique –the team, the vision project that will expand the hospital from 50 to 75+ beds, the new FP/OB and the growing of the OB service.
- The people of Sherbrooke (& Quebec) -the ministry of PDV and the local churches in sharing the message of Christ and any role that God might open up for us here in that.
- The safety and wisdom of our colleagues at ABWE’s northern hospital in Togo as there are increasing safety concerns which is/will be straining manpower.
- Prayer and Praise that our financial needs are being met. Prayer for wisdom and responses as we hope to reach out to some churches in Northern Vermont once the snow disappears