Zone Day Out - your prayers needed :)

1 week to retreat...

Let us all arise and pray:

1. Remember to put on the armor of God as we go about the preparation for the retreat and our daily lives
2. Pray for the blood of Jesus to cover us and our love ones from the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.
3. Pray for unity among all the people involved in this retreat
4. Pray that all logistics to be available and ready
5. Pray for the hearts of everyone who's going fof the retreat ( to be open, sensitive and receptive when God speak to them)

Dont know about you guys but felt more and more excited about the retreat as the day is coming soon as really having this inkling that God is doing and going to do something during the retreat. SO, while waiting to see what God is going to do, let's partner Him in prayers and start praying NOW if you haven got down to doing it!!! :)

Serving with you,
Mummy Ho - Prayer IC of The Retreat 2007 Committee.

Thanksgivings and Updates from Ching Yen

This is an update on the prayer request posted for Ching Yen on the 30-Hr Famine event.

I had a very busy week last week, thank you for praying and asking me for an update. When i saw ur mail, i do not have the info still for update from finance dept.

To date, we have 4140 registered campers, and the numbers are growing still.

God sent us last minute break-fast meal sponsor last week! Gardenia has graciusly sponsored 6000 packages of cakes to us, and we manage to get in some free merchandise to sell in recovering the t-shirt printing cost! Praise the Lord for His provision!

I am reminded to fast and pray for this event as it can be a spiritual famine that we are eperiencing here and God may have intention to restore the broken-hearted people who are coming for this event with His spirit working in the midst.

I will fast and pray, really hope to see His works done beyong our human understanding. =)

Kindly share this with those who are praying for me, thank you so much for upholding me in prayers when i am weak. ^-^

For those interested to find out more about the 30-Hr famine program by World Vision, the website is http://www.30hourfamine.org/

To my dear friends, Forerunners and Perdana cell members,

I am requesting for a personal prayer.

My work: 30-Hr Famine

• This year the planning of the campaign went totally out of hand. Initially plan to have it in Jul, was being postponed by the stadium to mid Sep that is clashing with major exams like PMR & SPM & some of the uni programs.

• We have an objective to raise RM1.5 million for KL Famine.... we still have less than a month, 26 Aug is the closing date, and we have only gotten 12%....

• Everything that was planned earlier went out of hand. Initial intensive promotion to schools went down to the drain.... we circulated nearly 2500 cards to interested schools, colleges and universities during Apr-May, so far only 191 returned (incl. 50 blank cards) when we initially plan for 31 Jul is the closing date for them. Reasons given are absurd, unexpected inccidents pop up that disrupt the flow. 26 Aug is the closing date and we have only 131 registered for the camp so far....and i am not sure why we still have 6000 cards floating in the market now and could not come back.

• Initial working initiatives with the media met with lots of difficulties & changes as well. We are facing difficulties in delivering effective messages to the public now. In the past, our media partners have always guaranteed good publicity exposure for this campaign.

• When we plan to rely heavily on the website, it fails us again by giving us poor website company that could not provide us with prompt and efficient services.

• The key success factors for the program: AV, Emcees and Group Leaders. We are facing problems in meeting the production deadline due to insufficient/delay info provided by our partners; lack of one bilingual emcee who could work well with chemistry. The initial 2 emcees that we have, one is good, another one could never make it for rehearsals due to tight schedule....we are frantically searching now for a replacement. Group leaders.... still in shortage and the quality cannot be guaranteed.

I am requesting this for prayer for i sense something not right. I am not sure if i should pray against the works of Satan now or i should pray for repentance now if we have been doing it by our own wisdoms and plans but not His. ( ok, something pop into my mind that says: "Not by wisdom, not by might, but by the power of the Holy Spirit" when i ask Him... pls help me to discern what He means. Is He withdrawing the blessings becoz of our disobedience or He is planning something for us to glorify His name?)

I received 2 verses on Hab. 2:3 & Psalms 27:14 in asking me to wait boldly... but i am not sure if He is refering to my personal prayers for my family, my friends, my future & my church OR my work now. I need help in discernment.

Lately doing the 40-day prayer plus preparing myself as one of the prayer ministers in the upcoming methodist prayer conference.... strange "God's inccidents" happened too that shows His mercy works on people, but i am no longer sure what is happening and discerning His voice for which prayers i had.

Well, i thought i can manage things alone with God through prayers... somehow this time round i sense that He wants me to get help?

If you have any impressions from Him while you pray, do kindly share with me what it is so that i could make adjustments accordingly.

Thank you for your precious time in prayers.

God bless,

chingyen