Pray“...that whenever I open

my mouth, words may be given me

so that I will fearlessly make

known the mystery of the

Gospel.”Ephesians 6:19

East White Oak Missionary Prayer Guide June 2009

EWO Colombia Team 2009

“Continue earnestly in prayer...praying for us, that God would open to us a door for the Word, to speak the mystery of Christ...” Colossians 4:2-3

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Gary & Cindy BlunierServing Family Life in Arkansas

Week of June 28, 2009

Gary & Cindy Blunier www.familylife.com20800 Pansey Drive, Little Rock, AR 72210 United States | e-mail gblunier@familylife.com

• Ministry FocusEver wonder how you can improve your marriage? Family? Finances? Family Life started in 1976 to tackle these questions. Gary and Cindy Blunier (See Nov. 2008 Prayer Guide) left Eureka, Illinois 15 years ago to join the effort. Today they oversee recruitment evaluation, internal position transfers, and staff resourcing for all of FamilyLife. In a time of uncertainty, Gary and Cindy wear a great deal of the stresses and blessings of leading the effort to stream-line the organization’s resources. For fun? Gary works on cars as a ministry to those in need around him.

• Prayer RequestsFamilyLife• PrayforFamilyLifestafftoremainstrong(Garyand

Cindy’s Dept. lost half its staff this year).• PraiseGodfordoublingministry recruitingefforts

in spite of cut backs.• PraythatGodwillusetheuncertaintyintheU.S.to

refocus families on Christ.

Personal • PraiseGodfortheteamsthatworkedtohelpbuildtheministrygarage.• Prayforswiftclosuretogarageprojectandrestartof“car”ministryinJuly.

Family • PraiseGodforGary’sFridaybreakfastswiththemenwholovehisdaughters.Thisisa

rich time of family growth that is rare in this culture.• Pleasepraythattheirentirefamily(3marrieddaughters/1engageddaughter/5

grandchildren) will order their lives around Christ.• PraiseGodforvisitwithChrisandJenny(daughter/son-in-law)wholiveinEngland.

EWO (Spring ‘09) helped build ministry garage

Laurie SolidayServing in Normal, IL with Campus Crusade for Christ

Laurie (right) with ISU Campus Crusade staff, Andrea

Week of June 14, 2009 Brazil 2009EWO Short Term Trip: June 11-26

Week of June 21, 2009

• Ministry FocusThrough Campus Crusade for Christ, Laurie has been working with 30 schools in Central Il-linois since 2002 and is active here at East White Oak. This summer, Laurie is Associate Proj-ectDirector fortheCCCVirginiaBeachSummerProject.The76studentsand32staffwilltake the gospel to the many vacationers, international students, and college workers that flood VA Beach. This intense atmosphere forces growth in Christ at every level. When Laurie returnstousinJuly,herstudentswillcontinuetheworkuntilAugust12.Duringthistime,Laurie prepares for another year of leading CCC here in Central Illinois while mentoring the project long distance.

• Prayer RequestsVA Beach Project•Praise God for the number of Students and Staff in this

effort (6 from ISU).•Prayforboldnessandskillinsharingtheirfaith.•PrayforLaurieasshedevelops5-6staffwomenincontext.

Campuses•PrayforcontinuedwisdomandstrengthasLaurieandthe

rest of CCC staff try to build campus outreach into many schools without any ministry.

•Prayforthisnextyear’svolunteers/stafftobestrongintheLord as they disciple students in Christ.

Personal•PraiseGod fordevelopingLaurie intoa strong leader for

Christ.•PraythatLauriewillberefreshedinChristthissummer.•PrayforasummerofleaningonGodforwisdom/power.

• Amazon at Long LastAfter many years of supporting John & Pat Sharp(SeeJuly2008PrayerGuide),EWOisex-cited to send a team to take part in their ministry first hand. The team will fly into Manaus forabriefvisitwithJohnandPat.ThenDaveSharp,John’sbrother,isguidingourteamintothe Nhamunda River region (a deep jungle arm of the Amazon River) to visit and help some friends in need. They will try anything they can to be helpful and encouraging (cook meals, cleandishes,buildacoupleofhouses,orwhateverelsecouldbeuseful).Ontheirreturntrip,theteamplanstospendtwomoredayswithJohnandPat.

• Prayer RequestsTravel/Health• PraiseGodforalllogisticsuccessthusfar.• PrayforsafetyastheteamtravelstoandinsideBrazil(Sometakingbus12hourstomeet

small plane, others taking small plane to meet smaller plane).• Prayforhealthandstrengthonthetripandinthework.

Project• PraiseGodforallthemillworkdonebeforehand.• Prayforgoodweatherandmultipliedefforts.• Pray that this visit will represent God’s love to the

missionaries and the villagers.

Missionary Connections• PraiseGodforanewopportunitytoencouragefriends.• Praythattheteamwillbuildgreatrelationshipswiththe

missionaries and the people.• PraythatGodwillbeevidentinthelivesofourteam.

From all of us, many thanks for your support and prayers! JesseBaird|JimFisher|WorthJohnson|JasonLandes|MarlenaLoy|BeckyMeadowsMarkMyerscough|JimmySpaulding|DonnySpaulding|GayleUphoff|DaveSharp

Laurie Soliday www.uscm.org2104 Patriots Point Dr., Bloomington, IL 61704 | e-mail Laurie.Soliday@uscm.org

Staff and students involved in this year’s project at Virginia Beach.

Kenya 2009EWO Short Term trip: June 1-22

Week of June 7, 2009

Thank you EWO for holding us up in prayer! Chuck,Debbie&JakeVanHoorn|Steve&MarthaMcNair|David&DarleneNoden|CaroleHalcomb

• Kenya Kwa YesuThe Kenya team is excited to bring the love of Christ to Africa this month. The trip will begin at Pwani Bible Institute, Mombasa work-ing with students in Muslim ministries. Then on to Marimani village to live, eat, work, and worship Christ in Rabai homes. They will con-tinuetoKijabetovisitEWOmissionariesDoug&LisaOrneratRiftValley Academy. Round out the trip in Nairobi with Monica Muoki (former student of the Nodens) and husband Daniel serving 200 youth in their church. Whew!

• Prayer RequestsMombasa | June 3-10• Pray for team to be have open eyes, ears, hearts as they connect and minister with

students in Muslim ministries.• Prayasteammembersprepareanddeliverworkshopsandchapelmessages.• PrayforboldnessastheysharetheirfaithintheMuslimcontext.

Rabai | June 10-14 • Prayforsensibilitiestomanageinthecontextofvillagelife.• PrayforministryinthevillagewithPastorSululuand

congregation.

Kijabe/Nairobi | June 15-21 • PrayfortheteamtoencourageDoug&LisaatRVA(Martha

McNair’s Alma Mater).• PrayforministryopportunitieswithyouthandchurchinNairobi.

A team schedule is available at www.ewo.org.

Morning on the Amazon in Manaus