two pre-trip prayer requests

it's hard to believe that it's almost time to go. we're heading out saturday, and we still have lots of things to finalize before we leave.

i wanted to ask you guys to pray for two things.

• first, just please continue to pray for God's power in this mission. we desperately need Him to show His power in ways we can't even imagine. our goal is for His name and His fame to be made known among the nations, so we pray to that end firmly believing that it is in line with His will.

• also, i want to ask you guys to pray for ron's leg. he's really struggling with swelling in his right leg, and we're gonna be walking alot. i know it's very uncomfortable for him right now, and it'll only get worse considering the conditions we'll be in, but i believe that God can relieve him of that. it may not seem like a big thing, but ron is going to be sixty this year (on june 6 - we have the same birthday...weird), and even though he can run circles around me, i'd still like for us to pray that God would heal his leg.

thank you guys for praying for this mission. i don't want it to be a burden for you, so don't let it be like that. just pray when you think about it. a twenty-second prayer from a fervent heart is more pleasing to God than a six-minute, well thought out dissertation from a heart that would rather be playing solitaire.

i love you guys - each of you. i believe that this powerful God has a plan for each of you today. His glory is far greater than anything we could conceive or imagine, and His ways are so much higher than our ways...so we believe for the great harvest.

-clark