Mayfield Prayer Email # 3 - Subarashi! (4/4/07)

Greetings!
A new word for those who are interested 'subarashi'
(soo-bah-rah-she)is Japanese for 'wonderful'
or something like that! Thanks to Georgie, I
was just chatting to her on the phone.
It is Wednesday again, and I feel like it was less
than a week since last wednesday, but I guess that isn't
possible. Our team met this morning with Simon to discuss
 a few things about team leadership roles and just what
is happening with that. It was a very positive time and
through a visit from the Richards family, and a good
sharing time together I think that we are
begining to find our feet. The last couple of weeks have
helped us all here to see some of our stuggles and God is
helping us to work through them and I think that he really
is uniting us through them. Praise God for this!

Kylie - Praise God that we found a Christian Library today!
Woohoo!
And please pray that work relationships will continue to
develop in a really good way.
Kim - Pray for more work hours, confidence and competency (at work)
Tracey - More work!
Ruth - Please pray for our India Night on the 14th!
Kylie Small is coming to run this for us, and it is a wonderful
opportunity to invite new friends, have fun and connect.
It is also an opportunity to raise money for India!
Tim - (This is me, just guessing because I didn't get to talk to Tim!)
For health and rest. Continued prayer for relationships with the
guys at work.
Me (Laura) - That I can continue to develop discipline in my daily
routine, and not let the fact that I don't have a job stop me from
doing the work of God!

We would all really appreciate prayer for our relationships with
each other, us four girls getting to know Ruth and Tim, and
Maddie and Hudson. And them getting to know us! And that in our
struggles we will be gracious, patient
and truly seeking to show oneanother Christ's love.
I think this really is happening, and its subarashi!

I just have to share this little story and that will be all for
tonight. The other day, Tracey and I took our team van to a
church members house, because he has some mechanic experience
and wanted to check our vehicle out. He was just checking the
spark plugs, when i heard a cracking sound (and thought to
myself, well i'm glad he knows what he's doing, because to my
uneducated ear that didn't sound at all good!). Well about
a minute later, and a few 'shivers!' exclamations it was
established that the power steering tube/pipe
(?) was so brittle that it had just snapped! Something which would have
stopped us driving anywhere, which our good friend charged us $12 to
fix (the price for the tube). We are thankful!

Thankyou once more for your prayers and encouragments!

Sometimes a shadow dark and cold
hangs like a mist across the road
But be encouraged by that site
where there's a shadow there's a light!
(Road to Zion - Petra)

Laura Vol
Mayfield Team