Hands at Work

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Prayer for our work as God's servants

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This week in our Monday morning prayer meeting we reflected on the following scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 (The Message) 

Companions as we are in this work with you, we beg you, please don't squander one bit of this marvelous life God has given us… Our work as God's servants gets validated—or not—in the details. People are watching us as we stay at our post, alertly, unswervingly . . . in hard times, tough times, bad times; when we're beaten up, jailed, and mobbed; working hard, working late, working without eating; with pure heart, clear head, steady hand; in gentleness, holiness, and honest love; when we're telling the truth, and when God's showing his power; when we're doing our best setting things right; when we're praised, and when we're blamed; slandered, and honored; true to our word, though distrusted; ignored by the world, but recognized by God; terrifically alive, though rumored to be dead; beaten within an inch of our lives, but refusing to die; immersed in tears, yet always filled with deep joy; living on handouts, yet enriching many; having nothing, having it all…

I can't tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. … The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren't small, but you're living them in a small way.... Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively!

This week let us pray that we are all able to enter in to the wide-open spacious life God is calling us to; to receive this blessing of life by not giving up, by continuing through hard times, tough times, bad times, when we’re praised and when we’re blamed. Let us remember that God desires so much more for us then we could even imagine but we must trust Him through the circumstances before us, not giving up because in due time our perseverance in these maters will reap a harvest of freedom in our lives.

Let us continue because our work is validated in the details. God loves that we have chosen to serve Him in this way—choosing to see those who are vulnerable, to speak and care and pray on their behalf—but we’ve only fought half the battle by showing up to do this work. Let us pray that we can go all the way and choose to do it through His power and strength, never giving up, working hard, working late, working without eating; with pure heart, clear head, steady hand; in gentleness, holiness, and honest love, in sunshine and in shadow.

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Now is Her Time - Prayer for Goma, DRC

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George received many scriptures for Goma from around the world with one message. We feel God is asking us to pray NOW for Goma for this is her time. Download Scriptures Here.

Children in streets of burned down village.Hands at Work in Africa founder George Snyman is in Goma, DRC this week. You have heard about Goma: it’s the war-ravaged region in north-eastern DRC where millions have died, suffered mass rapes, and been driven from their homes into refugee camps. The war was recently declared over, and the camps have been closed. People are streaming back to burned and destroyed villages, trying to figure out how to start re-building. This is the time for Hands at Work to get involved. The situation remains unstable; division and suspicion within communities are rife. But we are committed to reaching the poorest of the poor, and right now that’s in Goma. Now is the time to be there. 

Please pray for George. Pray for wisdom, for guidance to find the local people burning with compassion, and for the right village to establish a model of local churches collaborating to serve the most vulnerable orphans and widows with basic care.

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24 hours of Prayer

We would like to invite you to join with us in a prayer this weekend. We feel God at this time calling us to reflection, restoration with him and a time of refining. We are gathering together for a time of prayer and fasting starting on this Friday, September 18 at 19h00 and end on Saturday, September 19 at 19h00. We would love for you to partner in prayer with us wherever you are as we: Prepare Our Hearts to Meet Our King!

We would like to share in this with you through our website where we will have scriptures to reflect on as well as an area for you to communicate with us on what God is revealing to you!

Listen to this message from George (mp3 file) and be expectant for what He has to show us through this time!

 

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Bushbuckridge (SA)

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  • Pray that the many teams that come through will be impacted and able to contribute to the work on the ground
  • Pray that people overseas are stirred up to contribute financially to the $15 three services fund.
  • Pray that we can proceed faster with the establishment of the Service Center and that things run smoothly
  • Pray for the new bookkeeper that she can learn quickly and that she has a big impact in the communities in building financial capacity
  • Pray that God stirs up a trusted, influential, Godly man in Bushbuckridge with a strong heart for his community to join the vision
  • Pray that God strengthens us and continues giving us His heart in order to continue running the race
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Expanding the Work in Zambia

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Luanshya

  • The Luanshya team is casting vision in 14 new communities in 2009. Please pray that God will connect the team to the right people, people with servant hearts in each community, and that because of this, many more orphaned and vulnerable children will receive home visits from community volunteers who can love and care for them.
  • The Luanshya team recently moved into a new office. Please pray that the infrastructure can be put into place to improve communication and make a place where the staff is bettered with a healthy environment.

Kabwe

  • Kabwe service center will be hiring an administrator in June 2009, pray that God brings the right person to join the team.
  • The service center is in desperate need of a vehicle, please pray that we can find a reliable vehicle for a good price and that the money will be enough.
  • Kabwe service center is also hosting four teams in June and July 2009. Please pray for their safety and for God to reveal himself in a new way in their time in Kabwe.

Chipata

  •  The development of an agricultural project to support feeding OVC.
  •  And also the mobilization of people in the village of Manjanja to care for the vulnerable in their community.