Pray

Prayer Requests for April 2013

• Pray for our OSWW Staff and senior volunteers. Ask for health, energy, safety, and God’s presence and guidance in all they do to serve marginalised children in Southern Africa.
  • Alan McIlhenny (Executive Director)
  • Dorian Slingers (Southern Africa Director)
  • Mitchell Lawrence (Country Director: Zimbabwe)
  • Carol Lawrence (Administrator: Zimbabwe)
  • Heidi Hamman (Co-ordinator, Government Schools: Cape Town)
  • Rene Prins (Book Keeper, SA)
  • Paulette v/d Merwe (Administration, SA)
  • Johan Masuku (Co-ordinator, Komatipoort: Mpumalanga)
  • Jenny Kohlrus (C0-ordinator, Polokwane)
  • Mandla Msibi (Country Director: Swaziland)
  • Vidah Mayana (Co-ordinator, Eastern Cape)
• Pray for Candice Yates who had hoped to join our staff team in Zimbabwe. Unfortunately, ill health means she has to stay in the USA.
• Give thanks for our new project in Binga (Zimbabwe) through our partnership with Christian Aid and Christian Care. Pray for Dorian as he runs the initial training course in Zimbabwe 2 – 6 April. Pray those those being trained will be equipped and inspired as they begin their service through OSWW.
• Praise God for the new opportunity for OSWW in Botswana; pray for Dorian, Mitch and Carol as they train our new volunteers 8 – 9 April.
• Pray for Mandla and the Board in Swaziland as they strengthen and build the ministry of OSWW in Swaziland. Pray that God would meet the funding needs for the ministry in Swaziland.
• Continue to pray that funds will be found to have a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist and a part time Administrator based at our OSWW Southern Africa office in Johannesburg. These appointments would release Dorian to focus on the development and training of staff and to fulfill his other duties.
• Pray for the important interviews taking place this month as we seek to find a new Executive Director. Pray that the leadership of OSWW will know God’s leading in choosing the person to take over from Alan. Continue to pray for the team in Southern Africa as they face change and uncertainty over the future leadership. Give thanks for Dorian as he has to take on more of Alan’s responsibilities and pray for Alan’s wife, Margaret, as she battles cancer.
• Give thanks for the encouragement and support of the OSWW Board in the USA and the “Friends of OSWW, Northern Ireland”. Friends of OSWW Northern Ireland are organising a dinner on 13th April to formally launch their work; pray that this event will help raise prayer support and interest in OSWW. Give thanks that the King’s Chorale have chosen to support OSWW through their Easter Concert in Belfast on 27th April.