Prayer Update-May 21 (ish)

Dear Prayer Team:

Keep praying! God is so good!

Thanksgivings: King David went in, took his place before God, and prayed: "Who am I, my Master GOD, and what is my family, that you have brought me to this place in life?...What can I possibly say in the face of all this? You know me, Master GOD, just as I am. You've done all this not because of who I am but because of who you are--out of your very heart!--but you've let me in on it. This is what makes you so great, Master GOD! There is none like you, no God but you, nothing compares with what we've heard with our own ears. 2 Samuel 7:16-22 (excerpts from The Message)
1. Thanksgiving that Mom Klanderman's surgery went well yesterday. Answered prayers...God you are awesome!
2. For Maya & her amazing Kindergarten year. Thanks, God, for Mrs. "Z"weering, Mrs. "W"edeven & all her teachers & helpers & the things you teach her daily. (Next week Lily.)
3. For 32 children who have given their time & energy to learn "Roamin' through Romans". Kids, you are such a blessing. Thanks God for your praises sung from your children's lips.
4. For a great ending to so many things--Sunday School (Genesis class/The Total Money Makeover class, Promised Land, choirs, kids classes), Revolution Service, Graduation tonight, Field Trips and other school activities, Ballet on the 7th, "Roamin' through Romans" on the 1st--which also leads to great beginnings in so many ways! Thanks God for what has been & what will be. Thanks for this moment right now...help us to use it always & only to your glory!

Requests: David prayed desperately to God for the little boy. He fasted, wouldn't go out, and slept on the floor...."Yes" (the servants) answered "He's dead." David got up from the floor, washed his face and combed his hair, put on a fresh change of clothes, then went into the sanctuary and worshiped..."While the child was alive," he said, " I fasted and wept, thinking GOD might have mercy on me and the child would live." 2 Samuel 12:16-22 (excerpts from The Message)
1. For Maya & her school year in Guatemala. Help her to make new friends and continue to enjoy learning about what God has made.
2. For Aaron, as he finishes up with the familiar and anticipates the new. God...how you bless! Give strength & energy for what lies ahead
3. Pray for God's plans for our home to be laid out before us in His time. Give wisdom as boxes are packed and storage begins.
4. Pray for Aaron's Mom, Gail Klanderman, as she has 2 weeks of down time here after her surgery. Pray for comfort from the painful healing, and patience as God heals her shoulder.
6. Pray for Amy's sister Mendy, & her husband Steve, their children Thatcher (T-man) and Baby Pate (due June 20) as Steve flies out to the state of Washington this weekend to interview at Tall Timbers, a Christian camp, for a grounds/house-keeping position. Pray for safety, for the person God has prepared for this position to be found, and for God's will to be worked out in all it's perfection in His time. We lay it all at your feet, God. We are your people, the sheep of your pasture. Lead us where you would have us.

At His feet,

Aaron, Amy, Caden, Maya & Lily Klanderman