Prayer Update-May 14 (or 18)

Dear Prayer Team:

Another Wednesday here and gone. Next week is our June newsletter already. Hope this finds you well. Know you are being prayed for!

Thanksgivings: I was unsure of how to go about this, and felt totally inadequate--I was scared to death, if you want the truth of it--and so nothing I said could have impressed you or anyone else. But the Message came through anyway. God's spirit and God's power did it...1 Corinthians 2:3-5 (The Message)
1. For an amazing garage sale. (Thanks for your donations, your patronage, & your prayers!)
2. For Caden & his amazing 2nd grade year. Thanks, God, for Mrs. Koopman & all his teachers & the things you teach him daily. (Next week Maya.)
3. For field trips. Thanks for opportunities to learn & grow in this unique "school" experience with friends & students.
4. For Amy's brother, Chad, who returned safely from Peru.
5. For the opportunity to renew old friendships via the internet in the midst of going through boxes of the past.

Requests: Isaiah's question, "Is there anyone around who knows God's Spirit, anyone who knows what he is doing?" has been answered: Christ knows, and we have Christ's Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:16 (The Message)
1. For Caden & his school year in Guatemala. Help him to make new friends and continue to enjoy learning about God's creation.
2. For Aaron & Amy, as it is weird not to be involved with all the planning for next year's curriculum at school and church. Pray that we can lay it at God's feet confident that those who God calls will answer "Here am I, send me" (Isa 6:8).
3. Pray for God's plans for our home to be laid out before us in His time.
4. Now that things are purged from our home, all that's left must be reorganized. Pray for clear minds as we sort & store.
5. Pray for Aaron's Mom, Gail Klanderman, as she has surgery this coming week to repair a torn rotator cuff. Pray for a successful surgery and comfort & healing in the weeks to follow.
6. Pray for Amy's sister Mendy, & her husband Steve, their children Thatcher (T-man) and Baby Pate (appearing this June at a hospital near us) as they continue seeking God's will for their lives and what opportunities that may lead to. God, you are so much bigger than all of us. Help us each to know your will through the prompting of your Holy Spirit and give us the courage to follow it.

At His feet,

Aaron, Amy, Caden, Maya & Lily Klanderman