March 13th, 2014 at 12:00 pm EST (we will be returning home tomorrow and should arrive in Columbus by 10:30 pm) "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1) Pray because God has heard your prayers and is already doing amazing things! How does it feel to be working together with God in the mission project. (2) Pray because you know there are spiritual battles in which you are on the front lines. "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7 (3) Pray because you are the KEY to making a real lasting difference! (consider Daniel 9:23) "Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched." Henri Nouwen Prayer for Guidance MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone." Thomas Merton, “Thoughts in Solitude” Open Letter to Prayer Partners - 2014 Haiti Prayer Team Letter Prayer Needs and Pictures - Let us Pray Together