Update and Prayer Requests from the Camerons – Intervarsity

Dear friends,

Thank you for praying for our recent medical missions trip to Nicaragua. We want to share praises to God with you and give you some highlights. We include three pictures here.

We were in three different locations in and around Managua hosted by local churches. The group was sixty plus, mostly medical students, and it included a number of physicians and faculty at UM. About one thousand people received medical help, medication, care packages, and prayer.

Personal Thank You from Vicky Bentley

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I wanted to personally thank all of you for the months of prayer support you have given to me. God used you to uphold me and to sustain me. I wish I could say that I remained in perfect peace, but many times I failed to trust. I do know that each time I failed, He graciously lifted me up and I KNOW it was due to your prayers. I received dozens of cards and each one came at just the right time. The scripture verses you sent were from Him and blessed me. Wes and I are so very grateful! Thank you!

We came back from the specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona yesterday. He has given me permission to return to Africa…PRAISE GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will be under careful monitoring every three months. My kidney seems to be responding to the medications. If they can adjust the dosage to decrease the spillage of protein my chances of having no further complications are great. If they cannot get the medication to improve the protein spillage he estimates I have about 10 more years of strength in this kidney, but would need to consider a transplant after that. Wes and I believe that God is at work and will heal me completely. I hope you will still pray for that with us.

The word thank you seems so small. My prayer is that God will richly reward you. I cannot wait until we are all in His presence and you can see how deeply your prayers have touched my life. You have all been friends that stuck closer than a brother with us during this time. Thank you and may God bless you, fill you to overflowing, and continue to use your prayers to move mountains for His glory!

Agape,

Vicky

Prayer Requests – Far Reaching Ministries

Sudan:

- Please pray the ministries going on in Sudan. They are under heavy attack and the enemy is working hard to bring discouragement. Pray the Lord would break through and do an even more amazing work.
- Pray for the Love Covers event that will be held in Pageri, Pray for the provision for the love packets and a venue to hold the fundraising event to clothe 1000 kids.
- Pray for Gifti that the Lord would deepen her walk and give her a great faith in what God is doing!
- Pray for Abigail as she is having earaches and may have an ear infection.
- Pray for all the ladies in Sudan and continued growth in their walks.
- Pray for the literacy training classes there are four going on. Pray the women will catch on quickly.

Update and Prayer Requests – Rozeks, UK

Blessings to you all! After beginning Sunday morning services these past two weeks, we are truly blessed by what the Lord is already doing in our  fellowship. There is already a strong unity being expressed among our core group of families and I am sensing an overall excitement for what God is doing and there is a genuine hunger for the Word. However we have also seen some new spiritual attacks against our family. I will be teaching on the person and ministry of the Holy Spirit this Sunday, so please pray that our fellowship understands that it is “not by might, nor by power, but by [HIS] SPIRIT” that we will move on!

Please pray for the following things…

- Pray for growth in the life of Christ in our family.
- Pray for there to be a yielding to the Holy Spirit and a yearning for the Spirit to be overflowing in our lives and the lives of those in the body.
- Pray for Jon Mac who is coming out as an intern to assist us in the ministry but has been delayed on several occasions as the embassy is trying to understand this new intern program connected with the York Bible College.
- Pray for one of the children in our fellowship named JJ who is dealing with persecution from her peers at school and doubts about the Christian faith.
- Pray for the right job for a brother in our fellowship named Rob.
- Pray for the Lord’s continued leading on a family that is taking steps to move overseas and serve with us from the States.

We love you all!

Joey

Prayer Requests – Gary and Marlene Cameron

We request your prayers for travel to Nicaragua and several future events:

Medical missions trip (March 30- April 5): Marlene and Gary will leave for one week to accompany 60+ volunteer medical students and 7 or 8 physicians) to Managua, Nicaragua. The team is planning to serve 1200 to 1300 of the poorest in the city through general health care and education. We are going as prayer and pastoral resources, serving both the people receiving medical attention as well as the team members who are going.

Team member’s requests: Pray for health for the team. Last year there were some gastrointestinal and upper respiratory infections. Pray for safety. Pray for translators for the Amerindian peoples that are not Spanish speaking. Pray for favor with customs. Pray for the churches that follow up with unreached people who come to the clinics set up in their churches. Pray for the students that they may consider a missionary practice in the future or dedicate part of their practice to outreach.

Graduate and Faculty Regional Leadership Team The GFM South-Central Regional Director and the area team leaders will be meeting in our home April 15-18 for prayer and planning.

South Florida Undergraduate staff prayer retreat will be meeting in our home April 19.

Following Christ Graduate and Faculty Conference downtown Chicago, December 27-31, 2008 (see: www.followingchrist.org). We are part of the onsite prayer team for this conference. We are also seeking prayer-minded friends who are willing to shoulder this prayer ministry with us beginning now. Let us know if you are interested to receive regular prayer updates on this.

Thank you for being part of our prayer community.

Gary and Marlene

Gary and Marlene Cameron
IVCF Graduate and Faculty Ministries
305-613-4627 www.gfmse.org