Personal: The Barraclough Family

• Please pray for a smooth transition for our family (the Barracloughs) as we make preparation to return to Panama.

• Please pray for a complete healing for Judith’s back.  She has had a series of painful days recently as she has battled a few setbacks with the scoliosis.  She is in good spirits however, and is trusting the Lord to provide healing.  Believe with her for God’s intervention!

• Please pray for our financial support.  We have been raising support since returning from Panama on August 31, 2006, and have a long way to go to reach our monthly support budget for our next term.  Pray for God to raise up faithful monthly supporters. 

• Please pray that God will help us to make contact with the neighboring tribes near Naso Territory.  We made a quick exploratory trip to the border of Costa Rica, seeking to make contact with the Bri Bri Indians, and plan to do so again.  Also, we hope to make contact with the Ngobebugle Indians in the summer of 2007.  Please pray that we will make a successful contact with these tribes.

Panama:  Naso Indians

• Please pray for Gilberto Aguilar, his wife Mari, and their three children, pastors of the church in Solong village, for their health, and God’s blessings upon them as he attempts to evangelize and build up the church in the surrounding settlements.

• Please pray for the Naso youth.  In the last year, the youth have been the hardest group to reach with the Gospel.  Several 13 and 14 year-old youth were saved over the summer and some were baptized in water.  Pray that they will remain strong in the Lord and will be an example to those around them.  Pray that God will fill them with the Baptism in the Holy Ghost.

• Please pray for the Naso villages further upriver with whom we made contact during the summer months.  Each of the three villages in which we conducted children’s and evangelistic services, has expressed interest in our returning to minister to them.

• Please pray that God will provide helpers for the work, and will raise up leadership from among the Naso Indians themselves.

• Please pray for Jason & Vickie Pennington, who graduated from language school in May 2006 and have since been raising support to move to the Naso Territory in the summer of 2007 for a one-year term.  The Penningtons worked with the M-28 Taskforce team over the summer among the Naso Indians.

Venezuela:  Santa Ana Mission

• Please pray for the mission work in Barrio Santa Ana.  Following our abrupt departure in 2005 other than infrequent visits, the mission continued under national leadership (a board of elders).  Please pray for spiritual renewal upon the church as Rev. Euclides Piñeda, a Venezuelan national, assumes the pastorate of the church.

• Please pray for Pastor Euclides Piñeda & his wife Francelina as they assume full-time ministry in Venezuela that God will give them strength and wisdom.  This couple was a tremendous blessing over the years in the Santa Ana missions, and we are thankful that the Lord has called them to become the pastors of this work.

Please send your prayer requests to: pray@vmimissions.org