Greetings "Prayer Force One",
It is so obvious that prayer is the single most important work we can do, and especially as we know the time of the Lord's return is imminent. It seems that so little good is being done in the world and even for those who are truly dedicated to HIS work, there is so much persecution and hardship. Grace is needed and only prayer will release it at it's greatest needs. Please continue to pray for the 10 Christian orphan children who are still being held against their will after one year and 4 months. It seems like all of us who are working to help them are banging our heads against the "Great Wall of China". Meanwhile, those who believe they are "serving the masses" are relentlessly attacking us.
With the recent "abduction" of Gold Flower and Gold Bar off the street with no regard to my 3 year contract, there is nothing safe about doing anything as it relates to the real needs of unfortunate children.
I have been working with Maggie to write a document, outline a plan to genuinely and respectfully give the Chinese leaders a chance to show good will as it relates to the newly approved "Charity Law". It is time for them to "step up to the International plate" and deliver genuine cooperative efforts to help orphans. I read their newspapers in Chinese every day and know exactly what they need to do to continue the "Deng Xiao Peng" reforms. It's time to move on from simple "economic measures" and make some real changes to orphan children's lives. It is such a plight, it so sad to see little to no difference with prisons and orphanages. Sick kids fill the facilities and they work overtime on keeping anyone (especially foreigners) from knowing the orphans plight.
Praise God, recently with the successful heart surgeries of Pan Shu Ren, Pan Hai Bo and Lu Ya Ming, I get to check up on their improving health. This also affords me the opportunity to see and meet other orphans. These kids are starving for genuine love. It is such a blessing to talk with them and even give them hugs. The other day, an 11 year old special needs boy wanted to put on my backpack. It was so cute to see how proud he was to "help me". After I visited with the kids, I drove off in my motorcycle and on the road noticed one of the 16 year old orphan boys I met a week ago. I pulled over and asked him how get gets to go out of the gate. He described that he gets a slip of paper to allow him to walk to a nearby store and buy something for himself. We talked about many things, he also opened up to me about his awkward medical condition. He has no control over his bowel movements and has to wear diapers. He is a very humble but smart kid. Pray for me as I seek ways to help him.
I told him I will first pray for him and seek more information about his bowel and urinary incontinence. Obviously, there is a huge range of possible causes and yet I hope it can be something simple like lack of fiber in his diet. I know one thing for sure, white rice is worthless and they never get any real whole grains in a place like that. As I think back on all my 10, their health was superior to any other kids I ever came in contact with. We ate a well balanced diet and it included much fruit and whole grain breads not to mention a proper intake of dairy products. If you guys know anyone who I can email back and forth with about this 16 year old orphan boy and his incontinence condition, please help out. For sure pray for him His name is Yun Jian Jun ( Pronounced "Ya win jan jwin")
Enclosed is a picture of him along with a recent smiley picture of Jiang Jia Yi laughing it up with uncle Ray and "looking" at me. She doesn't like to see yet but does see blurry close up. Keep praying. This girl is a huge blessing to all of us. Thank God for such answered prayer.
As for the 10, grandma and I went to the gate as usual on Sunday and were able to see a few ladies walk out of the gate. We stopped them and told them to wish John John a "Happy Birthday" on April 7th, he will be 10 years old. The kids know I am the only one who knows all their birthdays and please pray that word gets into them. I have to admit, I am really getting weary of not getting any news from the kids. God has been humbling me, teaching me to really fervently pray and also many others. I also believe the kids know they "messed up" in not telling me about things that now have cost them dearly. Recently it has become even more clear that many people here influenced them to love money, love things they would secretly get from workers, and all while "keeping it a secret" from uncle Ray. The big mystery, of course, is still how they got so much money to buy so many things and hide the things all over the apartment. I get the fact kids can do this but it was just crazy to see over 40,000 RMB in purchased products all hidden from my sight. Almost all of it had receipts, which tells us someone worked with them to purchase the stuff. A video taken by David with a secretly purchase 800 dollar Nikon camera shows clearly that grandma was aware, even though she still won't admit anything. These are some of the really frustrating things about a people who will absolutely not "come clean" on stuff they deem embarrassing. Yeah, I can hear some of you say, "We do that too", and I get that. I will say this much though, both Maggie and grandma are still stuck in the mud over a bunch of money they decided to borrow and lend. I had nothing to do with it and yet they used my name to strike the deals of trust. Sound like chastening to you? It does to me.
So in closing, you can see how difficult this whole mess has become. You thought from past emails that it was a "can of worms" well, I can tell you with 100% confidence that it is a "lake of vipers". Praise God, HE specializes in "Crushing Satan's head" Genesis 3:15
Ray and the 10 and please pray for Mr.Cheng as I am fearful he has been thrown in jail and the Gold kids are back in the institutionalized life. We need victory.
It is so obvious that prayer is the single most important work we can do, and especially as we know the time of the Lord's return is imminent. It seems that so little good is being done in the world and even for those who are truly dedicated to HIS work, there is so much persecution and hardship. Grace is needed and only prayer will release it at it's greatest needs. Please continue to pray for the 10 Christian orphan children who are still being held against their will after one year and 4 months. It seems like all of us who are working to help them are banging our heads against the "Great Wall of China". Meanwhile, those who believe they are "serving the masses" are relentlessly attacking us.
With the recent "abduction" of Gold Flower and Gold Bar off the street with no regard to my 3 year contract, there is nothing safe about doing anything as it relates to the real needs of unfortunate children.
I have been working with Maggie to write a document, outline a plan to genuinely and respectfully give the Chinese leaders a chance to show good will as it relates to the newly approved "Charity Law". It is time for them to "step up to the International plate" and deliver genuine cooperative efforts to help orphans. I read their newspapers in Chinese every day and know exactly what they need to do to continue the "Deng Xiao Peng" reforms. It's time to move on from simple "economic measures" and make some real changes to orphan children's lives. It is such a plight, it so sad to see little to no difference with prisons and orphanages. Sick kids fill the facilities and they work overtime on keeping anyone (especially foreigners) from knowing the orphans plight.
Praise God, recently with the successful heart surgeries of Pan Shu Ren, Pan Hai Bo and Lu Ya Ming, I get to check up on their improving health. This also affords me the opportunity to see and meet other orphans. These kids are starving for genuine love. It is such a blessing to talk with them and even give them hugs. The other day, an 11 year old special needs boy wanted to put on my backpack. It was so cute to see how proud he was to "help me". After I visited with the kids, I drove off in my motorcycle and on the road noticed one of the 16 year old orphan boys I met a week ago. I pulled over and asked him how get gets to go out of the gate. He described that he gets a slip of paper to allow him to walk to a nearby store and buy something for himself. We talked about many things, he also opened up to me about his awkward medical condition. He has no control over his bowel movements and has to wear diapers. He is a very humble but smart kid. Pray for me as I seek ways to help him.
I told him I will first pray for him and seek more information about his bowel and urinary incontinence. Obviously, there is a huge range of possible causes and yet I hope it can be something simple like lack of fiber in his diet. I know one thing for sure, white rice is worthless and they never get any real whole grains in a place like that. As I think back on all my 10, their health was superior to any other kids I ever came in contact with. We ate a well balanced diet and it included much fruit and whole grain breads not to mention a proper intake of dairy products. If you guys know anyone who I can email back and forth with about this 16 year old orphan boy and his incontinence condition, please help out. For sure pray for him His name is Yun Jian Jun ( Pronounced "Ya win jan jwin")
Enclosed is a picture of him along with a recent smiley picture of Jiang Jia Yi laughing it up with uncle Ray and "looking" at me. She doesn't like to see yet but does see blurry close up. Keep praying. This girl is a huge blessing to all of us. Thank God for such answered prayer.
As for the 10, grandma and I went to the gate as usual on Sunday and were able to see a few ladies walk out of the gate. We stopped them and told them to wish John John a "Happy Birthday" on April 7th, he will be 10 years old. The kids know I am the only one who knows all their birthdays and please pray that word gets into them. I have to admit, I am really getting weary of not getting any news from the kids. God has been humbling me, teaching me to really fervently pray and also many others. I also believe the kids know they "messed up" in not telling me about things that now have cost them dearly. Recently it has become even more clear that many people here influenced them to love money, love things they would secretly get from workers, and all while "keeping it a secret" from uncle Ray. The big mystery, of course, is still how they got so much money to buy so many things and hide the things all over the apartment. I get the fact kids can do this but it was just crazy to see over 40,000 RMB in purchased products all hidden from my sight. Almost all of it had receipts, which tells us someone worked with them to purchase the stuff. A video taken by David with a secretly purchase 800 dollar Nikon camera shows clearly that grandma was aware, even though she still won't admit anything. These are some of the really frustrating things about a people who will absolutely not "come clean" on stuff they deem embarrassing. Yeah, I can hear some of you say, "We do that too", and I get that. I will say this much though, both Maggie and grandma are still stuck in the mud over a bunch of money they decided to borrow and lend. I had nothing to do with it and yet they used my name to strike the deals of trust. Sound like chastening to you? It does to me.
So in closing, you can see how difficult this whole mess has become. You thought from past emails that it was a "can of worms" well, I can tell you with 100% confidence that it is a "lake of vipers". Praise God, HE specializes in "Crushing Satan's head" Genesis 3:15
Ray and the 10 and please pray for Mr.Cheng as I am fearful he has been thrown in jail and the Gold kids are back in the institutionalized life. We need victory.
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