This week has been a blur.
First, please keep Pastor Wilma in your prayers. She had to spend Tuesday in the hospital. She is back at work now and probably working too hard, but just pray that she finds the time to rest and recover properly. Wilma is always concerned about the well-being of everyone around her and often neglects her own needs in the process. Thank you, Lord for the caring heart you have given Wilma and help those around her give her peace and allow her to get the rest she needs.
On the topic of health, my other supervisor, Milton, is expecting his second son in January. His wife has been put on bed rest until his birth. Please keep Milton, Carla, Agustine and the baby in your prayers. Lord, be with Carla and the baby, help her to stay healthy throughout the remainder of her pregnancy.
We spent the week at the church getting ready for the Reformation Day service we had here on Friday. It was an ecumenical service and about 70 were in attendance. Members of the congregation fixed food for after the service for a reception. It was a nice service with a guest pastor from Buenos Aires who is a professor at the seminary there.
Kate, my coordinator, came to visit with a volunteer from 2006-2007, Rachel. I spoke the most English I have spoken in two months with them, and it was weird, but wonderful. I enjoyed their short and hectic visit, though and feel like we got a good bit accomplished.
At La Obra, the Centro de Estudios students are gearing up for exams, so I will have a lot more students in the morning. Milton said when I was not there Thursday morning (because of Kate's visit) there were seven students there for English tutoring!
The four YAGM volunteers have been asked to prepare devotionals and ice breakers for this coming weekend in Buenos Aires for the weekend retreat with members of Lutheran churches from all over Argentina and Uruguay. We feel honored to be included in this retreat and to share some of our ideas with the people here. Keep everyone involved in your prayers this coming weekend.
For now, I will leave you with those prayer requests. Thank you for being a part of my journey this year. I look forward to returning and sharing my experience with each of you!
God bless!
ps. Pictures are posted here: http://community.webshots.com/user/maryrk45
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Dear Lord,
Out of the blur of business bring the focus of your presence in our midast. Be with Wilma, Milton, Carla, Augustine, Kate, Mary, the children and youth at La Obra and the YAGM Volunteers in Argentina and Uruguay. May your Holy Spirit breath the gift of life and may the power of your risen Son, Jesus Christ live in with and through each of them.
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