November 2005
Dear Intercessors and Friends:
We wish you and your family the warmest Holiday Season and God's greatest love, peace and joy!
As our relocation to India draws near, we find that our two biggest prayer targets are intercession and financing. We ask in Jesus' Name that you would lift your hearts toward the Lord on behalf of these two issues.
1. A) As the payment for our flight is due on December 15th, we find the team still lacking in their travel funds. In order that we may travel to India to establish the Healing Rooms, and on to Africa to do our repeated, time-honored, fruitful work, the team needs $4,600 each. Please note: this includes travel to two nations and cities within the great country of India.
B) Additionally, we will be serving a leper colony in South India. This service includes both the purchase of blankets for the 2,000 families of the leper colony plus our team ministry to them. We have a goal of $800-1,000 totally committed. All the monies donated to either the team's flight OR the leper fund is fully tax deductible, and 100% of the funds will go specifically to these targeted needs.
C) Inner City Light has approved the increase of our financial accountability and credibility (already quite high, praise God) by bringing in an auditor to oversee our finances. There is a joint consideration of this oversight coming from the Joseph Company, under the umbrella of International House of Prayer. Please pray in the godly man or woman willing to invest his or her skills into God's work in the nations.
2. A) Our second prayer target is for a specific lead intercessor, called by God to ICL. This intercessor would receive information on top issues such as big meetings and events, and Healing Room/Mumbai issues, and will e-mail these urgent prayer requests to the lead intercessors of three churches. Of course, this will be in addition to our regular e-mail to you, our highly valued intercessors. We have a second interview with a potential candidate for this spot on December 7th. "..meanwhile, praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ."(Colossians 4:3)
B) The last request for this month's intercession is attached to this letter -- pictures and specific prayer requests for each of our India teammates. Please print it and pray for them regularly for the entire year we are gone. We hope you will find this helpful.
We love and value you so much. Please hang in there with us during this coming year in India and Africa. You are greatly needed. Thanks.
THE INNER CITY LIGHT TEAM