Prayer requests

Sorry about my post earlier. I think I was in a bit of a funk still. 

 I am working on it, I promise. 

 In the meantime, I have a couple of prayer requests that I would really like you guys to lift up for me. For those that I love. 

This is my Andy - in his full goofy glory. I love him in every mood, in every shape, in every form and fashion. But this lighthearted, laughing teasing fellow is the one I miss the most. Because he is the one I never get to see anymore. 

 Right now Andy is deployed at a base that has multiple branches of military all serving together, as well as military from other countries too. 

 In the six weeks that he has been there, the US Army has lost three men. Three guys that ate in the same dining hall as him, and breathed the same air as him, rode out to do their job and didn't come back. 

 That hurts. 

 

 I struggle on my side, or course, with fear. But that isn't overwhelming to me. Andy stays on base, and does his job, and I refuse to let satan waste my time with needless worry. But sorrow can be overwhelming sometimes. I know that thinking about the wives and mothers of those young soldiers - I hurt for those women. 

 And even though Andy would never say so, I think that he is hurting too. Breathing the same air with these guys, attending the memorial services - three times in six weeks - it has been rough. He didn't know them personally, but they are still a part of his team, and thus, a part of him. 

 Pray for him, please. 

 Secondly, this is my friend Frank Kaleb Jansen. He is the founder of the ministry that my dad volunteers with, Bibles for All ministries. This picture was taken when I stayed with he and his wife at their home in Norway, the summer I turned 19. 

 He is an amazing man. Smuggled bibles into Poland. Created Bible for All ministries, and has worked tirelessly to try to fulfill that goal - Bibles for ALL. Has helped develop international relationships between Norway and N. Korea. Started a Christian television station that broadcasts across Norway. Has traveled across the globe, met people all over the world, and still took the time to connect me to the right person, so that I could start the process toward adopting our daughter. He even officiated the first part of our wedding, so my daddy could walk me down the aisle. 

 He has four beautiful daughters and a son, along with their spouses and the multiple grandchildren they have provided him. 

 

Today we received a call to let us know that he has been diagnosed with a late stage lukemia. 

Please, please, pray. 

God has healed him before from other things, and most certainly can again. 

 Right now I just need a little faith boost. So please my friends, join me. Be my faith boost, and lift this man of God up, please. I am not strong enough to pray on my own tonight. Pray with me, please.  

 Thank you