Compasion Connect has a Prayer Coordinator (Karen Masulis).  (Every couple weeks) prayer update emails please join the team by emailing:

prayer@compassionconnect.com

Compasion Connect has a Prayer Coordinator (Karen Masulis).  (Every couple weeks) prayer update emails please join the team by emailing:

prayer@compassionconnect.com

If there is one thing I won’t be lacking this Thanksgiving season, it’s the joy God has given to me in serving Him through the work we do at Barberry Village.

I sit on a hay bale and look over at my fiancé, Matt, with two kids piled on each side of him, a wide grin on all three faces.

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Compasion Connect has a Prayer Coordinator (Karen Masulis).  (Every couple weeks) prayer update emails please join the team by emailing:

prayer@compassionconnect.com

love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind [and]…love your neighbor as yourself. these words are almost cliché amongst christian circles these days, but i didn’t have a clue what they truly meant until i moved into barberry roughly a month ago.

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Compasion Connect has a Prayer Coordinator (Karen Masulis).  (Every couple weeks) prayer update emails please join the team by emailing:

prayer@compassionconnect.com

Compasion Connect has a Prayer Coordinator (Karen Masulis).  (Every couple weeks) prayer update emails please join the team by emailing:

prayer@compassionconnect.com

CC Prayer Requests for August

Health - Compassion Clinics

There is one clinic in August - Montavilla Kids Summer Festival - Aug 13

It will include a dental clinic and social services fair

Please pray for:

· God to be present at the event

· Attendees to see/feel the goodness of the Lord

· All to run smoothly

· All the organizations/volunteers to work in unity and one mission

· The joy/strength of the Lord to be evident in all volunteers

· And for good weather too!

There are 3 clinics in September:

· Compassion Yakima - Sept. 17th 2011

· Compassion Ridgefield - Sept. 10th 2011

· Compassion East Vancouver - Sept. 24th 2011

Please pray for:

· God to provide just what is needed for each clinic site

· Clinic leaders to have God’s peace as they plan and prepare

· Clinic leaders to be able to know what “their part” is and what “God’s part” is and be diligent in doing their part and trust God to do His part

· Peace and unity for all involved

· God to use the clinic to build relationships among the various churches involved

· Relationships between volunteers who work in stressful places within the clinics.  There have been some tension points...and we want to make sure unity is maintained.

Compassion Beaverton - Oct 1

Thank God for His answers to prayer:

· Leaders & co-leaders continue to step forward

· Volunteers are signing on to provide specialty services on the clinic day

· Grants have been awarded to help with some of the costs of the clinic

Please pray for:

· Westside churches to respond to our invitation to join us in partnership

· God to call Spanish speakers to come forward in all areas of service

· Professionals to volunteer in the medical and dental service areas

· God to bring clarification on a number of issues from whether to offer care for babies, to offering entertainment during the clinic

· God to supply all we need, from parking, to Bibles, to hearts of joy to serve as one Body, by His grace

· God to provide the right people to fill critical leadership openings

· God’s protection over our clinic leaders and their families - Challenges continue

· God to reveal His heart and vision for the Church’s long term community involvement in Beaverton

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In February of this year our Bible study group went to the Barberry Apartments to serve lunch and fellowship with the residents there. We met a young man that had recently immigrated and had only been here for three weeks. This meeting has brought forth an incredible relationship with him and his extended family of fourteen who are all refugees, as we were instantly drawn to them and them to us.

Over the past several months we have had some great times together. We have been able to assist them in everyday tasks such as shopping, transportation, learning English, translating at dentist appointments, getting clothing vouchers at Salvation Army, and taking some of them to church. Recently we took them up to Mt Hood to see snow for the first time. It was an amazing experience for them and us. We have also had them over for dinner, taken them to concerts and played dominos. It has been such a blessing to have them in our lives as we learn about their culture and language as we teach them about ours. On one occasion we were able to go to Google maps and see the refugee camp where they lived and actually see their old neighborhood and listen to them talk about their neighbors and friends they left behind.

Most of the family are not Christians and they were afraid that we would be offended because of that, but we assured them that that is not what our friendship is based on and that we love them for who they are. We continue to pray for their salvation and for God's love to be revealed through our actions and love for them.