NewLife maintains a list of prayer requests from our employees, family members, and customers. This list is updated once a week, is available to each employee, and updates us on occasions when more prayer or praise is called for.

We are humbled to be able to pray for these needs and ask that if you have a special prayer request, please contact your Customer Service Representative.

In a recent article for The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO), Carol McGraw wrote about a new personal Christian endeavor — creating faith books. It seems that scrapbooking is being used by Christians to track their personal journey of faith including baptismal records, church records, and Christian life milestones like marriage, etc. Church congregations are also using faith books to keep a record of the history and life of the church.

While some people prefer to make their own book covers and page decorations including pictures and documents, supplies for faith books are now available at Christian stores. A recent book by Sharon Sheridan, Pages of Faith (Morehouse Publishing) is also available as a guide on how to create a spiritual scrapbook.

Spiritual Scrapbooking takes the personal journal up a bar in our search for understanding and celebration of life events. It is also something you can share with your friends and family. What a great idea!

Darkness is not hard to find in Iberia, Peru. Witches advertise their wares openly bartering for the souls of men and women. Churches are few and Bibles are hard to find. There is little access to hear God’s liberating word. Hearts are cowered in fear and for many there is no fear of God.

Our GO team determined an invasion was necessary, the light of the Gospel would come and darkness would be dispelled. We finally arrived, an entourage of 31 Americans and Peruvians. When nightfall came we set up the Jesus film and the musicians beckoned the residents to come for the viewing. By 8:00pm the life of Jesus unfolded to a crowd of 300 people. They heard His words, witnessed his miracles, saw Him crucified. It is always at that moment that decision is now bearing down on the heart of an unbeliever. Jesus, the perfect Son of God laid His life down for me and you. “What must I do to be saved?”

His convincing work is evident as throngs of people surge forward to the front to pray and seek His forgiveness. Once again God has done His work, His Word dispels the darkness and unveils His life giving power. We rejoice just as everyone in heaven when one sinner repents! There is no greater satisfaction in life than to witness the Holy Spirit drawing people to Himself.

And Jesus said, “If I be lifted up I will draw all men to myself.”

– From Larry Cochran of Go International, used with permission.

Keji is eighteen years old and a senior in high school at Loka Senior Secondary School in Southern Sudan. Several weeks ago, she was abducted from her village by insurgents. Please pray for Keji, as you would for your own daughter, that she does not experience violence and that she is returned to her family soon. Keji’s parents live far from the school and are very worried about her.

(Prayer request from Executive Director of Global Response Network (GRN),Tom Zurowski, who is also a member of the Board of the NewLife Charitable Trust.)

GRN has been rebuilding the Loka Senior Secondary School since 2002 when it was discovered in ruins after years of fighting in the region. NewLife has provided support for the Director of the School for four years. This school has developed into a model school for the country and maintains a standard of education that has been recognized by the government. Global Response Network has recently been asked by the government to partner with them in the building of several other regional schools.