SATURDAY, 5/31/14
Today’s Bible reading – 2 Samuel 17:1-29 John 19:23-42 Psalm 119:129-152 Proverbs 16:12-13
Can you believe that five months of 2014 will be history after today? Wow!
No updates on any of the folks for whom we have been praying for here in the States.
You did not hear this from me as I not supposed to know it – Scott Fontenot is in the hospital with a possible heart cath today. Word came to me that Nanette wanted me to come spend the night at the hospital with them but I declined as I will check on Scott today.
I do know that Cristy Leytham had to have an adjustment to her feeding tube, that Carlos Raxon came home from the hospital in order to begin chemotherapy treatments, and that Mike Perez continues to have some major issues with his health. All three of these folks are friends in Guatemala.
We will have our third Saturday night service beginning at 6:00PM tonight. There will be a nursery (birth – 2 years) staffed by a couple of our older teen girls. The nursery will be available beginning at 5:50PM. I appreciate these girls volunteering to serve in this capacity – it was all their idea!
Our Sunday School class gathered last night and received several cans/bags of food for the “Pound the Pantry” emphasis. We are so ahead of the 39ers! Friendship family, help us “PTP” beginning tomorrow!
Perhaps Farni & Farni have a racket going! Gina goes in for a simple cleaning yesterday morning and, before we leave their office, Dr. Court has scheduled a consultation for us with an oral surgeon who just happens to share the building with them! Really? Want to take one of her wisdom teeth out and it has not even come in yet!
If one more person tells me they did not know yesterday was Soy’s birthday. . . . .
I prefer the cold over the heat and that goes for the NBA too! Hopefully, the Spurs or Thunder can cool things down in the finals!
I pray that you will have a great Saturday with Jesus.
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All Praise and Glory to God!!!!!! Thanks for your Prayers.
The Sudanese woman sentenced to death earlier this month after refusing to renounce her Christian faith will reportedly be freed in the next few days.
A foreign ministry official told the BBC that Meriam Ibrahim, 27, is guaranteed religious freedom in the country, despite a judge’s earlier ruling that she should be hanged for apostasy.
Ibrahim gave birth to a girl early Tuesday at a prison clinic in Omdurman, near Khartoum, one of her attorneys told FoxNews.com by phone.
She also faces 100 lashes for adultery – for being intimate with her husband, Daniel Wani, who fled to the United States as a child to escape the civil war in southern Sudan, but later returned.
International outrage against Ibrahim’s sentence has grown significantly in recent weeks, as more than a million people signed online petitions protesting the sentence. One such effort on Change.org has garnered more than 630,000 signatures as of Friday, and Amnesty International officials have characterized the punishment doled out by a judge to be a “flagrant breach” of international human rights law. It’s also a violation of Sudan’s own Constitution, according to the State Department.
It is not clear what diplomatic pressure the U.S. can bring to bear on Khartoum. Although American taxpayers send roughly $300 million per year in economic aid, the help is largely in the form of food and medicine. Cutting it off would only hurt the people, and not the regime of President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted as a war criminal by the International Criminal Court.