Monday, March 22, 2010
3/22/2010, #77, 1st Quarter 2010
Then he came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, "What was it you disputed among yourselves on the road?" But they kept silent, for on the road they had disputed among themselves who would be the greatest. And he sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, "If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all." (Mark 9:33-35)
Holy Spirit, please help us know the desires of our hearts for what they are and bring them into alignment with what Jesus desires for us.
Then he took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And when he had taken him in his arms, he said to them, "Whoever receives one of these little children in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me." (Mark 9:36-37)
Father, please help us receive every child and every baby Christian you send us; help us take them into our arms and into our fellowship with the love that Jesus has for them.
Now John answered him, saying, "Teacher, we saw someone who does not follow us casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow us." But Jesus said, "Do not forbid him, for no one who works a miracle in my name can soon afterward speak evil of me. For he who is not against us is on our side." (Mark 9:38-40)
Jesus, the question is not, "Are they following us?" but "Are they following you?" Please help us get past blind denominationalism and see and recognize with joy all those who follow you. Help us daily enter into fellowship with all our brothers and sisters in the kingdom. Thank you.
Monday: 35; Exodus 4:10-20(21-26)27-31 1 Corinthians 14:1-19; Mark 9:30-41
Tuesday: 124, 125, 126, [127]; Exodus 5:1-6:1; 1 Corinthians 14:20-33a, 39-40; Mark 9:42-50
Notes from the Front Line
***** One of the most exciting things we saw last week while in Northern Ireland is The Dock Church. This is a new initiative to reach the Titanic Quarter of the city of Belfast. The area where the ship Titanic was built had deteriorated into rubble and ruin. It is now an area of exciting re-development with new business buildings, a metropolitan college, apartments and much more. This is a section of the city with no churches. A young Church of Ireland (Anglican) clergyman, Chris Bennett is heading up this ministry. Check out the web site: http://www.thedockchurch.org/
This ministry is intended to include other denominations as a way of making a new beginning from the "Troubles" of the recent past. There are several delightful videos you can look at. Please pray for this ministry.
***** Please pray for Bishop Bill and Bishop Mark Lawrence of South Carolina and the other faithful bishops attending the House of Bishops meeting this weekend.
***** Pray for Fr. Hap Carrier who has advanced pancreatic cancer. Pray for the fire of the Holy Spirit to go through his body and cleanse it of cancer.
***** Photo taken by Fr. Hap Carrier of one of the nuns from Malawi ringing the Angelus bell at the Convent. Please pray for vocations to the Sisters of St. Mary, both here in the United States and in Malawi.
***** Sign up for the Diocesan Convention at http://www.albanyepiscopaldiocese.org/ministries/convention/index.html
Pray that there will be streams of living water flowing through the Diocesan Convention.
***** Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010
From: Shaw Mudge
Subject: Mudge Public Prayer Mail, 21 March 2010
Dear Partners in Prayer,
Peace be with you.
This is our weekly public prayer mail. Spring has begun in North America, and Autumn has begun in South America.
Thanksgivings:
1) For the blessings of this past week which had many challenges. Particularly for the blessing of friends who have helped offset about 3/5 of the $250 a month rent increase that came our way. That has been an incredible sign of the Lord's provision for us and means a lot. That was actually a fair and typical rental increase for this building believe it or not. But it took us a while to get over the sticker shock.
The irony of it all: I had been praying for a just and fair rental price, expecting a lower price, and the thing is, after looking into it, it is a fair rental price from our landlord. Really. And now, it turns out that even the increase is a very good price for the area where we live. Across the street in a newer apartment, they are asking for an additional $400 a month, over our price increase, and that higher price is more typical of the area. Really. Wow.
2) For our friends here and in the United States. Thank you for being our friends.
3) Praise God for the movement of the Holy Spirit in the prayer and healing ministries here.
4) For the opportunities to transform people's lives by what we do, and to be able to make a difference.
5) For clean water. There are districts in Lima that do not have running water, and we live in a desert city. Sunday was water day.
6) For Bishop William Love (Albany) and Bishop William Godfrey (Peru), for the ministries at Christ the King Spiritual Life Center in Greenwich, New York, and for the ministries enabled by Cristo Rey (Christ the King) Diocesan Center in Lima, Peru.
7) That we have our current "Carne de Extranjeria" stickers (an government requirement for our identification card). Normally, this detail should not be anything of consequence. We had arranged for the renewal, and all things being the same, it should have been a simple process of putting stickers on the back of id cards (having paid a fee, and having filled out a form, along with providing all the necessary accompanying paperwork), until it was discovered at the point of putting the actual stickers put on the back of the cards for Julie and myself, that the government office had actually run out of stickers. So, the process had to be continued on another day. Lydia's was fine. She was rejoicing.
8 ) That there are Andean raspberries in Peru.
Prayers:
1) For the people, relationships, ministries, finances, resources, and priorities associated with the Diocese of Peru, Saints Augustine seminary, and the Missionaries in Peru (including us). This is an on-going prayer, but it is a crucial one.
2) For the seminary courses and for the students.
3) For the Albany short term mission trip plans in late July. Pray for the on-going preparations in the Diocese of Peru and the Diocese of Albany. We had a good visit to the proposed lodging site this week.
4) For our landlady, her husband, and the others in our apartment building.
5) For Julie at the New Wineskins and the SAMS worldwide conference in April in North Carolina, and for Julie, Lydia, and I in Pennsylvania and New York State/Connecticut in May/June, including our Diocesan Convention.
7) For the people in and involved with the Bishop election process in Peru. The election Synod is this week. There are three positions. I know all three candidates, and for that I am grateful: Fr. John Park, Fr. John MacDonald, and Fr. Michael Chapman. Each has to have a majority of the voters vote for them, so it is not over for each one until the required number of votes are in their favor. Pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
8 ) That the Holy Spirit would raise up the next clerical leadership for Jesus el Salvador, soon.
9) For the CEMO (ordination) process meetings over the next few weeks.
Thank you for praying for us. It makes a difference. I pray for you every day.
God bless you. In Christ, Shaw, and on behalf of Julie and Lydia
Lima, Peru
Albany Intercessor
Holy Spirit, please help us know the desires of our hearts for what they are and bring them into alignment with what Jesus desires for us.
Then he took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And when he had taken him in his arms, he said to them, "Whoever receives one of these little children in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me." (Mark 9:36-37)
Father, please help us receive every child and every baby Christian you send us; help us take them into our arms and into our fellowship with the love that Jesus has for them.
Now John answered him, saying, "Teacher, we saw someone who does not follow us casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow us." But Jesus said, "Do not forbid him, for no one who works a miracle in my name can soon afterward speak evil of me. For he who is not against us is on our side." (Mark 9:38-40)
Jesus, the question is not, "Are they following us?" but "Are they following you?" Please help us get past blind denominationalism and see and recognize with joy all those who follow you. Help us daily enter into fellowship with all our brothers and sisters in the kingdom. Thank you.
Monday: 35; Exodus 4:10-20(21-26)27-31 1 Corinthians 14:1-19; Mark 9:30-41
Tuesday: 124, 125, 126, [127]; Exodus 5:1-6:1; 1 Corinthians 14:20-33a, 39-40; Mark 9:42-50
Notes from the Front Line
***** One of the most exciting things we saw last week while in Northern Ireland is The Dock Church. This is a new initiative to reach the Titanic Quarter of the city of Belfast. The area where the ship Titanic was built had deteriorated into rubble and ruin. It is now an area of exciting re-development with new business buildings, a metropolitan college, apartments and much more. This is a section of the city with no churches. A young Church of Ireland (Anglican) clergyman, Chris Bennett is heading up this ministry. Check out the web site: http://www.thedockchurch.org/
This ministry is intended to include other denominations as a way of making a new beginning from the "Troubles" of the recent past. There are several delightful videos you can look at. Please pray for this ministry.
***** Please pray for Bishop Bill and Bishop Mark Lawrence of South Carolina and the other faithful bishops attending the House of Bishops meeting this weekend.
***** Pray for Fr. Hap Carrier who has advanced pancreatic cancer. Pray for the fire of the Holy Spirit to go through his body and cleanse it of cancer.
***** Photo taken by Fr. Hap Carrier of one of the nuns from Malawi ringing the Angelus bell at the Convent. Please pray for vocations to the Sisters of St. Mary, both here in the United States and in Malawi.
***** Sign up for the Diocesan Convention at http://www.albanyepiscopaldiocese.org/ministries/convention/index.html
Pray that there will be streams of living water flowing through the Diocesan Convention.
***** Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010
From: Shaw Mudge
Subject: Mudge Public Prayer Mail, 21 March 2010
Dear Partners in Prayer,
Peace be with you.
This is our weekly public prayer mail. Spring has begun in North America, and Autumn has begun in South America.
Thanksgivings:
1) For the blessings of this past week which had many challenges. Particularly for the blessing of friends who have helped offset about 3/5 of the $250 a month rent increase that came our way. That has been an incredible sign of the Lord's provision for us and means a lot. That was actually a fair and typical rental increase for this building believe it or not. But it took us a while to get over the sticker shock.
The irony of it all: I had been praying for a just and fair rental price, expecting a lower price, and the thing is, after looking into it, it is a fair rental price from our landlord. Really. And now, it turns out that even the increase is a very good price for the area where we live. Across the street in a newer apartment, they are asking for an additional $400 a month, over our price increase, and that higher price is more typical of the area. Really. Wow.
2) For our friends here and in the United States. Thank you for being our friends.
3) Praise God for the movement of the Holy Spirit in the prayer and healing ministries here.
4) For the opportunities to transform people's lives by what we do, and to be able to make a difference.
5) For clean water. There are districts in Lima that do not have running water, and we live in a desert city. Sunday was water day.
6) For Bishop William Love (Albany) and Bishop William Godfrey (Peru), for the ministries at Christ the King Spiritual Life Center in Greenwich, New York, and for the ministries enabled by Cristo Rey (Christ the King) Diocesan Center in Lima, Peru.
7) That we have our current "Carne de Extranjeria" stickers (an government requirement for our identification card). Normally, this detail should not be anything of consequence. We had arranged for the renewal, and all things being the same, it should have been a simple process of putting stickers on the back of id cards (having paid a fee, and having filled out a form, along with providing all the necessary accompanying paperwork), until it was discovered at the point of putting the actual stickers put on the back of the cards for Julie and myself, that the government office had actually run out of stickers. So, the process had to be continued on another day. Lydia's was fine. She was rejoicing.
8 ) That there are Andean raspberries in Peru.
Prayers:
1) For the people, relationships, ministries, finances, resources, and priorities associated with the Diocese of Peru, Saints Augustine seminary, and the Missionaries in Peru (including us). This is an on-going prayer, but it is a crucial one.
2) For the seminary courses and for the students.
3) For the Albany short term mission trip plans in late July. Pray for the on-going preparations in the Diocese of Peru and the Diocese of Albany. We had a good visit to the proposed lodging site this week.
4) For our landlady, her husband, and the others in our apartment building.
5) For Julie at the New Wineskins and the SAMS worldwide conference in April in North Carolina, and for Julie, Lydia, and I in Pennsylvania and New York State/Connecticut in May/June, including our Diocesan Convention.
7) For the people in and involved with the Bishop election process in Peru. The election Synod is this week. There are three positions. I know all three candidates, and for that I am grateful: Fr. John Park, Fr. John MacDonald, and Fr. Michael Chapman. Each has to have a majority of the voters vote for them, so it is not over for each one until the required number of votes are in their favor. Pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
8 ) That the Holy Spirit would raise up the next clerical leadership for Jesus el Salvador, soon.
9) For the CEMO (ordination) process meetings over the next few weeks.
Thank you for praying for us. It makes a difference. I pray for you every day.
God bless you. In Christ, Shaw, and on behalf of Julie and Lydia
Lima, Peru
Albany Intercessor
