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Walking on Our Knees Together May 2014
Dal and Beth Stanton Sofia, Bulgaria www.mtwbg.com [email protected]
Praying for Ukraine We continue praying. Why? For the brothers and sisters serving there and for the glory and honor of Christ to be seen! Please pray!
Recapturing Innocence: A Picture
Continue praying as we explore working with Servants Anonymous Foundation, based in Calgary, Canada. SAF specializes in developing shelters for women and their children who have been exploited, with long-term training programs and relationships as paths to wholeness.
Beth will travel to the US to attend the global conference of the International Christian Alliance on Prostitution (18th-23rd). Pray for safety and the success of the triennial gathering (http://www.icapglobal.org).
Outreaches to the daughters continue weekly. Pray! Every Sunday (10:30AM Eastern TZ!) we drive to the Ring Road to show and tell them who Jesus is!
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The picture will stay with me a long time – it was precious. We were saying goodbyes at the SAF shelter we were visiting in Budapest. I was moving to the door to grab my coat and I looked back over my shoulder and froze. Our girls, Kari (Bulgarian, DofB team & Well Intern this summer) and Katie (MTW intern), were ‘saying’ goodbyes to the two Hungarian daughters (Roma, 20ish) who had just befriended them. Because language separated them, their goodbye was silent – only touching, holding hands, shy smiles – little girls again. For me, I was seeing a picture of innocence
Kari, Katie and Beth, we’re doing a bit of ‘touristing’
while in Budapest
in the process of being recaptured by the power of invincible grace. These daughters were discovering wholeness through the loving, unrelenting, tough nurture of the caregivers at the shelter. This ‘picture’ has given us hope that this kind of care IS POSSIBLE, with God’s help, for the daughters of Bulgaria.
Thankful to the Lord… for the protection
and recovery of our Bulgarian teammates, Vlado & Boian, who were in a serious auto accident recently.
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My birthday present to Beth! Some of you follow us on Facebook and saw that Beth and I spent a long weekend at the Black Sea in Varna, participating in the Black Sea Tall Ship Regatta! We loved the change and it was good simply to pull back, take a deep breath, and stop for a few short moments. We are thankful to serve Him in Bulgaria and we are thankful to you for enabling all we do through your prayers and giving! We don’t take you for granted.
What do they
share in common?
Last month we asked you to pray for and give to help enable the operation of the Elias Riggs Center for Biblical Studies to continue for another year. The Lord, through you, has met this need! Thank you so, so much!
The Well ’14 – This Month!
I love summer – busy but love it! Our interns will be arriving soon to begin our 6th annual summer internship! “The Well” stretches and challenges each intern to live radically committed to Christ. How? Through daily study of biblical and missional concepts, living in cross-cultural community, travel to Istanbul, eating food…. And much more!
Pray for interns in the home stretch of raising support and for many, final exams. Pray especially for intern, Emily Bowen (top right), who experienced a fractured vertebrae recently while diving into a pool. She attends UGA and is still hoping to come for the summer. Pray for her recovery and for wisdom for her care providers to determine if she can participate this summer! Pray!
I’m still working on taking the ‘selfies’!
