Pay it Forward Ministries, a non For Profit, faith based community action group located in both Henderson and Warren County in Illinois, attended the Illinois Faith-based Emergency Preparedness’ Initiative meeting in Springfield Illinois on Tuesday May 26th. The purpose of this meeting was to offer a community forum for understanding the impact of disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. The guest speakers were Mayor Ray Nagin, Mayer of New Orleans, Louisiana,. Alphonso Jackson, Director, Center for Public Policy and Leadership, Distinguished University Professor Hampton University, and former U.S. Secretary of HUD. David Roth, chair, Executive Committee IL VOAD, and Co-Coordinator Lutheran Child & Family Services of Illinois, and Susan True Associate Vice President/Meta Leadership Summits for Preparedness Centers For Disease Control Foundation.
The objectives of this meeting included, but were not limited to, Instilling a culture of preparedness within our local communities. Identifying and addressing gaps in preparedness. Being educated on the basics of risks associated with pandemic influenza. Learning to Assist in building community resource capacity. Supporting and facilitating relationship-building and cooperation between private and public sectors. Empowering our communities to prepare together. Knowing how to protect yourself, and your community. Understanding the importance of cooperated leadership among emergency management, voluntary organizations, public health and faith-based entities and understanding the needs of the vulnerable populations.
Collectively it was stated by all guest speakers the importance of recognizing the role of Churches and Faith based agencies play in any disaster. It was noted that open lines of communication need to open by local governmental bodies to these volunteer organizations. As learned after Katrina, as well as many other disasters around the globe. Faith based agencies are not only there from the beginning but are still there after the disaster. It is not the disaster itself that matters but what is learned from it and what is done because of it. Also noted was the importance of not only planning what to do if a disaster hits your local communities but the importance planning a way to put it in practice and identifying the committed resources to do this. It is important the we remember that being PROACTIVE leads to the means to respond.
After the meeting Jamison Moede, Special Operation Manger and Case Manager for Pay it 4wrd, Shawn Moede Chair person and Case Manager for pay it 4wrd and Tina Waterman Disaster Coordinator and Case Manager for Pay it 4wrd, met with Dr. Damon T. Arnold, MD, MPH Director, Illinois Department of Health and Mayor Ray Nagin, Mayer of New Orleans. This open line of communication was established and will be a blessing for future meetings in the future. This will aid them in the continued relief efforts needed after the flood of 2008 in the “Forgotten Strip” of Illinois (Henderson County) as well as future disasters that may arise.
Pay it Forward Ministries has and will continue to share knowledge and resources throughout the disaster cycle, preparation response and recovery to help disaster survivors and their communities. Shawn Moede stated “We respond to disasters and the needs of those we serve in our communities as part of our Mission. Together we foster a more effective service through communication, coordination, cooperation and collaboration-by providing convening mechanisms and outreach to all people involved in disasters. Our members are all volunteers that come from diverse background and share a common goal. We currently have two Free distribution centers , and in addition offer several other programs to the counties we serve. We are currently members of Voad and have affiliations with several other organizations.”
HOUSE UNDER ATTACK
PEOPLE WITH NO POWER OR HEAT
PASTOR NEED STRENGTH AND GUIDENCE
A WOMAN AND HER CHILDREN
A PERSON NEEDING A JOB
A FAMILY OF FOUR WITH NO POWER AND HEALTH PROBLEMS
A FAMILY TO GET OVER THEIR STRUGGLES
A FAMILY THAT LOST EVERY THING IN THE FLOOD, HUSBAND LOST HIS JOB
A PERSON HAVING CANCER SURGERY - HEALING, FINANCIAL BLESSING
AND THE LORD WOULD BE WITH THE FAMILY
MAN WITH THE FLU - HEALING
RUSSEL - LUNG CANCER/BRIAN CANCER
WOMAN NEEDS TO GO ASSISTED LIVING - DOESN'T WANT TO GO
MARY - ILL - HEALING
BOB - CANCER - HEALING
WOMAN WEAK - CANNOT KEEP FOOD DOWN
UNSPOKEN
PAUL - FLU - HEALING
WOMAN SICK IN HOSPITAL
LEAH - CRUSHED FOOT - CONTINUED HEALING
KIM - SURGERY
PERSON WITH HEAD COLD
UNSPOKEN
TRAVEL MERCIES
I ask that you lift the following situations up prayer:
Unspoken
2 people sick
Woman with MRSA
Woman with blood clots in her leg
Unspoken
Forgiveness
Unification of Gods people
Finances
A couple having problems in thier marriage
Woman on drugs
Unspoken
Unspoken
Unspoken
Problems in marriage (not wanting them to lead to divorce)
Wife trading families money and herself for drugs
Person with Pneumonia (person has breast cancer that spread to lungs-immune sytem weak)
Homeless family wants in from the cold
Hurt foot
Woman in hospital
Man with cancer
unspoken
2 people with cancer
Man healing
Unspoken
woman having problems sleeping
children shielded from suffering-God keep them safe
stress-tearing a family apart
support for a man doing gods work
two woman coming out of prison looking for strength
woman needing strength to continue to help people - good disernmant
woman stregth
Man-wife wont let him see his child (he's asking for gods will)
Mother-no home to take her children t0
grandmother concerened about her grandchildren (they are homeless)
Man -uncertain about future-no home
family-stress
man-abusive to wife and child
unspoken
unity of churches to work together
prayer that grandparents can get custody of grandkids
woman-cancer
husband-ill
son-needs heat for house
unspoken
man-wife wants divorce
man and wife-praying relationship is healed and safty for their children
semi wreck-two people killed
young woman-has daughter-boyfriend layed off
cople lost everything in flood-need jobs
couple flood-lost home living in camper VERY COLD AND SCARED
family lives with his mom-man has crone's disease and acting out
person who lost utililites
family no power since july in thier home
family-flood lives in car-needs home
mission needing supplies
woman in Iowa many problems-husband died in flood
family- no place to live
woman- prostituting to for food to feed her kids
woman -prostituting for drugs-wants forgiveness-needs strength to change
woman- not taking care of daughter-lost husband a few months ago
man-cancer
family-19 year old son just died of cancer
Man-wants to die-believes family will live better
Man- will to live
Food
Boy and Mom-living place to place- NO PLACE TO GO SHELTERS ARE FULL
support-gods will-supplies running low-pantry needs restocked- monitary aid
In September 1960, I woke up one morning with six hungry babies and just 75 cents in my pocket. Their father was gone.The boys ranged from three months to seven years; their sister was two Their Dad had never been much more than a presence they feared.Whenever they heard his tires crunch on the gravel driveway they would scramble to hide under their beds.He did manage to leave $15 a week to buy groceries.Now that he had decided to leave, there would be no more beatings, but no food either.If there was a welfare system in effect in southern Indiana at that time, I certainly knew nothing about it. I scrubbed the kids until they looked brand new and then put on my best homemade dress, loaded them into the rusty old 51 Chevy and drove off to find a job. The seven of us went to every factory, store and restaurant in our small town. No luck.The kids stayed crammed into the car and tried to be quiet while I tried to convince who ever would listen that I was willing to learn or do anything. I had to have a job.Still no luck. The last place we went to, just a few miles out of town, was an old Root Beer Barrel drive-in t hat had been converted to a truck stop. It was called the Big Wheel.An old lady named Granny owned the place and she peeked out of the window from time to time at all those kids. She needed someone on the graveyard shift, 11 at night until seven in the morning.She paid 65 cents an hour, and I could start that night. I raced home and called the teenager down the street that baby-sat for people. I bargained with her to come and sleep on my sofa for a dollar a night She could arrive with her pajamas on and the kids would already be asleepThis seemed like a good arrangement to her, so we made a deal.That night when the little ones and I knelt to say our prayers, we all thanked God for finding Mommy a job. And so I started at the Big Wheel. When I got home in the mornings I woke the baby-sitter up and sent her home with one dollar of my tip money-- fully half of what I averaged every night. As the weeks went by, heating bills added a strain to my meager wage. The tires on the old Chevy had the consistency of penny balloons and began to leak. I had to fill them with air on the way to work and again every morning before I could go home. One bleak fall morning, I dragged myself to the car to go home and found four tires in the back seat. New tires!There was no note, no nothing, just those beautiful brand new tires. Had angels taken up residence in Indiana ? I wondered.I made a deal with the local service station. In exchange for his mounting the new tires, I would clean up his office. I remember it took me a lot longer to scrub his floor than it did for him to do the tires.I was now working six nights instead of five and it still wasn't enough. Christmas was coming and I knew there would be no money for toys for the kids. I found a can of red paint and started repairing and painting some old toys. Then I hid them in the basement so there would be something for Santa to deliver on Christmas morning. Clothes were a worry too. I was sewing patches on top of patches on the boys pants and soon they would be too far gone to repair.On Christmas Eve the usual customers were drinking coffee in the Big Wheel. There were the truckers, Les, Frank , and Jim , and a state trooper named Joe . A few musicians were hanging around after a gig at the Legion and were dropping nickels in the pinball machine. The regulars all just sat around and talked through the wee hours of the morning and then left to get home before the sun came up. When it was time for me to go home at seven o'clock on Christmas morning, to my amazement, my old battered Chevy was filled full to the top with boxes of all shapes and sizes. I quickly opened the driver's side door, crawled inside and kneeled in the front facing the back seat.Reaching back, I pulled off the lid of the top box. Inside was whole case of little blue jeans, sizes 2-10! I looked inside another box: It was full of shirts to go with the jeans. Then I peeked inside some of the other boxes. There was candy and nuts and bananas and bags of groceries. There was an enormous ham for baking, and canned vegetables and potatoes. There was pudding and Jell-O and cookies, pie filling and flour. There was whole bag of laundry supplies and cleaning items. And there were five toy trucks and one beautiful little doll.As I drove back through empty streets as the sun slowly rose on the most amazing Christmas Day of my life, I was sobbing with gratitude. And I will never forget the joy on the faces of my little ones that precious morning.Yes, there were angels in Indiana that long-ago December. And they all hung out at the Big Wheel truck stop....
THE POWER OF PRAYER.
I believe that God only gives three answers to prayer:
1. 'Yes!
2. 'Not yet.'
3. 'I have something better in mind.'God still sits on the throne, the devil is a liar.
Santa lives at the North Pole.JESUS is everywhere.
Santa rides in a sleigh
JESUS rides on the wind and walks on the water.
Santa comes but once a year
JESUS is an ever present help.
Santa fills your stockings with goodies
JESUS supplies all your needs.
Santa comes down your chimney uninvited
JESUS stands at your door and knocks.. And then enters your heart.
You have to stand in line to see Santa
JESUS is as close as the mention of His name.
Santa lets you sit on his lap
JESUS lets you rest in His arms.
Santa doesn't know your name, all he can say is
"Hi little boy or girl, What's your name?"
JESUS knew our name before we did.
Not only does He know our name, He knows our address too.
He knows our history and future
and He even knows how many hairs are on our heads.
Santa has a belly like a bowl full of jelly
JESUS has a heart full of love.
All Santa can offer is HO HO HO
JESUS offers health, help and hope.
Santa says "You better not cry"
JESUS says "Cast all your cares on me for I care for you.
Santa's little helpers make toys
JESUS makes new life, mends wounded hearts,
repairs broken homes and builds mansions.
Santa may make you chuckle but
JESUS gives you joy that is your strength.
While Santa puts gifts under your tree
JESUS became our gift and died on the tree.
It's obvious there is really no comparison.
We need to remember WHO Christmas is all about.
We need to put Christ back in Christmas.
Jesus is still the reason for the season.
May The Lord Bless & Watch Over You & Your Loved Ones This Christmas 2008
And May He Prosper & Bless The Work Of Your Hands In The New Year
GOD BLESS
REMEMBER ...
"Be at Peace," by Saint Francis de Sales
Do not look forward in fear to the changes in life; rather, look to them with full hope that as they arise, God, Whose very own you are, will lead you safely through all things; and when you cannot stand it, God will carry you in His Arms.
Do not fear what may happen tomorrow; the same understanding Father Who cares for you today will take care of you then and every day.
He will either shield you from suffering or will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations.
Many turn to 'survival mode' as they try to stay off the streets
By Erin Wood of the Journal Star
In many ways, Anthony Franklin is like any other 17-year-old boy.He has a job, a curfew and a girlfriend.But since he was kicked out of his mother's house two years ago because of a dispute with her boyfriend, Franklin has hopped from one basement to the next."You find a lot of good friends who will let you live with them if you have to," said Franklin, who tries to stay optimistic despite his draining lifestyle.With no real place to call home, Franklin is legally considered an unaccompanied youth, the fastest-growing homeless population, according to Mary Ellen Ulrich, homeless liaison for Project Target at the Regional Office of Education."You think of homeless people as the drunk guy begging for money or the bird lady with her shopping cart," Ulrich said. "But they're not the only homeless people. You forget about the kid with green eyes and freckles."Franklin, like many homeless students, had a tough time concentrating on his education while balancing his unsteady day-to-day life. Because of behavior problems, he's been kicked out of several area schools and doesn't have many options left.But he's not alone. Ulrich, the link between Peoria County's homeless children and their schools, has seen a recent surge in kids living on the streets. From August to today - the first day of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week - Ulrich has placed or offered assistance in some capacity to 127 students. By this date last year, just 21 children needed her help.Ulrich credits a struggling economy, increased unemployment rates and widespread home foreclosures for forcing more and more people to the street. But it's not just a local problem.Data compiled by the Illinois State Board of Education found about 22,000 Illinois students in 2007 were homeless, up from about 18,000 students in 2006. The agency believes, however, the actual number is much higher, closer to 60,000.Nationwide, about 1.6 million people, or about one in every 200 people, use an emergency shelter or transitional housing facility in a given year, with children making up nearly 40 percent of that population, according to 2007 data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.With few more possessions than the clothes on their back and living anywhere from cars to crowded shelters, homeless youth search for security while presenting their teachers with a vital task: helping these nomadic children find stability in education, often their only lifeline to a better tomorrow."Their lives are completely upside down. They need a teacher more than any kid in that classroom," Ulrich said. "School gives them a stable environment where they'll at least be warm and be fed. It's a chance to step away from reality, even if just for a few hours."To be in compliance with federal law, known as the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, school districts must seek out and enroll homeless students and therefore become a sort of safety net for children, who have no control over their living situations.Ulrich said homeless children are referred to her office mostly by social services agencies and teachers who suspect they have homeless children in their classrooms.Some of the signs a child is homeless include poor classroom performance, erratic attendance, weakened self-esteem and behavioral problems. Completing homework and making friends are the least of these kids' concerns. Even food and sleep - the most basic of human needs - sometime seem unattainable."They're in survival mode," said Norma Weaver, divisional social services director for the Salvation Army. "They forget to be children because they are so concerned with the crisis. They move from place to place and are never sure where they are going to be next or when they are going to eat again."Shelters such as the Salvation Army, which Weaver said is almost always at maximum capacity, offer homeless families a chance to get off the streets. Though the rooms are small - with just enough space to house two sets of bunk beds - living in shelters offers many more resources than the streets do.Aside from a warm bed and food, they provide after-school child care, extracurricular activities and projects for children and classes for parents on topics such as budgeting and stress management. Children get their own beds, their own stuffed animals and a community room to watch television.But in offering so many resources and creating an environment as close to a home as many families will get, shelters rarely have openings and must send families, including children, back to the streets."One family moves out and another moves in," Weaver said.Ulrich's office, though it helps get destitute children back in school, is not a "magic eraser" for homelessness. Though she can suggest shelters to homeless families or call social services agencies in violent or negligent situations, finding kids a home ultimately is out of her reach.For many poverty-stricken families, homelessness isn't yet a reality, but for some, it's inching closer.A Manual High School freshman, who is living in his sister's two-bedroom house on Peoria's south side with five other people, is considered homeless according to the law."I hope we can get out of here," said the 14-year-old, who asked that his name not be used.In July, the boy's mother, 46, who also asked not to be named, was diagnosed with breast cancer. It has since progressed to Stage 4, spreading to her bones and lungs. Unable to work and with no health insurance, the family couldn't make rent and were forced out of their mobile home and into the mother's daughter's house.For the woman's son, that meant enrolling in a new school, sleeping on a chair in his sister's living room every night and sometimes dealing with hunger pangs. He liked Limestone Community High School better, he said, and is having a hard time adjusting to the different atmosphere at Manual."It sucks," he said. "It doesn't feel like home."Still, his mother remains optimistic."He seems to be doing OK, considering how much he's going through," she said. "It broke his to heart to have to move."Michael Barber, principal of Irving Primary School, has more than 10 years of experience teaching homeless children, a task that often requires more attention and patience as well as the ability to put oneself in another's shoes, he said."There is already so much on your mind when you don't know where you are going to stay at night," Barber said. "Then you have to come to school and do your work. When you don't have your basic needs met, schoolwork is not a priority."Still, though their behavior might not always show it, homeless students appreciate having a desk to call their own, Barber said."It's the one constant they have that doesn't really change," he said. "It provides stability."For Franklin, an education is the only promise he'll someday have a place he can permanently call home. That's why - for two hours each night - he studies for the GED."I want to get a grant and go to college," Franklin said. "That's what I should be thinking about at night, not where I'm going to sleep."
Somewhere tonight a family lays shivering, trying to stay warm.
Somewhere tonight a man sits in his car longing to hold his son in his arms.
Somewhere tonight a Mother lays crying wanting to take her family home.
Somewhere tonight a Grandmother cries for her grandchildren.
Somewhere tonight a man sits at a bar stool, uncertain.
Somewhere tonight a child roams aimlessly on the streets.
Somewhere tonight a Husband strikes out in anger.
It's often easy to over look or forget about the homeless in our midst and their suffering but they are their and they cry out not to be forgotten...
The Gazettecindy.hadish@gazettecommunications.com
(Liz Martin photos/The Gazette)Mark and Paula Deason sit by the fire in the backyard of Mark's mother's flood-damaged house in southeast Cedar Rapids. The two lost their home in the flood and are living in a tent with their two children and dog. They are trying to find housing, with help from their church, before it gets much colder. Before the flood, they were living with a relative but because their name wasn't on the lease, they have been unable to get flood assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
CEDAR RAPIDS - Mark Deason, his wife and their two children lost their home in the June flood and are now living in a tent, hoping to find a house before it gets much colder.
"If I can find a cheap house, I'm taking it," said Mark Deason, 40. "It could be winter, for all I know."
Deason said he doesn't qualify for flood assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency because his name was not on the lease where he and his family were staying, even though they were contributing financially to the household.
Dan Abel, 56, a VISTA volunteer, is trying to find and count the flood victims like the Deasons who are living in tents, cars and campers.
He's found about 50 so far in campers or tents in Cedar Rapids neighborhoods and another 30 or so at campgrounds. His work will continue into Palo and other flooded areas.
"It doesn't matter who they are or where they came from," said Abel, noting that some of the homeless are out-of-state workers in Iowa for flood recovery work. "We don't want them to freeze to death."
Still fresh is the memory of Steven Howard, 48, who died of hypothermia in December 2006 after being turned away from a Cedar Rapids shelter because he had been drinking.
With temperatures closer to freezing this week, the homeless are running out of time to get inside someplace warm.
Abel's report on homeless numbers will go to the Linn County Continuum of Care Planning & Policy Council, which will try to devise plans for those still without homes.
"The numbers so far haven't been huge," said Ann Hearn, deputy director of community planning for Linn County Community Services. "That doesn't mean they're not out there. It might mean we're just not finding them."
Mark and Paula Deason sit by the fire before they start dinner last Friday. The couple and their two children are living in a tent after losing their home in the June flood. They stayed for a while in a friend's mobile home until she needed it back, then in a homeless shelter briefly, before pitching their tent in the backyard of Mark's mother's home, which also was damaged in the flood. Deason, sitting next to a fire pit he built out of bricks, with a fireplace pipe on top to funnel heat, said his family has been comfortable so far.
He and his wife, along with their 7- and 13-year-old sons, sleep in the tent set up in the backyard of his mother's flood-damaged home in the New Bohemia neighborhood of southeast Cedar Rapids.
They use portable toilets set up in the neighborhood and take showers at the home of his nephew, who is already housing other flood victims.
For a time after the flood, the family lived in a mobile home in Vining owned by a friend, but they had to move when she needed it back. They stayed briefly at a homeless shelter but left.
Deason said he didn't want to stay at a camp site and wanted to keep his sons close to their schools.
"It's the only place where I could come and feel safe," he said of their camp site off Fourth Street SE. "I know the neighborhood, and the people here know me."
The homeless problem is exacerbated this year by the floods, which made affordable housing more difficult to find and damaged two Cedar Rapids homeless shelters. Both of the shelters — the Cedar House Shelter and Madge Phillips Center — are expected to reopen.
State park campsites where some flood victims are staying don't technically close for the winter, but water will be turned off in coming days, around the first frost.
The Hawkeye Downs campground, 4400 Sixth St. SW, will shut off water next week and close around Nov. 1.
Ricky Jackson, 37, who has been staying in a camper at Hawkeye Downs, said he lost his home in northwest Cedar Rapids to 5 1/2 feet of floodwater and his FEMA money to his ex-fiancee.
Jackson, a former construction worker on disability because of a back injury, has stayed in the 21-foot camper since the floods with his dog, Buddy, a boxer. The two stay warm with a propane heater.
"It's not the best accommodations," Jackson said of the used camper. "I don't mind camping when you have a home to go back to."
He plans to leave the camp site soon, after finally finding a rental home that accepts pets.
Some flood victims have been living on their property while rebuilding.
"That's our home," Howard Grimm said, pointing to a motor home behind his flood-damaged house on Ellis Boulevard NW.
Grimm, 81, and his wife, Gladys, are among several in the neighborhood living in RVs until they can move back into their homes.
As of this week, the couple had been comfortable in the 33-foot motor home, but Grimm doubted it would last much longer.
"Who would want to stay in that cold thing in the wintertime?" he asked, noting that they could use propane heaters and an electric heater, if needed. "In a cold winter, none of those are going to keep you warm."
Hey, thought you would get a kick out of this- I heard the stress in your voice when you called.
Keep your chin up-laugh a little- tomorrow is anouther day!
Dear Daren,
I am praying for you, and I thought if I told you what I was praying you could add it to your prayers.. so that even if you are to weak to pray for yourself, you would know that I am among the many people who will not stop praying for you to get well and become whole again.
I pray that God guides the hands of your doctors. I pray for both spiritul and physical healing for you. I pray that your doctors might find a cure for your cancer. I pray also, Dear friend, that you might have the courage to continue to fight this terrible disease. Hope, let that be your strength when the surgeries and medicine leave you weak.
Daren, I pray that you use your fear rather that submit to it. Those who tell you not to fear have the best intentions but being afraid is part of the battle. I pray you find a way to turn your fear into fuel for the fight. You are not a victim, you did nothing wrong and you are not condemned. You are deeply loved, and you can fight this thing with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
And finially Daren I pray you smell the scent of water and feel the sand between your toes. Job (14:7) wrote about the hope he saw even in a felled tree. "If its roots are deep in the earth, at the first scent of water it will send forth new green shoots and grow again" I pray that you will be like that tree Daren. I pray that despite your prognosis, you will walk again soon on the beach with nothing on your mind except the colors of the water and the feeling of the wind on your face and the sand between your toes. Daren you can do this. You can beat this. You can find strength of spirit and courage to fight this disease within you.
The secret of the battle you are fighting is to know the feeling of being rooted in the love of family and friends and a Daddy God that loves you unconditionally. I am praying for you Daren and am believing that beyond the smell of antiseptic and crappy hospital food that you might catch a scent of water. No matter what tomorrow might bring, I pray that today your new leaves will begin to sprout.
WORDS FROM A SURVIVOR..
I never understood people and people never understood me..
The world proved to me to be a breeding ground for lies and hatred..
I spent years locked in a prison in my own mind caused from depression, rejection , and a need to have a reason to live..
I looked for a reason to live, not finding one I cried out to God and told Him I wanted to go home..
“YOU ARE HERE TO LOVE”
At a place I never thought I could be..
And the memory of that day still comes back to me..
I am here to love unconditionally, to love everyone in the way that
Christ loved me.. Not just on that day.. But always
This isn’t just a plea for you to reach into yourself and find a reason to live, but the intense truth..
“You must be crazy not to fall in love with Jesus..”
“Through him all things are made possible..”
The way to freedom from the afflictions that life has bestowed upon you is through Our Lord Jesus Christ. Do you know him?
We ask that he fill you with the Holy Spirit..
We thank God that he has forgiven your sin and that you received Jesus into your heart.
IF YOU HAVE ANY PRAYER REQUESTS PLEASE EMAIL payit4wrdministry@yahoo.com ALL REQUESTS WILL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL AND WILL BE GIVEN OUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION