The Shrum Family Adventures: Prayer Request

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Prayer Request

This is an e-mail that I woke up to this morning. (Below Pictures)

Please pray for Roxana and her family. Make sure you stop by the Mayan Families website that is posted below to read more about the flooding and to view all the pictures of the slide shows. I will be donating 100% of the sales to the Fairy Princess Costume I have posted on Cutie Patutuz http://cutiepatutu.blogspot.com/ and I will also be giving 20% of my hat sales for this month. We will be sending in money now for food. But, I would like to raise enough to get them what they need the food, blankets, shoes, and clothing. If you would like to help let me know karlton5@juno.com.

Roxana's father is missing a foot and is crippled. Roxana sends us pictures she draws and writes us letters telling us about her father all the time. There are 9 children of which 4 of them are still at home.

Dear Karlton and Mary Ann,

I am writing with an update of your sponsored student, Roxana

As you are probably aware, Guatemala has been suffering a series of disasters.

The recent flooding and mudslides have caused a lot of hardship.

Unfortunately, Roxana and her family were badly affected.

They live in a valley below San Jorge and all the mud and rivers ran into the area where they were living.

They had to evacuate for several days.

The family is very poor even at the best of times. The father cannot work and the mother makes beaded jewelry that she sells for $3 US per week.

The family does not have enough to eat normally and now it is even worse.

There are very few tourists now and there are no sales for the mother.

The mother is very worried about not having enough to eat for the children.

I am sorry that this is not a happier update.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me,

Warmest regards,

Sharon

Sharon Smart-Poage

MAYAN FAMILIES

Panajachel, Guatemala C.A.

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Verses that really spoke to me and helped me get through our adoptions.

(John 14:18) " I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you."

(Isaiah 43:5-6) "Do not be afraid, for I am with you,
I will bring your children from the west. Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth."

(Proverbs 25:25) "As cold water is to a thirsty soul : so is good
news from a far country."

(Matthew 6:25-34) The do not worry chapter.
This is the chapter that told me we would adopt again and the
baby girl woud be named Lily (Lilee). "The lilies of the field".
This is a great reminder of why we should not worry, God will take care of his people!

(Psalms 82: 3-4) "Defend the cause of the weak and the fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Resue the weak and neady; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."

(Psalms 68: 5) "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling."

(Deuteronomy 10:18) " He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow and loves the alien, giving them food and clothing."

(Philippians 4:13) "I can do all things through him who gives me strength."

(Philippians 4:6-7) " Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present
your request to God. And the peace of God,which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

(Romans 8:28) " And we know that all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

(James 1:27) "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after the orphans and widows in their destress, and to keep oneself from being polluted from by the world."