Prayer Requests - Aug. 20

The following are things that you can pray for now. I will add more in the following weeks:

1. Translators - we have five people going on the trip and we need a translator for each person in order to maximize the number of people who can be visited. Many of the translators that were used on previous trips now have jobs or they are in seminary and can't take a lot of time off.
   
2. People to visit - Jeff will be working with the local churches to arrange and organize individual home visits for at least four full days
3. Visa applications - we all need Brazilian visas in order to travel into Brazil. This should be fairly routine but when Satan is involved, nothing should be taken for granted.
4. Team preparation - we have material to review and details to finalize.
5. Team spiritual condition - pray that the team will be in the Bible on a daily basis and that we will have a daily cleansing of our sins and a close walk with the Lord.
6. Burden for the lost - pray that each team member will pray for the people of Porto Alegre and that we each will have a burden for the unsaved people around us in Oviedo and in Porto Alegre.
7. Pray especially for me to have complete thoughts so that I do not stop in the middle of sentences. The translator needs an entire sentence before they can acurrately translate into Portuguese.
8. Pray for the Holy Spirit's leading and help me to be sensitive to that leading. I want to make sure that I am not relying on my power to do anything.
9. Finances - for all team members.