Archive for April, 2009

Pray for nurse Beryl Baker

April 29, 2009

Pray for nurse Beryl Baker who offers the only hope of medical treatment to around 18,000 indigenous people in the Paraguayan Chaco. She has dedicated nearly 30 years of her life to this area and describes herself as ‘orderly, gynaecologist, midwife and dentist’, treating anything from TB to gunshot wounds and snakebite. Government funding provides [...]

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Recent Prayer Letters

April 29, 2009

Some prayer letters received into the SAMS office: Rupert and Samantha Parsons Patrick and Rosie Butler Andy Roberts Andrew Leake Sandra & Walter Barrientos

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SAMS Prayer Line for the week commencing Tuesday 28 April

April 28, 2009

First we ask prayer for folk who are travelling this week:   Ed Hornby is a short term volunteer who flies to Argentina today to work for one month at the Hogar el Alba children’s home in Buenos Aires; pray for Ed, and remember another SAMS volunteer at the home, Esther German.   Pat Blanchard [...]

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Abelino and Paty in Santiago, Chile.

April 23, 2009

  We send you loving greetings from Santiago here in Chile.   We have now been in Santiago for six months pasturing a relatively small congregation with an average attendance of 30 adults and 15 children each Sunday. Our church is located in a working-class sector in the borough of San Joaquín. Most members of [...]

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Easter Prayer Letters

April 10, 2009

Some Easter prayer letters received into the SAMS office: The Gimpels Prayer Letter – Easter 2009 Tim Curtis Peter and Sally Bartlett Andy Roberts My Father’s House, Olinda

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SAMS Prayer Line : Week beginning Wednesday 1 April

April 9, 2009

We ask prayer for some events taking place during Holy Week: - In the Paraguayan Chaco a children’s programme is being held in three communities during Holy Week and the Easter weekend.  Pray for Ed & Marie Brice and a small team from Asunción as they and indigenous pastors minister in those and other communities.  Two [...]

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Prayer Line for the week commencing Tuesday 7 April

April 7, 2009

  Last week we asked prayer concerning another outbreak of dengue fever in Argentina.  This is widespread across the north and is causing fear and concern; pray that the measures taken by the government, which may include mass fumigation from the air in an attempt to destroy the offending species of mosquito, will be successful. [...]

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Red Box Return!

April 1, 2009

Give thanks for the return of Megan Johnston. Megan from Connor Diocese has been part of the Red Box Project during this past year.

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Argentina’s Supreme Court of Justice orders a 90-day cessation of deforestation in the Province of Salta

April 1, 2009

Yesterday (26 March) the Court ordered the provincial government to suspend permits granted for the removal of around a million hectares of native forest in the departments of Orán, San Martín, Rivadavia and Santa Victoria until a study can be made of the effect of deforestation on the environment. The Court understood that while the [...]

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April Prayer Letters

April 1, 2009

Some prayer letters received into the SAMS office: Felipe and Sarah Yanez Paul and Sarah Tester Daniel and Ellelein Kirk Hugo and Techi Vergara Monthly Prayer Iglesia Anglicana Paraguaya

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