So much goes on here! I want to recount it all to you, but in this moment I am just going to highlight a few big events and ask for your immediate prayer and financial giving.
1) God has taken the shoe factory/ministry of Project Metamorphosis out of our hands in the last month. This is hard news, because we wanted to continue to provide jobs and discipleship to current and future employees there. It is also good news because at every crisis, every decision, every turn we have placed that ministry in God's hands, so now we can rest in the fact that He is in control.
2) We are in full swing of flag football season now! Our team from Wired are called the Cuddle Bears this year. :) I am playing with the guys and loving it! It is not only fun, but an important outreach to deportees.
3) We are at last transitioning leadership of Love Link (the baby rehab center). Hannah Johnson, my friend and co-intern, is taking over freshening-up and spring cleaning the building and training the niñeras (nannies) for needed changes and team-building.
4) After much prayer, I feel the Lord leading me to step out of the Wired picture for a time. My year commitment is up now and so I will be leaving El Salvador. I hope so much that it is not for long, but for now it is what I need to do right now. Because of ministry commitments and good transition for the Mullinax kids, I will not leave right away, but will remain here until June.
Prayer:
- Huge! In order to stay through June I am in serious need of funds. I need about $5,000 more. Please pray for me to trust in what God is doing, and that if He wants me to stay until the transition time is best, my funding will come in. If you would like to give go to this link: https://secure.cmalliance.org/give/ and in the section "Give to International Workers and Special Projects" put "ENV Melissa Lonas". Thank you!
- Pray for relationships being built and hearts being touched through football.
- Pray for a pediatrician for Love Link. We currently cannot have babies in the center, because we are without and overseeing doctor. Please pray for God to uniquely provide just the right person.
Thank you all! Much love,
Melissa
