Prayer Requests

My good friends Josh and Erica Davenport left yesterday for India. They will actually be arriving at their destination (Kolkata) on Thursday, so they will be traveling for 4 days! They'll be returning here on Feb 1.

Please pray for their safety, for good health, for their emotional and spiritual state, etc. And pray for Carlton and Heather Rixon (Indian missionaries in Kolkata), their family, and everyone in the Lord Jesus Ministry whom Erica and Josh are visiting to talk about working with them, their church, their orphanage/school and other ministries they have. (The picture on the right was taken by my good friend João who was with the Rixons at their orphanage/school last summer). Here's another picture (I think Erica gave it to me) of the Rixons and the kids =)

Also pray for all the people in India who are persecuted for their faith (both Christians who are persecuted by the Muslims, and Muslims who are persecuted by the Hindus!).

In addition, please pray for our shelter (where I work). This week the temperature is really dropping so we're going to be trying to get as many people off the streets as we possibly can, even those people that we kicked out. We're probably going to be very crowded and chaotic, but at least we'll be saving people from dieing!
Then, next week, we'll have the extras and the problematic people leave.

Thanks!