of trying times and very full days...

We are back home again after being gone for 3 weeks. It was good to see friends and family in Indiana, but we are sure glad to be back. So many changes have happened in peoples lives here.
A new baby born, 2 started new jobs, one of those quit, someone else quit their job, children enrolled in school and then taken out to home school, a family moving, personal conflicts among several that we are closely connected with...and the list goes on. Trying to help those work through their personal conflict has been very draining to say the least. Since lying is so much a part of the Hopi religion here, it is very difficult even for Hopi Christians to realize that deception is wrong as well. God, please give us wisdom.

And also today was our first day of school. It went pretty smoothly, considering all of the other things that have preoccupied our time since we got home just 4 short days ago. We have more ahead, with some unfinished school prep that we should have had for today, but sometimes (it seems lots of times lately) there is a crisis that needs to be handled, and so we put non-emergencies aside.

Please pray for wisdom as we help work through conflicts and crisis etc. in peoples lives.

• A man struggling to stay sober until he can get into rehab, while being persecuted by his brother for coming to church.

• A family of 7 in need of a home.

• A young couple getting ready to have a "baby naming" for their new baby, even though the mother is not at peace with it. (What will this open the child up to?)

• A man knowingly and openly carving kachina dolls after, (by his own admittance) God clearly showed him it was wrong.

• A lady is working in an environment that pulls her one way, so it is a daily struggle of discerning God's will.

• A man faithfully and consistently seeking God a short time ago, and now is boot-legging alcohol.

• A man beaten unconscious, in a drunken brawl, at the home where a 4 year old girl lives with her handicapped mother.

• A home school co-op endeavour just starting up with 2 Hopi families. Praying the children's hearts are softened toward God in this school year.

• A mother fears for her life, from her abusive husband since she left him.

And that is just some of the prayer needs that I think of right now. Please pray with us, it is so desperately needed.

Thank you all.