Prayer Mail

Dear Friends, 

This is our public prayer mail for Tuesday 31 March 2015.  

Have a blessed Holy Week, and joyous Easter Day!

Among the highlights of this past week: 

preparing for the next trip to Belize, 

online teaching and course preparation, 

translation work coordination, and steps towards publication of the Prayer Book,

coordinating the next requested translation project: Provincial and Diocesan Constitution and Canons.

The overall intentions for my upcoming trip to Belize were confirmed. Tickets have been purchased.  

Preparations for various pending events and appointments. 

Prayers:

1) Please keep each of the above items in prayer, especially our mission work and the upcoming trip to Belize.  

2) Keep Julie’s healing in your prayers as she continues to heal. Vast improvement this week. 

3) Please keep various family members in prayer about: relationships, events and appointments, decisions to make, educational goals, gainful employment, and fruitful ministry.

4) May we have a blessed Holy Week and a joyous Easter Day!

I am praying for you every day.

God bless you,

Shaw, and on behalf of Julie.

Prayer Mail from March 24

Dear Friends, 

This is our prayer mail for Tuesday 24 March 2015.  

Among the highlights of this week: 

1) Projects continue: course and course development, career guidance, student enrollments, translation work.

2) On Thursday, I was contacted by our mission society, asking me to do sabbatical relief on behalf of a fellow clergy missionary at a parish in Belize for about a month and a half, perhaps starting in mid-May. Details forthcoming. This would be in addition to all the above.

3) The closing for the selling of our dwelling in Wynantskill, took place on Friday afternoon.

Prayers:

1) Please keep each of the above items in prayer, especially our mission work.  

2) Please keep the next trip to Belize in prayer. I plan to be purchasing my May tickets, hopefully this week.  

3) Keep Julie’s healing in your prayers as she continues to heal. 

4) Please keep various family members in prayer about relationships, decisions to make, educational goals, gainful employment, and fruitful ministry.

I am praying for you every day.

God bless you,

Shaw, and on behalf of Julie.

Scripture Prayer

Jeremiah 29: 11-14

For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.  Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, when you seek me with all your heart.  I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore… you.

Thank You Father God for all the plans that You have for Father Shaw Mudge and his family.  Thank You that all works for the good for those that love You and are called according to your purpose (Romans 8:28).  Thank You for Father Shaw’s hope in You and the future blessings that You will send.  Thank You that Father Shaw always seeks You, calls upon You, and prays.  He does seek You with all of his heart and we know that You find Him and refresh him and restore him.  Thank You.

Thank You, Lord, that the home in Wynantskill has been sold.  We pray for healing for Mother Julie from the dental work that she had a few weeks ago.  We pray for family members that need to make decisions about relationships, educational goals, gainful employment and fruitful ministry.

And most of all we pray about Father Shaw’s ministry in Belize.  Thank You that he now has a student in Africa as well.  Holy Spirit, continue to be with Father Shaw as he works on course development and course delivery and prepares for his trip to Belize in mid May.  Thank You, Lord.  Amen.

Prayer Mail

Dear Friends, 

Have a blessed St. Patrick’s Day.

This is our prayer mail for Tuesday 17 March 2015.  

Among the highlights of this week: 

1) I have been working on obtaining a grant towards the publication of the Spanish Prayer Book. Am waiting to hear back from the Diocesan Office in Belize.

2)  Work continues towards translating Diocesan and Provincial Canons into Spanish.

3) My current online course began on Saturday, and students have completed or have been completing work on the previous course.

4) In addition, two potential students are in the process of registering with the overall online program. One is in Kenya. This marks a geographic expansion of our African outreach.

5) I have been upgrading my computer equipment and communications network. Recent communication situations in Belize and recent US telecommunication software upgrades have made this essential.

6) I have been providing career guidance and ordination process assistance.

7) Julie is recovering from her oral surgery.

Prayers:

1) Please keep each of the above items in prayer, especially our mission work.  

2) Please keep the next trips to Belize this year in prayer, and the between trip Belize and African work in prayer. I plan to be purchasing my May tickets to Belize in the next week and a half.  

3) Keep Julie’s healing in your prayers as she continues to heal.

4) Please keep various family members in prayer about relationships, decisions to make, educational goals, gainful employment, and fruitful ministry.

5) Our Wynantskill dwelling is in final stages of being sold; and it may happen this week. Please keep the closing-related matters in your prayers. It is not over until the check clears.

I am praying for you every day.

God bless you,

Shaw, and on behalf of Julie.

Prayer Mail

Dear Friends,  

We hope you are continuing to have a blessed Lent

This is our prayer mail for Tuesday 10 March 2015.  

Among the highlights of this week: 

1) I have arrived back after a very fruitful time in Belize. Among my final events in Belize this trip: attending the ACC Staff retreat up by the Mexican border, preaching in Orange Walk at the Sunday service, and leading Diocesan Staff devotions at Diocesan Office on Monday morning before my flight. 

2) My next trip to Belize has been scheduled for Mid-May. We will continue to focus on this year's diocesan theme of: reconciliation. We have been making great headway, with a long way to go.

3) In the meantime, there is plenty to do, and I have an ever expanding check list, as I keep in touch with my friends on the ground. 

4) Possible Spanish translation work lies ahead for the Constitution and Canons of Belize, the Provincial Constitution and Canons. Analogous work for the Prayer Book, Constitution and Canons, and any remaining part of the Scriptures is a little more complicated to try to get done in Garifuna as the translating resources are harder to come by. Your prayers would be appreciated.

5) My next online course with Belize students begins on Saturday. I am still working on the course. Please keep the entire matter in prayer.

6) This week, I have been trying to line up a grant to cover at least part of the publication costs for the Spanish version of the Book of Common Prayer for the Province of the Church in the West Indies. My search is proving fruitful, so far. 

7) The Companions in Missions Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut held a missions conference at Trinity, Tariffville on Saturday. It was very well attended, and a great conference. Julie and I had a fruitful time as part of the Contemporary Worship Team, as well as a fruitful time networking.

Prayers:

1) Please keep our mission work in prayer, continuing as a fruitful endeavor of the Holy Spirit.  

2) Please keep the next trips and the in-between work in your prayers.

3) Please keep our translation work in prayer.

4) Please keep Julie in your prayers. She has tooth surgery at the end of this week.

5) Please keep various family members in prayer for decisions to make, for education, for fruitful work and for fruitful ministry.

6) Our Wynantskill dwelling is going to be sold sometime after March 15. Please keep the closing related matters in your prayers. It is not over until the check clears.

I am praying for you every day. 

God bless you,

Shaw, and on behalf of Julie.

Scripture Prayer

Psalm 90: 16-17

Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us;

Yes, establish the work of our hands.

Father God, we thank You that Father Shaw has arrived home safely from Belize and we thank You for the fruitfulness of this trip.  We ask that You continue to show him the work that You want him to do and may it reveal your glory to many.  May your favor be upon Father Shaw as You establish the work of his hands.

We pray for your guidance and spiritual power, Lord God, in the following endeavors: the long range plan to increase the number of full-time clergy in the diocese of Belize; planning Father Shaw’s next trip to Belize in mid-May; the Diocese of Connecticut mission conference to be held this Saturday; continuing course development and implementation; Father Shaw’s translation work and the work of the rest of that committee.

We pray for good health and provision for the entire Mudge family.  We thank You Lord for every blessing that You send to them.  Amen.