Prayer Requests

1. I have set up meetings with many people/organizations in Bangladesh and couple in India. My main goal for this trip is to find a 6-8 month paid internship with someone currently doing Business as Missions. I want to be mentored by a Godly man in what it looks like to minister to people through business; meeting needs both spiritually and physically. This will have life changing and far reaching ramifications.
2. I have seen and glimpsed poverty, but I don’t think I have seen it as wide spread and prevalent as I am about to see it. The average person in India and Bangladesh lives on less than $2 US per day. Pray for wisdom in how to deal with that mentally and practically as I meet beggars and people in need.
3. I have lined up meetings with a school, an orphanage, businessmen, missionaries and there will be more lining up of meetings once I’m on the ground. I will encounter encouragement, discouragement, wisdom, foolishness, good advice, horrible advice, and who knows what else. I know that He will teach me a lot by listening to and talking with those who have gone before me. Pray that I will have wisdom and discernment. Pray that I will ask good questions and be open to the things He has to teach me.
4. God has been good in providing sufficient work to where I can take this trip. and I'm very thankful for a few sponsors who also helped to make it possible. Praise God for providing everything I need.
5. Pray that I won’t be a sponge. It will be easy for me to make this trip about me and my future, but that is a very small clip in a much larger picture. Pray that I will overflow with His grace and be able to bless, challenge, and encourage those around me—both believers and non.
6. I met with a travel nurse last week and apparently there are a myriad of bugs, sicknesses, and diseases I could catch between the cities and jungles of South Asia. I have always been a strong healthy young man but she didn’t think that was enough to keep me from getting one of the dozens of words I haven’t seen before. I’m armed with malaria medicine, anti-diarrhea, and antibiotics. Pray that I won’t catch anything too incapacitating.
7. Pray overall that His will is accomplished in me and through me and that He will be glorified.