-- specifically for God to provide sponsors for all the children. (Please see "How You Can Help" for up-to-date info.) Pray for the LORD to encourage and bless all of our Osanidde sponsors with faithfulness and joy as they participate in this vision, and for each sponsor to be challenged to grow closer to the LORD through their own daily times of prayer!
PRAISE REPORT: God is providing many new sponsors!!
#2 - I'll specifically pray for the HEALTH of the children -- for on-going protection against malaria and AIDS, for our Osanidde nurse, and for the children to get proper rest and sleep, and for the LORD to provide for necessary first-aid and health supplies.
#3 - I'll specifically pray for the MOMMAS -- for them to have peace, patience, and increased love for the children. Currently, there are 16 mommas at Osanidde. Pray for them for spiritual leadership (as they train the children), for strength (as they cook and clean and care for the children), and for emotional stability (especially for God to comfort them as widows). Pray for friendships between the mommas to grow -- as beautiful sisters in the LORD -- and for the needs of their loved ones to be met.
#4 - I'll pray for the UNCLES and AUNTIES -- for an increased anointing in their spiritual leadership, for wisdom as they direct the children's training (spiritually, educationally, and physically), for continued unity, for wisdom in financial management, for those who are newly married, for an increased passion for their own personal prayer lives -- as well as for an increased focus on world missions and soul-winning. Pray for clarity in vision, for personal direction, and for provision for their futures. Their names are Uncle Michael and Auntie Flavia, Uncle Ronnie and Auntie Margret, Uncle Johnson and Auntie Roy (and their baby, Prince James), and Uncle Hannington.
#5 - I'll pray for the SCHOOLS -- for all of the educational supplies and books, for new school buildings (in God's timing), and for our new teachers to educate the children with a focus on God's purposes for each child. Pray also for the children to have a desire to learn, and an eagerness to please God -- even in their school work. Pray for the children as they learn practical life-skills, and for God to direct us on how to best train these children for a successful future.
#6 - I'll specifically pray for the CHILDREN -- All the children need prayer support -- including 450 new orphan children at a second orphanage location in Mbarara, Uganda.
#7 - I'll pray for BIBLES -- We're believing for all of the children to learn to read -- both in Luganda and in English. We want all of the children to have Bibles, and for them to receive a very nice Bible (specifically NKJV - large print, black leather Bibles - in English) as soon as they turn 10 years old -- each with individualized name engraving.
PRAISE REPORT: Osanidde received a recent gift specifically for Bibles!
#8 - I'll commit to pray for the BUILDING PROJECTS --
Right now, we have 16 completed houses for the children, plus homes for the leadership, and a large chapel. The next building project will be the school.
#9 - I'll pray for the FUTURE ORPHAN CHILDREN for Harvest Ministry to support -- The Lord knows each child and calls them by name (see Jeremiah 1:4-10) -- even from the time they were in their mother's wombs, and we request prayer for God's direction on which future children He may want us to help. Please pray for wisdom and direction and for the LORD to continue to provide new sponsors as we add children.
#10 - I'll pray for GOD'S ANOINTING on every aspect of this ministry. -- We want to be led by the Spirit of God in every dimension of this orphanage project. Pray for an increased boldness and effectiveness in the children's prayers. (At Osanidde, most of the children wake up every morning while it is still dark -- on their own -- to fervently pray together for about an hour-and-a-half. This early morning prayer and worship time is nearly all child-led and it's powerful! Just listening to these children praying and worshiping -- in the early-morning darkness, under the bright stars, and with such intensity -- is one of the most beautiful experiences you could ever imagine.) Pray for this spiritual fervency to continue -- and for these children to have an increased heart for the LORD and the LOST. Pray for a powerful anointing of God's Holy Spirit to rest on the grounds. Pray for every child, momma, uncle, auntie, sponsor, and guest -- who comes in contact with this place -- to be drawn closer to the LORD. And pray that the prayers of these orphans -- and the testimony of their lives -- will make a powerful world-changing impact.
PRAISE REPORT: A pastor from Oregon sent us a specific email-request for the Osanidde children to pray for his church and a specific challenge regarding a building-expansion project. This pastor wrote, 'I believe there is a prophetic, world-changing anointing on those children that the things they pray for will be affected for the Kingdom of God."
If you want, you can PRINT OUT this completed "Prayer Commitment" page to refer to during your personal prayer-times! And thank you again!
Osanidde Village Orphanage