Prayer Priorities – February 7, 2023
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.â€
John 15:12-13
We encourage everyone who is praying for UMN not only to raise our requests but to listen to God on UMN’s behalf. Please take time to read this Bible verse slowly to yourself. Pause and ask God to speak through His Word. Then read it slowly again. Settle and calm your mind before you pray.
Praise
- Praise God that a bi-monthly meeting between partner organisations’ executive committee members and the UMN Nawalparasi Cluster team went well last week. Praise Him also for the 2023 agreement between UMN and the partner organisation of the gender equality project in Nawalparasi.
- Give thanks to God for the successful completion of the 5-day training on enterprise development by ‘District Cottage & Small Industries for Uplift Project’ in Rukum East.
- Give glory to God for the beginning of the warm weather.
- Give thanks to the Lord for the successful completion of the social audits and external audits of several projects of the Doti Cluster last week.
- Praise the Lord that the core project design team completed proposal writing of the Mugu Disaster Support project.
- UMN is grateful to the Lord for the leadership team meeting that went well making several good decisions for the organisation.
- We are grateful that Rabbi (ITS team) has completed the fourth round of chemotherapy, which went alright.
- We are grateful to the cluster exploration team members for exploring possible areas for future work and the leadership team has been able to decide.
Prayer
- Please continue to pray for Rabbi as his treatment course has now been changed.
- Continue to pray for the resolution of the long-standing property dispute at UMN’s Thapathali headquarters.
- Please pray for the recruitment panel as they go through the process of selecting a new Thematic Lead for Education
- Please pray for the Board Teleconference, which will be held this Friday.
- Please continue to uphold us for expat visa issue, may this be resolved on time with a smooth process. There are lots of vacant positions for expats, may these be fulfilled on time.
- Continue to pray for the political leaders and the upcoming Presidential Election, may they all rise for the benefit of nation and its people.
- Remember all UMN staff as they constantly travel to and from clusters for work. Pray for the safety and security.
Cluster Work
- Please pray for guidance for the successful completion of a 2-day gender policy review workshop with a partner organisation in Nawalparasi Cluster.
- Melsan, with the support of the MEAL team, is organising an orientation for enumerators on the baseline survey of the second phase of the SECURE project in Kapilvastu. Please pray for the effectiveness of the orientation event.
- Please pray for the safety and fruitful visit of the visitors from Cordaid in the first week of March. They have plans to meet the cluster team and beneficiaries of two different projects in Bajhang: ‘Creating Opportunities for Social and Economic Wellbeing of Migrants’ and ‘Disaster Risk Management’.
- Please pray for the team working on a project proposal on Dalit Rights for Bajhang and Kapilvastu Clusters. It is a competitive bidding and UMN needs to submit it to USAID before 19 February.
- Please pray for the activity-based learning (ABL) training in a school of Kyangsi for the Pro-Act project in East Rukum.
- Please pray for Sarmaya and Laxmi for fruitful field visits in Doti Cluster.
- For the BICT project in Doti, please pray for Avinaya and Parsu for God’s wisdom and strength to be with them to conduct mid-term evaluation of BICT project and prepare final report before 8 February. Pray too for project staff selection in various positions like project officer-Livelihoods and health promoter.
- Please pray for Ramesh’s safe travel from home to Doti Cluster.
- Please pray for the project managers in all UMN clusters to finalise annual project reports in time.
Tansen Hospital
- Please pray for our business office staff who work behind the scenes to keep the hospital running.
- Please pray for the hospital annual celebration day which will be held on Saturday. Pray that this will be good time of community building.
- Please continue to pray for the land use permission for the wastewater project, which is still pending.
- Pray for both hospitals and the Hospitals Services Office as they have a ‘Mission Vision Values’ workshop on Wednesday, 8 February.
Okhaldhunga Hospital
- Pray for God’s providence for the hospital to construct a building for a waste management system.
- Pray for the wisdom upon the interview panel as it selects medical doctors, the community health department coordinator, and a surgeon in future.
