Prayer Priorities – July 5, 2022 – United Mission to Nepal

â€œBlessed are those who have regard for the weak; the LORD delivers them in times of trouble.â€

Isaiah 40:31

We encourage everyone who is praying for UMN not only to raise our requests but to listen to God on UMNâ€™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 Dr. Olak is back to Nepal after the treatment. He will be working from home, please continue to pray for complete recovery.
Also thank God for completion of the seventh cycle of chemotherapy for Rabbi, one more to go. Please continue to pray for him as well for strength and recovery.
Praise for the three day workshop on behavioural change and community dialogue for gender equality in Nawalparasi. Also for three days of training on conflict handling and peacebuilding skills to judicial committee members and community mediators. Both these trainings went well.
The Doti cluster team are praising God that projects which had been stopped (BICT and CLIMATES) have resumed after approval of the funding partners.
A new child-related project for Nawalparasi has been approved by Kindernothilfe (KNH).

Prayer

Please pray for Dr. David Rodgers and Niki Maskey along with their families for the loss of their fathers. May the Lord grant His comfort, peace and strength to go through the rituals and while they are grieving.
Following the signing of the five year agreements please pray for the four Expat visa application process to be completed smoothly on time.
Continue to pray for the on-going Property issue, seeking God’s wisdom and will to resolve it.
Continue to pray for the completion of Strategic Planning review.
Please pray wisdom for the programme team getting ready for final and half yearly reporting, and the Finance Team preparing for year-end closing and Annual Audit.
Continue to uphold the father of Sagar for he is also going through Chemotherapy and the wife of Bhagirath on the way to recovery.
Safety of communities and staff as they face monsoon related challenges.

Cluster Teams

Please pray for guidance to cluster staff and the staff of our partner organisations as they are involved in year-end preparations (end of Nepali financial year).
In Nawalparasi, please pray for the successful completion of inter-group learning, sharing and review meetings between the group members of the Gender Equality (Samanta) project and ‘Ending domestic violence through community mediation and dialogue’ project.
In Doti pray for the successful Financial Management Training for treasurers of local churches.
In Kapilvastu, please pray for Avinaya, Prem Shintan and the evaluation consultant, Nirmal, that they will have persistence, patience and wisdom to build the capacity of Community Evaluators. This training started on Saturday 2 July. Pray for these community evaluators as they will be deployed in Mayadevi immediately to evaluate the Children, Youth and Community for Change (CYCC) project.

Hospitals

New junior doctors have been added to our ranks in the last week. It is a daunting step to work in a busy rural hospital in this role. Pray they will settle in, find their place and develop in their skills and outlook.
Monsoon brings more patients and more infectious diseases. Pray for the hospital staff with the greater work load.
We thank God for the long and faithful service of Dr Roshan and his wife, Sister Esther in Tansen. This is their final week in Tansen after over 20 years. We pray they will travel safely, adjust to their new life and bring joy and service to our sister hospital in Okhaldhunga where Dr Roshan will be the new Hospital Director.