Thank you that we can come to you with prayer requests (and praises!) and know that you will lift them up to our heavenly Father. Here are several that are time-sensitive, so we ask you to join us in prayer now, please:

1. Pamala, Daniel, and Ariela leave for Atlanta on a two-day drive to visit Matthew this morning. They’ll be gone for two weeks to help Matthew remodel his home’s basement. He has rented out the main floor, as planned, and now needs to finish the basement where he lives. Daniel is exceptionally gifted in helping with projects like this, so he will be in his element. Please pray for safe travels (four days of driving round trip), health and safety in remodeling work, and a refreshing, fun time with Matthew.

2. Matthew’s insurance denied his request for an electric prosthetic arm for the second time. You may recall that he has a prosthetic arm, but it is not electric and thus has to be operated by him physically shrugging or moving his other side. He has found it too cumbersome, so he has not used it much, except occasionally for cosmetic purposes. Please pray his insurance will approve a new prosthetic with an electronic elbow and hand. Now that some of his transferred nerves have grown (PTL for that!), his shoulder nerves could operate an electric elbow and arm.

3. I (Todd) am going to Albania for a week of meetings and training with colleagues from The Word for the World Bible Translators. Please pray for safety, good health, and a quick adjustment to the seven-hour time zone difference. Pray for me as I meet with the people I will supervise and mentor who are in training to become translation consultants. And pray for fruitful workshops where we will be taught how to translate the Bible using oral methods (we usually work with written texts only).

4. Praise God that last night we bought our plane tickets for our trip to Croatia to lead a team to put on a Vacation Bible School in two Roma villages and a teen day camp in June. We are very thankful for the three people joining our family on this trip. However, we really need two males, aged 18-upper 20s, who can play and interact with the Roma kids and prepare a short message for the Roma teens. Additionally, we have a few teenage girls who would like to come, but we need an adult to accompany them from Kansas City; our family will stay in Croatia for several extra days beyond the summer team, so we cannot fly back with them to KC. (The trip is June 18-28, 2025, and costs $1,000 per person plus airfare, which is currently running about $1,500 per person.)

5. We praise God for funds that have been given or pledged to send our family on this summer outreach to Croatia. Please pray for the remaining $7,200 we need. If you would like to donate to Pioneers for this, please designate your gift for account #151420 Croatia Summer Missions Project.

6. Lastly, praise God for a great answer to prayer: our car was in the shop and we were told the parts would not be in until Saturday. Since Pam and the kids will have our van in Atlanta starting today, this meant I would be left without a car when I am in KC before and after my Albania trip. We prayed and God kindly intervened. The parts “unexpectedly” came early, the shop fixed the car, and we picked it up yesterday evening before Pam left today!

Thank you for praying! Todd