Thanks to You, Watchmen of the Gates!

Dear friends and prayer warriors,

In your faithful prayers, You have been the Watchmen of the Gates! As it says in Psalms 134:1
"Oh, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, you who serve as night watchmen in the house of the Lord." With your prayers, you formed a wall of protection around me and my fellow workers in Africa.

Everyday some new and formidable challenge would present itself. Everyday, we saw the Lord provide in miraculous ways!

After 4 days in S. Africa I still had no way to video document the human story of Emmanuel Haven. We found out from our first contact Sizwe that his video camera was broken and wouldn't be repaired for three weeks. Meanwhile, my team and I were following the nurses and other workers at Emmanuel Haven and hearing incredible stories of how God was giving new hope to HIV victims. I thought to myself,"How is it possible to create this documentary without the proper equipment?" A team member shared that she was feeling discouraged about the project, etc.

It was at that moment, I heard the Holy Spirit speak to me,"Pray Jody seek my face...I am the provider!" I went into my room at our guest house and knelt by my bed and prayed. I asked the Lord to provide for his project, so that the story of Emmanuel Haven would get out and that God would be praised in the telling.

As, I finished praying I walked out of the room to hear the news from my excited teammate. Alain, director of Canon S. Africa had called to say a videographer named Chris would be available to film and would meet us at the Haven the next morning. Wow, what an answer to prayer!

Chris Allen ended up being a total "God send"(quite literally as it seems). God really knew the right man for the job. He was a total team player and asset to the project. We were able to get all the footage and interviews completed in two days.

Later, as I was looking at the prayer chart times I realized that a fellow prayer warrior was praying at the same moment I had been asking for the Lord to interceed on our behalf. So, it was at our neediest moments you were partnered in prayer with us on the other side of the world!

Thanks to You, You Watchmen of the Gates

Jody :)