please pray

I want to let everyone know of a couple of urgent prayer needs:

From Chris Wall:

"We had a sweet young single parent family in our church from Korea. Christine (Eunju) was the mother and she was a doctoral student at OCU. Robin and I met her walking through our neighborhood. Robin invited her to church and about two months later, prayed with her as she accepted Christ. After she got saved, she went back to Korea and brought her two daughters to live with her here in the states. The oldest, Joy, went to kids camp this summer.

Today is a sad day because this afternoon, all three were on vacation in Virginia on a tour bus. The bus crashed and Christine was killed. The two girls were mediflighted to separate hospitals and are in ICU. The oldest, Joy, is doing better. The youngest, Michelle, is in surgery as I write this email. I do not know the details of the crash, only that Christine died at the scene. Moon, one of our church members was able to call Christine’s mother in Korea to tell her the tragic news and she is on her way to the United States. Moon has also agreed to go to be with the girls until their grandmother can arrive from Korea. Another Korean lady has willingly agreed to go with Moon so they can minister to the girls. Several of our church members have committed to pay for this trip and send these ladies to be with these precious girls.

Please pray for these little girls. They are very precious and we are all so sad that this has happened. In the midst of our sadness, I am so thankful that Christine came to the United States and gave her life to Christ."

The second is from Kris and Shelley Riggs, who are missionaries connected to our church who are a part of the Western Niger Fulani team:

"We've been asked by some of our believers here to pray for rain. They've planted their fields some twice and others three times already this rainy season. The current crop is starting to yellow and they need rain desparately to save this crop. Furthermore, if this one doesn't make it, the rainy season would likely be too short to provide even a decent yield to sustain them. These guys in particular are in a remote village and are the makings of one of our church starts. As you pray that the Father would send them good, regular rains for their fields, please pray that God would strengthen their faith and increase their numbers in their fellowship."