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Missions Month 2014 Week 3 & 4 Dan & Grace Hurd Prayer Requests for Dan & Grace With Navigators Hurd www.navigators.org • Equipping and developing laborers and leaders for the campus ministry at National Changhua University of Education • Pray for the community ministry among families in Changhua, for the country ministry of the Taiwan Navigators, and for the China ministry in a few cities. • Pray that we, and the leaders we are serving, will live and minister with a Focus on God the Father, Filled by God the Spirit, Following with God the Son as we Fulfill God’s call to advance the Gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom throughout Taiwan, and into the nations, through spiritual generations of laborers living and discipling among the lost. • Pray for their health • Pray for their safety when traveling overseas for co-workers’ training Missions Month 2014 Week 3 & 4 Missions Month 2014 Week 3 & 4 Family Time Game Time (大老二) The game is for best for four players, each playing for themselves. (It is possible to play with three or two - the necessary adaptations are given later.) What you need and basic rules: A standard 52 card pack is used, the cards ranking from high to low: 2-A-K-Q-J-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3. There is also an ordering of suits - from high to low: spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs (hint: alphabetical) Object of Game: The object of the game is to be the first to get rid of all of your cards, by playing them to the table. Cards can be played singly or in certain combinations. If you cannot be first to play all your cards, then your aim is to have as few cards as possible when another player finishes. Playable combinations: There are four types of legal play: single cards, pairs, triples and five card groups. Single cards These rank from two (high) down to three (low), and between cards of the same rank a higher suit beats a lower suit. Pairs A pair of equal ranked cards - twos are highest and threes are lowest. Any higher ranked pair beats one with lower ranks. Between equal ranked pairs, the one containing the highest suit is better - for example 9- 9 beats 9- 9 because the spade is higher than the heart, but Q- Q beats J- J because queens beat jacks. Triples Three equal ranked cards - three twos are highest, then aces, kings, etc. down to three threes, which is the lowest triple. Five card groups There five types of playable five-card combination. In ascending order they are: straight, flush, full house, four of a kind, straight flush. Deal and play: are normally clockwise. Any player may deal first; thereafter the winner of each hand deals the next. The dealer shuffles and the player to dealer's right cuts. The dealer deals out the cards, one at a time, starting with the player designated by the above process and continuing clockwise until all the cards are dealt. Players then sort their cards. The player who holds the three of clubs begins and must play this card, either by itself or as part of a legal combination (see above). The person to this player's right plays next, and so on round the table. At your turn you must either pass (play no cards) or beat the previous play by playing a higher combination of the same number of cards. All plays are made by placing the cards face up in the centre of the table, so that a heap is formed. This continues for several circuits if necessary, until all but one of the players pass in succession, no one being able or willing to beat the last play. When this happens, the heap of played cards is set aside face down (or in many places, the players just leave all the played cards in a face-up heap on the table). The person who played highest (all the others having passed) begins again by playing any card or legal combination of cards. Passing does not prevent you from playing when your turn comes round again. The first player who succeeds in playing all the cards in their hand wins. Missions Month 2014 Week 3 & 4 Ted & Debbie Child With CRU in Pittsburgh www.cru.org Family- Amanda & Lindsay Prayer Requests for Ted, Debbie and Family Please pray for our student believers on campus -- that they will grow in their walks with God and in His grace. Please pray too that they will seek opportunities to reach out to fellow students on campus. Please pray for wisdom and clarity as we arrange campus teams for next year. Please pray for wisdom in decision making with seven or eight students praying about interning with us after graduation. Please pray for summer missions trips, that students here will know if God is calling them to participate and also for God to prepare hearts of people to come to know Him this summer! Missions Month 2014 Week 3 & 4 Information about foreign students studying at Univ. of Pittsburgh (from 2011) How many students come from abroad?____________________________________________ What are the top 5 countries & how many students come from there?___________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ Information about foreign students studying at CMU? (from 2011) How many students come from abroad?____________________________________________ What are the top 5 countries & how many students come from there?___________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ Missions Month 2014 Week 3 & 4 Sam and Yin-Ling With Wycliffe www.wycliffe.com Family- Jeremy and Jonathan Prayer Requests for Sam & Yin Ling • We will be flying to Pittsburgh via Toronto on Thursday night. Please remember us as we travel. Please ask that we can enter US without any problems. • The m world is not perfect, neither are we. Please remember us as we are struggling with the administration on the field who views things differently from us. • Please remember two colleagues who are facing a lot of pressure from the neighbors in their village. • Please ask that our local colleagues (6 brothers and sisters) grow in their understanding of Dad, and that they would fear Him and love Him at the same time. • We would like to meet up with many supporters like yourselves. Please ask Dad to arrange for the appointments for us. Please ask that we would have good communication with our supporters. • We hope that Dad would bring an advocate from each club who would speak up for us to the clubs and help us adjust to the clubs every time we come back. • If it is Dad’s will, a new business platform would form that can provide us a work visa and a good reason to visit the project area frequently. Please ask Dad to bring a business person to our project to start up this effort. Information about Languages How many languages are there in the spoken world? ________________________________________ Does the Bible talk about languages? If yes, where?__________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ How many languages is the Bible translated into?____________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ The Bible was originally written in these languages__________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Missions Month 2014 Week 3 & 4 Craft Project: Prayer Circles- Learn how to pray for your home and the world What you’ll need: 1- black marker (prefer sharpie), 1- paper plate, 5 different colored sheets of paper, 5 sheets of white paper, glue, crayons or pencils, a pair of scissors, hole puncher, and key ring. See example below: Draw a picture of your house, your city, your state, your country, your continent, and the world. With each colored sheet of paper, cut a circle out (each one bigger than the next). Glue the appropriate picture on the appropriate circle. Make a hole in each circle and connect with the key ring. Missions Month 2014 Week 3 & 4 Paul & Linda Bucknell With Biblical Foundations for Freedom http://www.foundationsforfreed om.net family- Allison, Daniel, Benjamin, Kathryn, Isaac, and Rebekah Elizabeth & Brooks White Christy & Elias del Real Grandkids- Josh & Brianna del Real PRAYER REQUESTS FOR PAUL & LINDA • Praise: Thank you for praying for Diana, she did a great job with translation • Praise: Kathryn did great sharing on the missions trip, Prayer: She and Isaac have finals coming up • Prayer: Paul is speaking, even in Mandarin, in IOWA over Memorial Weekend • Praise: Great trip to Peru, Prayer: looking for STM in the Fall • Praise: Paul was able to finish the business tax forms • Allison got accepted at a second New York City graduate school and got the graduate assistance position. She needs your prayers! • Benjamin’s fiance had an emergency appendectomy a few weeks back • Linda’s health, specifically her heart. Information about Peru Capital________________________________ Population________________________________________ Main Language________________________ Major Religion_____________________________________