Pray for the Douglas Retreat

Please pray for us and pray for the workers from Casa Hogar Douglas this week. All the workers are going to leave and go on a spiritual retreat for 2 days. Who will take care of the kids? Great question - several B2B staff and 7 interns are going to do our best to handle every single aspect of running an orphanage. We will be taking care of the 70 some kids - getting them dressed for school, driving them to school, running their office, cooking for them and feeding them, doing all the laundry, cleaning, homework, playing, bathing, putting them to bed and then sleeping in the dorms. It's going to be awesome! The kids are clearly excited to have Americans take care of them for a few days but that also puts us Americans in a difficult position - they think that they can walk all over us. Pray that we maintain control, the kids have fun and stay safe. Pray for our spanish abilities, patience, energy levels and for good sleep.

I've been praying that God would just rock the workers on their retreat. Pray for Antonio and Priscilla and the pastor from Principe de Paz as they will be leading the retreat for the Douglas workers. We believe that God wants to do mighty things at Casa Hogar Douglas to make it a place of blessing, worship, refuge, healing, and unity. It starts though with the workers - unified as one body and spirit.

Would you join me in praying for the retreat this week through Philippians 2:1-4, "If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being likeminded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." and picking up again in verse 12, "continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and act according to his good purpose. Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life -- in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing."