Prayer Requests

Please pray for these people that God will be merciful, that He will console them, that He will hear and answer their special requests:

January 23, 2012

Please pray for Katie Grothaus that she will fully recover from surgery on her vocal chords. This young lady has a beautiful voice and a strong desire to sing.

Prayers for Steve Raymond and his easy recovery from his dental surgery.

Please keep my family in your prayers as they travel this week – nearly all of them are on the road this week and next.

January 2, 2012

In thanksgiving for a blessing-filled year in 2011.

For Linda and her husband Matt as they deal with Linda K’s diagnosis of breast cancer. May God grant her complete healing in the Name of Jesus!

For the men who will be participating in the Our Lady of the Mountain (Ashland, OR) ACTS Retreat this month. May the Holy Spirit fill them with the joy of knowing Jesus and may they receive all the graces possible to live in closer union with Him in 2012 and for the rest of their lives!

For the completion of Sr Kay’s Chapel and Retreat Center in Cebu!

December 1. 2011

For Deacon Dan whose back will require surgery within the week: that his doctors and surgeon will be guided by the hand of God.

November 23, 2011

Please pray for Liza who hs been admitted to the hospital with heart problems.

Please pray for Gin and her baby that her delivery goes well and that she and her little one are healthy and happy.

Please pray for Sr Kay, her ministry, and the Arms of Jesus Ministry.

Please pray for the safety of all our troops around the world.

May you all be blessed with a very Happy Thanksgiving.

November 18, 2011

The Zophia Spak family needs your prayers as their grandfather, Edmund Spak, struggles with congestive heart failure.

Your prayers for Gaby Mulva and family as Gaby awaits the results of a biopsy.

Prayers of thanks for Sergio’s recovery.

Prayers that our Congress can get its act together and find a reasonable economic compromise.

November 5, 2011

Please pray for the Mcauley family that they will weather this crisis, keeping their eyes on the Lord.

Prayer for the complete healing of Patty Wirfs’ mother.

Prayers for Sergio. He is back in the hospital. Healing, Lord, we seek healing for our families and loved ones.

October 26, 2011

Sergio Helms is back in the hospital for treatment for his original problem which may have brought on the meningitis in the first place. Please proay for his healing.

Prayers for Larry, Tim, Daniel, Tammy Lynn, Tammy, Margaret, Doc,  Deborah Guidry, Debbie Fusilier, Bill, and Ann Michelle as they each need physical healing.

Praises God and thanks to Him for hearing our prayers for Ann Michelle. Although she has a long way to go, her latest treatments have reduced the tumors by at least 10% and this is the first time any treatment has shown promise. Please keep this sweet young lady in your prayers.

Please pray for a long-married couple, fine, blessed people, who are having marital problems. Please ask God to give them the grace to be open to each other, to listen, to admit, to ask forgiveness, and to rekindle their love. God knows who these folks are.

Please pray for completion of Sr. Kay’s Arms of Jesus Chapel in the Philippines.

Your prayers are requested for Brother Daniel. God knows the reasons. And, for Sr. Barbara’s safe journey to visit and to pray with him.

I ask your renewed prayers that the music God gives me will be spread round the world, will touch hearts and stimulate conversion, re-conversion, and a greater zeal for our God!

Please pray, too, for our young people that they will find good, Catholic adults to teach them the beauty of our beloved Faith, the value of moral living, and the truly wonderful love of our God.

October 12, 2011

My ACTS Brother, Sergio, has come down with meningitis which they seem to have traced back to the listeria problem. Please pray for the healing of this good Catholic husband, father, brother, veteran!

Brent needs our prayers for healing. He has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is being scheduled for surgery as soon as possible.

Please keep Ann Michelle on your list. The poor child is not responding well to chemo. please storm the heavens.

Carson is on the verge of pneumonia. Please pray for his healing.

Harold needs our prayers for his prostate cancer. His most recent PSA test was higher than before. please pray for his healing and for his lovely wife.

September 18, 2011

Please keep Sr. Kay in your prayers as she visits her Arms of Jesus Ministry Team in Arizona for a few weeks of ministry there. Yesterday’s Gospel about the sower and the seed was particularly prophetic as it was the Gospel that launched Sr. Kay’s ministry years ago!

Please pray that people around the world will return to Christ, Aacknowledge Him as their Lord and their God, and sstruggle to love each other in peace.

September 14, 2011

For Ann Michelle who is suffering Stage 4 cancer at a very young age. May God heal her by the power of the cross of Jesus.

for Evelyn who contines to suffer from a cracked vertebra that refuses to heal and now shows signs of infection.

for the people of Lewistown and central Pennsylvania who have suffered so much flooding.

September 12, 2011

Thanks to God that we had no incidents within our US borders yesterday.

September 11, 2011

May God bless America.

May He be merciful with the victims of 9/11.

May He bless all who put their lives at risk to savethe lives of others.

May Americans come to acknowledge their blessings and give thanks to God far all He has done for us.

May all peoples around the world turn against those who would enslave them and learn to love each other and live in peace.

Thanks to God for the return of Fr. Bill in good spirits and good health!

September 9, 2011

Please raise up Cheryl that God will bless her and heal her.

Please raise up our nation and our leaders that we might recover our financial stability and our leaders might change and work together for the glory of God.

Please pray for all who are out of work that they might find gainful employment.

September 2, 2011

Paula was relased from the hospital, yesterday. Thank you for your prayers! I will give an update on her condition when I hear from Charles! Praises to our God! Thank you for your mercy and compassion, Lord!

Thanks, too, to God for answering our prayers that Hurricane Irene would downgrade before it hit the coast! We do need to pray for all those people who lost so much due to the heavy rains and flooding.

May We be spared the 10 – 15 inches of rain that is predicted from Tropical Storm Lee as it approaches the Gulf Coast.

Pray for the people of Libya that in their reverie they will not forget to forgive and to be aware of the sanctity of human life although their prior leader had little such compassion and awareness.

May God guide the leadership in Syria and the dissenters there that they might find an acceptable middle ground for the sake of their nation and its people.

August 22, 2011

Please continue your prayers for Charles and his very sick wife, Paula. Paula was out of surgery on Thursday and the doctors were “pleased” but still in ICU as of this weekend.

August 19, 2011

Please pray for our country. We have abandoned God and have focused on our own selves – our rights, our needs, how people have hurt me, etc. We have forgotten what the Gospel tell us today, i.e., that there are only two important laws: “Love God with your whole heart, soul, and  mind.” and “Love you neighbor as yourself.” (Mt 22: 34-40). Our focus is God and we serve God by serving one another.

August 15, 2011

Please keep Barb’s nephew, Joe, in your prayers as he begins a 35 year sentence in prison. May God use this time to help him turn to the Lord, repent his sins, and let Jesus change his life.

Please pray for our country and our political leaders.

Please pray that people will begin to connect their personal and business conduct with morality and sin; that they will humble themselves before God and seek His forgiveness and the courage to change.

Please, our children are being scandalized with every new movie, video game,  and fashion and their parents are allowing this error to persist! Parents, we are responsible for the proper upbringing of our children! By allowing them to do what “everyone else is doing”, we are letting them choose between right and wrong without guidance and maturity. Their wrong-doing will fall upon our heads!

August 7,2011

Are you praying for Vijay(his tests), Paula (her diagnosis), and Christina (her delivery)? If not, please do! And, Kay (her new book), and Lou (his new cd). We need your help in prayer!

August 4, 2011

Thanks and praises to our God! He has blessed Margaret with a clean bill of health! No cancer! Thank you for your prayers!

August 2, 2011

My Australian friend, Seamus, has made a commitment to pursue his dream to become a professional musician. This Christian Dad has a good heart and strong faith in God. Please interceded for his success.

Sales of Sr. Kay’s new book and my accompanying CD, Break Down the Walls, have stalled. Please pray that we can get this powerful word and music out to people!

I ask you to pray for all our children who are conflicted between love for God and love of country as Washington continues to bicker and to pursue violence for the sake of economics around the world.

Please join in prayer for the contimued ministry of Arms of Jesus, Prayer Warriors International, and our more regional prayer groups here in Rayne.

July 18, 2011

Please keep Charles in your prayers as he and his doctors test to determine the extent of his cancer.

July 16, 2011

Please keep Tammy and Margaret in your prayers as they and their families deal with the uncertaities of abreast cancer diagnoses. may these fine Christian ladies be healed by the loving touch of our Almighty God.

And, may all of us remember every day how good God is to us, how faithful He is, and how generous He is.

June 18, 2011

Praises:

Sr. Kay and Barb made it to Cebu without incident. The greeting Mass and Prayer Meeting were well-attended!

Justin and Catherine and the Wursts returned home safe and sound and happy to be back with the children! They had a good vacation, too!

June 15, 2011

Please pray for Anna as she prepares to sit for her Nurses Licensing Exam in the Philippines.

Please pray for Renee Baker who is hospitalized with kidney stones.

Please pray for Christina who is expecting her first baby and is hospitalized with kidney stones and a sever kidney infection. She is having a stint put in today to help with the passing of the stones. Please pray.

Please pray for Sr. Kay and Barb who departed for a mission trip in the Philippines this morning.

Your prayers are requested for the successful launch of Sr. Kay’s new book and music CD combination entitled “Break Down the Walls”.

June 9, 2011

Please pray for Mateo that his upcoming surgery will heal his hip injuries.

Please pray for God to be glorified during Sr. Kay’s upcoming trip to the Philippines. May our Book/CD combo be well received by all who visit with her there!

May 5, 2011

Many prayers of thanksgiving to our God for the negative X-rays of Doug’s lungs. His lungs are clear!

Thanks be to God for Mrs Irma getting through her open heart surgery successfully. Please continue to pray for her rapid recovery.

Prayers, please, for Ann Michelle and her family. May God heal our little sister!

May 3, 2011

Praise God! Jaime’s brother has called and made contact with his family! He is safe!

Please pray for Ann Michelle whose cancer has returned and has attacked her heart and the doctors can do no more.

Please pray for all the youngsters who received the Sacrament of Confirmation at Epiphany of Our Lord Parish last night.

May 2, 2011

Please pray for Jaime’s brother who has not been heard from since the tornadoes blew through his town.

Please pray for Doug that his chest x-rays will be clean and his respiratory difficulty diagnosed as a simple ailment with a simple solution.

Please pray for those who killed Osama bin Laden and for the peaceful repose of the soul of Osama bin Laden and those who died with him. And, please pray for the souls of everyone who is celebrating his death. Sorry, folks, but we are called to love.

April 12, 2011

Please pray for Maddie’s granddaughter, Zoe, who is in this hospital. Appears to be a virus. but, whatever it is is causing this little 2 year old such misery.

April 9, 2011

Please pray fro Rita’s nephew, Joe, a journalist who has been captured by Gaddafi’s forces in Libya.

April 7, 2011

Please pray for Guy. The government contract under which he was employed has expired and will not be renewed. He needs a new job. May God be generous to this fine Christian man and his family!

Please pray for Sister Kay, Eduena, and the whole Arms of Jesus Team as they mission in Arizona.

Please pray for Wayne, Bill, John, Don, Kenny, Oscar, Herman, Bill, and Mike.

Pray for our nation that we will begin to day to realize that killing is not an acceptable answer to domestic and international struggles.

Give thanks to God for Jimmy’s new job! What a wonderful blessing!

Please pray for Congress that they will get serious about the budget, controlling spending, and working for the good of the nation instead of the good of their party.

April 2, 2011

Wanda Haynes (Brazil missionary) asks that we pray for her father, Pastor Mabry. He is a “very senior citizen” living in California. He has been taken to the hospital and needs prayers NOW!

Please pray for Pastor Posey’s brother, Walker, who is very ill and near death.

Pray for our President that he will listen to himself before taking more bad advice from the CIA.

Please pray for our nation that we will turn back to God and to the Gospels from our current wayward ways.

Please continue to pray for Michael Ryan as he takes his final qualifying exams.

April 1, 2011

Please pray for Anne and Rocky that God may bring reconciliation and re-kindle their love.

Please pray for Barb and her efforts to reconcile her life-situation to the glory of God.

Please pray for Tom and Ann and their children as the entire family continues to grow in love.

Please pray for our little town that we will come together in cooperation, love for each other, and strong devotion to our God as did our non-Catholic and mostly Black churches last night.

March 30, 2011

Thanks to God for hearing my prayer yesterday morning and answering so clearly yesterday evening.

Thanks for the new words to a couple of new songs.

Please pray for Camille, a beautiful special needs child, and her parents.

Please pray for PW’s granddaughter who has been diagnosed with MS.

Thanks to God for the blessings He has bestowed upon our sister, Kay.

Please continue to pray for the people in Japan, for those innocents caught in the struggles in Libya, Syria, Yemen, the U.A.E., Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia.

Pray for full recovery for my dear friend, Juliet.

March 28, 2011

Please pray for my sister, Kay.

Please pray for Charles I. as he and his doctors treat his skin cancer.

Please pray for the people living under oppressive regimes.

March 20, 2011

Please pray for Harriett. She is in the hospital and her blood sugar is out of control. Prayers, too, for Scott and their children.

Thanks to God for a singable melody and lyrics specifically for today’s celebration of the Transfiguration of Jesus.

Thanks for His guidance through Coeur de Jesus, a French hymn that we sang on Friday night, and Birhen Maria, a Cebuano hymn we sang, as well. Thanks to Lou Ann and Eduena who were so helpful with both songs.

Thanks for the example, care, and intercession of our patron, St. Joseph, as we celebrated his role in the life of Jesus and Mary on Friday and Saturday.

Please pray for the people of Lybia, for all those soldiers called to intervene in a civil war, and for every affected family.

Please pray for the people of Japan in their continuing suffering.

Please pray that here in America the accident in Japan will demonstrate for us and convince us of the near-eternal, life-threatening danger of playing with radioactive material.

March 15, 2011

Please pray for Daisy as she undergoes surgery for cancer today.

Please pray hard for the Japanese as they struggle through this horrible disaster.

Your prayers are requested for all the unborn babies who will lose their lives through abortion today.

March 11, 2011

Please say a prayer for some work that we have going in the field these next days on the DuBose #1 well. I have failed in every oil and gas investment I have made, so far. I need the income as small as this is going to be. Please ask God for the slightest bit of mercy. I hate to beg. But, I am reduced to that. Humility training, I suppose. Thank you.

Please pray for the people in Japan and the Far East who have lost lives and possessions in this earthquake and tsunami. Please pray for safety of all those folks threatened by aftershocks and follow-on tsunamis. May God be merciful.

March 10, 2011

Please pray for Chuck – a non-smoker who has just been diagnosed with lung cancer – and his wife, Carol. May God use this illness to bring healing to Chuck and to make His love clear to both Chuck and Carol.

Praises and thanksgiving to God for making it possible for our sister, Barbara, to achieve a life-goal! May God be glorified once again for His love and generosity to those who strive to follow Him so completely!

Thanks to God for enabling me to serve the family of Rule Guidry so well yesterday.

And, thanks to God for the shining example that our Christine is to her brothers and sister and cousins and friends.

Please keep Lola, Bill’s mother, in your prayers. Pray for her peace and recovery. Please keep Bill and Marta in your prayers for safe travel to be with Lola in Ecuador. And, please keep the Burbano family in your prayers.

Please pray for Peggy who is suffering intensely with her new chemo-therapy treatments. May God bless her with a myriad of get well cards and with His comfort and consolation.

March 6, 2011

Please pray for the young woman who died in yesterday’s tornado and for the consolation of here family.

Please pray for all those who lost their homes or suffered damage in the tornado. And please pray that all of those people who were evacuated because of natural gas leaks are allowed to return home soon.

Please pray for the 20 or so injured by the same storm.

We offer prayers of thanks that our home was spared in the storm.

You prayers are requested by Blanche and her husband as they try to sell their home.

You prayers are requested for safe travel of Kay, Barb, and Eduena this weekend.

March 4, 2011

Please pray from Wayne’s father who was admitted to the hospital this morning with congestive heart failure and complications thereof. Please pray for Wayne – a good husband, father, and Christian neighbor – and for his wife and the whole family.

Thanks be to God for all who helped Eduena come to the States to help Kay and for her safe travels!

Please pray for my friends Bill and Steve who are both suffering while the temperatures and humidity fluctuate so much from day to day!

Please give thanks for the very positive progress my friend is making as she struggles to understand the silence of her God.

Today, my friend Derek submits his first book for publication. Please pray for his success. It is a wonderful guide for anyone hesitant to  pursue their dreams.

I submitted my first effort at a theme song for a Womens ACTS Retreat. Please pray that they will find it suitable and that it enables the participants to come closer to our God. And, thank God with me for giving me the opportunity to serve these women in this way.

March 1, 2011

Please raise a prayer for thanks to God for hearing our many prayers for Demaris! She has recovered from her cancer treatments, seems to have beat the cancer, and is now planning to sing in her father’s benefit show in Crowley, LA on April 2! Thank you, Lord!

Please pray for all who are struggling to create a better life in North Africa and in the Near East.

February 18. 2011

John Newbill  passed away last night. Please join Phil in requesting one more favor of  Fr Joe (Crosthwait) . That he welcome Sunni’s Brother John into everlasting joy.

February 17, 2011

Please pray for the people in the Middle East as they deal with political unrest. we may think this is all well and good. But, our nation was not birthed from chaos without a plan. These people have no plan except “change”.  Pray that they will sit down and strive to work together for the benefit of all.

February 16, 2011

Please pray for Phil’s brother-in-law whose cancer is beyond the doctor’s ability to treat. Please pray, too, for the family as they travel and gather to say goodbye to their loved one.

Please join me in giving thanks for Denise’s successful procedure and negative results yesterday.

And, please pray for me that I will have the faith and trust in God to make the right decision for His glory.

February 13, 2011

Please pray for the peaceful repose of Msgr Joe Crosthwait of Houston who passed away quietly in his sleep today.

Please pray in thanksgiving for the continued healing of our sister, Kay, in body, mind, and spirit. She is doing so well, thank you, Lord!

February 11, 2011

Please pray for Charles and his family as Charles tries to come to closure on a couple of business deals. This Christian man is struggling and needs our support.

Please pray for the prayer requests on PWI and Prayer Warriors Needed prayer lists.

Please pray for the inmates at Acadia Parish Prison, especially the inmate who has requested instruction on Baptism.

Please keep praying for our sister, Kay, as she struggles to recover from surgery.

Pray for Larry who is not accustomed to caring for an invalid and who has health issues of his own to complicate things.

February 10, 2011

Please pray for the peaceful repose of Andres Pintus and for the consolation of his wife and family.

Please give thanks to God for Sr Kay’s rapid improvement and healing. May she be blessed to return home from the hospital today.

Thanks to God for the blessings He bestows upon all the members of the Arms of Jesus Ministry.

Thanks to God for my safe travels.

I do ask your prayers for our financial situation and for some direction for my future.

Please pray, too, for the men and women in the Acadia Parish Prison and for the efficacy in Christ of our prison ministry.

This may sound frivolous, but in all seriousness I ask you to pray that people, young and old, will live in anticipation of the coming of Christ into their lives as much as the Verizon would imply that youngsters live in anticipation of the release of the iPhone4.

February 8, 2011

Please storm the heavens for Kay. she is back in the hospital and in pain after her operation. She is also fighting an upper respiratory infection.

February 4, 2011

Prayers for Dixie and family as they travel to get to court in this rough weather.

Prayers that good sense will prevail in Dixie’s court hearing.

Thanks to God for Kay’s successful laproscopic procedure and for her rapidly progressing recovery.

Traveling mercies for all our friends and family on the road today and this weekend.

May God provide angels for all who are without heat, shelter, and food in this cold weather.

Thanks to God for an internet radio station that carried a cut from “By His Wounds” to the ears of a Minster of Music in Mississippi who was moved sufficiently to contact me about using the album in her church! God is so good!

February 3, 2011

Please keep our sister, Kay, in your prayers today. She is going in right now for a gall bladder operation. Please pray for healing body, mind, and spirit.

Please pray for everyone on the roads today and tomorrow in this cold, wet, icey weather.

Please pray for the people of northern Australia as they deal with yet another natural disaster.

Please pray for the people of Egypt that in their zeal for positive change they will exercise restraint and concern for the benefit of all Egyptians.

Please pray for the family of Barb Hurst as Barb is away from them caring for Kay.

February 1, 2011

Pray for the safety of everyone in Queensland Australia as a monster weather pattern bears down on the area.

Please pray for Virgil who suffered a massive heart attack over the weekend. this WWII and Korean War Vet needs healing!

Please pray for Virgil’s family as they deal with their father’s severe health troubles.

Pray, too, for all those folks covered in snow, stuck in airports, and unable to fight the severely cold temperatures. may God be merciful.

January 31, 2011

Our prayers have been answered for newborn Collin. Thank you, Lord! And, thank you all for your prayers for this little guy and his mother.

Please keep my sister and her husband in your prayers as they travel to South America with a good friend.

Please pray for all the young people and underemployed people of the world whose system and government and religion and culture will not allow them to share in the wealth of their nation through private ownership and democracy.

Please pray that we will all begin to live in thanksgiving for the unrelenting love of our God!

January 25, 2011

Please pray for Richard and his family. Richard has just been diagnosed with cancer.

January 21, 2011

Please pray for the immense success of Ian and Amanda’s “Make It In Music” at www.makeitinmusic.com .

Prayers, please, for Mike and Nadine and family as they celebrate Mike’s milestone birthday and move forward with their wonderful lives.

Join me in thanksgiving for a wonderfully good day yesterday – we may actually be making progress on the Ecuador biodiesel project which would be a wonderful blessing for Ecuador promoting air quality improvement, job-creation in farming, manufacturing, and fuel distribution, and technology transfer.

Please keep Bill, William, William, Kay, Juliet, and Louis all especially in your prayers today for their respective needs.

January 17, 2011

Prayers for Christians persecuted around the world, especially in the US and in Islamic countries.

Prayers of thanksgiving for the gift of the Santo Niño, the Patron of the Philippines.

Prayers, please, for Sr. Kay as she meets with her doctor to review the prognosis from her MRI. May God bring her complete healing!

Prayers for all our troops and all who fight evil throughout the world. May God be especially merciful upon those who lose hope and contemplate or commit suicide. Prayers ,too, for those of us who see the signs of depression and PTSD and do nothing to give these men and women, boys and girls hope. Lord God, may we be driven to action for the love of your children!

January 12, 2010

Please keep Crystal and her baby in your prayers.

Please pray for Jason that he will find a job and for peace in his heart relative to his wife and family.

Please pray for Barb that God may give her the words she needs in a difficult situation.

Prayers today for Kay and her doctors.

January 11,2010

Prayers of thanksgiving for the tremendously powerful Mens ACTS Retreat at St Joseph, Baytown TX!

Prayers for Sr. Kay who will be having more tests and an MRI tomorrow.

Thanksgiving for a successful project.

December 18, 2010

Eric, an ACTS brother of mine writes: “I am reaching out to you asking for your prayers.  I had a lunch meeting with my ACTS sponsor today and he made me realize that God grants our prayers but so often, we don’t ask.  This is so true in my situation as I am not accustom to asking for help or prayers.  Today, I humbly ask for your prayers as my wife and completes 6 month of operating our own business.” May God bless them with financial success as they strive to serve their community and bring employment to others in need!

In thanksgiving for Justin’s safe return to his family!

That both Democrats and Republicans will recognize the need to work together for the good of our country and understand that compromise really does mean not getting everything you want.

…has anyone considered that being successful in business cans actually be a very Christian act and way of life? Sure! A successful business brings jobs to people who need jobs, it brings services to the community, it helps sustain our economy for the good of Americans and the world. What greater life of service could there be? Please pray for everyone who goes to work every day!

December 14, 2010

Please pray for Justin’s safety on his buisiness trip to the Far East. And for his family here at home.

Please pray for Kay that she will be able to adapt to being without help at home.

Pray for world peace and for active evangelization by Christians everywhere.

Pray for conversion of those Christians who wrongly believe in hate and judgementalism rather than love and peaceful example.

December 13, 2010

For safe passage for my little sister, Eduena.

That I might come to understand that my service at Mass is not for the people but for the glory of God.

In thanksgiving for all that we have and all that we are as we approach the celebration of the Incarnation.

December 10, 2010

Thanksgiving for the guidance and peace with which God blessed James as he completed his final!

Prayers for peace and rapid healing for Cheryl as she recovers from knee replacement surgery.

Prayers that God will bless all our loved ones especially bountifully this Christmas Season.

Prayers for everyone who is offended by the Christ Child or does not undersdtand that Jesus is the Reason for the entire Christmas Celebration.

Prayers for the men and women in the Acadia Parish Prison who must celebrate Christmas away from their families. And for their warden, Vince, and the officers and staff who look after them.

Thanks, too, for Fr. Bill’s support of our prison work and for Zubaida who had the courage to start the ministry.

December 6, 2010

A prayer for James as he wraps up his final exam.

December 4, 2010

Please pray for my friend, James, who is in the middle of a 96 hour final exam for his MA in Organizational Psychology! Holy Spirit, give him peace and help him focus.

Please pray for the peaceful repose of Christine’s friend who died in a motorcycle accident.

December 1, 2010

Please pray for the peaceful repose of Creston who died in an accident yesterday.

Your prayers for Valerie and her doctors as she undergoes dangerous surgery to correct an aneurysm tomorrow morning.

Praises and thanks to God for helping me finish the congregation’s prayers in what I call my Mass of Joyful Anticipation!

Please join in giving thanks that the daughter of a dear friend has returned home after extended absence. Please pray that the young lady be healed of her depression as she basks in the love of God and her mother and family. Thank you, Lord!

Thank God for Carolyn’s successful surgery. Now we ask for patience on her part through a tedious recorvery period.

Thanks to God because although I cannot see the results I am certain that God is working through my music and through the Childguide Music website to His greater glory!

Please pray that people in the US will begin to understand as Christmas approaches that Christmas is a celebration of the Incarnation of God and is not an excuse for consumerism and bad behavior.

November 30, 2010

Thank God for Kinzie’s recovery! Please keep her  and her family in your prayers. Kinzie is at home resting and recuperating. May God guide her doctors as they diagnose her health issues!

November 29, 2010

Please pray for the peaceful repose of the soul of a friend of Chris’ who died in a motorcycle accident over the weekend. Pray, too, for peace for his date who was injured and for the families who have suffered such a tremendous loss.

Please pray for peace in the Far East and throughout the world that people will mature and learn to love.

November 25, 2010

My prayer request is that each of you be blessed with a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks to God for Wayne’s continued healing.

For healing of relationships within a close family.

For your own unspoken needs.

November 23, 2010

Please pray for Dustin’s mother, her healing, and her release from depression. Please pray for her family, too, as she will be at Mayo Clinic while the family is carrying on as best they can at home in OK.

Please include Austin in your prayers. last week he received a concussion during a high school football game and then committed suicide over the weekend. His family is Christian and believing. May God be merciful and compassionate and may He bring comfort to Austin’s family.

November 22, 2010

Please keep Bill’s healing in your prayers.

Pray for traveling mercies for John and healing for his Dad.

Traveling mercies for Bill and Sally.

In appreciation for continued healing of my eye.

November 11, 2010

God is so good! Just got notified that I passed my final exam and completed all the requirements for my Masters Degree in Psychology, Organizational Leadership! Hooray! Thank you, Lord!

Spoke to my sister, Kay, by Skype today. She looks great! Please keep her in your prayers as she heals up and gets better!

Please say a prayer for our son who got some mediocre news regarding his heart condition last week. May God give him the grace to trust and to lay alll his anxieties at the foot of the Father’s Throne!

November 8, 2010

Please pray especially hard for “S”‘s conversion and for “A”‘s protection.

Please say a pray for Sr. Kay that she will get to leave the hospital tomorrow!

Thanks to God for a good eye doctor’s appointment for me this morning – still cannot see but my doctor says I am healing!

Thanks, too, for long-awaited answers to my prayers today and for my new song. God is so good!

Please keep Amanda in your prayers. This young lady has been diagnosed with cancer and is in Houston for further diagnosis. Pray for Fr. Clint’s safe journey on Thursday as he goes to visit with Amanda and her family.

November 3, 2010

November 1, 2010

Please continue to pray for our sister and Arms of Jesus Ministry leader, Kay. She is having a CAT-scan this morning to see if they cannot find the problem.

Please pray for Ted, a friend who is dying of spinal cancer.

Please pray for E.F. an elderly friend who fell yesterday and hurt his right hand badly.

I request your prayers as I seem to be losing the sight in my left eye.

October 15, 2010

Please pray for the quick healing and recovery of Roda’s husband.

Please pray for Kay’s recovery, and for those who are caring for her – Ruth, Eduena, Chryl – and for the whole team praying for her.

Please pray for Deacon Besse as he recovers from his near-heart attack.

Please pray for Bill, Bill, John, Robert, Brad, Charles, Charles, and German and Oscar as they all struggle to keep their businesses on track in the sour economic times.

I ask you prayers that I will not quit knocking on His door like the persistent neighbor in Jesus’ parable in Luke 11:5-10. It would be so easy to give up and just quit. But, I know down deep that God hears and that He has my best interests at heart. So, I will ask Him again to let my music spread ’round the world to His glory and may my efforts to help my friends in their time of need not be wasted or fruitless.

Sept 2, 2010

Prayers of thanks that Christine has been asked back for a floowup interview with the president of the company! Please pray that she will get the job – in God’s will!

Prayers for the safety of everyone on the East coast that Hurricane Earl will pass far enough east to spare life and property!

Thanksgiving for Matt and Kristin’s beautiful wedding!

Thanksgiving for progress on one of our prjectsand some good feedback on some others today! Thank you, Lord!

August 26, 2010

Thanks for your prayers. Christine’s interview went well. Now, we wait.

Traveling mercies for all the family and friends traveling to Matt and Kristin’s wedding.

Prayers and blessings for Matt and Kristin.

Please continue to keep Sr. Kay and her team in your prayers as they minister in Indiana.

August 24, 2010

Rhoda asks for prayers for her husband’s healing. May God be glorified!

I passed my last course in my Master’s program! Thanks be to God!

August 23, 2010

Prayers that Christine’s interview will go well tomorrow.

Prayers for Matt and Kristin and everyone traveling to their wedding.

Prayers for Louis’ meeting with Sr. Dulce on Wednesday.

August 21, 2010

Traveling mercies for Andrew, Barb, Kay, and Ruth this weekend.

Thanks for blessing our Christine.

Thanks for this beautiful day in South Louisiana!

For the grace to be a willing servant with everything we have as Jesus tells us in today’s Gospel.

For Louis and Sharon and Frank and Genie as they serve the Lord today.

August 18, 2010

Please pray for Rebekah Ely.  She is being rushed to the hospital (around 9:45 am, Tuesday) with possible stroke symptoms.  She is young, only 35, with a young child.

The Baytown ACTS Retreat Directors loved the song I wrote for them and have adopted it as their retreat theme song! Thanks be to God! We all got goose bumps when we sang it together yesterday!

Thanks to God for our safe travels in recent weeks!

Thanks to God for my friend and brother, Luis Canales, for suggesting my name to the St. Joseph ACTS Mission Team.

August 15, 2010

In thanksgiving for Matt’s safe completion of Airborne School.

For the safety of Dale who is deploying to Afghanistan and for the well-being and consolation of his wife and family left behind.

August, 9, 2010

Thanks be to God! We received the data set of Kay’s new book today from the printer in the Philippines! It is already up and available on this website!

August 5, 2010

Please pray for the Rev. RJ Jarvis and his work raising funds to build a new church in Haiti.

Thanks to God for our eldest son.

Thanks to God for the blessing of new songs in the last few days.

Prayers for the physical health of our youngest son as he begins true parachuting at jump school.

Prayers for the Iraqi people as the US troops begin to turn security over to them. May they find that the bargaining table is preferable to slaughtering each other.

Please pray for our President and all political leaders that they will work for the good of the nation rather than for personal gain.

Prayers are requested for Sr. Kay and her Arms of Jesus Ministry and team as they ponder new directions.

For Christine’s upcoming interview.

In thanks to God for progress on a couple of business projects.

Please pray for 50 people involved in a school bus/truck accident today.

For our family’s safety while traveling these next days.

August 2, 2010

For a family in our area that died in a tragic accident yesterday.

For Sr. Kay, her team, and the Arms of Jesus Ministry.

For Matthew as he begins his second week of jump school.

For Carrie and Emily that they will regain her health quickly.

For the safe journey of German, Francisco, Oscar, and Raul and success in their work this week.

In thanks for the safe journey of Dennis and Bill and the positive results of their work last week.

For all of my classmates as we continue our studies.

For discernment.

July 23, 2010

Please pray for a friend and her family whose 19 year old son died in a tragic accident last week.

Please keep another friend in your prayer who within the last month has lost a great-aunt, great-uncle, and her grandfather. May the Lord bring them peace in their time of sorrow.

May Tropical Storm Bonnie never become a hurricane and may she disperse the oil spill into the dead zone in the Gulf.

Prayers for baby Amelie who has suffered some migraines lately.

July 17, 2010

Thanks for the blessing of last night’s music ministry fro the St. John Vianney (Houston) Womens ACTS Retreat.

Thanks for the good news from our CPA – a lot of financial pressure off!

Thanks for progress on this website!

Thanks for my sister, Kay!

July 14, 2010

Please pray for a good friend and business associate, KR, who has recently been diagnosed with possible cancer. May God grant him healing and health so that he can continue to do his good work to the glory of the Lord.

Thanks that this website is working as I hoped it would after making many changes last night!

Thanks for the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe for Billy!

Thanks for Mom’s and Kristin’s safe journeys yesterday!

That God will lead me and I will be attentive to His guidance regarding work, music, ministry, and life.

For Christine’s recovery and that she will find a suitable place to live.

For the Team and Retreatants involved in the 2010 SJV Womens ACTS Retreat happening this weekend! May the Holy Spirit be rampant among the group and may God be glorified!

July 13, 2010

For the peaceful repose of my Dad on the 17th anniversary of his death.

For Billy’s every financial success with Ignite and Stream Energy as his present ophthalmology business struggles.

June 23, 2010

Thanks to God for answering a long-time request for employment! Yesterday funding finally came through for a small project I have been working on. Thanks be to God!

Please pray for Kay’s safe journey home.

June 22, 2010

Please pray for Daniel and Beverley – they give birth to their 4th child today who is still born. Pray for their consolation and strength of faith and support of friends.

Please pray for friends and family who are suffering from Alzheimer’s and other illnesses – for their healing and strength.

June 20, 2010

Please give thanks for the wonder of Sr. Kay’s mission to the Philippines.

Please pray for a well-attended and wonderful desvedido Mass for Sr. Kay tomorrow and for her safe journey home this week.

Your payers are requested for Sam that he will have the coulrage to dowhat he needs to do when he goes to court this week.

Prayers for Sam’s Mom that she will put her trust in the Lord.

Your continued prayers are requested for Mary as she continues to mourn her mother’s death.

June 12, 2010

Thanks to God for my lovely wife – today is our 39th wedding anniversary!

Another thanks for a miracle blessing that I received one week ago during a healing Mass at the SJV Mens ACTS Retreat. I heard the call. I answered and surrendered. He blessed me with my healing. Wow! Praised be our God!

June 11, 2010

Praises and thanks to God for a very good first ministry meeting with the inmates of the Acadia Parish Jail! Fr. ill heard confessions. Zubaida passed out Bibles and prayer cards. I led the guys in singing – 39 inmates and 4 guards! One of the inmates read the Gospel for his brothers. Yesterday was from Matthew 5 about leaving your gift at the altar to rebuild your relationship with your brother! Wow! One inmate sang a solo of Amazing Grace as God gave it to him in prison! What a blessing!

Prayers, please, for one inmate who had a bad back. We prayed over him. And asked for God’s healing!

Praises and thanks for Sr. Kay’s reception in the Philippines! Simply awesome!

Praises and thanks to God that Kay received my edits of her new book before it went to the printer (who is printing for the least cost possible!). And, Kay liked the edits! She has already sold 150 of her first printing and it is not even off the presses, yet!

Your continued prayers for Daniel, Ann Michelle, Larry, Larry, Mike, and so many others in need of God’s healing touch.

Suzanne had several kidney stones removed yesterday and have some small ones she has to pass-is in much pain

June 8, 2010

Your prayers are requested for Greg and his doctors.

June 6, 2010

Thank you for your prayers. The SJV Mens ACTS Retreat was wonderful. The music ministry was very well received – Praise God!

Please pray for Sr. Kay and her ministry in the Philippines.

May 28, 2010

Please pray for Claudia, a friend of Mike, for her healing and for reconciliation with her family.

Please keep our St. John Vianney Mens ACTS retreatants and retreat team in your prayers as they wrap up preparations for next week’s retreat.

Prayers of thanks for Barb getting her new job. It is great! She loves it! Thank you, Lord!

Prayers of thanks for Kay’s inspiration to write a new book! She is making wonderful progress in anticipation of her next trip to the Philippines!

Please pray for travelling mercies for us all as we converge on our son’s future in-laws this weekend.

Thanks for your prayers for Gin and her baby. He was born healthy and Gin did just fine. Praise God!

Please pray for a peaceful and effective solution to the North and South Korea conflict.

Please pray for peace and dialogue in Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, and all the places in the world where people are fighting and killing each other rather than loving and sharing their nations in harmony.

May 24, 2010

Please pray for Danny as he undergoes treatment on his spinal column today.

Please keep Gin in your prayers as she is almost a week late on delivery of her first baby.

May 16, 2010

Prayers for a friend and her mother. Mom has heart trouble and my friend is really hurting over this.

Prayers for David and his family as he prepares to deploy.

In thanks for my safe journey.

Prayers for Kay in thanksgiving for her new home, the blessing of her home tomorrow, and for her mission to the Philippines.

May 7, 2010

Kristin asks, “Please be praying for our church as it was completely destroyed in the floods this past weekend…”

Please pray for everyone’s jobs and the companies they work for.

Please pray for the guy who punched the wrong button on Wall Street and cost the world (except those who lost loved ones) more than the BP oil spill.

In thanks for safe travel.

For our priests, religious, and all Christian clergy that they might be protected from harm and defended vigorously in times of temptation.

May 5, 2010

Prayers for Barb that she might find the peace and consolation of Our Lord.

Prayers for the mother-in-law and uncle of Chris. My mother-in-law has pulmonary fibrosis and is on full oxygen with limited movement.  My uncle has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Please pray for their comfort and the comfort of all their loved ones.

In thanks for all the encouragement of the past few days.

In thanks for my safe travels.

May 3, 2010

For Nicole as she recovers from very serious injuries she suffered in a car accident.

For all those suffering flood damage or anticipating flooding in Kentucky and Tennessee.

For those threatened by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that their businesses and livelihoods will suffer minimal damage.

For our military and all who serve in harm’s way.

May 2, 2010

Prayers, please, for Charles as he looks for a job. He had a good interview. Lord, in your will, bless him with a job.

April 29, 2010

Please pray for Phyllis and her daughter, Kerry, that Kerry will recover from her double pneumonia and regain her health soon.

Please pray for Joanne and her daughter that the doctor’s diagnosis of her daughter’s condition is not correct and that she may heal quickly.

Praises and thanks to our God for answering our prayers for Barb! Barb has been offered a great job within 15 minutes of home!

My own thanks to God for His continual guidance, consolation, and peace over the past days.

Prayers for all of you!

April 27, 2010

Please pray for the peaceful repose of Doris and for the consolation of her family.

Please pray for me as I struggle with a major decision and for my wife as she deals with my struggle.

Please pray for Orin as he takes his TAKS tests this week.

Please pray for Emily and Anna that they will get over their pink eye and sinus troubles quickly.

April 26, 2010

Barb asks for prayers for a friend who is under serious attack. May she be delivered and may she and her family find peace.

Also, please pray for Fr. Collins for a special intention.

You prayers are requested for my own travels and safety in the next days and for a special intention.

April 23, 2010

Please pray for the missing and all the physically and mentally traumatized in the drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

Pray, too, for the safety of all the emergency crews.

Please offer a prayer of thanks for Dixie Ryan and her willingness to include our prayer list in her PWI internet list.

I offer a prayer of thanks for all of you who have and continue to help me keep my focus on the goodness of our Lord.

April 22, 2010

In thanksgiving for my safe travels and for my wife’s safety in my absence.

For Christine on her birthday (yesterday).

For the workers on the platform that blew up in the Gulf of Mexico.

For our Holy Father and the Church.

For our President and all elected officials and their families.

For our troops that God may protect them and in thanks for their service.

For continued healing for Thib’s wife.

April 21, 2010

Pray for Gina and her Daddy. May God bless him and heal him from his cancer.

Prayers for Christine and Jason and their relationship.

For the success of this website and god’s gift of my music.

April 20, 2010

Doris in her last days and the consolation of the Melancon family.

Safe travel for me and safety for my wife in my absence.

Our SJV Mens ACTS Team and those men whom the Holy Spirit has called to the retreat.

That people will read today’s Gospel from John 6 and begin to look for the miracles that God does perform in their lives every day.

For young Andrew -UPDATE: that his ear infection will clear up and he can return to school soon.

For Barb as she interviews for a new job. May God bless her in each interview just as He has by giving her numerous interested companies to interview with.

For the Pope, the Church, and all clergy that they will live in the Light of Christ.

For our President and all elected officials that they, too, may serve us in humility and with courage. And, for their families.

For continued healing for Harold.

For Louis’ wife, Sharon (I believe), who is preparing for surgery. May God guide her doctors and the surgeon. May He bring her healing so we can all share her wonderful smile and Irish spirit again soon!

April 19 2010

For the peaceful repose of Katy Lunn and the consolation of her family, friends, and sorority sisters.

For Leah, a friend of Christine’s, who fell while working on production lighting and suffered a concussion and some spinal damage.

For Christine and success in her job interview.

In thanks for Ginna’s successful procedure this morning and the continued health of her baby.

For Matt and Kristin.

For our political leaders that they will work for the lives of all persons and for the good of our Nation.

For our Soldiers throughout the world and in harm’s way. May God watch over them and bring them safely home.

That all people will turn to Our Lord and find peace through their love for one another.

That God will bless this website. May it flourish and bring glory to His Name!

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