Prayer Requests

Ventana has been experiencing a lot of spiritual attacks lately...and its become harder and harder to deal with them. Each week someone else experiences some hardship or another that puts a damper on our spiritual journey as we go out into the streets of Santa Cruz. Please keep us all in your prayers as we go out on Saturday for our last service night with the homeless. We have been making a great impact in some people's lives and Satan obviously doesn't like that.

Our team is also experiencing some extremely hard difficulties financially which has severly affected the ministry. Three of my fellow students are having a hard time getting their money raised. They all have to raise three thousand dollars each by Dec. 15th, and they are getting a little stressed and discouraged. We know that God wants them here on the team, and we would really appreciate prayer for them as they scramble to raise all the funds needed. We have already suffered a huge loss already. Laura, our community director, is not going to be able to join us in Mexico due to financial issues, and Ventana not having enough money in the budget to pay seven staff members. It is a very sad time for the Ventana team since we all love Laura immensely and we will miss her humor and sweet face all throughout our Mexico experience. Please keep her in your prayers as she searches for another job and deals with this loss...

Our ministry is losing a very important dynamic, and it is going to be hard to get used to only having six leaders. And if one or all of the students who are in financial difficulty are not able to come back, everything will be different and weird. Its insane to think about going to Mexico without ALL my teammates.

I'll be home in about 4 days which is super exciting! Please keep my family in your prayers as we start to prepare for the first major holidays without Dad. Its going to be a bit tough...which is an understatement.

I love you all!
Mikaela