Down to 94! Lemme spell that out NINETY-FOUR!!!
Gotta go to another school now. But I will be checking in later today.
Visual Impairments Specialist
WE are down to 7 empty spots as of 2:15 PM 2/21
WE are down to 7 empty spots as of 2:15 PM 2/21
Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Prayer Vigil Countdown Time!!! (or here she goes again!)
If you've already taken care of this--it's OK, I'm gonna bug  everybody anyway because you can either add some more yourself or ask others to but WE NEED MORE NAMES ADDED TO THE PRAYER CHAIN!!! The countdown is 462/276. That means 276 EMPTY spaces are left.  My life would be easier at the hotel if all the spaces are filled BEFORE Feb 24 rather than ON Feb 24 So if ya don't want me to bug ya with another countdown, you know what to do!GIT 'ER DONE! Lost the link? Click here, Boo. SDAL Kathy  http://www.kathyskids.org Ms. Kathy's Kids Blog: http://mskathyskids.blogspot.com/ |
Thursday, July 22, 2010
A Small Request
| One I certainly don't mind recirculating. I've a personal interest. Thanks, E.C. http://www.kathyskids.org Ms. Kathy's Kids Blog: http://mskathyskids.blogspot.com/ --- On Mon, 7/12/10, E. C. Sibille wrote:
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
What's A Prayer Chain Look Like? (Thanks for the Participation)
Thanks to everyone who participated in the prayer vigil for Angola Kairos #48.
Then one of the guys who serves as our runner over the 3 1/2-day Kairos Weekend would take the prayer chain into the prison in a huge garbage bag.
The chain is then hung up inside the prison where the workshop is being held. It is draped around and around and up and down the room. As you can see in the hotel photos below, thic chain was pretty long. During the weekend, it is explained to the prison residents that someone is praying for them 24/7 during the 3 1/2-day weekend and that each link represents someone praying for them in a 10-minute block. They can actually walk up to the physical representation and they are awed by the prayers!
This time I made sure to take pictures of the chain before it was sent it into the prison so that those of you who signed up and prayed will have some idea of how the physical chain looked.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
ExCePt FoR tHeSe
I have people contact me and ask for prayer in sickness and in bad times. I am grateful for the opportunity. I'm grateful they see something of God in me that they find me worthy to share in their prayers for their family and friends. Sometimes it's those requests that remind me to talk to God each day, so for that I am grateful.
The Bible admonishes us Christians to "pray without ceasing." However, some of us want to put restrictions and conditions on God. We only pray when we want something to go our way and we want God to bless what we want. "Oh, God! Let this scratch-off ticket bring me one million bucks! Just ONE million is all I ask!" Dude, God knows you're a jerk with $100 and that you'll just be a bigger jerk with a million bucks!
More seriously, though, folks put limits on their prayers as if they really belong to themselves and are to be doled out only for certain causes and for certain people. I actually saw someone who didn't know better, thinking it was fine to pray for something bad to happen to someone they didn't like. Can you say "Way off base!" Boys and girls?
Prayer is simply talking to God. It's not always about asking for what you want. It's also about praise, worship and thanks. In the model prayer, which some folks call The Lord's Prayer, Christ is teaching how to pray using praise, request, thanks.
I am mentioning it here because as we do Kairos Prison Ministry, we always have a prayer chain for the 42 prison residents who will participate in the 3 1/2-day spiritually uplifting workshop and for the team of gentlemen and ladies who will serve on the team. There are actually babes in Christ who feel such ownership of their prayers that, though they consider themselves to be devout, they will limit how they dole out their prayers and say, "No, I will not pray for those people."
With that said, I have combined a TOP TEN list of reasons that Christians do not pray--which are not really reasons at all!
1. They don't like us and they are not praying for us! (Heard a lot after 911)
2. I don't have a "podium"/ don't know how to make the words sound right in the group.
3. They are not in our church.
4. They don't look like us.
5. They don't deserve my/our prayers.
6. It's useless/ fruitless. What's the point?.
7. I don't have someone to pray with me.
8. I just don't like her/him/them.
9. They're too young/old/insignificant
10. I have not forgiven her/him or someone they bring to mind.
Now with my fussing done, prayerfully consider joining our prayer vigil for February 18-21. We know that everyone is not called to go inside the prison with us so we give you an opportunity for your blessings from the outside. Click the link in the title or copy and paste this link into your browser area: http://www.3dayol.org/Vigil/GetVigil.phtml?pvid=4110&commid=1462
The system will ask for your email but it will only be used to remind you of the 10minutes you chose to pray. It will not print out on the physical prayer chain.
What will happen is that during the workshop a physical prayer chain will made from colored paper and strung across the classroom during the weekend. It is a physical reminder and encouragement for the 42 particiapnats that people who don't even know them are praying 24/7. It really amazes them to see a representation of people from all over the world in prayer for them throughout the workshop.
http://www.3dayol.org/Vigil/GetVigil.phtml?pvid=4110&commid=1462
The Bible admonishes us Christians to "pray without ceasing." However, some of us want to put restrictions and conditions on God. We only pray when we want something to go our way and we want God to bless what we want. "Oh, God! Let this scratch-off ticket bring me one million bucks! Just ONE million is all I ask!" Dude, God knows you're a jerk with $100 and that you'll just be a bigger jerk with a million bucks!
More seriously, though, folks put limits on their prayers as if they really belong to themselves and are to be doled out only for certain causes and for certain people. I actually saw someone who didn't know better, thinking it was fine to pray for something bad to happen to someone they didn't like. Can you say "Way off base!" Boys and girls?
Prayer is simply talking to God. It's not always about asking for what you want. It's also about praise, worship and thanks. In the model prayer, which some folks call The Lord's Prayer, Christ is teaching how to pray using praise, request, thanks.
I am mentioning it here because as we do Kairos Prison Ministry, we always have a prayer chain for the 42 prison residents who will participate in the 3 1/2-day spiritually uplifting workshop and for the team of gentlemen and ladies who will serve on the team. There are actually babes in Christ who feel such ownership of their prayers that, though they consider themselves to be devout, they will limit how they dole out their prayers and say, "No, I will not pray for those people."
With that said, I have combined a TOP TEN list of reasons that Christians do not pray--which are not really reasons at all!
1. They don't like us and they are not praying for us! (Heard a lot after 911)
2. I don't have a "podium"/ don't know how to make the words sound right in the group.
3. They are not in our church.
4. They don't look like us.
5. They don't deserve my/our prayers.
6. It's useless/ fruitless. What's the point?.
7. I don't have someone to pray with me.
8. I just don't like her/him/them.
9. They're too young/old/insignificant
10. I have not forgiven her/him or someone they bring to mind.
Now with my fussing done, prayerfully consider joining our prayer vigil for February 18-21. We know that everyone is not called to go inside the prison with us so we give you an opportunity for your blessings from the outside. Click the link in the title or copy and paste this link into your browser area: http://www.3dayol.org/Vigil/GetVigil.phtml?pvid=4110&commid=1462
The system will ask for your email but it will only be used to remind you of the 10minutes you chose to pray. It will not print out on the physical prayer chain.
What will happen is that during the workshop a physical prayer chain will made from colored paper and strung across the classroom during the weekend. It is a physical reminder and encouragement for the 42 particiapnats that people who don't even know them are praying 24/7. It really amazes them to see a representation of people from all over the world in prayer for them throughout the workshop.
http://www.3dayol.org/Vigil/GetVigil.phtml?pvid=4110&commid=1462
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Prayer Chain Count Down for 1/13/10
| For Men's Kairos, Angola LSP #48 Feb 18-21: Of 462 prayer slots, 285 need to be filled!  CLICK HERE to get to go THERE! Better, still, pass this notice on to your prayer warrior friends! YSIC, YKW [YAAAAAAHOOOOOO!!!!] 
Ms. Kathy's Kids Blog: http://mskathyskids.blogspot.com/ |
Monday, November 2, 2009
Prayers Needed for Kairos!
| We need more names added to our prayer vigil chain at this link: http://www.3dayol.org/Vigil/GetVigil.phtml?pvid=3859&commid=1462 Pray that our Kairos Prison Ministry weekend workshop goes well. Pray for traveling grace up to the hotel and back and forth to/from the prison and for the 42 resident guests to have a God-breathed experience. Thanks! |
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Prayer Vigil Notification-- Louisiana State Penitentiary - Angola
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Recall Notice
| Brother Jules sent this. He is also a Kairos brother and Catholic clergy. I like this one!
Ms. Kathy's Kids Blog: http://mskathyskids.blogspot.com/ --- On Fri, 5/22/09, Jules M A wrote:
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
My Beautiful Necklace
You see, this necklace is very special. It is made of plastic shopping bags, a lollipop stick and the silver in the center of the cross is from a gum wrapper. I wish I knew how it was made from those things but I've never seen the craftsman make them All I know is that he does and that it takes him a lot of time to create each one of them. One could say that he has the time on his hands to make them, because, you see, this craftsman is incarcerated in one of Louisiana's prisons.
One of our Kairos brothers brought bag full of these necklaces to a Kairos team unity meeting. He told us that each donation for them would go to Kairos Prison Ministry because the young man, the craftsman who had made them was a Kairos graduate and know the value of the ministry. The young man's father was also a Kairos volunteer on the outside and brings quart size zip lock bag fulls of these necklaces from his son after each visit. Donations to Kairos are his only request.
Each person who tool one last winter donated $5 each. I bought about 3 of them. Each person who bought them, we have found, has had a story about their necklace after leaving the room. Last week three of us were together and each one of us, in acquiring another necklace, had something that had happened to us involving our necklaces. Each of us met people who needed encouragement and prayer and each of us had given our necklaces away--sometimes to perfect strangers.
My most memorable necklace story was from going to the hospital before work for an early morning blood test. There I met three people in Waiting Room A. There was a friendly lady who arrived about the same time I did who didn't appear to meet a stranger. She started talking to me and pulled the shy man with one leg into the conversation. The third lady came into Waiting Room A and sat beside me. She also felt encouraged to talk and share by the first lady who was called to the back by a nurse. But she began to talk to me.
She told me how her sister had just passed and the funeral was that very day. But she'd volunteered to allow everyone else to go to the services while she waited for her niece to come out of surgery. Then she would take her niece home to take care of her.
Just then the vampire nurse called me to the back to extract a blood sample. When I came back through Waiting Room A the lady was still there. She told me that her sister had died from the complications of lupus and her niece's surgery was also due to lupus. I assured her that from what I'd read and from people I know with the disease that lupus was controllable under doctor's care and of course, staying in prayer. She seemed happy and comforted to discover she was talking to another Christian. She told me her niece's name after I told her of the wonderful prayer warriors I knew in my church, prison ministry and on line.
As if on cue, a young man came down the hall pushing a gurney with a tiny young lady on it. "There she is! There's my niece!" said the woman. She'd told me how cute and tiny her niece was. She was in her early twenties but looked like she was in middle school.
"Hi, Niece!" I chirped."Well, you are a cutie, just as your aunt described you!"
She blushed as her aunt scampered to her side and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "I will have you both in my prayers," I added as I excused myself to go to work.
As I got down the hall, my hand touched my necklace and I had to turn back. i took off the necklace and I approached the gurney. When I told them what it was made of, Niece said, Wow! That's amazing!"
Then I told them who made it and why. I told her that I wanted her to have it to remind her that someone was praying for her. All I asked was that she remember that and do it for someone else.
When a few of us had our prayer vigil for Brother Hermann Schluter while he was in the hospital, I believe one of the reasons God had him awake and cheerful was so Richard could give him his necklace. Richard said the same thing in the hospital room: "There's something about them that makes you have to give them away.
Later I saw Brother Checo give one away to one of the young ladies who works with changing the laws for incarcerated youth. He said it was his third necklace also!
There's something about that necklace that one wants to have it and one has to give it away. Something joyful. It's like the gospel: It's not to be kept to oneself but spread around as any other good deed. I love my necklace, but I don't intend to keep this one for very long either. It's a beautiful necklace indeed!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Brother Neville
This is my Brother Neville. This picture was taken by another brother, Jim Lambert, as they made their way home to Lafayette from a Kairos meeting in Baton Rouge.
Brother Neville is very active in Kairos Prison Ministry and he is an inspiration. You can see that he has a sense of humor, but what you cannot see is that when Brother Neville was in college, he was in a horrible car crash which put him in a coma for a time and left him with traumatic brain injury, or TBI. Sometimes he is on a walker or a cane and sometimes on long stretches he is in a wheelchair. When the guys go into the prison they have to walk a distance so they make sure they take a wheelchair for him.
Because of the TBI, sometimes Brother Neville may not remember that he's already asked a question of you. Sometimes he can't remember if he telephoned or a word he was thinking of or how he was going to end the sentence he started.
What he doesn't remember is not as important as what he does remember. He knows God loves him so much that he saved him on more than one level. He knows what a blessing the Kairos Ministry is for the prison residents and for those of us who serve. He knows we love him and he loves us very much. He has claimed my husband and myself and we claim him.
When I asked for prayer after discovering I had lymphoma, Brother Neville went into action. He let his church family know to be in prayer and he contacted a sister who had been through the same thing and had her contact me. He would call every other week from Lafayette to keep up with my treatments and he'd keep me in the forefront of the minds and prayers of others. I truly appreciated that.
Now when you are ready to complain when someone asks how your life is going, remember my brother, whose favorite saying is: "It's all good!" Then he points up.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Prayer Requests
Yesterday afternoon, I met with a few of my Kairos brothers as we went up to have a prayer vigil for our brother, Hermann Schluter. Brother Herman has had pancreatic cancer for a while. Something was going on in his liver but it had him so down that he was in ICU and telling his wife what he wanted for his funeral. We all went into prayer mode. I called "Mr.Kathy" on my way and told him what time to start praying with us from where he was in another city.
Yesterday Brother Hermann had just come form ICU and was able to sit up and talk to us very clearly and with much alertness. He was happily in a regular room! They'd discovered that he had much infection in his liver and the medical staff was able to drain the infection once they figured out the problem. Please keep him in your prayers as he recuperates.
This weekend--starting today--Kairos will sponsor our Discipleship Retreat Weekend. Please keep us and our guests in your prayers. I will be leaving immediately after I visit my last school for the day.
Yesterday Brother Hermann had just come form ICU and was able to sit up and talk to us very clearly and with much alertness. He was happily in a regular room! They'd discovered that he had much infection in his liver and the medical staff was able to drain the infection once they figured out the problem. Please keep him in your prayers as he recuperates.
This weekend--starting today--Kairos will sponsor our Discipleship Retreat Weekend. Please keep us and our guests in your prayers. I will be leaving immediately after I visit my last school for the day.
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