Her name is Rebecca

Please please pray for my friend Rebecca who is in critical condition in the hospital right now. She has crohns disease, and has had some really bad spells already in the past, and this is worse, I think. She has lost 30 pounds (and was already incredibly thin) because she can't keep food down, and she has low blood pressure, and there's a possibility that her bowel will rupture and she'll have to have emergency surgery, and she can hardly swallow because of the pain it causes, and she is just not responding to her medication.
please pray for her. I think this is urgent. Also pray for her Mom (and her whole family!) as they support her and love her and share in her pain!
There is actually a prayer vigil for four hours tomorrow (4-8) at Meadowlands CRC. You could lift that time up to the Lord as well.
The prayers of a righteous person are powerful and effective! I believe that whole-heartedly!

Redeemer

For those not in the RUC loop - Friday around 11am a squirrel met with the hydro transformer for the campus, they fought and both lost. The squirrel died and so did the power. A new transformer had to be brought in and installed. This involved a complete evacuation of the academic building. Then because of pilot lights, gas leaks and other resulting things the entirety of the on-campus population had to be shipped off to two hotels until such time that the dorms are safe to live in, and power has been restored.

There are a lot of things to pray for here - the entire situation is a logistical nightmare. You can imagine the choices and planning having to be made by the front office, RAs and HAs trying to find their students on a Friday afternoon without the use of phones, Student Life staff making sure that everyone gets settled in their hotel and that they represent Redeemer well, and all the students that have been displaced during one the busiest times of the school year. I'm sure there is more, but these are some good places to start.

Steve and Julia Kooy

Julia's mom passed away yesterday afternoon suddenly. They found out a week and a half ago she has advanced cancer and she did not make it. One praise though, before she passed she was able to see her second grandchild as Julia had there second child on Nov.11. Please pray for there family, this is the second death in the family in 5 months.

Grandma Stewart

My Grandma has been in a lot of pain for the past couple of months, to the point where she hasn't been able to walk. They figured out on Friday that was because both of her hips are broken. She had surgery yesterday morning on the worse one. It was quite successful and she is starting the recovery process. She turns 87 next Monday.

Crystal Williams

A friend that I grew up with (Gr 5 - end of highschool) was killed in a car accident in the Belleville area last night. Pray for her family (Mom, Dad and older sister) and friends as they/we deal and adjust.

Last Aaron Post

He comes home tomorrow! Praise the Lord!

24/7 Prayer

24/7 Prayer starts tonight on Redeemers campus. Pray that God will move on this campus, the community and around the world as we pray for a whole week straight.

Update on Aaron

he's better. he's starting to eat some foods, but he's still quite weak..can't even sit up in bed by himself without any help...but he's not delusional anymore, which is amazing. and his fever is gone, blood pressure, respiration, and heart rate are pretty much perfect.

Update on Aaron

Yesterday was not a good day. He was super confused, not speaking much, and when he did it was mumbly and incoherant. Today has been better. His fever is gone! He's on less oxygen, his blood pressure is up and his heart rate is down. An MRI was done this morning to check on brain activity - results are pending.

Update on Aaron

Aaron is still in the ICU at CHEO. They think he has some sort of viral infection in his blood that is attacking his heart. His whole family is with him now.

ICU

My friend's little brother Aaron has been in an ICU all weekend with a crazy mysterious illness. They don't know what is wrong with him. He has a huge fever, super low blood pressure and messed up sodium levels.

TIMEOUT

SOMEONE SHOULD POST THIS IN TIMEOUT!!!

LETS INCLUDE THE ENTIRE REDEEMER COMMUNITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Little Micah Hoogstad

http://kahoogstad.blogspot.com/

Loneliness

Pray for "lifes a story". http://making-history.blogspot.com/

Peace

Instead of a request I bring forth a prayer.

Father in heaven as we come before you with prayers of thanksgiving and requests I ask that you, in your infintie wisdom and grace grant us peace as we continue to serve you within the redeemer community ans without. LORD i ask for peace amidst the storms of life. I pray for healing. LORD I pray that this site may be an instrament of your love as we share the burdens that we carry with fellow believers.

amen

Gramma Poole

please pray for my gramma (many people at redeemer know her). she fell hard a week ago, breaking her hip and her femur and causing multiple fractures. she had surgery that went quite well, but she still is in a lot of pain. she has a hard time eating too much, and she often talks as if she wants to die now. she was also having doubts (the most steadfast, godly, faithful christian woman was having doubts!) thinking that God was punishing her for not reading her Bible enough, or praying enough or something, and she is just getting more and more incoherent. pray that she will have rest, and regain strength to live. pray that she'll be assured that she is still held in the arms of God, who loves her so much. thanks....
~britt

Prayers for Hollywood

Please pray for the missionaries in Hollywood. There are so many Christians working here in Hollywood, and they need our prayers just as much as any missionaries helping those in Africa. If you want to pray for something more specific, you can pray for my church -- Ecclesia Hollywood -- and you can pray for all of the students at LA Film Studies Centre. There are 48 of us here and we're all facing the pressure of being under constant stress as well as learning how to live for Christ here in LA -- very different challenges compared to life back at home. There a couple of the students who are not adjusting that well, so please pray for them as well. Okay that's all for now. Good idea Lstew.

Dawson College

Pray for the wounded students of the Dawson College shooting, some of whom are in critical condition; for the parents of the dead female student; for the parents; for the scared students; for the provincial police in Quebec; for a community that has been violated.

Sickness

A quick prayer request. There are a lot of students who are sick with colds and such right now. Just for prayer to get our strength back to continue with classes and enjoying life at Redeemer.

The First Request

I guess something weighing on me right now is Redeemer clubs and ministries. It seems a little like the few are doing the much - and they are very stretched out. Our school is growing and we need new people to join ministries, teams, clubs and not the people who have always done them - 'new' people. So I guess my prayer would be that God would move strongly in people's hearts to get involved.

-Lstew

The First Post

If you've read and side bar (and you should do that now if you haven't yet) you should have an idea of what is going on here.

I (Lstew) would encourage you to log into blogger using the instructions also located at the side and go ahead post a request (you don't have to leave your name in the post if you don't want to). Also, if you get any sort of answer to prayer that you want to share - well, do that too! If someone's request moves you to encourage them with words you can leave a comment to tell them what has been laid on your heart.

Once this gets rolling I'm anticipating that you'll be able to check back many times a day to view more requests or praises. The ability to post anonamously (all posts will show up as being posted by Prayer) should prevent this from becoming a rumour mill, but a place where we can bare our bruises and seek care.

Oh, and if you have a blog, kindly add this to your blogroll and maybe post about it.

Thanks and Peace,

Lstew