Marriage Retreat

Dear Praying Friends,

We have a special request, and we need you to join us in prayer.  This coming weekend, we will be holding a marriage retreat for HIM pastors and missionaries from Lesotho and South Africa.  Jim and Fredde Howard will be the special speakers.  We are looking forward to their ministry so much, but it feels that Satan is really fighting.  Here's a few of the things that have been going on:

• I am STILL waiting on parts to fix our van.
• The Peterson's van is in Durban, South Africa--six hours away.  The transmission needs to be rebuilt or repaired.  They are waiting on an estimate of what this will cost.
• Angela Thornton's vehicle was hit by a careless driver Friday night.  She and the two girls riding with her could have easily been killed, but God protected them.  We are waiting for insurance to fix her vehicle, but the man who hit her didn't show up at the police station as he was supposed to this morning.  We waited for him for three hours, and the meeting was rescheduled for tomorrow.
• Mrs. Howard had some health challenges lately.
• One pastor and his wife cannot attend because the government has run out of paper to print passport receipts on.  (I know that sounds comical to Americans, but trials like this are not uncommon in Lesotho.  Often there is a deeper, perhaps political reason, that they can't give her a passport.)
• Another pastor has lost his passport, so cannot attend.  

We REALLY need your prayer support right now!  Would you please pray for this marriage retreat in a special way, and also ask our Father to help in each of the needs that I mentioned in the list?  We believe Satan is fighting because God is doing something important in His Kingdom.  United prayer from His children will bring victory!

Thank you so much!