Welcome the Kingdom of God

“Truly, I tell you, whoever does not receive and accept and welcome the kingdom of God like a little child does, positively shall not enter it at all.” Mark 10:15


Prayer Requests:
~ Pray for the girls to understand how to welcome the kingdom of God like a little child so that they shall definitely enter it.
~ Pray for a troubled young girl who needs daily prayer on behalf of her spiritual walk; also for her to have the ability to trust after being discouraged many times by adults. Our prayer is that she learn to walk with Jesus each step of the day.
~ Please continue to pray for one of our students struggling with being here all day.


Praise Reports:
~ Praise God for Ron Meissen’s generous donation for train tickets for the girls to go to the Art Institute of Chicago. We were blessed to see many famous artworks, including Picasso, Degas, Monet, Georgia O’Keefe, Grant Wood and many more. We were blessed with safe travel, beautiful weather, wonderful chaperones (Angel Patterson and Trish Johnson), and an especially enlightening day of culture, history and art.

~ Praise God for several students completing credits for their electives. God is so good and so many girls are advancing in their studies by their daily efforts of plugging along and disciplining themselves to complete required work for graduation requirements – we are encouraged!

~ Praise God for self-control on behalf of several students who struggle with this character trait.

~ Praise God for learned skills of waiting for a chance to speak, learning to enter a room quietly, journal writing, and tremendous improvement in writing skills!

~ Praise God for another amazing discovery: a table that was donated for our conference room, which we’ve been using for over 2 years now, is being used for the computer class which Judy Kidder is teaching once a week. Now that we have enough laptops to sit 5 girls around the table, we discovered this table wasn’t long enough for 5 laptops to fit around it. Wondering if it had a leaf, we looked under the table, and to our delight and amazement, there was one built right in – God is soooo good!

~ Praise God for all the wonderful food angels who donate, cook, serve and delight us with their culinary masterpieces.

~ Continued praise for our faithful staff; an army of volunteers heaven-sent, who provide encouragement, tutoring, and love to the girls each day, as well as those who do the occasional maintenance around the school and home. To God be the Glory!!!


Wish List:
~ Napkins
~ Fresh Fruit
~ Fresh Vegetables
~ Iron rich foods
~ Raisins
~ Dried apricots
~ Cashews
~ Electric and Manual Can Opener


“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7