#280 - Thank you and Prayer Requests

 Vol. #280

Thank you all for you welcoming words, gifts of time and resources, short chats in person, on the phone or via social media! 

My departure date is next Tuesday, Oct.31^st. The three months flew by quickly but I am grateful to spend the time focussing on my parents and with my siblings helping to get them the aid needed in this season. I know I will be having video calls with many of you when I return to my heart country. I am looking forward to continuing our life journey together with Jesus the Christ being our leader, and yes, the only Dance Partner who is the best leader at all times, because He knows the rhythms of the seasons of our lives down to the second, and is always there to guide when you and I spend time with Him!

 

Prayer Request: please pray for His presence to reign on Mum and Dad as I leave. It is a bittersweet time and I am very grateful to have parents who pray for and over me. Please pray that I would be able to release them back to Jesus unconditionally as I leave!

 
Prayer Request: please pray for travelling mercies; for on-time flight connections and my luggage arriving at the same time as I do back in PP.

Prayer Request: please pray for wisdom for me to ‘rest’ and not jump back into life there. Pray that the a/c repair team, the water filter guy and the cleaning crew all come when they say that they will and that I do NOT have to wait around for hours, BUT that if I do have to wait, that I would do so with His grace and humour!

 
Prayer Request: please pray that I would have good travelling seatmates (or NONE so I can spread out! LOL), and that I turn WOULD BE a good travelling seat mate worthy of Jesus!

 
Please feel free to send me your prayer requests as WE do this life together, albeit at a distance! 

Love, His Warrior and Disciple, 

Submitting to be His Dance partner here in Cambodia, 

Your sister, Vedya 

 

#279 - Meet and Greet

 Vol. #279

Thank you all for your patience, as I have not written an update for a long time!

 

I have been blessed to have this time with my parents up in Scarborough, with my eldest brother visiting from Florida, and hanging out with my other brother and sister who live here. 

It is Thanksgiving weekend coming up and I just want to say how grateful and thankful I am to have what we Trinis refer to as “da bone country“, which is Trinidad and Tobago; my adopted country, Canada, which has allowed me to identify my skills and giftings and allowed me to grow; and my heart country of Cambodia where I am privileged to serve with and under my Khmer brothers and sisters for His Kingdom!

 

I was especially honored to have been invited to share at my brother Joe Raineri’s Celebration of Life on September 23rd a couple of weeks ago by my sister Ann, Joe’s wife.

 

I am grateful to my parents who showed me how to love and serve God in different areas, and to a community here, which is YOU who have walked the long road with me, sacrificing your resources and time investing into me so that I can serve and dance with Him now!

I would like to invite you to a Meet and Greet on Sunday, October 22nd at Rexdale Alliance Church after the church service at the Fireside Chapel. Here I will give you an update on His Ministry in Cambodia! I look forward to seeing you! 

 

Forever grateful to Jesus to be allowed to serve Him! 

Love, His Warrior and Disciple, 

Submitting to be His Dance partner here in Cambodia, 

Your sister, Vedya