Spring Semester Prayer Requests and Praises

 Praises:

• We had 23 students from across S. Utah at our spring leaders retreat and it went amazingly well.  
• We (finally) completely recovered from COVID
• We have several potential staff and interns in our pipeline and we are excited about what God is going to do in the future of our area.
• We were able to raise the funds we needed to step out of our financial deficit and feel more fiscally secure in the coming year.

Prayers:

• Justin is attending a Team Leader Training (he is attending as a member of the regional leadership team; he is not being trained but is there to encourage up-and-coming team leaders in our region) the first week of February (5-8th).  Please pray that he would be able to encourage the next generation of leaders in our Rocky Mountain Region.  Please also pray for Samantha and the girls as they are at home.  When he was gone in January everyone was sick and the week was especially difficult for Samantha.
• Camp is coming! We will be taking students from Utah Tech, UVU and hopefully USU Eastern to camp in March.  Pray for our staff as they recruit students to come to this life-changing week of studying the Gospel of Mark and as they prepare to teach on either the first or second half of Mark.
• Pray for our intern Abbie as she launches two small groups at UVU this semester geared toward International students.  She has had more interest this semester and a great start to the spring semester!
• Pray for more staff and interns for our area.  Specifically, we would love prayers for staff at UVU who would reach undergraduate students.  
• We would love continued prayers for the healing of our hands.  As some of you know, Justin has been dealing with an intense form of eczema that causes burning and itching on his hands.  Samantha has been dealing with symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis since September, including stiffness and weakness in her hands.  Pray for healing but also that we would trust God in the midst of this.  Thank you in advance!
• Pray for the students who attended SLED.  We would love to see these students go back to campus and see it as a mission field, launch new Bible studies, commit to discipling others, and anything else the LORD leads them to do as a result of what they heard at the retreat.