MDOP Newsletter - June 2006

Worldwide Mom’s Day of Prayer Update

June – 2006

Kathy Coleman – Founder, Mom’s Day of Prayer

P.O. Box 11945, Ft. Smith, Arkansas, 72917 / 479-452-6215

Greetings From The Mom’s Day of Prayer Office -

There is special excitement in the air at the MDOP office! Our daughter, Elizabeth, is getting married July 22nd to Justin Voris. Please remember us in your prayers!

Churches are coming on board for 2007 – please pray that God will open doors for all of us to share MDOP with the world. I am praying for 100 churches to come on board for 2007. Let’s see what God does through our prayers!

God Has Supplied -
Chonda Pierce, the Christian Comedian, is coming to Ft. Smith, Arkansas, and MDOP has been given the wonderful opportunity to sponsor this special event. MDOP will receive a portion of the ticket sales so if you are in the Ft. Smith area, please help us spread the word and please come! We need volunteers to hang flyers at the present time all over Ft. Smith and the surrounding areas. Please let us know if you would be willing to help in any way.

A BIG THANK YOU goes to Betty Lyles, a MDOP Board Member, who is responsible for making this happen. THANK YOU, BETTY!! This is truly a God thing!

Mother’s Day Cards -
I would like to thank each of you who made a donation to MDOP in honor or memory of those special ladies in your lives for our Mother’s Day Fundraiser. Melinda and I would like for each of you to know that we prayed over each envelope that we addressed. We heard some precious comments from those who received a Mother’s Day card from MDOP. One mother said, “This is the greatest gift you could have given me.”

Please remember MDOP when honoring a birthday, Christmas, anniversary, etc.

Website Update – 
Have you been to the MDOP website lately? Each week we add new prayer requests for each day of the week. It has proven to be a blessing to those who have visited the website. Please check it out at www.momsdayofprayer.com

Here is what one MDOP Coordinator shared with us about the prayer requests – “I think the prayer request ideas for each day are a wonderful tool. Yesterday’s request was to pray for children who have diabetes. Immediately a young 12-year-old girl that dances at my daughter’s dance academy came to my mind. Her mother works in the office there. I just had to copy the web page to give to this mom with the request circled. But right after I copied it, I knelt beside my bed and said my first prayer ever specifically for this young girl’s health and life. It made me feel so good to serve the Lord in this way. I thank God for his perfect timing and I thank MDOP for providing that connection for me and for this mom who might feel that no one cares.”

Kathy’s Heart……
There is something very heavy on my heart as I write this newsletter. Last month I received a prayer request from an elementary school teacher. This is what she said, “I really do think sometimes that I just can’t do my job anymore. Things are changing and not for the best for kids. It hurts. I have a precious group of teachers and we pray together! It is awesome! But the school system is pushing things like, “Johnny has two daddies” or “Sarah has two mommies” so that we will become culturally diverse. I just don’t feel right implementing this kind of stuff in my classroom. Please pray for our schools and Christian teachers.”
So I knew as soon as I read this prayer request that I would put it in the next MDOP newsletter. Our school system NEEDS PRAYER like never before in the history of our country. I want to encourage each of you to visit the Moms In Touch International website at www.momsintouch.org. During the school year, I co-lead a College/Career Moms In Touch group and we cry out each week for our schools, our teachers, our children’s work place, and our children’s needs. Moms In Touch is a great way to impact lives and schools.
MDOP is a great way to promote prayer in your area. At each MDOP, we have Moms In Touch brochures and other brochures about prayer groups for each MDOP attendee to take home with them. How exciting to know that God can use YOU to bring women to pray not just on one day but all year long with other women.
I pray that each of you are gearing up for a MDOP in your area for January, 2007. If you have any questions, please email Melinda at msparkhawk@hotmail.com. Melinda is also the person to contact if you have been called to be a MDOP Coordinator for 2007. Don’t forget that we are praying for 100 churches to come on board for 2007. Will you join in pray with us for this?
May God bless you and may he call us to prayer like never before in our lives.

To God Be The Glory!

Kathy
Philippians 1:6, “He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” (NIV)