Testimonies from MDOP Coordinators
From Lin in Highland, AR – Abundant Life Church: Our first MDOP has been a successful beginning for our area. We had 38 and 20 visiting from our neighboring churches. Each message shared by our opening session presenters was so wonderfully appointed by the Lord. All were words of encouragement and counsel shared by our godly women in this community. At the close of the prayer event, the MDOP committee divided up the 38 prayer requests and spent another half hour praying over each request. Also, we are excited to announce that Ash Flat Church of Christ has formally asked to host the 2010 MDOP – Praying Moms DO Make a Difference!
Also, we had 14 ladies sign up or expressed interest in gathering to pray once a month for the children! Wow – wouldn’t that be powerful to pray for our kids in unity ONCE A MONTH with a dedicated group of ladies?
Kathy’s thoughts – Lin, thank you so much for sharing with us! Please check out the Moms In Touch International website atwww.momsintouch.org. I am a leader for a College/Career MITI group in my area and it is awesome!!! Again, thank you for this encouraging report! You are a blessing to MDOP!!!
From Earlette in Jamaica, Gospel Light House Assembly: It was a GREAT day with the Lord and mothers. We started at 10 a.m. and ended at 3 p.m. I suppose that the word was spread abroad about MDOP 2008 so this year we got a “bumper crop” of about 50 ladies! We prayed for our nation and different aspects of our family life – children, spouses, and being mothers. We also prayed for Kathy’s daughter who was diagnosed with the eye disease…..I hope she is doing better.
Melinda and Kathy, we prayed that God will continue to give you the desire to continue with MDOP with guidance and directives. Overall, I say again it was a great day!!!!!
Kathy’s thoughts – Earlette, thank you so much for all the prayers of the ladies there in Jamaica. I am humbled that you prayed for our Elizabeth. She will be blessed to know that you remembered her on your special day!! God bless you and please know that Melinda and I will stay with MDOP as long as God says for us to. We love you girls there in Jamaica! Thank you!
From Linda in Hereford, Texas – Trinity Fellowship: This is the 3rd year for the MDOP in Hereford. The first year they had no one show up. Last year was my first year and we had about 50 or so but this year we almost tripled! God is so good!
I changed things up a little bit this year and decided that if this was all about our kids then I was going to make it about the kids. We had a “Fun Room” for the kids while their moms prayed. It was a HUGE hit. And then I decided to have some form of entertainment all day long. We had some great praise and worship. The Spirit of God was present all day long.
Our prayer request baskets were full. I took baskets to each nursing home here in Hereford the week before the event and picked them up a couple of hours before MDOP ended. We put the nursing home prayer requests with the MDOP requests and prayed over all of them then released balloons after we prayed. Wow – what a day!
Our community has really stepped up – Praise God! The community bought a MDOP street banner last year which was $700. This year they bought us yard signs, paid for everything in the “Fun Room” which had one of those big bounce arounds in it, and paid for lots of other games for them to play with. We also gathered children from all over town and taught them 6 songs to sing at the event. They were great!! One of the steak houses in town furnished them a burger lunch after they sang. Then they played for about an hour before we had their moms pick them up.
It was a GREAT DAY! God bless you for getting this started – for being obedient to GOD because our kids are worth all the hard work!
Kathy’s thoughts – You know, Linda, you are exactly right – “Our kids are worth all the hard work!” And you surely put in a LOT of hard work! This is amazing how your community is supporting the MDOP! Wow!! I love it!!! Thank you – Thank you – Thank you!! I am refreshed and renewed by this God-honoring report. Thank you!
God can do anything, you know – far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams!
Kathy - Ephesians 3:20, The Message
