Prayers for March

—Kate’s health. She’s been battling with a sinus infection for 6 weeks and has trouble breathing

—Baby’s continued health and development

—Wisdom with a few ministry ideas/directions

—New open doors, networking, people of peace

I, Kate, have been freelance writing for Bounty.co.nz since January, as one of their three bloggers. I am writing the “Mum2Be” blog. Bounty is a national company that distributes “bounty packs” (free pregnancy and child related information, samples and coupons) to all new mums. It’s been a great side project to be connected with a NZ company that’s based out of Christchurch and connect with other mums around NZ. We are grateful for the little bit of side cash it brings in as well. I also just started working with an editing/writing company based in Colorado. Just had my first assignment and look forward to more!

We’ve been accepted to stay in NZ another two years. Hooray, praise God, boom! We were thrilled to learn the news rather quickly after submitting our applications. They processed them so quickly compared to last time. We didn’t even have time to worry! Not everyone always gets accepted, so it’s not a given that one is allowed in NZ. We are very thankful that there were no hiccups or errors… so that we can be here for this time, around pregnancy and people visiting from the States, without having to worry about leaving the country last minute during reapplication processing if something were to have gone wrong. Yay! Thanks for your prayers!

Last night we attended a city-wide gathering of Christians from various church communities. It was breathtaking to witness the coming together of so many from different denominations. We were there with one purpose. To worship God. It wasn’t about one church, one pastor, one ministry. It was about crying out together, praying for the city together, celebrating the joy of God together. When we were preparing to move to Christchurch the word “unity” was on our hearts often for this city. We felt God gave us that word early on and asked us to continually pray for it. It’s been so amazing to see something like this happen, after literally two years of spreading a message of unity and praying for the Christians to be unified as one. This city is to be known for it’s unity, love, perseverance. God is going to do great things in this city that truly is “the ends of the earth”.