Prayer requested

I ask today that you keep 2 situations in your prayers-

1. I am sure that you have heard about the earthquake in China and the flooding & various other fall-out that has been occurring. Please continue to pray for China as the needs are so great. So many people have lost homes, family and everything they know. Many children have lost their parents and several parents have lost their only child. Please consider a donation to Half the Sky (www.halfthesky.org) as they are doing much work with newly orphaned kids such as providing grief counseling training for staff on the ground in China to meet the needs. Also there are many orphanages that sustained pretty major damage so the children are living in tents HTS provides the basic necessities for many.

2. Christian music artist Steven Curtis Chapman & his wife tragically lost their little 5 year old daughter adopted from China a little over a week ago. Their family has done much for the adoption community through their organization Shaohannah's Hope (http://members.shaohannahshope.org/site/PageServer) by providing grants for those hoping to adopt. Please pray for them as they go through this sad time.