CottonPatch Prayer Page
Ray & Laurie Cotton
International Students, Inc.
@ The University of Texas at Dallas
April 2024
International Students, Inc.
@ The University of Texas at Dallas
April 2024
Praise:
1. For all the follow up taking place with intl. students who attended the Tejas Spring Retreat last month. Pray that those who were non Christians have come to Christ or seriously seeking to know God.
2. Weekly on Zoom discipleship meetings with a former UT/Dallas student now back in Asia.
3. Continuing to enjoy prayer walking the UT/Dallas campus and our church facility. Considering prayer walking a local community college as well.
4. Joining with other staff in a Zoom class studying the book, "Emotionally Healthy Discipleship" by Peter Scazzero.
5. Enjoyed celebrating our son Jonathan's 50th birthday by giving him 50 little individually wrapped gifts, a family tradition.
Requests:
1. For the salvation of students our staff and volunteers have been building relationships with and ministering to through the year.
2. God's leading for a number of solid Christian intl. students who are graduating this spring and trusting God for jobs and His leading in their lives. For the youger Christian intl. students in our church gatherings to step up to take on leadership roles.
3. For safety and protection of our granddaughter, Kaitlyn, as she drives across town and through a not so good part of town to continue in her PhD program and work.
4. For connecting with the former intl. students now working in California who we hope to visit before or after our ISI National Staff Conference in California in June.
5. For the motivation, energy and time commitment to continue to work on end-of-life planning that seems to be a necessity at this stage of life.
1. For all the follow up taking place with intl. students who attended the Tejas Spring Retreat last month. Pray that those who were non Christians have come to Christ or seriously seeking to know God.
2. Weekly on Zoom discipleship meetings with a former UT/Dallas student now back in Asia.
3. Continuing to enjoy prayer walking the UT/Dallas campus and our church facility. Considering prayer walking a local community college as well.
4. Joining with other staff in a Zoom class studying the book, "Emotionally Healthy Discipleship" by Peter Scazzero.
5. Enjoyed celebrating our son Jonathan's 50th birthday by giving him 50 little individually wrapped gifts, a family tradition.
Requests:
1. For the salvation of students our staff and volunteers have been building relationships with and ministering to through the year.
2. God's leading for a number of solid Christian intl. students who are graduating this spring and trusting God for jobs and His leading in their lives. For the youger Christian intl. students in our church gatherings to step up to take on leadership roles.
3. For safety and protection of our granddaughter, Kaitlyn, as she drives across town and through a not so good part of town to continue in her PhD program and work.
4. For connecting with the former intl. students now working in California who we hope to visit before or after our ISI National Staff Conference in California in June.
5. For the motivation, energy and time commitment to continue to work on end-of-life planning that seems to be a necessity at this stage of life.