Prayer Calendar for Dean and Joan Chollar and Team
CrossWay International
July 2010
www.gocrossway.org

Special Note: We had a great mission trip to Nicaragua last June with the 8
of us who went. You will read some more prayer requests below so let’s
follow up on these needed prayers.  Also, I was very sick just before I was
to leave for a second mission trip in June to Guyana. Please pray for the 18
others who went without me.

July 1 – Pray for the 131 individuals who put their trust in Christ for the
forgiveness of their sins on our recent mission trip to Nicaragua. We had a
great time and worked really well together having one mind, being in one
spirit and purpose.

July 2 – Pray for our 549 orphans in Sudan as the past election in southern
Sudan has disrupted some things as well as some internal issues with our
management team in the field.  Also, 15 of our orphans have contracted
malaria, which is a killer. Pray for the support needed for more meds.

On this date, Joan also returns from Montana after visiting Rachel and
Jeremy and 4 of our granddaughters.

July 3- Pray for Bob Nicol and Merle Admire as they continue to develop our
new division (CrossWay Water for Life) and the shipping of the new water
well rig which should be leaving the Houston port soon. Pray that it gets
there safely and that we can cut through all the red tape and corruption
often associated with importing such equipment.

July 4- Pray for Dean as he preaches at Pipe Creek Community Church and
challenges hearts to bring others into the freedom we have in Christ.

July 5 – Pray for Kyle Parsons who is in Ethiopia and working with our
Northeast Africa Field Director. He has been there since June 1 and should
be home by July 15.

July 6 – Bob Nicol has been invited to go to Peru with Engineers Without
Borders. Pray for this upcoming trip from July 6 – 13.

July 7 – Pray for the upcoming mission trip with Dean and 3 other pastors to
Nicaragua for another pastors conference on August 10 – 16. This field in
Central America is starting to open up for us and we see some very good
potential for future ministry. We hope to take Merle Admire with us to check
out water well ministry.

July 8 – Pray for our Spanish speaking areas and personnel. We want to
better organize our Central America Ministry:  Field Director (Rafael
Rivas), our Spain coworker (Fernando Diaz) and another candidate (Francisco
Cadera).  They all face prayer and support needs to move things forward in
this field of ministry.

July 9 – Pray for parents with children who have special needs. 80 percent
of couples who have children with special needs end up in divorce due to the
huge pressure this puts them under. 3 of our coworkers fit in this category,
and I know they would really appreciate your prayers.

July 10 – Pray for Sherry Zule, our manager over the CrossWay Coffee
Ministry.  This ministry provides a large percentage of the support needs
for our 549 orphans in Sudan to help provide food, medicine and needs.
(Check out www.crosswaycoffee.org.

July 11 – Pray for the rest of our staff in the USA: Joan, our office
manager; Robert our General Manager; Anna, our Executive Assistant; Rita,
our accountant, and Dean, the CEO.  Pray that we will always maintain a good
team spirit as in the past.

July 12 – Pray for greater boldness on the part of all of us to share the
message of God’s grace and salvation that He provides through simple faith
in Christ.

July 13 – Pray for Dean’s speaking engagements as he lines up his travel
schedule for the coming months.

July 14 – Pray for our new Board of Directors in the USA. We have 12
Directors now and a good spirit of unity and purpose.

July 15 – Pray for more workers in God’s harvest field, especially for Kenya
and Nicaragua as we begin to concentrate more and more in these two
countries.

July 16 – Pray for more opportunities for each one of us to share the gospel
that God brings into our circle of influence.

July 17 – Pray for the farming going on in the village in Sudan where our
549 orphans reside. We have sponsored two men to teach and train the
villagers to begin to grow their own food and get on their own feet.

July 18 – Pray for our medical clinics in both Sudan and Ethiopia that we
might strengthen their capacity to serve the people in their community so
that people might see their good deeds and praise their father in heaven.

July 19 – Pray that we as believers might unlearn some of the churchy
phrases that unintentionally obscure the gospel. May we all learn to use the
predominant phrase in the New Testament and ask people to trust in Christ
alone who died for their sins and rose from the dead.

July 20 – Please pray for our efforts to set up the Board of Directors for
the CrossWay International Kenya ministry. We have some legal issues to work
through on this, and we want to make sure the right people are appointed.

July 21 – Pray for our non-profit/tax-exempt status for this Board mentioned
above so that we can get our drilling rig and equipment into Kenya without a
lot of tax and problems.  We have two Ministers of Parliament in Kenya who
are offering to help.

July 22 – Pray for the spreading of the gospel that it might spread swiftly
and that it might be honored just as it is among us.

July 23 – Pray for school supplies for our school in Sudan and also for the
Christian School in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. Rich Mann is collecting school
supplies and Bibles for us to take into Nicaragua on August 10.  If you can
help and get them to me by August 8, I can pack them up and carry these in
when I go to teach a Pastors Conference. We need Spanish Bibles, writing
pads, pens and pencils, etc.

July 24 – Pray for Melaku Abebe, our Northeast Africa Field Director, and
all that he is overseeing from the Medical Clinic, to the school to training
and assisting others in the ministry.

July 25 – Pray for Geoffrey Ndungu, the newly appointed superintendent of
our well drilling team in Kenya. He lost his wife last month to a sudden
disease and has two teenage kids. In spite of this, he has worked tirelessly
to help prepare the way for the new well drilling ministry in Kenya.

July 26 – Pray for the safety of our new drilling team in Kenya.  As you may
remember, Bob Nicol lost his finger tip when practicing here in Texas with
the rig. It can be a dangerous job for fingers.

July 27 – Pray, too, for the safety of those who risk their life to share
the gospel of God’s grace overseas. Not all men are of faith and we face
some real hostility sometimes.

July 28 – Robert Messier, our General Manager, leaves for Delaware to
represent CrossWay International at Jubilee Fest, a special festival with
Christian musicians and events.   Bob Payton, our coworker at one of our
supporting churches in Maryland, is lining all this up. Pray for a fruitful
trip and that he can help raise awareness for our ministry.

July 29 – Pray for wisdom on how best to deal with some of the false
teachings overseas such as the “prosperity teaching” and so forth. These
extreme teachings tear up churches and do a great deal of harm.

July 30 – Pray for Dean who leaves for Seattle to preach at a supporting
church and visit his son Jason and family.

July 31 – Stop right now and pray for someone you know who does not yet know
the full forgiveness of their sins through simple trust in Jesus Christ.
Pray how you might be able to befriend them and share your testimony with
them.

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Prayer Calendar for CrossWay International
Dean and Joan Chollar
www.gocrossway.org

May 1 – Pray that the Lord might provide some new or used laptops for our
coworkers in Guyana and Nicaragua, as I will be making a number of trips
there this summer and these kinds of items are really useful to them.

May 2 – Pray that the Lord will raise up  the needed funds to purchase the
water well drilling rig, and that Bob Nicol and Merle Admire might have the
time to practice at least one well in Texas before we ship it to Northeast
Africa. For a musical picture display, go to www.gocrossway.org and check
out the “What’s New” Tab.

May 3 – Pray for Dean as he speaks at an Emmaus group in the Hill Country of
Texas and challenges them to work more closely with our ministry.

May 4 – Pray for both Bob Nicol and Merle Admire as they speak at various
locations to raise awareness for the needs in our new division within
CrossWay International, the CrossWay Water for Life Ministry.

May 5 – Pray for the various matching gifts that have been offered for our
water well drilling ministry and that they might be fully funded. The first
phase of this effort will run around $65,000 for the rig, shipping, truck,
and associated costs. We have about 1/3 of this needed amount.

May 6 – Pray for our coworkers in Ethiopia: Melaku, who serves as our NE
Africa Field Director and those he oversees in the Medical Clinic and the
English School for Evangelism and the house churches.

May 7 – Pray for our 549 orphans, as the account for them is getting low
from which we send in money for food, clothes, and management costs.

May 8 – Pray for our Board of Directors meeting for CrossWay International,
as we hope to install 7 more Directors to make up for the 3 who left
recently.  Several will be coming from out of town, so pray for safety for
them and that they won’t miss their connecting flights.

May 9 – Mother’s Day.  Pray for all the mothers of the world and the hand
that rocks the cradle.

May 10 – Pray for our Committee overseeing the needs of the 549 orphans in
Sudan near Darfur, as violence has erupted near them due to the elections in
Sudan.

May 11 – Pray for the harvest of the crops in the village where our orphans
live, as our first crop should come in soon. Pray that it might be a
bountiful harvest!

May 12 – Pray for wisdom as we make decisions on where to drill our water
wells in the coming months once we get things in place in NE Africa.

May 13 – Pray for the upcoming mission trip to Nicaragua with a team of
people, and for Rafa Rivas, our coworker, who is setting up the pastors’
conference and VBS ministries for our team.

May 14 – Pray for Dean as he leaves for the greater Seattle area to visit
his son and his family.

May 15 – Pray for Dean as he speaks at a special men’s Bible study in
Stanwood, Washington with Joshua Flickner who heads up this ministry.

May 16 – Pray for Dean as he preaches and challenges hearts to exercise a
moment by moment faith in God and to walk by faith and not by sight. Then
pray for Dean as he catches a red eye flight back to Texas at 11:45 PM that
night.

May 17 – Pray for our school in Sudan where we have 5 classes with 110 kids
in each class.  We could use more blackboards, books, and school supplies.

May 18 – Pray for Bruce McIntosh, a candidate missionary who is trained in
counseling, which is sorely needed overseas. Pray that God might raise up
his support for this needed work, as he has many requests for his services
in counseling.

May 19 – Pray for Dean’s schedule trip to Guyana in June to teach at a
pastors’ conference with a supporting church, and for the coworkers we have
in that country, John Persaud and Michael Williams.

May 20 – Pray that the Lord will raise up additional funds for the medicine
needed in our two clinics: one in Ethiopia and the other in Sudan. This is
an ongoing battle to keep the right kind and enough medicine to treat the
various issues that come up, such as Cholera, diarrhea, and malaria.

May 21 – Pray for the needed personnel to run the drilling rig in NE Africa.
We have had a number of interviews and need your prayers that the right men
might be chosen.

May 22 – Pray for Rafa Rivas as he marries this day and begins his new life
with Darling, his fiancée.  As soon as they get back from their honey moon,
he receives our team on June 1.

May 23 – Pray for the various groups who are raising awareness for the needs
of the orphans in many different cities and churches in the USA.

May 24 – Pray that more people might go to our website
www.crosswayorphans.org and sign up to pray for and sponsor one of our
orphans in Sudan.

May 25 – Keep on praying that God might raise up a few young men to come
along side and assist Dean in the work load he has. Dean is not getting any
younger!

May 26 – Pray for our USA staff as they work hard to keep things moving
forward in handling the accounting, graphic work for prayer letters, and
power points, etc.

May 27 – Pray for our other coworkers in Nigeria and Liberia and for an
opportunity to visit them in the coming year.

May 28 – Pray for all of our CrossWay Coffee Ambassadors and the key role
they play in helping us provide funds– especially for the food for the
orphans. Every bag that is ordered pays for enough food to feed one orphan
for one entire month.

May 29 – Pray for you, our prayer partners and our many churches that give
sacrificially to sustain our ministry and keep us moving forward in service
to God and the lost.

May 30 – Pray for greater boldness in sharing our faith with others, and
that we might make very clear that our salvation is a free gift through
faith alone in Jesus Christ who died for our sins and rose from the dead.

May 31 – Memorial Day – Pray for all our military and the dangers they face
to keep us free.  Pray that our government doesn’t take away this freedom
through poor decisions.

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c/o CrossWay International, 14 Fabra Oaks Road, Boerne, TX 78006
Office: 830 249 2322 or 866 788 2322; Cell:  210 326 3190; Fax: 210 892 6363
Email: dean@gocrossway.org
Member ECFA
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