We are so grateful for each and every prayer you've prayed for us and Jenn's entire family concerning the sudden passing of her dad, Bob Hussar, on March 4 in Phelps, New York.
Jenn got a flight to Rochester early on March 5 and has been acting as the primary caregiver for her mom. She says your prayers have been what's sustaining her. It's been really, really tough but God has been a very present help. With her mom's illness of Alzheimer's, Jenn's mum doesn't know who she is and so Jenn is playing the role of her mom's childhood friend. It's a lot of loss to grieve.
All the family appreciates your continued prayers as we gather this week and also as plans are being finalised for the transition of her mother to her "next step" for care. Please pray for God's provision for her.
We'd also appreciate prayer for Malachi and Arielle and Luke during this time. They are grieving the loss of their much-loved "Tato.” Please also be praying for their studies as especially Arielle has major exams in early May that determine the nature of her university applications this fall. Malachi also will be finishing up his first uni end-of-year exams/papers and trying to figure out what to do this summer.
Pray for the outcome of the Easter Outreaches at the church plant. Pray for our team and the church as they gather to celebrate, that they would be encouraged and renewed and that the good news would spill out to some visitors and friends who don't yet know the Lord.
Jenn and I were asked to sit down and record a conversation about "What have you been learning about prayer in the context of your ministry?" for a new Serge Podcast series titled "Grace at the Fray". (We are "episode 3".)
In this interview, we discuss things that we've been absorbing from others for years and years and that have been an encouragement to us. We aren't "prayer experts" or even "prayer warriors" and are still very much in the process of learning to depend on Jesus in prayer.
Hopefully, this interview will be an encouragement to you even as we continued to be challenged and encouraged by the very things we were discussing.
If you do manage to listen and feel it could be an encouragement to others, please feel free to forward the podcast link.
With love in Him,
Matt (and Jenn)
edited and submitted by Joan Beinetti