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Because of the sensitive nature of this month’s story, I am refraining from sharing it online. If you would like to receive the full version of this newsletter, please contact The Salvage Yard office, and I will send it to you. Thank you.
By the middle of December, the Hard Times Café will have reopened! I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am. I am hopeful that this new start will create many opportunities among the people there. We continue to look for ways to bless the café, so many of the Jesus Kitchen members will be helping them clean up in preparation for reopening. I pray that our interaction with the café workers over the past four months will have created a new level of respect and allow for deeper relationships and more open conversation.
I feel a pressing need to make as much of my time there as I can, since I will be leaving for New Zealand just over two months after the café reopens. I am dismayed that I will have to spend nearly three more months away from Hard Times, but I believe I am supposed to go to New Zealand. In fact, I need to ask for your help in this area. First, please pray for wisdom as I decide how to handle the leadership of the Jesus Kitchen while I am away. Second, I still have significant financial needs for the New Zealand trip. I have just enough money for my plane tickets, but I have other expenses that need to be covered, including rent on my apartment in Minneapolis, my semi-annual car insurance payment that comes due while I am gone, and expenses while overseas. I have also been asked to contribute to my lodging while I am there, and while it is not required, I would like to help as much as I can. Thank you, as always, for the blessing you are in my life! There are other, rather important, prayer requests below.
Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong!
Molly S. Waggoner
Prayer requests:
- First, a rather serious request: A few months ago, I discovered a lump in my breast. Doctors are unsure what it is, because while they can clearly feel that it is there, it does not appear on an ultrasound like a cyst or tumor normally would. The likelihood of it being dangerous is extremely low, but since they are unable to identify it, and would rather be safe than sorry, the specialist I have seen suggested that if it is not gone by mid-January, I should have it removed. Personally, I am not particularly concerned that the lump is problematic, but since I would have to have surgery either way, I would really just prefer it to just go away! Honestly, I am more concerned about the surgery than the lump itself; but for both reasons, I want to ask that you would please pray that it goes away entirely by my next appointment, which is January 18th. Thank you very much.
- I wanted to repeat a praise I have for an issue I mentioned for many months earlier this year. You may remember that I was looking for a roommate for a very long time. I was happy when I found someone to move in and offered a “praise” in this letter at the time; but I did not yet know just how praiseworthy the roommate was. Kelly, my roommate for the last few months, has been an amazing blessing in my life; we are frighteningly similar and get along almost too well (to the point of distracting ourselves from other things we should be doing!). I figured that there was a good reason it took me so long to find a roommate, and that hunch has certainly been confirmed. So I just wanted to thank you all again for praying for that need, because my life has been exceedingly blessed by such a practical thing as enjoying my living situation. Praise God that he cares about the little things!
- As mentioned in the letter, please pray for God to move as Hard Times reopens and is once more a focus of ministry. I hope to use time there not only to speak with people but also to continue working on writing. And also, please continue to pray for the Hard Times worker Brian; he has finished his radiation treatment and is hopeful that this ordeal is largely over.
- Another praise: Someone has finally taken over my role doing Salvage Yard finances! This means that I am able to spend time after church getting to know people, praying for them, and pouring into their lives. I am excited and hope this will be a blessing to others.
Thank you!
MSW
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