Jarretts Ministry

Dear Friends and Family:

We need prayer today that the wire transfer will go through to the bank in Kenya. We have had technical difficulties in doing this otherwise routine transaction; although World Orphans has been successful repeatedly sending money to the Kenya Commercial Bank in Bomet, the lack of the "swift code", a bank routing number, has inhibited the bank used by the Christian Foundation of Indiana from proceding with the transfer.

Just this morning I received a plea from Pastor David Kilel for transfer of the funds. Already, the schools are chasing away the children from the boarding schools. Many have nowhere to go. Someone will have to go and find the children once the fees are finally paid. I'm pretty sure that Satan doesn't want this program to be successful. The four children's homes are not affected by this, other than perhaps having some of their students sent home.

Please pray that the funds given and administered in the name of Jesus Christ will be successfully sent today and distributed to the schools.

Pray for one child from Merigi who took poison. He is recovering. Pray that God will give these children hope and a future.

I will be traveling on Sunday to Muskegon, Michigan. I return on Thursday the 14th in time for the Right to Life Banquet. Many of the people on my mailing list received notification of this banquet and my "Respect Life" award, many of whom I would not have expected to

Dear Friends and Family:

Thanks for praying for Becki and Peter Burke's furniture situation. The movers came yesterday, and all furniture was intact with just a few new scratches. Nothing else was broken for which they are very thankful.

Marty and I fly this afternoon back to Indianapolis from Charlotte.

Paul, for the Jarretts

Dear Friends and Family:

Thanks for praying for our family.

Becki and Peter Burke received half of their furniture on Tuesday night. Despite their horror to see their boxes marked fragile crushed and packed upside down on the bottom of the stack of furniture, only four plates were broken and a box springs destroyed. The remainder of the furniture is supposed to come on Friday. God is in control of this, and will use it for good somehow.

Laura is doing well with her Japanese. She was able to talk with the senior pastor in Japanese well enough to understand that he wanted Laura to disciple an Australian high school exchange student, Maddie, who became a new Christian through the witness of the ministry team earlier this month. Please pray for her to find some discipleship materials online that will assist her in this process. Anyone who wants to write to Laura can do so at japanlaura@gmail.com She's also looking for a banana bread recipe.

Please pray that the wire transfer of the accumulated funds for the orphan project will go well on August 31st. If we're unable to do this, it will take over six weeks for the funds to get there. That will put an unnecessary hardship on the students whose fees will be late. Often they are sent away from the schools when a delay in fee payment happens. Praise: The necessary funds for the school fees have come in.

Tenwek

Dear Friends and Family:

Peter and Becki Burke still do not have their furniture. They hear new lies from the moving company every day. Please pray that their belongings will arrive soon.

Bosto's new dormitory has reached the halfway point of construction. Please pray that they will be able to get some pictures taken soon to send to World Orphans so that the second half of the construction funds can be released. Pastor Elkana Rotich reported that his car broke down while hauling corn to the children's home. Repair estimates are nearly $1,000. Please pray that a solution to this problem will be found.

Kenduiwa's construction is going well. They are asking prayer that funds will be available to buy the 1 acre farm next door. It is about $3,600.

Laura is doing well in her adjustment to Japan. Pray for speedy language acquisition and effective ministry.

We are traveling to Charlotte, NC today by car to take Jon and Sharon's five children home. We will fly back next Saturday.

My book is going well -- I think.

I have scheduled a trip to Ukraine Sept. 23 through Oct 5.

Thanks so much for your prayers.

Paul, for the Jarretts

Good evening is what I said. :) Thank you for all your prayers. I have arrived in Sapporo and am now sitting in my room writing from my laptop. It is good to be back here. I am a little tired. No problems in route. On the last flight I even got to sit in business class. I am not sure how that worked out, but it was nice. :) I'm talking to Dad on Skype right now, and the connection is crystal clear. So feel free to call me online sometime... my username for Skype is " kenyalaura "...

Thanks again for praying for me. I am here safe and will keep you updated. Please pray that I will pick up Japanese really quickly!! Noami (Kamidate) is leaving for the states in a few weeks and will be gone for 6 weeks. She is one of the best English speakers in the church, so it will be harder when she leaves. So I would appreciate prayer for fast language pick up.

The trip was a really good time of prayer for me. Since I was by myself, I felt like I was constantly talking to God and was just thinking the whole time about what I was doing going to Japan, and realizing again, that this is what God has called me to do. I was reminded that I don't just like Japan and want to come. But God reminded me that this is what He has given for

Dear Friends and Family:

Thanks for praying.

Those of you on Laura's e-mail list should hear shortly that she has arrived safely in Japan. No problems in transit, she got to take her guitar, computer, and a carry-on bag minus toothpaste and all other liquids and gels. Northwest only charged her $25 to upgrade her bag limit from 50 lbs to 69 lbs for two bags. There is a 13 hour time difference that makes it night there when it's morning here.

She has called us on our Skype program -- a free internet telephone program. If any of you want to add us to your list, we are jarrettfamily12. She is Kenya Laura.

You can download Skype 2.5 for free from Skype.com. You need a microphone hooked to your computer. This is a great way to talk overseas, but we can't use it in Kenya because we're on a satellite internet connection.

No resolution yet on Peter and Becki's furniture. Please continue to pray for them.

Paul, for the Jarretts in Indiana and Sapporo

Dear Friends and Family:

Would you please pray for our daughter and son-in-law Becki and Peter Burke's situation? They put their stuff on a moving van on Wednesday last week in Florida. They were told that it would be here Sunday. Now they have found out that the company is charged with many unethical practices, and the truck won't be here at least until Thursday. Please pray that the company will deliver their furniture safely and promptly, and they will honor all of the committments that they have made. Pray for peace during this time. They also need wisdom on how to deal with this whole situation.

Laura leaves for Japan tomorrow. Pray for all of us.

Praise: Debbye and Aaron returned from their honeymoon safely.

Thanks so much,

Paul, for the Jarretts

Jarrett’s Prayer Letter

Volume 7, Number 15

August 8, 2006

Dear Friends and Family:

It’s been over a month since I wrote, which isn’t unusual for our first month back in the US after leaving Kenya. But there are lots of things going on for which to give praise and request prayer. I will start with praise from Marty regarding our family wedding August 5th.

I want to give God praise for all He has done for our family. His provision and grace were so evident all week-end as He put together every single detail for Debbye and Aaron's special day. The Lord answered our many months of prayers far above anything that I could have imagined!!! Ephesians 3:20-21 Now to Him Who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

We felt so surrounded with love by having our whole family together for that window of time. Many more joyful memories were written upon our hearts and minds. Thank you, gracious Lord!!!! I also know that the part each of our family played in that event was very meaningful to Debbye. Her love for her family was very evident. I do thank the Lord for the precious family He has chosen for us.

Our next praise is the wonderful news that Becki and Peter

Dear Friends and Family:

We just received word that one of the two long-awaited containers [over 18 months in transit and customs] has arrived at Tenwek. We don't know if our things are on this container or the other one, but please pray that the other container will arrive this week.

We also have an update on the Japan ministry team that should highlight the need for continued prayer. After the team's flight took off from Dallas, one of the young men on our team, Steven Dick, suffered a collapsed lung; as I understand, it is from a condition called pneumothorax. This condition can occur spontaneously in young men, where an air sac in the lung bursts causing air to go out into the negative pressure space between the chest wall and the lung. The accumulating air causes the affected lung to collapse in addition to a fair amount of pain. It is necessary to put a large diameter tube through the skin and chest wall to release the trapped air and observe for cessation of its reaccumulation. Steven is in a hospital in Denver awaiting stabilization of the leak [if indeed, the reports that I'm getting are accurate], and will not be able to go on to Japan after his recovery. Please pray for his complete recovery from this unexpected problem. Steven is a vital member of the music ministry team, so someone else will need to "step up to the plate", so to speak. The plane was

Dear Friends and Family:

I wanted to give you an update on Laura's trip to Japan. Praise God that all of her requested funds have been received, and we have ordered her ticket for August 15, 2006. The support funds raised were to meet her estimated initial travel and living expenses. It is believed that she will earn enough money from teaching the conversational English lessons to cover additional living expenses, according to those who held the position this past year.

This morning, she took two packed bags of winter clothes to the airport to accompany the youth group ministry team from Castleview that is headed to Sapporo, Japan. They are going for nearly three weeks to the same church where Laura will be ministering for the next year. Please pray for safety and successful ministry as the team ministers in the name of Jesus. I'm going to pray that God will double the size of the churches where the teams focus on evangelism. Pray as God leads you.

Updates and specific prayer requests from the team can be obtained from the Castleview Baptist Church website.

The following is a prayer request dated April 29, 2006, from a Japanese pastor in a different area of Japan which highlights some or the spiritual warfare going on there:

From Shigeru Takiura, Pastor of RPCNA Japan Presbytery in Kobe city.

I again want to ask your favor of praying for the Christian freedom in Japan.

Please pray that our Christian primary school kids would not be