PRAYER REQUESTS

Greetings,

As the Uganda "Wheels for the World" team prepares to serve in Gulu from June 25 (the advance team) to July 11, 2012, we would ask for your faithful prayer support in regards to the following:

• For wisdom for the Team's Leadership and the National leaders.
• For the release of the wheelchairs from customs in time for the distribution.  
• For the Churches as they schedule wheelchair recipients and recruit National volunteers to prepare our meals, register clients, serve as therapists, mechanics and evangelists, etc.
• For connections with more churches and pastors to promote disability ministry.
• For the financial provision of each team member.
• For protection, physical stamina, safety and health as we work and travel 
• For unity among our team and the Ugandan volunteers
• For wisdom, discernment and sensitivity to be led by the Holy Spirit.
• For ample supplies and Acholi Bibles for each recipient .
• For the provision and protection of our family members remaining at home.
• That God will be glorified in everything we do.
• That our hearts will be humble and submitted to Him .
• That God will be preparing hearts to receive Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.
• That new believers would continue to grow in Christ after the "Wheels" team returns home. 

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"Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete! ~ John 16:24

      More to come in the weeks ahead, we pray you are blessed as you follow our journey to touch the hearts of the Ugandan people and leave an indelible fingerprint upon their lives...  

HOW IT WORKS

  

Dedicated volunteers called Chair Corps Representatives collect used wheelchairs across the United States. The chairs are then transported to Restoration Shops where carefully trained inmates in 16 separate correctional facilities around the country restore wheelchairs to like-new condition. The inmates learn to work together, perfect basic mechanical skills, and produce a product of which they can be proud. Hardened inmates have been moved to tears when they see the happiness in a photo of the face of a little boy or girl receiving a wheelchair of their very own.

After the wheelchairs are fully restored they are shipped overseas to meet up with short-term missions teams. These distribution and evangelism teams custom fit each wheelchair specifically for each recipient and train him or her in wheelchair use and upkeep. Team members also give each recipient a Bible and communicate the message of God's love for them.   

 

As a recipient of the love of God in action, many place their trust in Christ. They experience new life and purpose with their new mobility . . . and disability ministry grows all over the world.