For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8).

Please remember in thought and prayer

The Revs. Andrea and Luke Roske-Metcalfe, ELCA missionaries serving in Mexico, and their new daughter, Olivia, born today (June 7, 2010).

The Rev. John and Barbara Lemond, ELCA missionaries serving in Hong Kong, as they accompany Barbara’s mother, Oriet.  Oriet has lived with the Lemonds for 10 years.   After a major stroke in 2004, Oriet has been bedridden, unable to move, speak or see.   Now diagnosed with a brain tumor, Oriet is likely in the last weeks of her long journey in the shadow of the valley of death.