» Pray for the Prins

In Sydney for two days to train coaches of church planters. Looking forward to getting home.

Got back to the room from my early morning walk. Told Grant, my room-mate, “Hey a new day and we’re alive. Let’s give thanks to God and make the best of this day.”

Sat down at the computer and picked up an email from Bert Olbrich, the missionary I have just visited in Trinidad.

The first paragraph left me stunned:

Steve

Yesterday we got the news that our good friends – Sue and Kevin Prins from YWAM Trinidad – have been robbed and shot in Trinidad. Kevin in the neck and shoulder, and Sue in the leg. One of their children was hurt as well, the others were able to escape. According to the evening news of TV6 both are in a stable condition and will have surgery today. The crime took place at their YWAM base in Las Lomas, Trinidad.

I’ve never met the Prins. But having just been to Trinidad I feel some how connected to them. Please pray for them and all those who serve in dangerous contexts.

Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.

I Peter 5:8-11

We are at war.