{"id":25901,"date":"2024-02-28T10:48:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/?p=25901"},"modified":"2024-02-28T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:49:09","slug":"march-2024-prayer-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/prayer\/march-2024-prayer-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2024 Prayer Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Web-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18748 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Download-Prayer-Letter-Button-300x75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Download-Prayer-Letter-Button-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Download-Prayer-Letter-Button-768x192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Download-Prayer-Letter-Button-1024x256.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Download-Prayer-Letter-Button-600x150.jpg 600w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Download-Prayer-Letter-Button.jpg 1667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23003 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Carpenter-Web-Tile-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Carpenter-Web-Tile-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Carpenter-Web-Tile-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Carpenter-Web-Tile-16x12.png 16w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Carpenter-Web-Tile-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Carpenter-Web-Tile.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Carpenter Family | Serving in Rwanda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brad and the D for D (Discipling for Development) team recently attended a celebration where they heard several testimonies of transformation and praised God for what he is doing in and through the people participating in D for D.\u00a0 At this celebration, a woman stood up &#8211; we\u2019ll call her Alice. Alice is a leader in the local government who works with women, and she is not a member of the Friends Church. But, along with other community members and church members, she was invited and welcomed into the D for D group to learn and grow together. She shared powerfully about the different things she has learned about whole-life transformation in Christ! She was casting vision for continuing to pass on what she\u2019s learned to the women that she leads, and to the whole community!<\/p>\n<table style=\"background-color: #c8ced6;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25900 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-2-e1709138615962-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-2-e1709138615962-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-2-e1709138615962-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-2-e1709138615962-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-2-e1709138615962-1536x860.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-2-e1709138615962-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-2-e1709138615962-900x500.jpg 900w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-2-e1709138615962-600x336.jpg 600w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-2-e1709138615962.jpg 2001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25902 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-David-Thomas-Vist-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-David-Thomas-Vist-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-David-Thomas-Vist-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-David-Thomas-Vist-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-David-Thomas-Vist-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-David-Thomas-Vist-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-David-Thomas-Vist-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-David-Thomas-Vist.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25899 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-1-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Alice-Testimony-1-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Left: \u201cAlice\u201d giving her testimony. Center: We always love visits from David Thomas Right: The D for D celebration Brad attended.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In some ways, it feels like we\u2019re finally moving toward our dream of seeing whole communities, not just church members, being transformed in their relationships with God, self, others, and the environment &#8211; of seeing God\u2019s Kingdom coming! We look forward to our continued walk alongside these discipleship groups in Rwanda, Burundi, and Congo as they disciple those in their churches and those outside. And we\u2019re excited to keep seeing that happen in South Sudan, Tanzania, and wherever else God would lead us.<\/p>\n<p>May God help each of us look outside our home, church, and comfort zone to love, serve, and disciple.\u00a0 May we be inspired by Alice and her testimony!<\/p>\n<p>Brad &amp; Chelsea<\/p>\n<p>Sarai, Gideon, and Ian<\/p>\n<table style=\"background-color: #c8ced6;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25896 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Sarai-with-School-Friends-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Sarai-with-School-Friends-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Sarai-with-School-Friends-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Sarai-with-School-Friends-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Sarai-with-School-Friends-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Sarai-with-School-Friends-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Sarai-with-School-Friends-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Sarai-with-School-Friends-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25898 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Walking-with-Friends-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Walking-with-Friends-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Walking-with-Friends-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Walking-with-Friends-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Walking-with-Friends-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Walking-with-Friends-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Walking-with-Friends-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Walking-with-Friends-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25897 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Talking-with-Pastor-Gerard-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Talking-with-Pastor-Gerard-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Talking-with-Pastor-Gerard-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Talking-with-Pastor-Gerard-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Talking-with-Pastor-Gerard-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Talking-with-Pastor-Gerard-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Talking-with-Pastor-Gerard-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Carpenter-Rwanda-March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Feature-Article-Talking-with-Pastor-Gerard-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Left: Sarai with friends at school. Center: A young friend who just started preschool. We were excited to meet him on the road after his school day. \u00a0Right: Talking with Pastor Gerard in our yard.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Download the full prayer letter <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/March-2024-Prayer-Letter-Web-Final.pdf\">here<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carpenter Family | Serving in Rwanda Brad and the D for D (Discipling for Development) team recently attended a celebration where they heard several testimonies of transformation and praised God for what he is doing in and through the people participating in D for D.\u00a0 At this celebration, a woman stood up &#8211; we\u2019ll [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"full","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[424,398,15,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-25901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-prayer","7":"tag-424","8":"tag-carpenters","9":"tag-prayer-letter","10":"tag-rwanda","11":"entry","12":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25906,"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25901\/revisions\/25906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}