Saturday, January 28, 2012

Prayer Requests 1/26/12

The prayer requests from this week's Love in Action meal are below. Thanks for your prayers!
Blessings,
Erika

Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains! For the LORD comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.
Isaiah 49:13 (NIV)

-- Prayer for Wendy to heal her body.
-- Father, help my children continue to grow in faith and overcome challenges and obstacles that come their way. Please do not let my financial/job circumstances have a negative effect on my children. Please help me to provide for my children in all ways. Please give me the strength to persevere in the face of adversity and help me face my challenges with strength, dignity, and humility. I ask this in His name.
-- Sabrina S.: My unborn baby, complications in pregnancy. Housing.
-- Joe M. just lost his grandmother and is taking it very hard.
-- Leon R.: Prayer.
-- I pray that everybody will win the peace prize!
-- Robert: Toni, please believe I love you. Wane B., rest in peace.
-- Nepolius P.
-- Please pray for Sher and for me and HFM, Sapp family.
-- Roger B. for cancer.
-- God's blessings and healing upon Wendy, for her to reach a full recovery. PLEASE, LORD. Thank you.
-- Brandon W.: My prayer is to make it to either American Idol or Sunday's Best. Please pray for me.
-- Frank: God love Mary.
-- Alphonso D.: Pray for my friend Alexander R. for everything to work out in court.
-- I pray for all the sick and suffering and I pray for everyone less fortunate than me. And world peace.
-- Rafael G.: HELP, please.
-- Rusty: Please help little Wendy M. to be healed completely.
-- B.C.: What I would like for to pray for is peace among the homeless.
-- My family and friends.
-- Please pray for my daughter Francesca, who has wandered away from Jesus Christ and the church. I pray with all my heart that He brings her back to him. Thank you and God bless you always!
-- My prayer is that God blesses the woman in the hospital to a full recovery.
-- Please help the lady!
-- To keep us safe from harm.
-- Bob: I am having a hard time finding a roommate.
-- Brian R.: Please pray for my dad John C.R. and my son Dorian R. that they're both doing well. Thank you.
-- Aaron W.: Healing prayer.
-- World peace.
-- Pray for jobs and pray for the politics to get better. I also pray for everybody and their attitude.
-- G.R.: I hope God blesses all of us.
-- Pray and watch over Norris and Sharon. That we get off the streets and have a good life.
-- May God bless me with good health and strength to the fullest and continue to let me live. Also bless my brother to be okay and to take it easy and do the best he can with his life.
-- Sandra F.G.: This is a special prayer for the hospital sister to be healed and feel better.
-- Randy: We come together again on this lovely night to join together to praise you, Father.
-- My name is Otis C. W. II. Pray for me and my family. Help make me stronger in faith. Help make me a better person than what I am. Pray for my success.
-- I request you pray for me to have wisdom to make better decisions.
-- Please ask God to help me in my appeal.
-- I would like to get my sobriety and my life back to normal and get off the streets and into a program. God, please help!!!!!!
-- Sis Pat: Prayer for my son and grandson to be set free from their own way and prison, with a sound mind and healthy body, willing to serve God.
-- Pray for Wendy.
-- Terry T.: Wisdom, guidance, that God may help me find a job.
-- Harry: Please keep my baby Wendy in your prayers. Thank you for all you have done for us.
-- Monclair J.L.: I work any work, job.
-- James G.
-- I ask that my family, friends, and the lady in the hospital to be safe in the hand of Jesus. Amen
-- Julie L., pray for her!
-- Gary R.: Pray for the soul of the person who has insinuated herself into my life, spewing venomous lies and exuding evil. Pray for her soul, she needs it!
-- Bettey R.
-- Ellen: I pray my family communication returns. And the health prognosis of the girl that is in Broward General from the hit and run accident.
-- Tony: Dwight J., my friend, he is doing good. Tracey and Diana, Christian program. All my family members. My kids, all churches I attend. Me and John's carpet cleaning. Bryan and Racheal, Las Olas Farmers Market
-- For my family and me, very happy and soon meeting.
-- Zabiah: Mom's job, money. Please, God, help me and my mom (Lois).
-- Lois: Please pray for my family and that I get the money I need to pay my household expenses. Thank you.
-- Robert N.: Pray that Rob and Sandy stay safe and that I find employment . Thank you.
-- Joe: I would like a prayer said for everyone who had part in this meal and a special prayer said for the young lady we all heard about. God bless.
-- Pat J.: Pray for the lady who is sick and me, please.
-- Jesus, as living stones, oh master, may you retrieve the young woman hit by a car, bogged down by injury. Through our prayer group, channel and pull her through the thresh gate to your peace and light. Amen
-- Pray that Sandy and Rob will continue to stay safe and that they will find peace and happiness in their lives.
-- Pray for the lady, I think her name is Wendy, that God bring her through. And my mother Rey, that God heal her from the cancer. Plus me, Quentin, that He bring me out of this bondage I'm in.
-- TRANSPORTATION
-- For Dave's killer to be found, brought to justice, and made whole. For Detective Torres as he continues to seek Dave's killer.
-- For Bianca and her family.
-- For Lennox, Wolf, Smitty, L.C., Gypsy, Jamalle, Tino, Richard.
-- For Wendy, Peanut, Shy’ann & Kamaurry
-- For Charlotte, Ed, Jacques, Robert, Brad, Lance, Kelly, Shante, Shamona, Randy, Richie, Roger, Scott, Tony, Keith, Steve, Dennis, Brieanna, Carl, Kayla, Lorenzo, Rocky, Red, Johnny, Angel.
-- For neglected and abused animals and their caregivers.
-- For all of LIA's volunteers; help us be quick to listen, slow to speak.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Prayer Requests 1/19/12

The prayer requests from this week's Love in Action meal are below.

Thank you for your ongoing prayers for this ministry and this community!
Blessings,
Erika

You will listen, O Lord, to the prayers of the lowly; you will give them courage. You will hear the cries of the oppressed and the orphans; you will judge in their favor, so that mortal men may cause terror no more.
Psalm 10:17-18 (GNT)

-- Thank you Jesus for your grace. Thank you for your provision and thank you for your favor of God in my life and while in court tomorrow. Bless all the prayer partners for praying.
-- Kelly D. prays for a job, for a backpack, and for prosperity for all. Thank you.
-- I pray that my life will change for the better and that me and my fiance grow together.
-- Ann: My prayer request is for a 1 bedroom apartment on NE 1st Ave in Pompano. I've been living in my car for 3 1/2 years.
-- Tom V.: Please give me strength to overcome my weakness.
-- I pray for health, wealth, and clothing.
-- Timothy S.: Pray for me to get strong in the Lord our God.
-- Tony V-L.: Lord, help me with anger & keep me in a righteous state of mind. All family members. My kids' mother & family members. His Walk ministry, New Hope church, Calvary Outreach ministry. My friends & family members. Meatloaf dinner & staff. Me, John, & Murphy carpet cleaning. Racheal & Bryant farmer's market & members.
-- Harold: Lord, please let me and my mom get close again.
-- Pray for my doctor visit and my family.
-- Please pray for Wendy M., hit by a car, not doing well, thank you.
-- Napoleon P.
-- God love Frank M.
-- Elvis F.: My family & a job and to stay out of jail and trouble.
-- Rose B.: My baby son Cornelius B., going to court January 20, 2012. Pray that he come out good. He has mental issues (paranoid schizophrenia). He is in for murder.
-- Pat J.: Pray for me to keep control of my anger. Thank you.
-- Prayer request for family, wife, brother, sister, a place to stay, job, financial blessing, myself.
-- Robert N.: Please pray for everyone that was present this evening. We all need the Lord's blessing.
-- Lord, as we backslide as sinners, draw us back in your temple, oh most high immortal one, creator of the temple not made by human hands. Amen.
-- I pray for my younger daughter.
-- Heather L.: Salvation/deliverance from drugs/depression. In Jesus name.
-- Financial/spiritual break-through. Successfully own an apartment/home. School completion. God's ministry.
-- Billie J.: Pray for me and my family that this year be a blessed one.
-- G.D.: I hope God help in my prayers. Thank God for the loved.
-- Shirley J.: Pray for me a change in heart and to get strong in heart.
-- Joseph M. lost his grandmother to a heart attack this morning. Please pray for the family.
-- Vincent: I'd like to pray for everyone.
-- Betsy R.
-- Bettey
-- I ask that everything works out tomorrow in court for Nicole. I pray she wins this case so she can move on with her life. In Jesus name I ask, thank you father, Amen.
-- Karen K.: Pray for my sister.
-- Sandra G.: I am asking if I can be prayed for peace, protection, and guidance and to keep all my enemies away from me and lead me and guide me. Thank you.
-- Pray my mom is in good health. Give her strength & peace. My children are safe and happy. That I have good health, find a place to stay, and my life changes for the better.
-- I want to pray for my mom (Bridgett), my sisters Alana & Jamera, my niece Alasia, and my dad Barry that they stay strong and healthy. I want to pray for me, Jessie, and Dolly & Dee Dee that we stay strong and safe on our way to Tampa as we start our new lives. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen.
-- Pray for Sebastien.
-- Alphonso D.: Please pray for my friend Alexander R. who is in jail and that things will work out for him and me.
-- Rickie W.: Seeking a job, in the Lord Jesus.
-- Protection of Charlene Q. by angels (Psalm 91:11). Total surrender/commitment to the Lord.
-- Watch over my children.
-- Please pray for my daughter Francesca, as I cannot be with her right now, while I am homeless. But I know the Lord will bring us back together soon. In Jesus name I pray. Thank you so much.
-- Please pray for my mother & brothers (Nasanga, Melqoan, Johwuan, & Anthony S). Thank you, God bless, Dhasheia.
-- Please pray for my family and friends.
-- Prayer for my family and friends, Angel.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Prayer Requests 1/12/12

The prayer requests from last week's Love in Action meal are below. Thanks for keeping this ministry and its guests in your prayers!
Blessings,
Erika

"Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other."
John 13:34-35 (MSG)

-- I need prayer for deliverance for body and soul.
-- Zehiah M.: Prayers for my school, mom's job, and money.
-- Better health.
-- Financial blessings for my family.
-- Sandra F.G.: Prayers for protection, peace, and blessings.
-- Lois D.: Pray that the forever loving merciful Father God and Son have mercy on me and my family. Bless us with what we need to do to survive in this world.
-- That me and Tanya get together in the VA.
-- James M.: I would like my own place.
-- Please pray for my family and friends. Thank you.
-- Bob: I'm having a hard time paying my bills each month.
-- Tony, Lauren, Randy, Nicole: Keep us safe; help me find a job; protection and love; and watch over us.
-- Cohen: I am praying for God to deliver me from drugs, but not to put me in jail but to deliver me.
-- Pray for Cathy G.
-- C: God bless Wendy, Kristi, and Kelly. Keep them from harm and show them your light.
-- Tuesday and K.: Pray for love, peace, happiness, better health, shelter and work.
-- Ann: May I get the place I want to live in soon.
-- Jennel: Grant my daughter to talk to me on the phone.
-- God watch over my children.
-- Hester, Richard, Jeff, Joey, for health.
-- Scott G.: I am still in need of a job.
-- For world peace.
-- My husband and I make it down here.
-- Bob: I have a hard time finding a good roommate.
-- CE: Inheritance breakthrough for me. Healing from blood pressure and diabetes.
-- For my family, ex-wife, brother, sister, mother who passed away. Pray for a job.
-- Pray for Paul L. that he become a better person.
-- Pam P.: Healing from depression, anxiety, osteoporsis.
-- Pray for me, Robert W., and my family.
-- Pat J.: Lord, save me from my sins. Thank you.
-- Charlotte: Archangels help while doing homeless ministry. Isaiah 11: 1 - 2
-- Bruce: Please give me my health back.
-- Lord, please let Clay M. love you!
-- Kristian: Lord, bless me in all of my endeavors.
-- Ingrid C. for deliverance from drugs and lesbianism.
-- Pray for trip to Chicago and kids to show up.
-- Prayers for my mother (Annette N.), my sons, Roderick, Noell, Alphonso. Me, my grandkids, Yanelli, Zinna. and Larry W.
-- Ellen: Prayer that Pery's wife's surgery goes well.
-- Please pray that I can keep my mind and not go insane.
-- Please pray for Kelly, Lauren, and Lindsay. Unify this family, Lord. Help release them from drugs.
-- For Dave's killer to be found, brought to justice, and made whole. For Detective Torres as he continues to seek Dave's killer.
-- For Bianca and her family.
-- For Lennox, Wolf, Smitty, L.C., Gypsy, Jamalle, Tino. Thank you for bringing Gregg back to us!!!
-- For Wendy, Peanut, Shy’ann & Kamaurry
-- For Charlotte, Ed, Jacques, Robert, Brad, Lance, Kelly, Shante, Shamona, Randy, Richie, Roger, Scott, Tony, Keith, Steve, Dennis, Brieanna, Carl, Kayla, Lorenzo, Rocky, Red, Johnny, Angel.
-- For neglected and abused animals and their caregivers.
-- For all of LIA's volunteers; help us be quick to listen, slow to speak.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Prayer Requests 1/5/12

The prayer requests from this week's LIA meal are below. Thanks for keeping this ministry and its guests in your prayers!
Blessings,
Erika

I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.
Psalm 27:13-14 (NIV)

-- Carlos: To whom it may concern: I need help in relief from this county’s incarceration of me for nothing. I am not a criminal. I don’t deserve what they are doing to me. Please help me with a prayer. Thank you.
-- Edward H.: I watch as people feed others : that is easy. If you see me in a ditch or stuck in mud and I can’t get out, would it be easy for you to give me food or help me out of the hold? God knows our heart and thoughts. Help
-- Felix and Carlos: Salvation for and deliverance from drugs and alcohol.
-- Thank you for your grace, Jesus and thank you for always letting me pray for people. Bless Angie with a financial blessing so she can see that it could of only been you Jesus that did it and she can give you glory too. Bless Tito and Marcus with the willingness to listen to their mother.. Thank you Jesus.
-- For the favor of God in my life, even for financial bills to be payed, I was left with a lot of debt that don’t belong to me and Jesus I love to you for help. Thank you for letting me have friends. Thank you for Jose. Bless him with some work please. He’s been looking so some door has to open. Bless Mr. Pery, bless Kathy, thank you for all the people who pray for me. Bless Mercedes in her gifts. What a beautiful person. Bless all the mothers and their children and father.
-- Hal L.: For a happy, healthy week with good luck and good health. God bless, thanks.
-- Diana: Please pray hard… 2.75 glasses! Gotta work & read…Looked at an apartment…Just told housing I want to move…Can’t afford warehouse, rent, electric, etc. and art.(no license $50). He’s got no work, no cigarettes and loosing hope. Drinking causes stinkin thinking then we fight. Can’t go to the doctors w/o $. Pray hard. I want my health & to help save the world…A friend of ours back home, sent his kids to the store & blew his head off. We gotta pray they don’t go from thieves to killers or I’ll be dead.
-- J.P.: I wish ya’ll talk louder cus hearing aid, but dad didn’t send Christmas, so I’m out of luck.
-- Thank you for the gift of love Jesus, without it we wouldn’t be. Bless the people who help us in this church. Father if it be your will may I have P/T employment. I love to love to volunteer you know that, but this time I ask for a paying job. Bless little Nancy with the beautiful voice she has now so she can sing songs to you all her days. She’s 7 now and so intelligent and she understands English/Spanish, Praise God. Father I ask for provision in all ways even spiritually. Thank you, thank you for financial blessing so I can pay my vows. Thank you.
-- I request that you would pray for me to get the money I need to pay for my D.O.T. medical card for work.
-- Jason L.: Strength for today.
-- Angie Z: God stop me from smoking. God stop smoke.
-- Thank U Jesus for the blessings you have bestowed on me for this new year. Thank U Jesus!
-- Edward H.: I do appreciate what you are doing, but I feel there is more that needs to be done.
-- Pat J.: Thank you for everything you did for me.
-- Migdalia R.: Need a creative healing miracle: Healing for very serious C.O.P.D. (lung disease), heart problems, kidney/blood pressure.
-- Elio O.: I really been thanksfully because God has been hearing your prayers that I requested to be reborn in Jesus Christ
-- To find a reliable babysitter to watch my autistic son while I work. And to hear from Jeff so I know he’s safe.
-- Continue protection on the street and to find a good place to live soon.
-- Miriam E.: Protection from witchcraft (enemies), healing for poor eyesight, heart and liver.
-- Pray for my Marissa. She’s 7 years old and far away from me in New Mexico. Also pray everything works for the best on Wednesday when I take a huge step and go to the Broward House.
-- Randy G.: I would like a bus pass.
-- To make it to Full Sall College.
-- David K.: Continue to pray for me that I get the Global Inc. job.
-- Eric S.: Pray for me that I will be blessed with every spiritual need and that although I may go through trouble this year I don’t faint in my faith, but become stronger in my faith. Don’t forget about every spiritual need.
-- Edward H.: When you refuse to help me, you refuse to help Jesus Christ. This is not my words, but God’s word.
-- Edward H.: Pray that people get off their knees and into action. And pray that those who are just acting, get on their knees and get into action. I was told that you all can not help me because you would be required to help others. Is this not what God wants? You remember what Jesus said? “as you did not do it for one of the least, you did not do it for me”
-- I would like to make sufficienct funds to launch my online business.
-- Eric S.: Please pray for me so that I may be blessed with every spiritual need for the new year. Pray that I also continue in my walk in faith and grow stronger in my faith. In Jesus name, Amen.
-- Lois J.: Isaiah 65:24 : I believe He will hear us before we call and while we are yet speaking, He will answer. He knows my needs.
-- Bless my Isabella
: Happy heart : kindness.
-- Pray for my kids Ramsis, Erik, Carla.
-- Prayer for the late Barbara G. : Mom, I miss you; the late Helen G. : I love you Grandma; for the members of Occupy Fort Lauderdale, may we continue to share a right on the wrongs being committed by Corporate America and all of those elected to serve us who aren’t. to my children, may you stop believing in the lies that I don’t love you and be able to forgive me enough to welcome me back into your lives. To the victims of the last typhoon in the Philippines.
-- May our Lord, as Lamb, who offers and is offered, always include us by adoption in marital sacrifice and Banquet of the Lamb J
-- Randy J.: I need my ID, please.
-- Please, please say a prayer that the Cosiac stays open for business.
-- Oneil J.
-- I ask that whatever Nichole ask in prayer come true. I ask this in the name of Jesus. Also I pray for a job so I can help Nichole and my sister with her rent. God Bless.
-- I just ask you pray for me to stay on a straight path and keep not letting dumb things bother me.
-- I hope I hit the Lotto.
-- Prayer Request for family, wife, brother, sister, a place to stay, a job, need blessing.
-- My name is Gerard, I hope God will help me with my life.
-- Richard C.: Pray for my kids.
-- Pray for me to get my check on so I can get a place to stay for me and my boyfriend.
-- Phil: Please pray for my girlfriend, Billie, to get off pills, get her life straight and for her and her mother a place to live. Thank you.
-- I pray for everybody and for the safety. Amen.
-- Thank U for being U : Jesus : Bless us all!!
-- Ellen: Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year to all.
-- Please pray for my family and Friend. Thank U.
-- Please pray for me & my husband & my mom & Mother-in-law and all my family up north.
-- 4 my Mother & Friends suffering from cancer.
-- I request a prayer for Cynthia B. that she is okay and doing well.
-- Pray for my family.
-- Bruce: Please give me my health back and make my family safe.
-- Edward H.: What would Jesus do?
-- Pray for Rodlea and Jeanniole. For prayers to be heard.
-- For Dave's killer to be found, brought to justice, and made whole. For Detective Torres as he continues to seek Dave's killer.
-- For Bianca and her family.
-- For Lennox, Wolf, Smitty, L.C., Gypsy, Jamalle, Tino. Thank you for bringing Gregg back to us!!!
-- For Wendy, Peanut, Shy’ann & Kamaurry
-- For Charlotte, Ed, Jacques, Robert, Brad, Lance, Kelly, Shante, Shamona, Randy, Richie, Roger, Scott, Tony, Keith, Steve, Dennis, Brieanna, Carl, Kayla, Lorenzo, Rocky, Red, Johnny, Angel.
-- For neglected and abused animals and their caregivers.
-- For all of LIA's volunteers; help us be quick to listen, slow to speak.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Prayer Requests 12/29/11

Happy New Year from the Love in Action team! The prayer requests from last Thursday's LIA meal are below.

I pray that the Lord blesses you richly in the coming year and continues to mold us and shape us into his hands and feet in our community. I pray that He continues to bring healing and transformation into the lives of all those who struggle and suffer amongst us.

Thank you for your love for this ministry and its guests!
Blessings,
Erika

No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.
Philippians 3:13-14 (NLT)

-- Lois J.: Please pray that God enters my supervisor’s heart to give me a second to work again so that I am able to provide for my family. Thank You. Praise God.
-- Zebish (an 8-year-old girl): Food, money, Mom’s job.
-- Mark W.: I would like prayer for work tomorrow at the Labor Pool. Thanks and God Bless.
-- God’s favor.
-- Love ya. Leaving the first.
-- Larry R.: I'd like for you to pray for me to keep away from drugs.
-- Willie Mae G.: BSP, CR, GR
-- Ellen: My friend, Elaine’s cancer stays in remission.
-- Lionel J.: Please pray for me and my family.
-- A prayer to keep a prayer necklace because it wasn’t your prayer & evidently I have NO privacy & everybody hears me but they change everything to suit their agenda!!!
-- Zeayne for doing work God from Dallas Texas.
-- Shirley H.: Pray that I get my place on the 6th of January.
-- God to help me get my check and get a place to stay.
-- Please pray for me to make better decisions.
-- Cortosha B.: I want you to pray that I get my kids back.
-- Marla’s son Charlie and David to get along better.
-- Ronnie H.: I pray that the Lord will continue to bless everyone that is less fortunate than I am and to help me to stay focused on Him, God. And to take anger and frustration out of me which comes from the devil. And help me to love more and more. And to help me to be more like Jesus.
-- Lonnie: I request a prayer for Cynthia B. She is still missing. Hope she is okay and doing well.
-- Bless all people from this church.
-- William: Pray for my fiancé that she will be better this New Year.
-- Pat J.: Thank you for the blood that you shed for me.
-- Lord, in your eyes we’re not suspect, but forgiven in your blood. May we look beyond this world to see your face in Heaven. J !! xxx
-- Vincent R.: I’d like to pray for everyone.
-- Aaron W.: Prayer Request – Healing Prayer.
-- All I want is peace, love and happiness in life and death.
-- Don W.: Employment; motivation to break-out of the non-productive rut I have fallen into. Chance to volunteer services in an environment which will lead to a better relationship with Christ.
-- Alonzo: Please pray for my family and friends.
-- Marla and Charlie to get along better.
-- I pray that all bad judgement be corrected by Jesus.
-- J.T.: Pray for my new home and apt.
-- Leslie S.: That I find a good room to rent.
-- Please pray for my good friend, Nichole. She’s going through a lot in life and she needs help. God Bless. Happy New Year.
-- Moises C.: I’m praying for a job and place to live.
-- Jean N.: I pray my former employer pays me tomorrow the money he owes me for last week’s work.
-- Mark and his daughters get back together soon.
-- Keep my children safe and their mothers.
-- Napoleon P.
-- Khadyjah S.: Pray for a happy life worth living with housing, with all my children back this year and the Lord answer all my previous requests and His will be done, not mine.
-- For Dave's killer to be found, brought to justice, and made whole. For Detective Torres as he continues to seek Dave's killer.
-- For Bianca and her family.
-- For Lennox, Wolf, Smitty, L.C., Gypsy, Jamalle, Tino. Thank you for bringing Gregg back to us!!!
-- For Wendy, Peanut, Shy’ann & Kamaurry
-- For Charlotte, Ed, Jacques, Robert, Brad, Lance, Kelly, Shante, Shamona, Randy, Richie, Roger, Scott, Tony, Keith, Steve, Dennis, Brieanna, Carl, Kayla, Lorenzo, Rocky, Red, Johnny, Angel.
-- For neglected and abused animals and their caregivers.
-- For all of LIA's volunteers; help us be quick to listen, slow to speak.