[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: urgent prayer request

[Dave Snelgrove]

Thank you for providing this focus for our prayer.

On Mon., Aug. 23, 2021, 10:36 p.m. Catherine Walther via Sundaycommunity, <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> My friend Pat in Taproot sent this. Please pray. Thanks, Catherine
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> Date: Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 7:45 PM
> Subject: urgent prayer request
> To: Taproot Group <taprootcan at googlegroups.com>
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> I have a friend who was the international president of the Global Midwives
> Assn and who has worked tirelessly to bring this life-saving practice to
> developing countries around the world. She has gone into over-drive this
> past week, trying to help Afghani midwives and their families to get
> flights to Canada before they are jailed or killed. Please read the
> following missives that I have rec’d in the past 2 days – I have no idea
> why I forgot to mention this as a prayer focus when we had liturgy this
> Sunday.  Here – late – is my and her plea.
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> Here it is......
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> Missive #1: On Sunday morning (15th) when the Taliban took Kabul I jumped
> into non-stop work to get the families of 3 midwives who are refugees here
> in Toronto to safety here in Canada - along with 100 other families in
> their same circumstances - they had to flee overnight (some a few years
> ago) due to Talbian threats and left spouse and family behind.
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> I initiated a media campaign and asked the Assoc of Ontario Midwives to
> lend their media support and so far 2 press releases have gone out with
> good media response - midwives only self-identifying as healthcare workers
> to keep their families safe.... Am writing madly as I have just gotten off
> a 2 hr ZOOM meeting with the 7 coordinators of these 105 families -
> strategizing next steps to get the gov's attention to commit to evacuating
> their families.
>
> Please see The Globe article from today:
> https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada/article-afghan-refugees-in-canada-plead-for-airlifts-of-family/
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> I have arranged articles in The Star, Sun, Global news, yahoo, Reuters,
> etc (preferring not to be identified)- it has been busy....
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> And please see the Call to Action I wrote today (attached) - please
> distribute as appropriate!
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> There is a twitter social media campaign that we also started through the
> AOM - if you tweeted, it would be helpful...I signed on today!
>
> Anyway, four 13 hour days later - am exhausted and mad as heck with the
> Canadian government for not fulfilling their commitments to these
> families!  Sorry - am rambling, but wanted to get something off to you.
> Send prayers for them and light and love and visions of their families
> safely reunited.  Right now it looks really, really grim.
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> #2 missive: Good morning - great news - the Federal Minister of
> Immigration and Refugees called me (twice!) early Saturday evening (21st).
> He has promised to help evacuate this group and has put his Chief of Staff
> on it and assigned a coordinator within his department to work with me as
> the representative of the Coordinating Group. This includes working with a
> liaison on the ground in Kabul! to coordinate communication with the
> refugees here in Canada and their families in Kabul as they evacuate.  He
> gave me his private cell number to facilitate any bumps in the road
> ahead..  Now the real work of organizing folks and trying to get them to
> the airport (which is closed right now to try to calm things down). There
> are 90 mothers in the group of 125 - with a total of 370 kids.  So the
> logistics of getting these single females and children to the airport is in
> itself a logistical issue - and we don't know when the call to start going
> to the airport will come.  People have had to wait in line-ups at the
> airport for over 40 hours - and that is the well organized groups...  And
> all rests on the Americans being able to hold the airport and the Taliban
> letting people pass to the airport...so please, please keep a fire burning
> in your hearts that this evacuation goes well!
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> #3 missive: We are planning next steps with the families today to help
> prepare them for evacuation....so prayers and focus for the impossible to
> be possible.... honestly, and I am searingly serious about this, directing
> prayers/intense focused energy to the evacuation of these now 400 children
> and their mothers (and a few fathers!) is the most important and absolutely
> necessary thing you can do.  Working through the logistics is only working
> in one realm.  But IT WILL NOT WORK without folks dedicated to
> praying/energy surrounding us and supporting this evacuation.  Light a
> candle and keep a candle lit until they are home.  The candle is perfect
> because it is a constant reminder that you are with them.  Please, please
> take up 'Lighting a candle for the Mothers and Children' and pass it on to
> your network and beyond as your work.  Or, simply, the prayers.  This is
> the work you are so good at....please take it up and run with it!!
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> Thank you so much, dear friends.
>
> Pat
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> What we have before us are some breathtaking opportunities disguised as
> insoluble problems.             John W. Gardner
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