[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: urgent prayer request

[Sheila Barrrett]

Dear Catherine, we’ve heard your request and are praying for those midwives and their families and your friend and for the situation in Afghanistan. Sheila and Bob. 

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> On 25 Aug 2021, at 04:08, Dave Snelgrove via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
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> Thank you for providing this focus for our prayer.
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>> 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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>> 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.  
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>> 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!
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>> 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.
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>> What we have before us are some breathtaking opportunities disguised as insoluble problems.             John W. Gardner
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