[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: urgent prayer request

Wed Aug 25 04:49:38 PDT 2021

Thanks so much. C

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 3:32 AM Sheila Barrrett via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 25 Aug 2021, at 04:08, Dave Snelgrove via Sundaycommunity <
> sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
>
> 
> 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
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From:
>> Date: Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 7:45 PM
>> Subject: urgent prayer request
>> To: Taproot Group <taprootcan at googlegroups.com>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here it is......
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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/
>>
>> I have arranged articles in The Star, Sun, Global news, yahoo, Reuters,
>> etc (preferring not to be identified)- it has been busy....
>>
>> And please see the Call to Action I wrote today (attached) - please
>> distribute as appropriate!
>>
>> 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!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> #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!!
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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