Jones Journal e-Mailer for 2006-10b requests

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(originally sent 10/27/06)

Dear Friends,

I don't normally send a separate generic e-mail with prayer requests, but this week has been especially hard on Panamá. Please pray for these situations:

1. "UNKNOWN SYNDROME": As we reported in our last e-Mailer, a toxic substance has caused the death of at least 42 people here in Panamá City. It appears to be contamination of common medicines prepared at the Social Security hospital, but the origin is still unknown. Families are grieving, and angry. Patients have left the hospital for fear of contamination. People are unsure which medicines they need are safe to take. Pray for resolution.

2. HORRIFIC BUS FIRE TRAGEDY: On Monday 10/23 a public bus caught on fire and burned completely. Of the 44 passengers, many were injured, two are still critical, and eighteen didn't survive. Our AG headquarters told me that nine of those eighteen were either members or minister's wives in our Assembly of God churches. In particular, I just got off the phone with Pastor David Herrera, who used to teach with me at Bible school, after consoling him on the loss of his wife. It happened just in front of Hosanna church and TV studios, and Pastor Edwin Alvarez was one of the first to the scene, but his daughter told us that there was nothing to be done. The bus had only one exit, at the front, where the fire started in the engine compartment. The windows were sealed shut for the air conditioning. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Pray for consolation.

3. INCREASE IN ROBBERIES: We heard just yesterday of another robbery of a house up the street. Three armed men forced family members back into the house catching them by surprise while they were in between the car and the house. Luckily the house had video surveillance which captured their images clear enough to recognize and later apprehend one of the robbers--he was a policeman. Pray for protection.

Thanks and God bless!

Kirk for all