Need for a Savior

Hello Everyone,

We hope that you are enjoying your New Year and that you are learning and growing in your faith and love for God. As many of you know we are expecting our first son in early April. We are so thrilled about the opportunity to love and raise our Son. As new parents we are both nervous and thankful for the changes that are taking place in our lives. In preparation for him coming we have been studying and reading about being parents. Which in turn can make you feel even more unprepared for parenthood. So as we are about 11 weeks away from his arrival we are beginning to focus our nervous thoughts into prayers. One of the prayers we have been praying of our son and any future children the Lord may give us is for them to see their need for a Savior.  This means that their lives will be full of challenges and that they will have to find their way through troubling seasons. They will have to venture through their own unique stories of sin and repentance. Through all of the seasons in their life that may bring them pain, our prayer is that they find their hope and their joy deeply rooted in their Savior.

As we pray this prayer for our children, we also pray it for our family and friends.  That we would all be like the woman in Luke 7:47, who washed his feet with her tears. She saw her need for a Savior and she loved much. Because she saw the depths of her sin, she could hope in his forgiveness and righteousness. We pray this same prayer for the people of Italy. That their eyes and hearts would be open to the Gospel and that they would see their need for a Savior. Our hope is that in seasons of hurt, but also in seasons of great joy that we would bring the light of the Gospel to those around us.

Three prayer requests:
-prayers for ease of transition back to Italy (renewing our visas, finding a home, & setting up doctor visits)
-prayers for our family as a whole as we learn what it means to be parents
-prayers for our family in the states that their faith would be refined and their love for God grown as we are far away


With love,
The Mcghins