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Hey everyone-We need your prayers and encouragement।Sunday while we were attending church our home was broken into। Luckily we were not home and hence not physically harmed. I (Kina) arrived home from church with the 4 girls to find everything ransacked. The robbers cut a protective bar from the window in the back of our home and entered through a window through which only a child could fit. Once inside they were able to open one of the doors to remove the items. The best we can tell, they stole some cash, a little jewelry and both my and Rodney's new computers (along with all software & most of the documents for the Hope House). Fortunately they left my 8 year old computer and that is how I am able to communicate with you today.First of all we want you to know this because: all of your e-mail addresses were accessible from both the stolen computers. Please let us know if you receive any strange communication from us. It is my understanding that the passwords can be changed so that they can not download our e-mail, but the server for sending messages is not password protected and therefore can be utilized by anyone who has access to the computers. (So you could receive an e-mail which looks like it is from us, but in fact it is not.)Secondly we ask that you keep us in your prayers. This is such a critical time in our lives and ministry. The ministry is growing leaps and bounds and we are being stretched beyond our limit every day. We really want to guard against discouragement. And of course the restlessness that comes with your personal space being violated. Genesis was very frightened on Sunday and well as Trinity and Zion. We have been praying for a special grace and peace for them as they process this situation. And finally the ability to carry on. Every time I need to leave the house I find myself having difficulty actually getting out the door and then once I do, not being preoccupied with the idea of "will they come back"?*Please pray against fear and doubt. We don't want to live in fear and we don't want to doubt God's protection on our family.As if life was not busy enough, we now have an entire page of projects that we have to do in order to make the insurance claim. Upon making the claim there will only be enough money (if they pay) to replace a fraction of the items taken.*Please pray that we will have the stamina to keep going, to accomplish all the normal tasks of leading an international ministry, a children's home, while sowing into our marriage and family and to complete these new projects. Oh- and to re-do the old projects.*Also please pray against discouragement, there were hours upon hours of work saved in those computers. Accounting, our annual report ministry draft, all the governmental forms for the children's home....the list goes on and on, down to the ministry letter head. Not to mention the photos that we have lost because they had not yet been archived. When we stop and think it is really overwhelming as we remember item upon item that now will require additional hours of work to regenerate. (We do have a back up of Rodney's computer that was made about a month ago. However our antique computers are not capable of running the new software used on the computers which were stolen. So we don't currently have access to anything stored in the backup.)In addition to replacing the items stolen we have been urged by the police to increase our security here in our home. We are praying about what additional measures we need to take to help prevent this from happening again.Finally we ask that you would prayerfully consider helping us financially during this difficult time. We know that times are also difficult for many of you living in the United States and because of that we do not want to place any pressure on you. Please present our family and our needs before the Lord and if he urges you to give or even sacrificially give to help us during this time we urge you to be faithful to what God asks you to do.We thank you for you love, prayers, encouragement and support!Rodney, Kina & girlsPS: We lost many e-mail addresses with the theft. Please feel free to forward this to anyone who know who you believe may be interested in knowing and/or helping.Shepherd's Heart Ministries135 Bill Cox RoadJonesborough, TN 37659

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