CLIENTS: Pray that clients will commit to the healing journey, embracing God's grace and power as they work to become overcomers. Agree with us that they have a hunger and thirst for God's word and revelation of His love for them. Pray they desire to change and are willing to do what it takes to achieve transformation in their lives.
PROGRAMS & SERVICES: Pray for the development of our Equine and Art Programs as we seek to specialize our therapeutic interventions and expand our client base to anyone in need of healing. Pray for our new Equine Escape for Ministry Workers and Art and Horse Camp. Agree with us for wisdom as we evaluate all of our developed programs and services and make critical decisions regarding which ones to maintain and which to possibly eliminate.
CURRENT NEEDS: Pray for our monthly budget needs to be met, in addition to the monetary needs of the organization. For a complete list of needs, CLICK HERE.
EQUINE & ART FACILITY: Please pray for wisdom in all things related to the equine facility, and that it continues to be a way that wounded individuals see the beauty of the Lord's creation while also providing experiential therapeutic treatments to the emotional, mental, and physical challenges so many individuals face. Find out more about our Equine and Art Programs.
HORSES: Please pray for the health of our four therapy horses. Agree with us for their protection and well being.
TRAINING: Pray for our best practices, faith based operations model in prevention, intervention, restoration, and advocacy of victims of s*xual abuse, exploitation, and trafficking, as we continue to provide national training and consulting. Pray for wisdom in expanding the trainings to more than twice a year.
EVENTS: Pray for Julie Shematz, as God opens the doors to unique venues to BFA like the Ocala Prison for her to speak. Agree with us for speaking engagements that are of God's perfect will and nothing less. Pray that hearts be prepared to receive the life saving message of the Gospel while learning about human trafficking and Julie's personal testimony of how she was able to break from all forms of bondage. Find our more about ourpresentations and trainings.
MEDIA: Pray for the recent media interviews Mrs. Shematz has had with radio stations and magazines, secular and non-secular. Agree with us that every word written and spoken would be of God's perfect will and glorifying to Him.
VOLUNTEERS: Praise God for raising up competent volunteers who can assist us in the day to day operations! Pray that they and their families would be blessed and protected. May God continue to send mature workers with hearts to serve.
STAFF: Pray that Mrs. Shematz would sustain balance as she finishes her final year of graduate school as a clinical mental health counselor at Florida Gulf Coast University. Pray for her as she leads the organization and fulfills her responsibilities as a wife. Please pray for our new Event Coordinator, Rachel Swope, as she trains and assumes the roles and responsibilities of event coordination for BFA.
DIRECTORS & ADVISORS: Thank God for active directors and advisors that help guide and shape the ministries of Beauty From Ashes™! Agree with us that their health, family, and resources be protected. May they work in unity and one accord with our Father's vision for BFA.
FUNDING: Praise God for the matching grant of $10,000 we have! Pray partners will take advantage of their giving being doubled this month and that all our financial needs will be met according to His riches in glory. Agree with us that the generous matching grant donor will be abundantly blessed!
PARTNERSHIPS: Please pray for our current and new partnerships; that we serve each other with integrity and honor. Please pray for wisdom when we seek out new partnerships and discernment to know which partnerships to pursue.
BODY OF CHRIST: Agree with us for churches to respond to the need to support national faith based, agencies reaching, rescuing, and restoring domestic victims of s*x trafficking, exploitation, and abuse. Stir in the hearts of pastors a boldness to address the slavery occurring in our backyards and a conviction to actively lead congregations in abolishing slavery in the United States.
OTHER LIKE MINISTRIES/AGENCIES: Please pray for the over 165, faith based, organizations throughout the world taking the Lord's love and hope to the lost and broken, specifically those affected by s*xual abuse, exploitation and/or trafficking. Pray that the ministry they provide will be professional, ethical, and that they engage in community collaboration in order to provide seamless, comprehensive, services to individuals transitioning out of the sex for sale business.
WEEKLY GLOBAL PRAYER: Please join us each Friday from 8-9am EST to intercede for victims of sexual exploitation, sex slavery, & sex trafficking, as well as the agencies servicing them. CLICK HERE for Prayer Guide. Locally, we meet in North Fort Myers at the Equine Facility. Contact us for directions.
Beauty From Ashes™ Ministries
Where Victims Become Over-Comers
"Survivors must be leaders in the development of services, shelter, and response protocols to s*x trafficking.”
- National Report on Domestic Minor S*x Trafficking
- National Report on Domestic Minor S*x Trafficking
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