Updated Prayer Requests

** Pray for a brother officer and his family -- they are dealing with some serious issues involving their teen daughter (enemy is afoot).

** Pray for a Chief who is recovering from more cancer-related surgery. Pray also that he would seek God's glory in this instead of wallowing in anger.

** Pray for an officer who recently lost his wife due to illness. He is having a very rough go of it.

** Prayer for Englewood PD Officer and powerful brother-in-Christ Jason Pearson as he recovers from another shoulder surgery. UPDATE: Jason is doing well and is home recovering. Praise God!!

** UPDATE from previous posts: Thornton (CO) motor officer Joe Dougherty has been upgraded from critical to serious -- improving and might even get to go home this weekend. Continue to pray -- God is listening and acting. Visiting again tomorrrow. Joe was previously in critical condition after being struck by a suspect under the influence of drugs. Here is the update off the CO FOP Facebook page:

A financial relief fund has been set up for the family by Thornton FOP Lodge 16. All donations should be sent to:

Rocky Mountain Law Enforcement Federal Credit Union
C/O FOP Lodge 16 Fund Account
700 W. 39th Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80216

Make your check payable to "FOP Lodge 16 Fund Account" or you may directly deposit to the account at any branch of Rocky Mountain Law Enforcement Federal Credit Union.

Various FOP lodges in Colorado are planning a benefit fund raiser for this officer with a tentative date of October 22, 2011 planned. Please note the date and we will notify as soon as we have details. If you would like to assist with this fund raising benefit: Email FOP Thornton Lodge 16 at colodge16@cofop16.com and they will coordinate.

Thanks again for all of your prayers and support.

** Pray for Army Sgt. and warrior/future cop Rob Hart, his wife Stevie and their unborn child. They are PCS'ing to Ft. Benning (GA). Rob and Stevie have been a breath of fresh air to our local FCPO chapter (FCPO-Denver, an affiliate of The Centurion Law Enforcement Ministry).

** Pray for a brother in NM battling some corruption issues within a union body there.

** Grant Wolf asks that we keep him in prayer ref. an old but increasingly painful/debilitating neck injury.

** UPDATE on wounded WI Dep. Mike Seversen:
Just a quick update to let you know that Mike is still at United Hospital in St. Paul. Go to www.caringbridge.org/visit/mikeseversen1
I know that he would appreciate your prayers at this time. Pray that they can locate and treat the problem so that he can return home.

** Let's be praying that God would use Courageous in a mighty way to reach not only our fellow warriors but men (husbands, fathers...) in general.

** Continue to pray for Angie Hays (bride of retired DPD Officer/current chaplain and pastor Manny Hays. Angie is engaged in a battle against liver cancer and God is doing some amazing things!!

** Continue to pray for Rosalie Roggeman (wife of retired DPD Ofc. Mark Roggeman) as she battles a host of medical issues.

Latest Prayer Requests and Meeting Updates

UPDATED EVENT SCHEDULE:

* Thursday, August 5th, 7:00 PM, Calvary South Denver in Littleton (see http://www.calvarycsd.org/ for directions).

* Thursday, August 12th. Same time/place as above. Erv Meyer will be teaching a special profession-relevant message based on Caleb.

* Saturday, August 14th. 1st Annual Centurion LE Ministry BBQ at our place in Highlands Ranch. Come to a meeting for details or shoot me an email for details.

* Thursday, August 19th. NO MEETING

* Thursday, August 26th. Same time/place as detailed above (Calvary South Denver in Littleton).


UPDATED (08/04/2010) PRAYER REQUESTS -- I will be updating this post throughout the week as new requests arrive. See the 7/27 post for additional.

* Pray for our own Matt Wallenburg as he tests for a local agency in the morning.

* Pray for Bob Chacon, son of a Lt. Juan Chacon in NM: that he will hear God's word and calling on his life, turn from his sin, and accept Christ as Lord and Savior.

* A local PD sergeant (Candace, LTPD) writes,
Please keep retired Colorado Springs PD & El Paso County S.O Homicide Detective Lou Smit in your prays as he battles terminal cancer. Lou is the best detective I have been blessed to have known in my 30 plus year career. Lou often had his victim's picture in his wallet, while trying to find justice for them. Lou is one of the nicest people I have ever met and I pray that God will be with Lou and his family .

* Pray for my sergeant ("Rob") who is recovering from surgery to correct a duty-related injury.

* From a colleague with GJPD: Pray for the son of a Pueblo police officer who is in critical condition after a crash in SW Colorado. The officer is Cody Purvis and his injured son's name is Nick.

* Pray for Ofc. Tony Rodriguez in Wyoming as he forms a FCPO chapter there.

* Pray for the family and colleagues of an officer (Ron) who took his own life in the wake of a family tragedy (now compounded).

* From U.S. Deputy Marshal Rob Moore:
(1) For a Deputy US Marshal brother in Dallas who's wife has recently been diagnosed with extensive cancer. Apparently it started out as breast cancer, but by the time it got found it has become wide spread. They would appreciate our prayers and yes, they are believers.
(2) In Denver, a Marshal's wife has been declared in need of immediate spinal disk fusion or disk replacement. Apparently this is a result of an accumulation of many things, but the diagnosis has put them into shock. Once again, they are both believers. They too would appreciate our prayers.
(3) Another Marshal in Denver has a mother (Marianne, another believer!) who has been afflicted with severe gout, due to loosing a kidney awhile back to cancer. Her gout is in addition to already debilitating arthritis, so the pain is constant and the bones of the hands and feet are deforming. Prayer for pain control is appreciated.

* Pray for a local officer ("Jason") who is suffering from debilitating headaches (the "rushed to the hospital" kind).

* No new news on Dep. Chris Dewey. Check back frequently and feel free to check his Caring Bridge website for the latest: www.caringbridge.org/visit/chrisdewey. Emily and Chris both need our ongoing prayers.

* This past Sunday, Colorado Bureau of Investigation SAC Frank Vanecek and I visited the four wounded officers who are currently being treated at Craig Hospital in Englewood. Please keep them in prayer (and keep Frank's daughter and family in prayer as well). They wounded officers are:
(1) Carbon County (WY) S.O. Lt. Kyle Rosentreter. Kyle was critically injured when his unit was hit head-on by a PU that lost control and swerved into Kyle's lane while Kyle was responding to an emergency on July 4th.
(2) Mineral County (CO) S.O. Dep. Scott Warrington. Scott sustained a severe head injury when he was thrown from a horse he was mounting at a 4th of July parade (on-duty).
(3) Polk County (WI) S.O. Dep. Mike Severson was shot in the line of duty some years ago and is back at Craig due to complications from those wounds.
(4) Brownstown (MI) PD Ofc. Max Faistenhammer was severely injured in a motorcycle crash.

* Pray for Jordan -- salvation, healing and grace to overcome Asperger's syndrome, and more...(God knows the needs).

More as I have it...