A Welcome Home Party Turned into a Powerful Prayer Meeting!

Summer time in Canada is beautiful!

Summer time is a great time to entertain friends and family!

We often host parties in our backyard during the warm summer months.

We hosted the couples' party recently at home

This year was no exception.

We hosted a few big parties for various groups.

J. loved seeing his cousins again in Toronto

One was for our son who came home this year and  wanted to see his cousins and friends.

Before I went to Waterloo for the leaders training, we held a welcome home party for him at home. It motivated us to tidy up the garden and had everything looking nice.

Entertaining family  at our backyard party

Since we wanted to minimize the work of decorating and cleaning up, I have learned to give two parties, one right after the other.

Therefore, we organized two parties on the same day - one in the early afternoon for family and another later one in the evening for our church friends.

A welcome home party in our backyard

Having catered the food,  we did not have to overwork ourselves preparing dishes for our guests.








It worked out well. All we needed to do was getting the garden and the house ready.

God blessed us with a fantastic afternoon and evening so that we could hold the parties outdoors.

Maria and Larry came in the afternoon to join us for the family party. W. and Danny dropped by later when most family members left.

For the church family gathering,  Ben - Y's childhood best friend and his family came for the party. Newly diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer,  Ben came to see Y.

I was afraid that they might not want to attend a social function due to this illness.

 We were surprised and glad they came.

Ben's parents were honest about his illness. They told everyone what the illness was about and asked everyone to pray for their son.

Right there in our backyard, everyone came together in a circle.  United and holding hands, we  prayed and cried out to God for His mercy and power to heal this young man.

God's presence was there that evening!

We encouraged Ben and his family with God's words and shared good news stories with them. I shared with them how God cured my sister who was suffering a serious case of breast cancer. That was almost thirty years ago.

My sister is a cancer survivor, doing well, a healthy grandmother with four lovely active grand children!

Ben and his parents were positive and enjoyed their time at our welcome home party for our son.
















God is full of mercy, love and grace.

He welcome my son home, blessed him with a great party and at the same time, provided us with an opportunity to pray for Ben and to encourage them! Praise God!

R.T.
Toronto

P.S.  A couple of weeks later, Ben.'s mom texted me informing me that the doctor found B.'s tumor has shrunk and that it is a slow growth tumor. No chemo is needed. Just hormone therapy! Praise God!

The family asked us to continue praying for Ben.
We definitely will! Glory to God for listening to our prayers!