Pray for all the 9 local pastors who work with us in the Bara area – they work hard to spread the good news of Jesus. Ask God to strengthen them spiritually, physically, and emotionally to be able to serve with grace and wisdom.
Met for Christmas
Diaspora in Ontario: Pray for believers Hafi*, Kevin*, Stuart* and Bob* living in Afghan!stan being discipled over the internet, now studying the book of Acts. Praise the Lord 3 of them were able to gather for a mini underground Christmas celebration. Praise the Lord they got coal to keep their families warm through sometimes subzero winter weather there. Pray for their safety going through every Tal!ban checkpoint in their cities. Pray for God to open a door for them to leave the country if He wills.
Persecution
Pray for peace and unity among the local communities.
Pray against the spirit of persecution that is still a challenge to pastors reaching out with the gospel.
Raise up leaders
Please continue to pray for the Ndau youth to bow their knees to King Jesus and grow in faith, and for God to raise up new leaders.
A church in every village!
There is one village in particular who doesn’t really have someone equipped to lead the church, and they are asking for people to come. Please pray for someone to go, whether from oversees, a neighboring country or from within. There are also villages who don’t have a church and need one. A favorite quote I overheard was a local pastor saying, “If the Lopit have a church in every village, I can die a happy man!”
Breakthrough
Pray that 2026 would be a year of breakthrough – that many Saharawi would come to salvation and Saharawi believers would grow deeper in their faith.
Disciples under pressure
Pray for new disciples to be faithful in learning and growing in faith. Many are interested but there is so much social pressure and challenges that get in the way. Pray for fruitfulness and protection for these people.
Needing mercy
Pray for spiritual growth of the people. For believers to mature and seekers to bow their knees to King Jesus.
Pray for God’s provision in the land.
Pray for the basic needs for the people- shelter, medication, education, etc. There is so much suffering- pray for God’s mercy and provision.
Open his eyes
Pray for a young man named N., with his wife and little baby girl. He has been doing Bible studies with one of the missionaries and seems genuinely interested and engaged in learning about the Truth of God. Pray that the Lord would open his eyes, ears, and heart to receive Him.
Outreach planned
Pray for the pastors planning to engage deeper towards the Ethiopian border in the coming season. Pray for both spiritual, physical, and financial needs to be met. Also pray that they may bring many to the saving power of Jesus Christ and experience the gifts of God.
Pray for effective means of communication – there is poor network coverage and poor road networks.
Continues strong
The Be Fitia School continues strong in evangelizing and teaching children to read. This year, 200 new children began learning to read. Our Wednesday and Saturday programs are completely full, with many children coming to praise and exalt the name of Jesus Christ. Pray for them and their families to bow their knees to King Jesus!
Visitors
Local believer ‘Rachel’ is in contact with a group from West Africa. Some of them are coming to visit at the end of the month. Please pray for their preparations, travel and time here. Pray for ‘Rachel’ to have wisdom and discernment. The group have no French, only English, so pray for supernatural help with communication! Pray for the truth of God’s word to prevail.
New year plans
Pray for initiatives to engage Saharawi in the new year. May the Lord give wisdom and direction to the team and be at work preparing the hearts of many Saharawi to listen and respond to the good news.
Moving back
As situations change for South Sudanese refugees living in refugee camps, and for various other reasons we are seeing a trend of people moving back to the village. Among them are those who have come to Christ outside and want to share Him with their own people. Pray that they would be strong as they face various pressures. Pray that we as missionaries can continue the discipleship others began outside and encourage them.
Not unknown to God
The Chenoua Amazigh are one of Algeria’s least-known and most linguistically threatened Amazigh groups. However, they are not unknown to God. The Chenoua live primarily along the sea that borders the Chenoua mountain in the Tipaza province. Historically, among native North Africans, the Chenoua were among the most resistant to Arab conquests. Gradually, however, they adopted Islam.
The Chenoua are strong participants in the Amazigh cultural revival. Part of this preservation effort is their use of the Tifinagh script. An estimated 6,000 people speak the Chenoua language, mostly older generations. Young Chenoua increasingly speak Algerian Arabic due to urbanization and education policies.
Pray that Chenoua leaders, their young men and women, their elderly, and their children would have dreams and visions of Jesus.
Ask the Lord to exalt His name alone among the Chenoua.
Ask God to send laborers into the harvest among the Chenoua.
Pray that the Lord would burden linguists and translators to translate the Bible into the Chenoua language.
Staying strong
We praise God that the believers in Namiteka are staying strong. May they be more and more attracted to God every day, loving and obeying Him. Please pray that the teenagers and women would persevere in their faith in the Lord Jesus, in reading the word and prayer. May they grow in knowing the Lord and His will.
Strengthening the church
This Christmas season, Eliah returned to spend Christmas with the Jiye, strengthening the believers, praying with them, and encouraging the church. Simon, who leads the Bible translation work, recently completed a community check as they translate portions of the Old Testament into the Jiye language. In addition, three Toposa disciples from Naliel traveled to encourage and strengthen the Jiye church, showing the beauty of cross-community discipleship.
We thank God for the progress among the Jiye—both in spiritual growth and tangible development. Pray for greater harvest, deeper discipleship, and the flourishing of Christ’s church in this precious people group.
Christmas greeting
I want to thank God for this Christmas greeting sent to me by a Somali friend D, who is not a believer:
“Hi,
Merry Christmas 🎄 to you brother and to your family.
I’m congratulating you on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ- peace be upon Him.
Please accept my sincere appreciation of your goodness. And my message about this holiday.”
Pray that God may open D’s heart to know this Jesus and understand why He was born.
Wants to be baptized
Please continue to pray for N, who is now saying he wants to be baptized. Pray he would keep pressing passionately into Jesus, and not be swayed by attacks of fear, social pressure, and threats.
Come to Jesus
Pray that many more Toposa will come to Jesus Christ during this Christmas season.
Pray for more strengthening of churches and leadership based on love, kindness and forgiveness.
Message of Christmas
Pray for all the 2.500 children and their families reached with the message of Christmas in Bara land. May God change their hearts and raise a new generation of Bara believers.
Pray for the 104 villages that during 2025 watched the Jesus Film. May the message of the gospel change their hearts.
Christmas celebrations
Pray for me, the only team member currently on the plateau, as I prepare for Christmas. I’m making popcorn and reading the Christmas story with neighbours – ask for good conversations to come from this. Due to the ongoing rift between ‘Matthew’ and ‘Harvey’ there will probably be two separate celebrations on Christmas Day. Ask for both to go well, but pray on for reconciliation.
Reactions were incredible
We showed the Jesus Film in the villages of Midongy and Befotaka and the reactions were incredible! The Bible stories became clear to many. Please pray for the new brothers and sisters in Christ that they would shine and remain firm. Following Jesus is not easy when families fear ancestral punishment, and sorcerers are not happy about more Christians.
Christmas conversations
‘The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.’ Pray with us for Jesus’s light to shine into the darkness of islanders’ hearts this Christmas. Pray that we would all have meaningful conversations about why He came, and that many of our friends would come to know the hope, peace, joy and love that only He can bring.
Breakthrough
Pray for a breakthrough in O-land this Christmas season: that hard hearts would be softened,
that NB’s would grow in understanding and faith in Jesus, that Satan’s flaming arrows would be warded off, and that many more O would receive their King, God’s perfect gift!
Survey this week
We are seeing the hand of Jesus at work. This past week we hosted several groups of youth at the Umoja Pamoja site. It is growing in recognition, and for that we praise the Lord. This week also we are surveying the village of Mtoni as a possible village location for a family to continue ministry. Please pray for this survey that the Holy Spirit would speak clearly to this family. Pray for the preaching of the Word for many of us as we share Christ with a dark world.
Freedom to meet
Pray for freedom of religion so that the local brothers and sisters can meet and fellowship freely.
Pray for growth and maturity of the local believers in the midst of persecution.
Matriarch struggling
Diaspora in Ontario: Pray for a Som Christian matriarch who is struggling with health both physically and cognitively. Please pray for healing for her and her family which has struggled with sibling rivalry, grandchildren who’ve left the faith, and others with serious illness and handicaps. Pray for us to be a blessing to them. Praise for one grandson who is seriously following Jesus, and another who has grown closer to Him over the last couple of months.
Needing healing
Pray for the many who struggle with health issues here, exacerbated by poor nutrition, lacking health education, and a poorly functioning medical system. From the neighbor who just had a miscarriage, to the acquaintance with a life-threatening condition, to the elderly lady with eyesight so bad she can barely see anything, and the scores of kids running around with ringworm and impetigo — pray that their physical needs would ultimately point them to their spiritual need for God’s salvation and healing.
Remain in the Spirit
Diaspora in Brazil: Praise God for the year, for the students we had. Praise Him for the opportunity to share Jesus with them. Praise the Lord for the lives He has touched here in Acarape through us and we pray that they remain in the Spirit.
Pray for fruit
Please pray for the continuation of the efforts already made to preach the Gospel to the K people in Diego. Pray for fruit from the training of evangelists. We trust Jesus will hear our prayers.
First testimony online
Diaspora in England: Up to now the majority of people who have responded to LightHouse video and social media posts have been male. Pray this will start to change and that we will receive more enquiries from S women. In particular pray for a good reception for our first testimonial by an S lady which LightHouse plans to have ready for posting online by the end of this month.
Wind is blowing!
The wind blows where it wills… praise Jesus for the blowing of the Spirit across this people. Three young believers are all speaking of Jesus and praying with their friends. Many are believing. Pray for deep roots in the truth of the gospel. They teach the gospel through hearing the audio Scripture and then praying it with new ones. Pray that each one who hears will be able to have access to some audio form of the gospel and that those who share will remember well. (Many don’t have full internet access or smart phones.)
Show him the truth!
Diaspora in Ontario: Pray for Navid, a zealous Muslim leader from Afghanistan who every Friday afternoon, performs da’wah (Muslim evangelism) with 4-8 other leaders at a location where I sometimes do street evangelism. Our debates led nowhere, but Navid was willing to pray to the God who created the Heavens and the Earth to show us all the truth. Pray God will answer and Navid sees the truth!
Pray for a teenage girl named Neema, originally from Rwanda who met me during street evangelism. She said one of her parents is Muslim and the other Christian. She heard the gospel intently and accepted Christ as her Saviour – Praise the Lord! Pray for her to follow on this commitment to the Lord.
Connecting deeply
Diaspora in Ontario: Pray for the ministry involving a few Somali people. While there aren’t many yet willing to fully open their hearts, they are open to conversation. We are patiently waiting for the Lord to open doors, especially within our neighbourhood.
Over the past months, we have connected deeply with two Muslim families, engaging in profound religious conversations. There is now the possibility of starting a Bible study with them. Pray earnestly for wisdom and discernment as we move forward.
Remote regions
In this year of 2025 alone, the Jesus film has already been shown in 104 villages, bringing the Gospel for the very first time to many places where Christ had never been proclaimed. This month specifically, we reached four new villages in a more remote region near Andiandap. It was the first time those communities ever had contact with the message of Christ through the film — a historic moment for each one of them. Pray many will ponder the message and seek to know more.
Go deeper
Diaspora in Oregon: Pray for opportunities to go deeper with our Muslim friends over the upcoming weeks as we celebrate the holidays together.
Church leadership meeting
We praise God that the church is growing. Last week the church leadership from 6 villages gathered to meet together. This time the wives were invited as well as active members. Even some years ago this meeting wouldn’t have happened due to tensions between villages, so we praise God for the peace. It was incredible to have them share their joys and challenges. In one of the meetings the topic was finances and how men and women should help each other in the home. It included discussions on questions like, “How can you call people to come work in your garden without giving them alcohol?” Main biblical principles were shared with really good discussion on how to apply them practically. Pray that this type of meeting will continue.
Opportunities for fun and fellowship
Diaspora in Washington DC: Praise God for fun and abundant Thanksgiving celebrations! May He provide additional abundant opportunities for fun and fellowship in His name throughout December.
Praise God for a new sister in Christ! May God grant her steady full-time work so that she can develop financial stability and independence. May she continue to grow in her faith, and have friends who will continue to build her up in the body of believers!
Christmas outreach
As Christmas approaches our church is practicing for the outreach meeting that we usually have on the wide-open public space next to the barge. The pastor will apply to the local municipality to have permission to do this, and they will allocate a day on which this place is available, as other events are also held in this area. Pray together with us that the hearts of those getting off the barge and others walking around the area will be touched by what they see and hear.
