Continue to pray for the Malagasy missionaries and those they disciple in Ambilobe. One young man in particular has been working with a small group of new believers and teaching them. His name is R. Pray they would grow in truth and grace.
Outreaches
Several local church-run outreaches to coastal villages are held in the summer and fall. Please pray that the Lord would move through these outreaches to impact many Swahili coastal villages for His glory.
July advert
Diaspora in England: The month of July, Lighthouse will be running a social media advert asking people the question: ‘If you could ask God one question, what would it be?’ Pray that it will lead to Gospel filled dialogue with our online responders. Pray too that in time some of those who respond will be happy to meet up with believers in their local area.
Neighbors
Diaspora in Georgia: Praise the Lord for a wonderful time with six ladies and five kids that came to my neighborhood coffee last month. I continue to have contact with them and plan to do it again in a few months. Pray that in time this will lead into a neighborhood Bible study.
Please pray that the Lord will help me to know which of my local Muslim friends need a visit this summer while I am not busy teaching ESL. Pray for opportunities to share more gospel truth with them.
Save Maki’s wife
We’ve been discipling “Maki”, a young Matumbi man who has fully committed his life to Christ in the last year and is now public about his faith. He has suffered some persecution from his extended family (all Muslim) but has remained strong. He is married and it has been very difficult with his wife who is also a Muslim. We’ve spent a lot of time praying together for his wife and every time he weeps for her begging God to save her. Would you please pause right now and ask the Lord to save Maki’s wife?
Each know
For the last fortnight, the midwives and doctors have had lots of teaching and drill sessions on obstetric emergencies. Please pray for our midwives to continue to grow in skills and confidence, and that they would each know the Lord as their personal saviour.
Seeds to grow
Diaspora in Quebec: Praise for the deep gospel conversations between Christian women from our church and six Muslim women from our small Bible discussion group at a weekend away together.
Pray for these women that the seeds that have been planted would grow, for the Spirit to open their eyes to the truth, that they would be convicted of their sin, their need of a saviour and how this is Good News- despite the great cost to their Muslim identity.
Local church
Local believers are beginning to organize themselves. Pray especially for application of the trainings they are receiving and for deepening fellowship amongst them. Ask that a united, Holy Spirit- filled local Church would arise!
Children coming to Christ
Please pray that the Word ministered to children would bear fruit in their lives and that the church would receive them well and they will continue to come to Christ and to the church.
Facing hardships
Please pray for the young Laarim Church as they face many hardships and cultural challenges. There is a lot of cultural pressure on the Believers to participate in cattle raids, alcohol production and consumption, and rituals associated with witchcraft (which are so intertwined into the Laarim’s culture and values). Please pray the believers would have wisdom to know how to live out the Kingdom of Light here despite the push and pull of cultural influences.
Translation work
Ask God to bless the translation work. The Evil One is opposing the work- pray the Lord will intervene and protect those involved in the work, and give many the chance to hear His Word in their language.
Courage
Pray for believers in North Africa facing scrutiny from local authorities. Pray for wisdom, courage, and protection for them.
Be a great light
Pray for M, a beach-front fishing village where the small church plant has held their first local baptism. Pray that this little church would be a great light in the midst of deep darkness as they cling to the Gospel and our Precious Savior Jesus.
Pray for a new mission training team that is arriving in K- M in July with the heart to learn local language and culture of the Swahili coast and to share the Gospel. May God go before them to prepare many hearts to receive the Gospel and for strong relationships that turn into discipleship.
Share with others
Pray for the few Zaramo believers to walk in the power of the Spirit and share with others the love and hope they have found in Jesus Christ.
Be moved to conviction
Pray that the Holy Spirit would continue to minister to the Karana shop owners who received tracts and who expressed spiritual openness, so that they would be moved to conviction of sin and develop a deep spiritual dissatisfaction with Islam.
Grieving
Pray for Mama Rue, a new friend who recently lost her second born child. Islam does not allow for true grieving and in this season, she finds herself alone, unseen and unloved by her community. Pray that she would come to know Jesus, His love and compassion for her, and be drawn into the beauty of the Gospel.
Disciple- makers
Father would you raise up Matumbi disciple-makers who will catalyze a movement that spreads throughout their people and beyond.
Spiritual growth
Ask God to open doors to deeper spiritual growth among local brothers and sisters here, and that inner transformation would begin to fuel the growth of the local body. We pray especially for God to shape and mold young leaders in the city and give them hearts to nurture and disciple His people.
Sharing their faith
Pray for the Borana believers who are sharing their faith not only amongst their family and friends but further afield as well. Pray the Lord will go with them and empower them for fruitful ministry.
Add daily
Pray for the Sakalava believers. Pray for the translation work. Pray the Lord would add to the church daily those who are being saved.
Prepare many hearts
Pray for the Dorobo pastors and evangelists as they share the gospel. May the Lord provide for their needs and go before them and prepare many hearts to respond to the message of salvation.
Political situation
Pray for a current political situation where ancestral land might be for sale by the government to wealthy foreign investors. If this comes to fruition, then many Antakarana people could be displaced. Pray for the situation. Pray that many would seek out believers in Jesus at this time of turmoil. Pray for the believers to be a strong witness during this time.
Ministry through farming
It’s farming season in our area and we are busy helping local farmers to learn about the Seed of Eve who came to crush Satan’s head and provide a way to be reconciled to God. Pray for many farmers to have good soil hearts to receive the word with joy and bear much fruit!
Needing healing
Please pray for Mama M. who got into an argument with her neighbor, who then poured boiling water over her shoulder and arm. Her burns are slowly healing. The neighbor is still on the run. Please pray for more than physical healing — pray for this to be a door for true, spiritual healing through Jesus Christ.
Cholera outbreak!
Reports are coming in about an outbreak of Cholera in the Nuba Mountains as well as other parts of Sudan. The war in Sudan is worsening the humanitarian crisis and contributing to the spread of cholera. Pray for people suffering medically, emotionally, and spiritually. Lord have mercy on the people of Sudan!
Wind of the Spirit blow!
There is continued warfare in the North, where Mwani and other UPGs (Makua Nahara, Makwe, Koti) live. It just keeps going on. Pray for Islamist militias to repent and throw down their guns before the Prince of Peace. Refugees fleeing south to escape violence: pray for practical ministry and revelation of the Prince of Peace! Ask that the wind of the Spirit may blow.
Believers grow strong
Pray for the Datooga believers to grow strong in their faith and ‘walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.’ (Col1:10)
Reading
Praise God for the growing number of people reading the word in our country. Pray the seeds planted would yield much fruit.
Bold believers
Praise Jesus for strong bold Arab believers who witness online. A young Amazighi brother was in the countryside and said he found 17 who seemed open and 6 that he talked to directly about Christ. He has been watching TikTok videos about Jesus by Arab believers from a nearby country and is sharing them with his friends who don’t read. His not-yet-believing wife also watched several. Pray that Christians would carefully speak the full gospel as revealed in Scripture and that those listening would believe.
Listen to the message
Pray for the evangelists who are reaching out to the Digo. Pray the Lord will open many hearts among the Digo to listen to the message the evangelists bring and be saved.
A Silent Revolution in the Bara Mountains
The Bara are embracing new things. Even in remote mountain villages, you can now find young Bara men and women with smartphones, scrolling through Facebook. In Betroka, for example, about 90% of the youth are on Facebook, and there are even Facebook pages dedicated to Betroka and the Bara people. So, we have launched a new media ministry aimed at reaching the youth through videos that speak directly to them—videos about Jesus Christ, salvation, repentance, and powerful testimonies. Because if the Bara youth are on social media, then we will be there too—proclaiming that Jesus Christ is the one and only Savior. These videos also accompany our projector-based outreach efforts in villages, amplifying our in-person evangelism with a growing digital presence.
Radio work
This week a building team will arrive from Northern Ireland to continue construction on the new site of the Good News Radio Station. Construction on the tower up on the hill is also underway. Praise God for the partnership with Helimission and LIFT (Labour in Faith and Trust) to make all this possible. Please pray for our radio team who are trying to reach far off Tsimihety villages with the good news through radio. One of them is facing an extremely difficult situation, please pray for this man to continue to look the Lord for joy, peace and deliverance.
Brink of catastrophe
Pray for Yemen- UNICEF says that years of conflict and economic crisis has left the country in a dire condition. Health and educational systems have collapsed. Pray for an end to the conflict, for suffering people to get the help they need, and for the many refugees who have fled around the world to hear the gospel and be saved.
Engage
Pray for the Kingdom workers engaged along the Coast- for the Lord to bless them with much fruit!
And pray for more workers to engage the remaining unreached/unengaged Islands.
Cholera and hunger
We are in the middle of a cholera outbreak and the community has experienced a lot of loss. The small clinic here is under staffed, lacking supplies and over worked, but they continue to curb the impact of this epidemic. Pray for the Lord’s mercy!
Despite this cholera outbreak and this being the hunger season, The Lord has brought rain for the gardens, and He is strengthening the faithful few Believers here as they are learning to look to Christ for their help. Pray for them.
Being discipled
Pray for the Makuwa Nahara fellowship as they are discipled about communion, baptism and other doctrines. Pray for the ongoing messages on the radio to be anointed and penetrate the hearts of the many listeners.
Still no church
After years of faithful witness and conversions, there is still no known church in the old city. Believers are afraid to gather together. Pray for a breakthrough.
Maid of Honor now a Bride of Christ!
PRAISE for HARVEST!! There continue to be stories of more and more people coming to Jesus and people getting baptized. One M lady we have been praying for, Asha, just became a believer on June 3rd! She had been attending pre-martial wedding counseling sessions as the maid of honor with her Christian friend who’s getting married this weekend. As the pastor was teaching about marriage to the engaged couple, this led to questions she had about Jesus, and an opportunity for her to hear the Good News about the church being the bride of Christ. Now she is not only walking alongside her friend as maid of honor at the wedding, but she is also her sister in Christ, blessed to be invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb! (Rev. 19:9) Amen and Alleluia!
Lord of the Harvest
Ask the Lord of the Harvest to send laborers into the Tuareg field. Pray believers living nearby would be burdened to reach out to their neighbors in love and share the gospel.
Only He can change hearts!
We resonate strongly with Paul’s words in Romans 15 and his desire to “bring the Gentiles to obedience of faith — by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God.” Pray for God to reveal Himself to the Rangi people through words and deeds and signs and wonders and the power of the Holy Sprit. Only He can change hearts.
