There are 3 students who are genuinely seeking who the Lord is and wrestling with many questions about that. One of them got married last week, which allowed me to pray with him at his wedding and have an open conversation about following Jesus. Pray he won’t hide from the truth anymore, but be bold even as a new husband, and surrender his life to the Lord.
Pray for more opportunities to speak with these 3 students and for them to have visions and dreams about Jesus.
Leadership training
Pray for the launch of the Darfur Leaders Institute – 20 Darfurian leaders arrived in Kenya to begin a 1 year leadership intensive training program. Pray for a good beginning and settling in for these displaced leaders. Pray they would be well trained and go back and be a blessing to their people.
Open her eyes
Pray for Mama A., who has shown interest in spiritual matters and had some questions about God and Jesus and how they were different from her Muslim God and prophet. Pray for her eyes to be opened to God’s Truth.
Kunle and Yusuf
Diaspora in Ontario: I met Kunle, a Muslim refugee from Nigeria, during street evangelism. He had personal questions about sin, in regards to disobeying parents and doing business under the table. I used Bible stories and teachings to address him and Kunle sensed wisdom from God’s Word. Please pray for Kunle’s salvation and a desire to read the Bible.
I also met Yusuf, an Afghani Muslim high school student. The conversation attracted 3 of his Muslim friends from Bangladesh and Pakistan, and we all spoke for over an hour. The gospel and the authenticity/trustworthiness of Scripture was shared. Criticisms against Christianity were addressed and a challenge for them to read the Bible for themselves was given. Please pray for Yusuf and his friends’ salvation.
New brothers and sisters
Diaspora in Washington DC: We’re excited to be seeing new brothers and sisters join the family through baptism last month and this month. Please pray as they share their testimonies with their families back home for understanding and open ears and hearts.
Believers sharing
Loriang and Natiyote, young believers, are sharing their faith with others! Loriang says, “Since I started sharing with Balin about Jesus, Balin has changed. I continue to encourage him to follow Jesus.” Natiyote says, “I told Nakiyo about the death of Jesus and His resurrection from the dead, and that we should live according to His word, and Nakiyo accepted.” Praise God! Pray these seeds will grow and produce Kingdom fruit, and that all the Laarim believers would be inspired to share their faith with others.
Raising up shepherds
Praise God for recent gathering of Somali leaders from the East Africa/Horn region. They gathered to develop collaboration strategies and also address the need for the raising up of Shepherds for the growing Somali church globally.
Pray for them as they work to raise up shepherds for the next 3 years that will provide pastoral care each month to 150 believers across Somalia.
Holiday camp
Diaspora in Paris: Please pray for our next Holiday Camp with the international university students and young professionals taking place next week. We are praying that many will come with hearts prepared by the Spirit to hear and understand the Good News! Please pray for good health for all of us and safe travels to and from the event.
Gospel is powerful
Pray that those living in slavery to sin would feel the weight of those chains and meet believers who speak the gospel. Pray for hearts of stone to be softened to hear and believe the gospel. We know the veil is lifted only in Christ and that the gospel is powerful to change hearts completely.
Weed seminar
Pray for us, we are hoping to hold our first seminar soon, mainly for women. This will be an interactive seminar helping people understand how to avoid a particularly damaging weed that reduces output. Pray that this will open up new relationships and opportunities to share other truths as well as help people farm more successfully.
Pray for permission from the authorities and all the practical details of setting it up.
Sick pastor
Rev. Menza is a very valuable partner, who is pastoring a church in a responsive Digo area but is being treated for leukemia so has to live at home in Kwale about two hours away from his church. His cancer is manageable but he struggles with energy and ability to get around his very large district.
He requests prayer, “Pray for my health and also that I can get means of transport. My family is planning fund drive on November for my ministry car. Transport to me has become so difficult.
Gospel seeds
This past Sunday my wife Esther was discussing with some Datooga women the meaning of sin and the way Datooga view sin and how to be cleansed from sin. Esther was able to share about Jesus. Please pray for these gospel seeds that have been planted to grow and bear fruit.
Sudanese missionaries
Sudan is currently experiencing the world’s largest and worst humanitarian crisis. 25 million people are in need of assistance. 10 million are displaced. There are genocidal activities against minority ethnically African people groups. Pray for peace in Sudan.
Pray for the 17 newly deployed Sudanese national missionaries to unengaged unreached people groups in Nuba Mts.
Spiritual bondage
The Antandroy and Mahafaly are bound in spiritual bondage and ancestor worship. Please pray that God will open their hearts to see the darkness of their own sin and the need of a Savior.
Pray for Pastor Fabien and Pastor Tafita from Presbyterian Church (FJKM) who are working alongside AIM in that area.
Outreach
Pray for an upcoming visit to the Opusimoru area on the Kenya-Tanzania border to organize a June evangelistic outreach to the Akie group of Dorobo hunters who split off from the main Kenya branch and moved into northern Tanzania about 50 years ago. Pray that God would provide a ‘man of peace’ to host our outreach, which is planned for late June.
Dreams and Revelations
As the month of fasting has ended, pray for those who received revelations and dreams, that they may seek to understand them and come to know who the true God is. May He continue to manifest Himself to them in His great goodness.
Pastor Petro ordained
Praise God that AICT leadership is coming to Kwa Madebe to ordain Pastor Petro today!
Please pray that this will be a witness in Kwa Madebe and beyond. Pray for Petro and his wife Lucy as they continue to lead the church there. Please also pray that the church would grow in their love for Jesus and boldness in sharing.
Pray she comes
Pray for ‘Ruth’ who we have prayed for previously. On Friday, while a worker was visiting her, Ruth’s mother in law came and chased away the worker telling her to never return and citing local authorities (Islamic I assume) who don’t want Christians around. We had known that during Ramadan words had been said against us. Strangely, however, the lady said Ruth could come visit me. This morning we arranged by phone that she would come tomorrow. Pray she does so. In the past she made many promises to do so but didn’t come. Today she seemed eager. Pray for Ruth’s faith that this would strengthen her and not deter her. She seems to have been rather wobbly in her faith recently attending Islamic teaching and praying with actions as a Muslim where before she had stopped.
Free at last
We thank God for a successful conference on “Liberty to the captives”. The believers from M background had a chance to renounce the book, the prophet, and the creed of their former religion. Thank God for their step of faith. May they experience new freedom in Christ and truly leave the things of the past.
Pray for their hearts to grow deeper in love with the Lord and for discipleship to continue.
Teresa
Teresa came with her sister one night last year to ask questions about their belief and ours. She is spiritually hungry and on a journey searching for truth. She appreciates scripture and songs I send. She sees many fallacies in the belief system here. Please pray that she reads the word that is on her phone and that we can study together. Ask that she has a dream of a man in white calling her to follow Him. She loves the fact that our belief refers to followers as sons & daughters, not slaves.
For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Matthew 7:8
Ask that Teresa would continue to “seek until she finds”.
See the deception
Pray for open doors for the Jesus Film Evangelism Program and for many to believe the message.
Pray that both Mahafaly and Antandroy people see the deceptiveness of the witchdoctors and witchcraft and turn to God and the Gospel.
Book dedication
Praise God 5 books of the Rendille Old Testament have been completed and will be dedicated on Saturday. The dedication will be for the audio and written form of those books. Pray many will read/listen to these books and believe the message.
Praise for the over 100 adults who will be graduating from the Rendille literacy program tomorrow as well. The graduates now have the ability to read and write in their own language. Through the courses, they have heard a clear presentation of the gospel. Praise the Lord for those who have already come to saving faith in Jesus Christ and for those who will from this work.
Light a fire
Pray for the 100 Bara youth who were trained in Kairos mission Course this month. Pray that the Holy Spirit will light a fire in their hearts: the desire to share Christ with their own family. Pray for protection for them and for opportunities to share with boldness.
Book of Genesis
Pray for D** who took a copy of the book of Genesis from our training room. He was happier to use the English copy than one is his heart language. May God help us use this copy of the Bible to help him learn English as that is what he really wants to do with it. And may the Words in it reveal God to him and show him His unchanging character and eternal purposes for the world. May the power of the printed Word transform his mind into Words written on his heart and living in his spirit.
Going deeper
Please pray for our Ndau brothers and sisters who are taking big steps in trying to go deeper with the Lord.
Washed out
A bridge to the city of Ambilobe has washed out so transportation and supplies have become a struggle for many. The price of rice has gone up a lot too. Pray for peace and provision and that believers can use this opportunity to share Christ’s love.
Kairos course
Karimoja team members Ambrose and Esther will be starting the Kairos course (a short Perspectives course) with a group of Karimojong pastors next week. Pray for good fruit from this course – that pastors in Karimoja would see the Great Commission as Jesus’ instructions to their churches too. Pray the Holy Spirit would be stirring the hearts of church members to go and to send workers to the Harvest fields. Ask that this course would continue to build relationships between different denominations and people groups in Karimoja.
Bible translation
We are working on the draft of 1&2 Timothy and a consultant check of the book of Luke this month. Please pray for good translation.
Pray for the health issues of the team.
Pray for transformation within the community and that many would read and believe the Word of God.
Be courageous
Pray for the families who have said they want to understand scripture to be courageous and honest and willing to keep studying. Pray that they will see Jesus and for their hearts to be completely transformed by the Spirit of God and for boldness to share.
Moved back home
A close friend A (a believer) has recently moved back into our village. He has been estranged from his family and village community for many years. Pray that relationships may be restored and that he would work out how to live out his faith in the village.
Reaching the Karana
Pray for the Karana to be attracted to the authentic message of Christianity, often through answers to prayer for health needs.
May God speak to the Malagasy church about reaching the Karana, and bring needed change in welcoming others from a different background. Pray that the church will come to see the Karana as Christ sees them. They need to be reached and can be reached with the Truth of the Gospel.
Pray for believers from South Asian background in Toliara that they will grow in the grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ ( 2 Pet 3:18).
Discipleship challenge
Pray for the young, O herdsmen families, who are walking in the light. Regular discipleship is such a challenge because they’re frequently gone with the animals. Pray for a fresh daily outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and fruitful discipleship, and lots of time together – that God will open a way for that – so they can grow in intimacy with Christ, and understanding more of God‘s word and power, and use His full armor for any persecutions that are likely to come.
Seeds
Please pray for the people we broke fast with over Ramadan. We’ve had many spiritual conversations and planted many seeds. Pray that the seeds will grow and that our neighbors will begin to have questions about Jesus.
Good connections
Diaspora in Brazil: Pray for good connections with African students through short courses, academic guidance, and other activities at the university.
One chapter a day
There is a Digo woman named Mwana Amina. She has requested to receive one chapter of the Bible, starting from the book of Matthew, in English via WhatsApp every day, and she reads it. This morning, she sent me a message saying, “Thank you, I have learned a lot today. I didn’t know all of it! God bless you.” Please pray for her that she loves and eagerly consumes the Word of God, and grows in her salvation.
Windows of time
There is a new sister in the coast town and she is very isolated. She has a lot of responsibilities at home. Ask for windows of time to open up for her to have fellowship and seek growth.
Touched by the gospel
Pray for ‘B’ who has been listening to the gospel and apparently appreciating it. Pray that this will touch him.
Oral Bible
Pray for the Scripture engagement and Oral Bible Translation project taking place right now in Nuba Mts among 6 languages. Pray for good translations and for many people to listen to God’s word in their heart language and believe!
Prisoners
Continue to pray for those imprisoned in Libya for speaking and believing the gospel. It has been one year. Pray for lawyers who were courageous enough to take the case and for authorities and guards in the prisons to see the light of Jesus in His children. Pray for breakthrough for the church in Libya, for fearlessness and Spirit-filled resurrection power as well as fellowship in suffering.
TEE
Robert is now leading eight Lopit men in four different villages in TEE (Theological Education by Extension). Remember these men in your prayers, “asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give [them] the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that [they] may know him better” (Ephesians 1:17). Pray for Clement, a Lopit believer, who has agreed to lead two young men through the TEE classes in his village of Ibahore. Pray that God will continue to raise up Lopit believers to lead His church amongst their own people!
