Diaspora in France: Our winter Christmas Camp went really well, praise God! The Lord worked out all of the details and provided the way for all of our students, team members, and volunteers to come, some even in spite of challenges. Pray that the Gospel seeds that were planted will take root and grow!
Another attack this morning
Please pray urgently for the people in Narus, South Sudan. It was attacked again this morning at 4:00 AM. Our disciples have run to villages for safety. Rebels attacked Narus at 4 am but they retreated because of government troops. They came back again at day time.
We are asking for:
God’s protection over civilians, leaders, and our teams.
Peace and stability in the area.
Safety and wisdom for those responding.
Comfort for families who are afraid and affected.
Pray that God will use our disciples while in villages for His glory and the salvation of many.
Pray for provision
Pray for the love of Jesus to transform the hearts of those perpetrating violence and war, for miraculous provision of healthcare, food and water, and for protection and comfort for the masses of displaced Sudanese.
Continue to touch hearts
Diaspora in Finland: Praise for a good turnout and really good Christmas services. Pray that God will continue to use these special times together to touch the hearts of the people who don’t know Jesus yet.
Open their hearts
Diaspora in Florida: Praise God that I have re-established relationships with the two local imams and have been able to resume mosque visits. Pray for the Lord to open the imans’ hearts to the gospel.
Translation work
Pray for our translation work. We’re checking Galatians and Titus, and trying to get the new Matthew, Luke, and 1 Timothy apps up and engaged with! Pray many will find and use the apps to read the Word in their heart language, and that they would believe the message.
Pray for TikTok followers to follow Jesus
Continue to pray for my friend D. He now has 20k followers on TikTok. Pray that God will transform his heart to know and love Jesus and D’s 20k followers will also know, love and follow Jesus.
Fear
Diaspora in Wales: We have noticed an increasing presence of fear among the immigrant and asylum-seeking communities due primarily to the highly publicised political forums against asylum-seekers and immigrants in the U.K. Pray that the Christmas salvation message shared in the English and Sewing classes will stir hearts as we continue discussions this month.
Open hearts
Diaspora in Alberta: Pray as the new semester starts tomorrow Jan 12 at the New Canadian Hub. Pray for wisdom as we meet new ESL students, so that we would know who to invest our time with. Ask the Lord to open hearts for gospel conversations.
Students engaging with scripture
Classes for Superior 1 and 2, as well as Character 2, begin tomorrow January 12th.
Pray for wisdom and clarity for the teachers as they share God’s Word and connections with their students. Pray for the hearts of the students as they read and engage with Scripture.
More workers
Pray for the discipleship network around the area to increase so that many can hear the gospel. Pray for more workers to engage in the area for the harvest is plentiful!
Learn from the words of Jesus
Diaspora in Minnesota: Pray for some Muslim friends to join ‘The Journey to the Mountain’ and learn from the words of Jesus. Ask the Spirit to speak to many and draw them to Jesus.
Beginning of a church
Diaspora in Michigan: PTL for a good Christmas gathering with our Afghan friends. Pray for a regular Bible study among Afghans that would be the beginning of a church.
Remember those in prison
‘Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.’ (Heb. 13:3) And remember their families and the other believers living under threat.
Hike
Diaspora in Georgia: Pray for a hike with a Senegalese friend on Saturday (January 10th) — that we would deepen in friendship and that she would start to realize there’s a difference between Islam and Christianity.
New believer
Pray for ‘Natalie’, a new believer who came to faith through a social media campaign. Pray for her to have good support from locals and expats. Ask for wisdom as she shares with her children – they attended the big Christmas gathering and seemed to really enjoy it.
New believers to gather
Pray for all the seeds that have been planted to bear fruit, and for discipling and gathering of NBs –which remains a huge challenge! Pray for God’s Holy Spirit to be poured out with power to give NBs more hunger and thirst for truth, to convict and deliver from any roots of sin, and to nourish, grow and bless them to become strong disciples of Jesus!
Life in the midst of loss
Diaspora in Wales: Praise God for the recent baptism of S who is from a closed country and attends our English classes. In September, several of us went to the funeral of her daughter-in-law who succumbed to a rare cancer. Pray for S, the first believer in her family, and for her family as they continue to grapple with life in the midst of loss.
Settling in Kenya
Pray for the Somalis being deported from the US to Kenya, that we may connect with them and show them the love of Jesus.They will most probably settle in Kenya where they have their families as well as large property investments.
Fearing the worst
Diaspora in Michigan: Pray on Jan 7 as I take a refugee woman to her appointment at homeland security. We are not quite sure the purpose of the meeting and she and her family (husband and 2 children) fear the worst.
God’s provision
Pray for God’s provision of food and more water sources. This season has been challenging and many are complaining of hunger due to farms being affected by severe drought.
Pray for all elders of Toposa community as they age, may they encounter Christ and His love.
New term
Diaspora in England: Praise God for a good spiritual discussion at the end of term in the English conversation class, and for the opportunity to dispel some common myths about what Christians believe.
Pray for the 30+ Smli women who received goody bags with Scripture calendars in Smli, that they would read the Scripture verses and want to read more of the Bible.
Pray for the start of the new term, that we’d have a good number of women at both classes and that we’d deepen our relationships with these women.
Serve with grace
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.
