Each of our team shares the gospel regularly. Pray that hard and resistant hearts would soften and be drawn by God to respond & receive Jesus as Lord and Savior- becoming strong disciples who would make more disciples…
Diaspora in Arkansas
Pray for an Afghan man I’m tutoring in English. Pray for our relationship and for the Lord to open his heart to healing and hope.
Build Your Church.
Pray for the work amongst the M to continue to bear much fruit as believers are discipled and share their faith with others. Ask God to build His church among this people group.
Diaspora in UK
We would appreciate your prayers for the final day of class on June 27th for both English and Sewing classes. We will have a party and presentation of a Bible story.Pray for good engagement and the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Detroit Diaspora
A month ago a new church based Welcome Team was assigned to an Afghan family who had lived in a military base for 4 months, and a Detroit hotel for an additional 4 months. We were able to greet them with a house full of furniture donated by various church members each with a great story of God’s provision. After the family had been in the house a couple weeks, a Nigerian/Jamaican couple on the Welcome Team invited them to their local Nigerian church for a Sunday service. They were very warmly welcomed and even brought on stage, which they loved. In fact they loved it so much they went back a 2nd time.
May God continue to use this welcome team and Nigerian church to penetrate hearts for the gospel!
Church taking initiative
May was international evangelism month. Our church elders were keen to participate with a week of 5 a.m. prayer meetings using a comprehensive prayer guide. They also took a collection for the national committee.
With encouragement to do some mission activity, they decided to go visit patients and prisoners. They collected money to buy gifts- impressive generosity for a poor church!
They prayed for whole wards, but without much explanation, so I returned after for individual evangelism. Asking women what they knew about Jesus, the answer was, “Nothing.” Pray for these people that many might come to work amongst them and that the church members might cross the language barriers to plant a few seeds.
Diaspora in Canada
Ask the Lord to bless my children’s bike ministry. I need helpers. Pray for the children to listen well and respond to the teaching. May the Lord open their hearts to the good news.
Ndau
“…a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’” We know there are many Ndau believers now, there are pastors and missionaries working amongst this people group: cry out for them, that the Lord would indeed come into those hearts that have been prepared for him. Pray that amongst the Ndau, crooked paths would be made straight, the broken would be made whole, and the sick and wounded heal, that Christ would be exalted through them and amongst them. Pray that these Ndau would then spread the gospel message not only in their own villages, but across Mozambique amongst other unreached people groups!
Diaspora in France
Pray for connections with people from the Islands, that their hearts would be stirred up from past conversations regarding the Gospel News and they would long to hear more.
Maria
Please pray for Maria, a young Laarim woman who has been a committed Christian for several years. She was recently beaten quite severely on the head and hand when she attempted to break up a fight between two men. We thank God that she is healing. Pray that she would experience complete healing, and that she would continue to grow in faith, courage to do what is right, and the desire to share Jesus with others. Pray that with Love and Lisa on the team, Maria can experience encouragement and discipleship from other believing women.
Diaspora in Hong Kong
Our Chinese class members are mostly West African Muslims. I always share God’s words with them. May His words dwell in their hearts. Pray that they would understand the Truth about Jesus and bow their knees to Him.
The Way
Pray for our neighbor Amy. She was over earlier this week with a heart load of issues… and I think she barely stopped talking for an hour. Ask that Father show this brilliant, professional, woman going through a divorce that Jesus is truly THE way.
Diaspora in Calif, USA
The International Student Ministry is gearing up for summer activities. Pray that with each encounter with the students will be seasoned with the gospel. Pray for unity in all the planning and good attendance to the activities planned. Pray that hearts would be soften to be receptive to the Gospel.
New believer
We have a new Sister! Sonia has been searching online for a few months, and recently put her trust in Jesus. She reached out wanting to meet with believers. Please pray for her as she learns what it means to walk as a Follower and wisdom for two of our teammates who will try to meet her this week.
Diaspora in Detroit
Praise God for new opportunities with a community garden and a summer ESL program at our new “Welcome House”. The tools are in place, may God use these to make many connections in the community so many can regularly see and hear the good news of Jesus.
July 12-15 we will re-launch kids camp (grades 2-6), which has not happened since pre-covid. Pray God would bring the rest of the volunteers and at least 40 kids!
Translation continues
Pray for John and his team as they continue to translate the scriptures. Praise God for provision of solar power to charge computers and John’s oxygen concentrator.
Diaspora in Portland
Through the Spring and Summer months, our team plans several “farm” trips to a picturesque valley at the base of Mt. Adams. Each time, we invite several international families. Our team almost always have some amazing conversations. Pray that we will be ready to use each opportunity God gives us this summer, and that lives will be changed.
Opportunities to share
There are very few students that have time for various classes that are being offered by all our colleagues.
Please pray with us as the season has picked up very slowly since Ramadhan ended. Former and potential students appear to be very busy with other matters as the majority are on what they call ‘transit’ … awaiting ‘processing’ to travel overseas to America and Europe.
Pray that God will give us wisdom to share during this transition period so that they may depart with a seed planted in their hearts.
Diaspora in Washington
Afghan: Build your church God, among our Afghan brothers and sisters. Help us to listen and connect our new friends well with your word in their language. Praise you God for the hands and hearts that have labored to translate it!
Sudanese: We pray for growth in the number of Sudanese students we serve and an open dialogue about your truth God.
Moroccan: We pray for the persecuted church and for those separated from loved ones because of that persecution.
God help us build strong relationships with students’ families this summer!
Respond to the message
Pray for more Laarim to respond to the message that has been shared with them; pray that they will “declare with their mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in their heart that God raised him from the dead, and be saved” (Romans 10:9), and that those who trust in Him “will never be put to shame” (10:11).
Diaspora in Atlanta
Please pray for multiple opportunities to share the gospel and continue developing friendships with H, M, A and E. Pray for open doors to minister to Africans through ESL and a nearby Pregnancy Resource Center, as well as through personal friendships with people we meet in our everyday spheres of life.
Please pray that during these summer months the Lord will work in local churches, giving them a desire to participate in outreach to Africans near them.
Upcoming AICMD missionary conference
Pray for me as I speak at the missionary conference and interact with our AIC missionary colleagues. Pray for wisdom and anointing from the Holy Spirit and for fresh vision, renewal and encouragement for all who are reaching out among the O, and in many other UPG‘s and challenging ministries all across Kenya.
Diaspora in Philadelphia
We are in the last week of hosting a Yazidi man and his son. They return to northern Iraq after 2 months with us getting medical care. Please pray for seeds that have been planted to take root.
Pray for a new friendship with a family from NA2 that lives down the street from us here in Philly.
Pray for ongoing ministry to a local Iraqi family working through cancer treatments and recovery.
Neither Jew nor Greek
Thank you Jesus that you have broken down the wall of hostility… that there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free. Break down the walls of unlove between Arabs and Berbers and Jews; between families, clans. May all believers be first of all the family of God, adopted, chosen, redeemed… one Lord, one faith. Would you, Holy Spirit, gather believers of different families to worship together.
Diaspora in Canada
We have seen a marked increase in refugee arrivals, which has been great as we and our team at Naomi House build relationships and help with settlement. Pray for the Lord to open many hearts to the gospel.
Also we are running our first MAC camp in Manitoba this summer. It is a week of camp geared for newcomer and refugee youth. Ask the Lord to draw many to Himself.
Christ not yet known
Pray for the Lopit: May the gospel be preached where Christ is not yet known, that “those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand” (Romans 15:21).
Wind blowing
It was amazing yesterday, when we went to the region of Analamary, to the village of Maheryrivotra (which means ‘a great wind’), we saw how the wind of the Spirit is blowing among the Bara!
We found a village with more than 30 converted believers among this most difficult to reach with the Gospel, The Bara Zafindravala.
We showed the Jesus Film, the Coming of Jesus and testimonies of converted Bara.
Surprisingly, another village was present too; so we could reach 2 villages.
Pray for many more to believe!
Shrinking back
Lord of Heaven’s Armies, would you open the eyes of our brothers and sisters to see that your heavenly armies surround them? And God himself is their shield. Remove all fear please Jesus and let them not shrink back. Expose the lie that silence, shrinking back, keeps them safe. Let them see that shrinking back brings the soul of God no pleasure and destroys them. (Hebrews 10)
Lokolong
Pray for Jacob’s disciple, Lokolong. This young man recently experienced a seizure and several episodes of double vision, which is especially concerning as his father died from an epileptic seizure some years ago. They were in Torit for a medical assessment, and after ruling out other diseases the consensus was to allow Lokolong to go back to the village and continue life as usual, but to take note of any further symptoms. Lokolong has testified that God has given him peace and that he is not worried. Pray for Jacob as he provides support to Lokolong, and for Lokolong to continue to grow in his trust in God’s care for him.
workers needed
The trip to Z village was achieved and I certainly had several occasions to talk of the good news or at least plant a few seeds. My main impression was of it being a drop in the ocean as far as need is concerned. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send workers to this harvest field!
Trauma
Our friend Larry needs your prayer. He is an incredible, skilled, professional ‘soft skills management’ teacher. He has a lot of trauma in his background and often struggles with bouts of depression so severe he despairs of life itself. At our coffee time last week he was in tears. Pray he will cry out to Jesus.
Salvation
Yusuf has accepted Jesus as his personal Savior! We will now start a discipleship process. Pray he will understand his lifestyle can now change because of Jesus and he is no longer bound to the rituals of Islam.
Prune
Father, please prune your children who are abiding in the vine that they may bear much fruit for your glory. Purify your church please Jesus, by your blood. Holy Spirit, bring conviction and discernment and let your church repent and live lives of victory. Give your children love for your Word; cleanse them by the washing of your Word.
Hidden Believers
Pray for Nyamwezi who are seeking after the Kingdom of God, secretly listening to audio Bibles or reading the Bible while at work. Ask the Lord to help them to grow in their faith and find Christians who will welcome them into fellowship. May they be emboldened to proclaim to others their belief and to share Christ with others. Ask the Lord to shelter them and remove their fears in leaving Islam.
Worshipping in an isolated area.
Recently a couple of our church members were able to go visit a Sunday gathering happening in one of the little villages in our region. At the moment there are three faithful Christians leading these meetings and it was an encouraging time for all. Please pray that we can continue to support and encourage the believers in the village to meet together and to grow in the Lord. Pray for unity and strength as they’re seeking to worship God in a very isolated area.
Love
Mighty Jesus, please help your children to love one another, to forgive one another. You say that if we say we love God but do not love our brothers and sisters we are liars. May your children abide in you and bear the fruit of the Spirit- love.
Vision
Pray the church in CAR, that despite their own need and suffering, would have vision to reach the Mbororo people with the gospel.
Drought
Drought threatens again. Pray with us that God will provide for all the physical and spiritual needs of the people, and draw many to Jesus!
Shared my life transformation
I was seated in class with 2 Som* students (Zu. and Fa.) and God provided me an opportunity to share about my life.
Before, what happened, and my life since then.
I followed this with an example of a prayer to receive Jesus into one’s life.
This opened up a very interesting discussion and some questions from both students. They wanted to know how the transformation happened and what I felt. At some point one asked me whether I have ever considered being a Muslim.
Pray that God will help reactivate the discussions and that they will acknowledge the truth of the Gospel.
See His kingdom come
Please pray for the church amongst the Alagwa. Pray that they will know and rejoice in the true gospel whilst learning to reject prosperity teaching. Please also pray that they would be people after God’s heart, committing their energies to see his kingdom come in their communities.
