Pray for Swahili in Likwage. There is a lady who offered herself to follow Jesus in her heart and mind. She made the decision after receiving healing from Jesus, she encouraged her family to follow Jesus. Pray for more Swahili people of Tanzania to know Jesus.
Stand firm
Continue to pray for the Bible study groups that were meeting with Marlene in Ohilang. While she and Andrea are both on home assignment, pray that these seekers and young believers will keep meeting and stay faithful to Jesus. “If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all” (Isaiah 7:9); pray for Itak, Iouru, Aaron, and all the other believers, to stand firm!
Diaspora in Canada
Prayer that as some of my favorite venues open up next week, that a lot of old relationships
will be renewed. Praise for good conversations with several men during a recent visit to my favorite Somali barbershop.
Pray for the Somali men who said they want to meet with me around the backyard fire to follow through.
Pray for F., a 20 yr old Somali girl who is trying to cram 12 years of education into 3, and is struggling
also with laptop issues. She also cares for her disabled Mom. Please pray that her longing for learning
will extend to a longing for Jesus.
Please continue to pray for four young Somali men struggling with addictions, mental illness, and trauma. Please pray for their repentance and reaching out to Jesus.
80,000!
Since 2015, in partnership with Pastor Emanoel, 232 villages have been visited and shown the Jesus Film! We calculate that more than 80,000 Bara has been exposed to the Gospel of Jesus.
The film we use starts in Genesis and goes through the ascension of Jesus, and is in the Bara language.
We still have some more villages to go to.
Please pray that the story of the Gospel will remain in Bara hearts and bear fruit for the Kingdom of Jesus.
Hunger season
We received an urgent request for help from Jacinta, a Kenyan missionary working among the Laarim in the village of Fara Sika. She is recently returned from a break in Kenya and has found the situation in the area dire due to food shortages. We were able to send her some food, but there will be more needs as dry season (often referred to as “hunger season” here in South Sudan) is upon us. Pray for Jacinta’s faith to grow as she trusts her daily needs to the Lord, and He faithfully provides everything she needs. Pray for mercy for the people she lives among.
Pray Earnestly
A local evangelist was sent from one church to start another church. As he started the new church, he shared the Gospel in other areas and was welcomed by a person of peace in three other villages. Another church has begun with 8 households, and a house church in another village, and more people are coming to Christ, praise God! His desire is to care well for these new believers, to let them grow spiritually with sound teaching, but finds it a struggle to care well for all the new believers. After traveling to one village, he goes to the second village, leaves again, goes to the third location, then leaves again, returns and repeats the circuit as often as he can, leaving those he’s taught to continue teaching others. The believers in the new church are looking to see who from among themselves can also be equipped and sent as church leaders to serve in the new places. Please pray for the spiritual growth of new Christians and for more Gospel carriers discipled who will go teach in the villages. “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” (Matthew 9:37-38)
Diaspora in Florida
I had a cooking class with 5 Muslim women and 7 Christian women on Saturday. A Muslim
woman taught us how to make pita bread with hummus. In coming Saturdays, I am having sewing
classes, more cooking classes, and an international fashion show. Pray for opportunities to share the good news and for ears to hear!
• In November we plan to meet with Muslim leaders to pray with them and share the good news of a
God of love. Pray especially as we hope to introduce a pastor to the Imam who is building a mosque right next to his church.
Lord is working!
The Lord is working in the lives of many in the different villages around Nosybe and we praise Him! However, as we all know, when the Lord is working, Satan tries to hinder. Please pray for the Lord to protect His children. He is all powerful and the forces of evil must submit to Him.
Diaspora in Hong Kong
A North African Muslim teenager has been lost for a month. Please pray that he will be found.
H is an asylum seeker and will be released from the jail in December. She is a Muslim but she wants to go to church. Pray for her to find a suitable church.
AS’s husband abused her in the past and now she is under verbal abuse. Pray for her husband to be willing to receive treatment for his mental illness.
Riots
The riots and protests on the island have significantly increased this past month. So much so that a few neighborhoods have closed all businesses and schools. The mayor has said that there’s not much the police can do to stop the gangs. Please pray for peace, security and for change of hearts.
Diaspora in Europe
Pray for fruitful discipleship with seekers and new believers in the international student ministries in the cities of Nante, La Rochelle and Strasbourg, France. Ask that the Lord will lead us and guide us to those whose hearts are receptive to hear the Gospel news.
Mercy
Ask the Lord of the Harvest to send laborers into this harvest field. Ask God to show His mercy to the Tuareg.
Full armor
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Ephesians 6 v 12
Pray against the principalities and powers still holding many Alagwa hearts captive. Pray for breakthroughs. May the believers put on the full armor of God and take their stand!
Open doors
Thank God for new disciples from lotimor.
Pray for God to open doors for them to reach the Kachipo Suri, their most unreached neighbor.
Pray for God to provide means of transport to reach remote locations.
Christian teacher
Pray for the local Antakarana believer on Nosy Mitsio and his family. He is a teacher at the school. He is bold in his faith and some are very critical of this. Pray for spiritual protection and strength for him and his family. Pray many will listen to the message he shares and believe.
Come together
Pray for our ongoing discussions regarding working together with a local Fulani Body. May His hand lead us to them, or they come to us. May there be fruit from our discussions.
“Prayer lays hold of God’s plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit’s prayer .” – E. Elliot
Seminar
Pray for a Bible training seminar that is happening right now in Magambua village, bringing church leaders from across Usandawe for fellowship and learning.
Grow strong
Pray for Y believers in the Horn to grow strong in their faith and share the good things God has done for them with others.
Needing healing
Mzee Hamisi is suffering from tuberculosis. We continually visit him and sing hymns together and pray together in the name of Jesus with his wife. Please pray for him and his family to come to Jesus and for Mzee Hamisi’s health.
Praise and prayers
Thank God for the discipleship groups in Kauto plateau that have multiplied well.
Give thanks for the obedience in the lives of the disciples.
Pray for God’s provision as rains have failed this season.
Give thanks for peace between neighboring communities.
Pray for Shamans to know God.
Pray for a Bible translation project that is to start soon.
Luke
The Gospel of Luke is ready in the Antanala language! We have 100 booklets available at the moment. We do not give them for free but ask a small price (0,50 euro cents) so people value them more. Pray that many will read and believe the Word of God.
Blows
Pray for our friends, a believing couple whom we’ve prayed with and for many times. The wife’s mother passed away recently. The mother had once claimed Jesus as Lord in her life but then fell back into old ways afterwards. Before she passed, her daughter prayed with her many times. Pray for hearts in this difficult situation. Soon after this, the husband’s nephew that he cared for passed away as well which was a very hard blow. Pray for emotional healing in this sad time and for Jesus to be so close to this couple and their families right now.
New outreach
PASTOR EMANOELA has reported that they were welcomed in a new village to show the Jesus film last week giving many (300 or so) people the opportunity of hearing the Good News of the Gospel. Pray for decisions for Christ from this village.
Spiritual warfare
Melias experienced spiritual warfare in the middle of the night which lasted for quite a time. A day or so later the church gathered for prayer meeting and three ladies were delivered from evil spirits. They plan to have a baptism for a couple this coming Thursday. The churches from the other ministry locations will join them for this baptism. Praise the Lord!
This is the second case we have received this year from Missionaries/Malagasy partners of spiritual warfare activity in new outreach areas. Please pray with us for the Lord’s protection on all our missionaries and partners and that the way will remain open for sharing the gospel, and that lives will be changed for the Lord’s glory. Yes, we are in a battle, but we are on the victorious side. The Lord has already defeated the evil one.
civil war
The recent coup has led to civil strife and the military taking over. Pray for Sudan, the unreached people groups, and our ministry partners all needing peace and security and salvation. Lord have mercy.
Listening
Mzee M was given an audio Bible when he was sick, so he could listen to the New Testament in Rangi or Swahili. He has been listening and discussing with his family and falls asleep with it playing. Praise God he has recently seen the love of Jesus through local Christian neighbors through their many acts of generosity while he has been sick.
Samburu Christian Women in Lchakwai
Please pray for the Christian women living in the Samburu Community of Lchakwai. They are all illiterate and there is now no one to teach and shepherd them. A few have an oral version of the New Testament in Samburu. Pray that they will continue to meet together on Sundays to praise God together in song and in prayer, and to listen to the Word. Pray that God will use their testimony to influence their husbands and the men in that community.
Healing and salvation
K sells second-hand clothes on the main road. We’ve prayed for various health needs in her family but have not had more spiritual conversations. I recently invited her and her family over. During the visit, she shared how she’d previously travelled abroad for healthcare but was told nothing could be done. But while she was there, she went to pray in a church and was healed! She also shared that she knew the good news about Jesus through my previous team-mates. Please ask for more opportunities to talk about power in Jesus’s name that not only heals but saves.
Make Your Attributes Evident
This last week many celebrated the birth of the Prophet Mohamed. Ask the Lord God to break the seals of darkness and that instead of praise to man, there would be recitations of praise about God’s faithfulness and His attributes. May those who know God, retell their testimonies of how God has been faithful. Pray that the Nyamwezi will know that the Lord is faithful in demonstrating His perfect love, and it is without limits, immeasurable. May those who doubt find affirmation through the Spirit and knowing God’s perfect love in their lives. Ask God to breakthrough in lives which are shackled, trying to earn their salvation, and instead may those lives be liberated by salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
Be the body
Pray for the church amongst the Alagwa. May they grow in love and BE the body of Christ in their communities. May they be known as Jesus’ disciples because of their love for one another.
Run to Jesus
There are still a handful of new believers (less than a year old) who experienced death of a near family member and continue to doubt the goodness and love of God. Please ask that they run to Jesus instead of from Him in their grief, that they keep abiding, reading the words from God, repenting, believing.
Conversations
Mzee J and Gideon had a great conversation discussing the second coming of Jesus. Gideon saw willingness to listen to what he was saying about Jesus and the Bible. Mzee J along with a few other men sat listening to Gideon and some even said, ‘What you’re saying makes sense’. Mzee J asked for more conversations in the future to discuss Jesus. Pray for these future interactions with Gideon to be impactful and life-giving for Mzee.
needing water
All families in Gabbra land are struggling with the lack of water. It’s been a very long drought, all water reserves are empty and most of the families no longer have resources to purchase water from tankers. It’s been extremely hard to see people getting sick because of dehydration and lack of sanitation, and their livestock are getting weak.
Please pray for God’s mercy on sending us rain. Pray that people get thirstier for the Word of God and that Jesus be exalted in the midst of all despair.
Bible study
At our weekly Bible study with class 8 students, eight Som** girls chose to remain in class and learn with the other students.
We were studying ‘Jesus is Lord and Saviour’. We had two passages to read and when I requested a volunteer, one of the Som.** girls volunteered and this brought a lot of cheer and clapping from the other students. There was more cheer and clapping at the end of her reading 20 verses and we could see she was encouraged and happy.
Please pray with us that God would open the hearts of these Som.** students to recognize Him as Lord and Saviour and the only true living God.
Also pray that God will bring them back to the next Bible study.
Surrender
Pray for a seeker who is from Vanilla Island and came to Madagascar a year ago. He has been exposed much to the Gospel and has a good relationship with those discipling him, often listening to their advice. May the seeds that they continue to sow in his life fall on good soil that he may come to surrender his heart to Jesus.
Needing freedom
Pray for Nahara students and teachers to push through with literacy. May these new readers read the newly translated Bible!
Many of the believers are still bound up by fear of evil spirits and intrinsically believe evil is of God. Knowing that Jesus has power over evil and can set people free is a journey. Please pray that the forces of evil so present among the Nahara would flee as people find freedom in Christ.
Heart broken
We’ve been worried about Joy as unusually she hasn’t responded to messages ever since her brother came into town 10 days ago. Finally heard from her last night and she is heart broken. Not sure on all the details but all her family have broken relationship with her and are refusing to give her any inheritance. She can’t understand how the Father would allow this to happen when she has prayed so much. She’s struggling to trust His goodness. Please pray for her.
Healing and growth
A 15 year old girl was sent to the mission hospital after a severe reaction to a treatment. Pray for physical healing, and that she’ll hear more Good News as she’s there and solidify her young belief and grow to maturity.
Boldness
Praise Jesus for new believers who are boldly sharing their faith, for another new sister, for a group of 12 interested in learning more, receiving the Scriptures, praying. Ask for continued boldness, courage and faithful abiding and discipleship.
Security improving
Hello dear brothers and sisters, the security in Ik right now has cooled down compared to the previous days and months, so everything is fine and tourists are returning to visit the Ik community in one of the sub counties called Timu. Thanks so much for praying! God bless you.
Joseph Lokol
