Boldness and Courage

by | Aug 20, 2025

About 18 months ago a group of leaders were imprisoned. Through harsh conditions they stood strong and were released with tacit approval to practice their faith. Then a couple of months ago the body of a local believer, who had been buried the day before, was exhumed by a mob and dragged through town. Following this the believers were warned that they couldn’t be buried in public cemeteries. In response, earlier this month, three locals sent a letter to the governor requesting that they be given land for a private cemetery. What boldness! It’s incredible to see how each new pressure hasn’t forced them down into fear and hiding, but up into even greater courage, stepping further out into the open. Pray for these leaders to remain bold and wise, and be protected from evil men and the Evil One. Pray also for the wider local community, that God would so move hearts that they would come to gladly accept the presence of believers amongst them. 

Establishing partnerships

by | Aug 19, 2025

Pray for the Mahafaly people group. We are establishing a partnership with local churches in their land. Pray that this partnership can be successful and the Mahafaly can receive the Gospel of JESUS. We need workers to GO!

Pray for the Bible translation among the Mahafaly. They only have a few portions of the Scripture in their language.

Filming ‘Creation to Christ’ – in Som@li

by | Aug 19, 2025

Finally, the Creation to Christ film will be shot at one of the company’s sites in a couple weeks! There is still a lot of pre-filming details and getting the MBB actors to be done. Pray that we will get the right actors and that God will help us run this whole program smoothly until completion.

International students

by | Aug 18, 2025

Diaspora in California: Pray for the activities with international students. Pray the students come to know God’s grace and salvation. Pray for salvation for Rohit, Thomas, Chris, Miti and Rashi.

More coming

by | Aug 18, 2025

This last Sunday we had 10 people from the community attend services. All adults! Some of the new attendees are well educated and can read well. Pray that we can find some Bibles in town to give them and that they will be consistent in their growth and possibly lead groups in their own villages. Also the translated audio Bible books have been distributed to Malagasy missionaries in Ambilobe who work to reach the Antakarana there. Pray for much fruit!

Needing water and projectors

by | Aug 17, 2025

Water is still a serious challenge for many families especially the elderly who cannot walk long distances to fetch water. Please pray for a solution.
The church planters lack enough materials to reach out with the gospel. They are trusting that God will help them to get more Jesus film projectors and to replace the batteries and solar panels of the ones they have and for audio Bibles. Please pray for these needs.

Discipleship group

by | Aug 17, 2025

Pray for a group involving 16 young people in the mentorship program which started in January 2025. It includes Bible study, academic discussions, and team-building activities to support the participants’ personal and spiritual growth. This specific program focuses on developing leadership qualities among the participants, preparing them to take on roles as facilitators and leaders in our youth outreach programs and their communities at large.

In this group,7 members are young M. seekers who have exhibited an openness to the gospel. As of now many of them are at the stage of counting the cost of declaring their faith in Christ! Mentoring this blended group of both M and Christian youth has been an opportunity for all of us to grow together in knowing the Lord in a very safe and friendly environment!

Connections

by | Aug 16, 2025

Diaspora in Florida: Pray that Jasmine will be able to connect with me. She has heard the gospel, but I am hoping to see her again in person and give her an invitation to accept God’s gift.

Pray for deeper connections with our Moroccan friends- everyone is hot and tired these days.

Pray for the new group of Chinese who have just arrived, for good connections with this new group.

Watching the Jesus film

by | Aug 16, 2025

Pray for the young boy who will soon watch the Jesus film in his heart language. May the truth of the gospel penetrate and transform his heart.

Many contacts

by | Aug 15, 2025

Pray for the many contacts that I am making that they can understand the good news well and turn to Christ. Several are Sudanese refugees who are working around here.

Pastors

by | Aug 15, 2025

Pray for the Toposa pastors who have been trained earlier on and are now considered potential leaders to trust their leaders who gave them the word. Pray for mutual respect and trust to grow and for good communication so that the Lord would be honored in their relationships and the work would continue to grow.

Interesting conversations

by | Aug 14, 2025

Diaspora in Scotland: Praise God for good connections with some ladies in English conversation cafe who have asked if we can meet up (outside of the cafe) to keep practicing English. We have had some very interesting conversations…. Pray for open hearts.

Children ministry

by | Aug 14, 2025

Pray for the more than 1000 children in the Be Fitia Program, that they will keep the faith, growing in the knowledge of Christ. Pray for their families, that they can see the change in their children’s lives and also surrender their life to Christ Jesus.

Pray for the upcoming new year in the SEKOLY BE FITIA (the Evangelistic Literacy Program). We expect more than 200 children to enroll to learn how to read and write, and to learn about Christ. Pray for the teachers, that they be passionate for the children and show compassion.

Protect the children

by | Aug 13, 2025

It seems the kids in our main villages are being filtered out of the regular schools, and instead are filling up the daily Madaraza classes. Pray that God would protect the children and instead of more Islamic teaching, that he would draw them to himself. Pray for wisdom as our whole team makes an effort to reach out more to the children.

Meet together

by | Aug 13, 2025

Pray for the local body to be motivated to meet together regularly in small groups weekly and as a large group once a month. The capital group has been meeting nearly every week for the last month. Our island sister, ‘Sophie’, has been meeting with her sisters and neighbors in her village on Friday afternoons. Pray for the westside contingent to be meeting as well.

Gabbra pastor!

by | Aug 12, 2025

Barako has become the first AIC licensed Gabra pastor! Rejoice with us! And pray for him.

 

Bara Testimonies

by | Aug 12, 2025

Pray for the more than 570 Villages that have already watched the JESUS Film and the testimonies of converted BARA believers. It is not just a movie presentation, but it is the Gospel in action. The Jesus film brings the reality of who we are as human since the Fall, and what God in Jesus did to save us on the Cross. The testimonies of the Bara believers show that the Gospel has real power, in the lives of real people, here and now, to change us. If you wish, watch some of the testimonies here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkmr0YTVqqs ;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQSL0kgqV08 This has really been powerful for the Bara to watch. Pray for more of these testimonies to come out!

Healing and growth

by | Aug 11, 2025

⁠Pray for local believer Sharon’s healing and growth in faith as she interacts with God’s word.

Rains

by | Aug 11, 2025

We are praising the Lord that the rains have been enough for the gardens, and the crops are growing well. The birds are also less than last year, so people are anticipating a good harvest. We are praying that the birds will remain far away and the rains will remain steady to bring all the gardens to maturity. Please pray the Lord would sustain the community and give our team and the Church wisdom on how to respond to the needs and requests that come our way. With the rains also come malaria. My teammate and I have just recovered from a bout. Pray for the Lord’s mercy on others in the community.
And most importantly, we are praying that the Lord would fix our minds on Him and that He would be glorified in all that we think, say and do.

Outreach and Camps

by | Aug 10, 2025

Diaspora in Germany: Pray for Brother Mokhtar and his team as they minister to women and families in the refugee camps. Pray that hearts will be open to receive the message of hope and that many will experience God’s love during these gatherings.

Pray for the Summer Camp the end of August that Brother Mokhtar will host with the Yemeni team. Pray for safety, unity, and the presence of the Holy Spirit throughout the event. Pray especially for the women and children who will gather at the end of the month, that they may be strengthened and encouraged.

Good Harvest

by | Aug 10, 2025

Pray that the people will have a better crop yield this year in order to have enough
food that can sustain many homes with many family members. And pray for a bountiful harvest amongst those we are sharing truth with.

Kids camp

by | Aug 9, 2025

Diaspora in Quebec: We have 37 kids signed up from our community for our Impact Kids day camp. 13 are from North African homes. Pray for them!

Pray for the camp August 18th-22nd, we are partnering with a team from a local Church. We are asking the Lord for two more North African families. Pray especially for the Muslim families, that God would give the parents peace as their children learn from the Bible, and that he would prepare the children to hear the gospel message through the stories of the patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Kingdom of darkness

by | Aug 9, 2025

Pray for Mzee P. and his family, who had taken in a teenage girl to live with them. She just died under unknown circumstances. The people here say that she was killed as a sacrifice by her own father, who is a known witch doctor, and was “taken to the kingdom of darkness.” The spiritual darkness around here is strong and real; please pray for God’s light and hope to shine all the more brighter.

Two new students

by | Aug 8, 2025

Diaspora in France: Pray for hearts open to the gospel among our students and refugees. We’ve made new connections with two different students, a young woman from Morocco and a young man from Algeria.  Both students expressed interest in possibly joining in our student events starting up again in September!

Pray also for churches in Europe to be more open to mission and that some would partner with us.

Rema’s story

by | Aug 8, 2025

Pray for the work of Rema, an ex-cattle thief who was converted in 2012 and until today is a faithful servant of Christ. He works with the Betroka team as an evangelist and this year, he was given land to built the church. After 5 years working in the region of Mora-rano, there are about 70 Bara believers, and they are preparing the bricks to build the church. Pray for strength and the power of the Spirit of Christ to empower them in this great work and to continue to walk with Him.

See here Rema’s testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQSL0kgqV08

Vision of sharing

by | Aug 7, 2025

⁠Pray for fruit that will last among the people we are sharing with.
⁠Pray for the community of believers to get the vision of sharing with their own people and the courage and wisdom to do that.

Sown Seeds

by | Aug 7, 2025

Diaspora in Wales: Praise God that a Muslim woman found the Sewing class because she got lost and just happened to walk past our church with the brochure displayed in the window. In one class she told a team member, ’I have never been to a class so welcoming and caring like this one!’ which led to follow-up spiritual conversations. Pray that these sown Seeds would result in her acceptance of Christ and bear a 100-fold harvest.

Thank God for the opportunity to connect women from English classes who are relocating from Wales with Christians in their new locations (2 back to their home country, 1 remains in U.K.). Pray that these women will follow up with these Christian connections and accept Jesus as their Saviour very soon.

 

Ask us questions

by | Aug 6, 2025

Pray for me to have an opportunity to encourage leaders to look out for the mentally ill and epileptics in the community who are not coming for treatment. (Given the prevalence of these diseases, there must be many who are suffering untreated). Pray that I can speak to them clearly and that they will be active in searching out such patients. Pray also for more opportunities for us ladies to share the good news with local people. Pray for patients and neighbors to ask us questions about our faith.

 

Reading Bible and Quran

by | Aug 6, 2025

Diaspora in Minnesota: One of the ladies I teach, with whom I’ve had many spiritual conversations, is open to reading the Bible and the Quran together. Pray that we can start reading together tomorrow. I’ve never done this before, so pray that God would be leading our reading and conversation.

Another student has expressed a lot of curiosity about Christianity. Pray that I would know how to answer her questions, and that God would open her eyes to the truth and draw her to Himself.

Bearing fruit

by | Aug 5, 2025

Give thanks to God with me that the Bible study with children is bearing fruit and the number of children is growing, even though some are forbidden to come by their parents. Please pray for those families and their salvation.

Wrapping up

by | Aug 5, 2025

Diaspora in Alberta: Pray for my Monday Bible study and the Hub English classes as they wrap up for the summer.  Pray for good connections with students in these last weeks.

Gatherings and Camps

by | Aug 4, 2025

There will be big church gatherings and camps in Mandritsara this month. Please pray for the church to grow in strength and unity, especially considering the trials it has been going through with difficulties in leadership. Pray that the Tsimihety Christians would not be lead astray by false teachers.

Hard times

by | Aug 4, 2025

Please pray with us for the spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional health of Pastors Mateus, Vancelho, Isaac, and Joaquim along with their families and all the congregations they look after.  Times are very hard, please pray for perseverance and provision for the needs of the communities struggling with hunger.

Outreach week

by | Aug 3, 2025

Diaspora in England: The fifth Outreach Week will take place Aug 4-8. Please pray that we will see a spiritual breakthrough among the local community most of whom are from UPGs. This year for the first time, there will be a drop-in for men in the afternoons at the church (Monday to Friday). This will be aimed at single men, particularly those living in local asylum seeker accommodation. Please pray that this will lead to good conversations and opportunities for local Christians to build relationships with those who come.

Spiritual battle

by | Aug 3, 2025

A young Saharawi boy has been regularly watching episodes of an animated Bible story show before bed. Please pray these seeds bear much fruit. He has heard the gospel clearly during Sunday school as we have studied Jesus as our Good Shepherd and as the Bread of Life. He asked to borrow a Quran in Arabic from a Muslim friend and sometimes reads it in the worker’s home. Please pray for the spiritual battle for his heart and mind.

Receive and extend forgiveness

by | Aug 2, 2025

Pray for ‘Hadassah’, who is meeting regularly with team leader M. She says she is sharing with her mom and asks lots of questions. She does seem to be reading and trying to understand. Pray for her to be able to forgive those whom she feels have mistreated her in the past – that she would see how in Jesus she can have forgiveness herself, the power to forgive others, and the great freedom that comes from both of these things!

Bible study

by | Aug 2, 2025

My S** language teacher who I consider open and a seeker agreed to study the Bible and study material when I am away for a few weeks. Please pray for him that God will open his eyes to see the Light and his heart to be convicted. Pray for many questions that I will be able to answer when we meet up.

Gathering growing

by | Aug 1, 2025

Those who attend the weekly gathering on Nosy Mitsio has grown. We have 2 new men and 3 women. Some walk from 6km away. One young man has been sick for many months and we are praying for healing for him. They are eager to learn and be close to God. Pray for them.

In September a retired pastor from Ambilobe will come to Nosy Mitsio for 2 weeks to Disciple and teach those who come to the Sunday gathering. Pray for much fruit from this.

Church outreach

by | Aug 1, 2025

This week, a group of 15 from our Tanzania church are heading to 2 villages  for 7 days for Outreach with Jesus film etc. Please pray for the presence of the Holy Spirit and open hearts to receive the Word. We want to see Jesus lifted high and worshipped among the nations. Our scripture is PS 46:10-11. So far the first half of the Outreach 10 plus have prayed to receive Jesus as savior. PTL. A small local church has been established there in the village with an evangelist named Yohana. Do keep praying for Yohana.

Armor in place

by | Jul 31, 2025

As the new seeds of more new believers grow – it seems the efforts to strengthen Islam in our communities are emphasized more and more. Pray for God‘s light to shine brightly, and that all of our team and the new believers will keep our full armor in place as we seek to advance the kingdom of God in this spiritual warfare battle.