* Please pray for Umm K’s testing result whether she has got cancer or not. Hope she will be willing to hear the gospel and understand that Yahweh is above Allah.
* Thank God for M to share with us that his living was a life of indulgence and debauchery. We will start from there to share with Him about Jesus.
* Please continue to pray for God’s calling for more volunteers for the Children’s corner and Chinese class for Adults, and providing more opportunities to share the gospel as well.

“He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.” (Ps. 25:9)

Pray for a friend from Morocco. She has had recent discussions about faith with a few Christians. She moves to another city soon. She’ll be spending time with us August 31 and we’ll give her a Gospel of Luke. Pray she will accept it and read it. May God speak to her heart.

* Pray for good communication and wisdom for Welcome Teams for Refugees: In the past almost all of our connections with new families have been really great. This time around, everyone has blood family ties in town, which has changed the dynamics. Please pray for wisdom on how to connect with these families.

* Sunday 8/29 is our summer picnic. Pray this would be a great time to connect with many families and volunteers.

We just finished a camping experience for kids aged 10-13 from the Toronto area. We presented the Gospel through Bible stories from Creation to Christ, pointing them to their need for a Saviour. Pray that the Lord will continue to work in the hearts of the kids who attended – that they may be impacted by the Gospel and see their need for Christ.
August 23-27 we will be in Alberta for Camp Rhino, a children’s camp geared towards Muslim children.  Pray that many Muslim kids will attend, and that they will hear the Gospel and respond to the Saviour. Pray that all the logistical things will be taken care of before the camp.

* Pray for a deepening of relationships at one of our local mosques. (We have a group of ten people who met there recently to begin relationships.)
* Mr. A was able to share some deep stuff with me the other night. It was a blessing to be trusted to hear some of his stories. Pray that we can continue to connect and that I can point him to Jesus.
* Continue to pray for the Congolese family as they adjust to life in America. Pray for more volunteers to welcome new refugees who are coming into our city.

* Pray for the refugees in our center. One of them, a practicing Muslim, came to our church service last week and received the Word happily. Pray that he would come again and begin to bring others and to begin deeper spiritual conversations in the center.
* Praise for new connections made among the Saharawi community through language classes. Ask the Lord to work in their hearts to hear and believe the gospel.

* Praise God for opportunities to share the gospel with Somali friends. Please pray that God would grant them repentance and faith and that these friends would desire to read God’s Word.
* Praise God for the one Somali believer we’ve met in our city. Please pray that he would grow in his faith, be bold in evangelism, and join a healthy local church.
* Praise God for our local church and other churches in the city who are reaching out to Somalis. Please pray for open doors into the Somali community and open hearts to the gospel.

Pray for our summer camps for newcomers. One is a wilderness canoe trip and the other is geared for Muslim youth. Please pray for energy and excitement for the staff and that the youth would experience the one true God through nature, relationships, testimony, and the Holy Spirit.

* Praise that two trauma healing groups are fully trained. Pray that the Lord will use them to bring healing and hope into their people groups and community.
* Pray for the relationships that are being formed and nurtured in the community garden. There have been many fruitful spiritual conversations in the past month.
* RAISE will be having a garden event on August 15th. We are planning to assemble a shed and benches and harvest, cook, and eat together. There will be activities for the kids as well. Pray for good weather, a good turnout and good connections between our local and diaspora participants.

Our soccer tournament outreach will be held this Saturday, the 14th of August. Pray for the preparations and that we would have good conversations and share Truth. Ask the Lord to open ears and hearts so that many will believe.

Please pray for divine conversations as we go camping this week with church members and will host several Muslim families at our campsite.
Praise for a great farm trip last Saturday. “S” (a believer from Morocco) was able to really connect with one of the Moroccan men. Please pray that “S” would be able to go deeper spiritually with “Y”.
Praise that “A” got a job. Now he is trying to go back to Algeria and bring his wife to the U.S. Please pray that she will be open and receptive to him. She has cut off communication with all of us now on social media.

* I shared with my African M friend S about the Lord’s divine control and it really comforted her. I hope to continue to share with her some Bible verses. Please remember S in your prayers.
* We are helping the undergraduate students of a church to have a fun fair with the Diaspora African kids. Last night, they listened to the testimony of an African asylum seeker and were so impressed and encouraged- even though he encountered so many difficulties, he still preaches the gospel in Hong Kong.
* Please pray for our tutorial class and that the church will continue to provide the place to run the class and more Diaspora refugee students will join.

Praise God with us for the advancement of work among Senegalese in Tapejara – RS, we had a significant increase of those attending our Portuguese classes. Pray for the Lord to open students’ hearts to the gospel.
Pray for the meetings with church partners early August.
Pray for conversations with the companies that employ the majority of Senegalese. We are looking to open  Portuguese classes in their buildings.

Pray for the East Midlands August Outreach team July 31st to August 8th. The objective of the team is to help an East Midlands town centre church reach out to and build relationships with the African Diaspora community who are living in their local area.
Pray the afternoon ‘family activity club’ run by the team in a local school will be appreciated by those attending. Events will include crafts, a community art project, Olympic themed mini sports, and an opportunity for the mothers to practice their spoken English.
Pray for the team as they visit local cafes and parks in the late afternoons and early evenings to have good conversations with local people.
Pray for good weather as some activities will be outside.

* Praise: We are on our fifth week of our kids drop in program “Impact Kids.” We have had an average of 30 kids come every week ; half of which are from North African Muslim families. Every week these kids get to play games, make a craft, learn an English lesson but most importantly they have heard 5 bible stories all pointing towards a “Rescuer” (Jesus) that is coming.
* Prayer: Please pray for our final summer Impact Kids on August 7th. We are planning a carnival event for the kids and their families where our final story of Christ’s death, resurrection, and forgiveness of sins will be shared. Please pray that God would send the families that are truly open to the gospel and that many lives would be changed as they hear the hope we have in Christ. Please also pray that God would provide enough volunteers to carry out the event effectively.

* Jesus is so faithful! During the month of July our volunteers worked hard with enthusiasm from the Lord. God provided many interactions and gospel conversations among our students’ families with our volunteers. Pray for gospel seeds to sprout and grow!
* Pray for the Lord to send more students and volunteers as we look at offering in-person ESL classes in 3 locations this upcoming year which begins in September. Matthew 9:38
* We praise Jesus for sending us, J.,  who He has used to extend our reach into more African UPG homes. Jeremiah 16:16. Ask the Lord to open many doors for fruitful ministry.
* Pray that God’s Holy Spirit will open the eyes of the blind that they would see Jesus. John 12:21

An Eritrean family’s eldest son in Toronto has been showing interest in Bible discussions. May his interest lead him to the Gospel and his need for salvation in Jesus Christ. Pray for his family to enter in to his interest and hear the Gospel as well.

Pray for the Indian Ocean Islanders that live in Marseille, France. Pray that they will meet Christians who share the Good News. Pray that the Spirit will implant specific spiritual truth in their hearts that will lead them to Jesus.

Pray for an Ethiopian man who is experiencing demonic dreams and oppression. His recent conversation with a Christian revealed that he has used the name of Jesus to stop the demonic encounters. However, the demon responds that the Ethiopian doesn’t believe in Jesus, which is true. Pray that the Ethiopian man will understand that he must place his trust in Jesus from the heart and receive salvation so that the demon will leave.

Pray for several North African Muslims who recently went on a fieldtrip to a rural Washington farm. There were many spiritual conversations with their hosts about the Gospel. Pray that these conversations will encourage further discussions and thinking about who Jesus is.

In these last few days of Ramadan, please be praying for the immigrant and refugee community in Portland, OR. Pray for the imams and the spiritual leaders in the area to encounter Jesus in deep, profound ways and for their hearts to be softened toward the beautiful truth of the Gospel. Pray that their hearts would be unsettled, leading them to a place of peace in the arms of the Father.

* Praise God for growing relationships in the Somali community. Pray for those who are contacted to have soft and receptive hearts.
* Please pray for boldness and clarity in sharing the Gospel and opportunities to study the Bible with Somalis.

We have met a new refugee who is a Moroccan believer, former Muslim, and translator for French and Arabic. Pray that he will be able to stay in Spain long-term and work with us to reach our Muslim friends for Jesus.

* Several Somali Believers are struggling with serious mental, emotional, and spiritual issues right now, exacerbated by the COVid lockdown here. Please pray for healing and peace in their lives.
* Pray that our backyard fire pit gatherings may become the beginning of a church among our diaspora friends.

* We praise Jesus that 2 men are still spiritually hungry and we pray that their hunger would become devotion to the Lord Jesus and they would desire to study God’s word regularly. Matthew 4:4
* We praise Jesus for connections within His family and pray that these connections lead to seekers and followers among UPGs beginning to worship and be discipled. Acts 2:42
* We rejoice in the Lord and ask for more spiritual conversations among people who have never heard of Jesus and a deeper love for Jesus and his word among the family of God. Nehemiah 1:10

A number of the refugees who I have been getting to know over the last few months are being relocated elsewhere in the country. Please pray that their transitions go well, particularly for one man who has been attending an Arabic speaking church in London. Pray that he will find a welcoming church when he arrives in a town two hours away from London.

* Pray for our Kurdish friend who received a Bible recently, that he and his family will continue to be open and that we can get to connect with them more.
* Some of our diaspora neighbor friends just moved across town, but are wanting to connect with us more, pray this relationship would grow and they would be open.
* Pray for A, a Believer of Muslim Background. He is in a tumultuous time and needs Jesus to be his true anchor.

Please pray for a small crew of Somali young men, all of whom have family in other countries who they are providing for and trying to protect. We invited 5 of them over on Good Friday, we did an Easter Story scavenger hunt, as well as a few other activities. Pray that they would be receptive and that the Story of Christ’s death and resurrection as well as the hope that we have in Him would touch them.

* What looked to be a closed door last month, God has re-opened! He has provided 2 new Christian volunteers for the Homework Club in the Somali area of the city! At the request of the Community Centre director, we hope to restart this month! This is truly an amazing turn of events in response to our prayers last month. Please pray the logistics of this restart, for more volunteers, and especially for open hearts among the Somali community.
* Ask God to stir hearts during the devotional and discussion in our next online sewing time (Monday April 12th).

Easter weekend we had a picnic with International Students from California State University. Pray for 9 students who heard about Jesus’ death and resurrection. Pray for many to become followers of Jesus.

* Praise God that our French classes have been going well! I help with the beginner class, and I’m a language partner with a lady from the Horn. She came to my house for the first time last week, and I’m excited to continue developing this friendship and language help. Pray for the Lord to open her heart.
* My North African friend is eager to connect with a church friend of mine here, as their kids are about the same age. Please pray that God would forge deep friendships between the three of us, and that the kids would connect well.
* Please pray for my study via text with “Rose.” She’s convinced that the Son of Man is a prophet yet to come. Please pray that God would give me clarity to explain the truth, and that He would open her eyes to see Jesus for who He is.
* Pray for the French government as they debate in the Senate the new proposed law and its amendments regarding religious activity. The debates will be March 30-April 8.

* S had a high fever and pain which might require admission to the hospital but she needed to go register at the Immigration Department first. She delayed and ended up with a serious infection, and stayed in the hospital for 11 days. Please pray for her recovery.
* J has been in Hong Kong for 11 years as an asylum seeker. Her status doesn’t allow her to work. She has been frustrated during Covid-19. Pray for J to find her true purpose in Jesus.
* Pray for the Lord to give wisdom and patience to four tutors helping African Migrant kids do homework. Pray the tutors will become friends and share the Gospel with them.

Our Easter outreach is Sunday 4-8 pm. Please pray that nothing will prevent those invited from coming and that as they hear the Easter story God will give them the faith to believe it and a desire for a personal relationship Him.

We have a picnic with Muslims on Saturday. Pray Muslim families will come to this event and the Lord would speak to them.
We have a meeting with local pastors on how to reach Muslims during Ramadan on April 8. Pray they will be inspired and envisioned and inspire their people in turn.
Pray for opportunities to visit in the homes of our Muslim friends during Ramadan as the mosques will be mostly closed.

*The devil is working over- time to discourage our brothers and sisters from our favorite people group (Somalis). We’re experiencing a lot of division, alienation, family issues, grief, depression, addictions, and disunity. Please pray for a major revival and that our disunity may become true Christian community, eager for discipleship, growth, Christian maturity and real fellowship.
* Please pray also for deeper connection with our open or seeking Somali friends, even in the midst of our ongoing lockdown.

* Our bi-weekly meetings with our Imam friend, AB., has been put on hold for undetermined amount of time. Pray we can reconnect soon.
* D’s close friend, Imam Sh., also has not been available to meet in the last several weeks. Pray we can reconnect soon.

Please pray for a couple of children. One is a grade school Iraqi boy with a dad who is avidly reading God’s Word! Another is our “assistant” for the Ethiopian Bible Class last year, a middle school gal with a heart for God.
Pray for a friend, Abl, to come to Christ with his whole family.
We would love to see Abl’s grade school son have a chance to go to a local Christian school. (Most immigrants have no idea how the public schools wish to shape their children’s values and worldview!)
We are also checking out possibilities for Lw to attend a Christian school.

Pray for continued conversations and deep connections with a Muslim family who moved across town.
We gave a Bible to a friend/student recently, he is reading it and SW is trying to talk to him more one-on-one.

* We praise Jesus that 2 of the 3 men are studying God’s Word from the Bible. Father, make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth. John 17:17
* We praise Jesus for a brother from Africa who is leading a Bible study for our Arabic speaking friends. Lord, thank you for sending workers to your field. Matthew 9:38
* We praise Jesus for many friends joining in with women’s evening conversation class and Saturday morning mommy-and-me time. Lord, keep us declaring your glory and your marvelous works among our friends. Psalm 96:3

My precious neighbor and friend moved with her family back to Libya this week. Pray that God would continue to work in the hearts of her, her husband and children and that the seeds planted will grow and that God will bring other followers of Jesus into their lives.

* Pray for Mr. A. He and I have been having some great gospel conversations. Pray that Jesus will draw him in.
* Pray that I can connect with more volunteers from churches. We want to have more people connect with refugees.