Pray for the B. family as they visit the city of Caxias do Sul in February so that we can prepare the last details of partnerships and they can start their assignment there in March.
Pray that God will help us to advance in the relationships that we already have with our African friends and we can start making new disciples of Christ among them.
Pray that the Brazilian church and its members will know how to welcome the refugees and the immigrants as Jesus welcomed us, without fear, but with generosity and love.

Pray for RAISE, a non-profit organization in Noel Missouri, to find a building to base its services for refugees. There’s a vacant grocery store building that would serve well but the asking price is too high.
Pray for wisdom in coming along side members who are in need of support and encouragement.
Pray for our (slowly) growing relationship with Mo from Noel.

Pray for the ministry in Portland through our friendship center. M & J particularly, have never had such intense opportunities AND opposition, all at the same time—there is definitely stuff going on behind the scenes! (even spiritually)
Remember our prayer request for the Iranian ESL student who is very ill with cancer? My Christian Iranian friend and I have set up three appointments with this student and his wife—and a medical emergency has stopped us each time. Finally, last week, MC and another Christian Iranian met with him, prayed, and shared the Gospel again. But he was still not ready. We are sad, but while he still has breath, we pray for a change of heart.

Praise for a very fruitful Pastors/Imam meeting and lunch last month. Keep praying for the follow-up discussions with the imams. Pray for open and soften hearts and a willingness to hear the Gospel News. Pray that their presumptions about Christianity will not keep them from wanting to know the truth.

Please pray for avenues for new connections. We would like to grow our influence with more immigrant families AND have more church people come alongside to help us.
Please pray for an evangelical Arabic church to partner with us.

Praise for good relationships already established with some of our Somali friends.
Pray that some hostility experienced by our intern from a very few people will not deter interaction with the rest.
Pray for A, a young Somali man from a Christian background who has lost hope. Please pray for SF as he ministers to him and other Somali Christians who are currently struggling.

We have set a date for our first trauma healing group. It will be February 21-23. Please pray for the preparations and that each individual who comes will find healing in the Son.
One of our ESL classes has requested conversation partners for the students outside of class and JR has offered to help with this need. Pray for opportunities to connect with several of the students and build relationships with them.

Praise for great gospel conversations with our Muslim friends this month. Particularly with three Algerian men (Ra, Lo and AbH) and an Algerian woman (Ka)
Praise for continued progress, good discussions and times of fellowship through our Al Massira introductory Bible study with an Algerian couple, Ri (believer) and Fa (still Muslim). After spending the last several months in the Old Testament we finally arrived at the birth of Jesus.
February 15 we are hosting a “Winter Carnival” for the families of Impact Kids (our kids drop-in program), their friends, and the community. Pray that all the planning and details go smoothly and that many people would sign up to come. Pray that this event would deepen our and the local church’s presence in the community and that those who come would feel the love of Christ through the Christian volunteers who will be running the event. Please also pray that through this event, many would sign up for our ESL courses and Kids drop-in program, through which we have the opportunity to deepen friendships and share the gospel.
Please pray for Ab H, an Algerian Berber, who is a devout Muslim. This week we discussed the gospel for four hours together. Please pray that the Holy Spirit would open his eyes to the truth!

Praise God for opportunities to share the gospel at a Winter’s Tea (lead by believers) and a cooking demonstration (lead by Muslim women)
Pray for God to supply a center for us to do ministry. We need wisdom on the right place to use.
Pray for DM as he travels to India February 15-23 to encourage and challenge his leadership team. There are some problem areas to deal with, pray for wisdom.

Praise God with us for our Refugee Christmas Campaign. We had 5 nights bringing refugees to our home and went to visit those who could not come at their home. We blessed 54 refugees from 12 African countries with food and each one of them received a Bible, including the Muslims.
Pray for God to reveal Himself to those reading the Bible for the first time and that the Christmas message preached and the demonstration of care and love will continue to speak in their hearts.

Pray for the cities of Foz do Iguaçu and Caxias do Sul where we will start the Diaspora Ministry with the local church in March.

Please pray for spiritual interest among internationals following the various Christmas story presentations. That there will be Spirit-led conversations with university students at the Friday night cafes.
Pray for the provision of Christian volunteers to help secondary school immigrant students with homework. That the volunteers will be proclaimers of the Gospel and will be excited to be part of filling this ministry need.

Please pray for one lady in particular who has expressed appreciation and interest when RC shared the Good News with her, for more opportunities to talk with her, and that God will continue to work in her heart.

Lord we pray for salvation and baptism stories to flow from The Diaspora Region and that we may see 3rd generation reproducing disciples in every Diaspora Region unit.

I’ve met with Sam, my Iranian Christian brother, and we talked with my Iranian student with cancer, on Dec 28th. Pray for the student’s focus and openness and more opportunities to share.
Pray for follow-up among those who heard the Christmas stories in December.

Praise that our team Christmas party brought out North Africans from Morocco, Algeria, Egypt and Sudan. They took parts in our Christmas story dramatic reading and sang Christmas carols.
Praise for ESL Christmas parties that shared the Biblical account with many students.
Praise for a mosque Christmas party that gave space for the hearing of the birth of Jesus from both books and the beginning of friendships.
Praise for a living nativity outdoor drama that told the story of Jesus (birth through ascension) to 100+ ESL students. Pray for lasting fruit!

Please pray for unity and peace and for God to help us be true agents of shalom in our sadly divided community. A recent city initiative to expand services in our community has led to enough infighting among local agencies (some from our favorite people group) that the city is considering abandoning the project. The young men of our community have been involved in multiple shootings in the last few weeks.
Please pray for us to be effective channels of Jesus’ shalom here. Pray for wisdom and guidance in every conversation we have.

H sends her two daughters (8 and 6) to Impact Kids. Please pray that God would give her peace to continue to send her children.
Pray for K: please pray for her as she digests the gospel and more of the Word. May she come to know Him. She is also very stressed, along with all the Algerians we know, at the outcome of the (corrupt) election and protests that are going on today. Please pray that she would experience peace and attribute that to K’s prayers in Jesus’ name.
Pray for ESL: Please pray for the other students (Algerian + 1 Tunisian) who came to G&KB’s Christmas party (Y., A., L., K., W., A. and S.) and read the word and heard the gospel. Please pray that this taste of Truth would create a hunger for more.

Pray for W: This is the Algerian woman who wanted to debate with me for most of the evening during the Christmas dinner and over e-mail since. She has written pages and pages of accusations of Bible corruption. My one praise in this is that we are discussing Scripture, even though she seems to be just repeating things she has heard from people such as Ahmad Deedat; although she claims it is from her own reading. Please pray that the word of God would pierce her and convict her.

Praise for more children who came to kid’s club who heard a clear presentation of the Truth, as well as 3 friends who came to our outreach. Ask that their hearts will remember and search for a relationship with the Father.
Pray for an opportunity for a DBS with an islander sister. She tends to be difficult to connect with but always ready to have conversations.
Pray for new opportunities for spiritual conversations with islanders; for their hearts to be opened to hear and seek after the Father.

Pray for A from India- that he would receive God’s gift of salvation. He has heard and now needs to make a decision.
Pray for both USA and International students who will be going on a ski trip in January- that they would hear the Gospel clearly and believe. Pray that they would ask questions from their hearts so to get a better understanding of their journey with the Lord.

Pray for more opportunities for DM to meet with his Muslim friends. They work so much, it’s hard to get time with them.
Praise God for 12 Muslims that came to JM’s Winter Tea in December. Pray for good relationships and follow up with these ladies in January.
Pray for the Lord to provide a place for meeting with Muslim friends and do activities.

Pray for mid- January New Years celebration in our church. It is a free dinner for the poor people of the city. KB will be responsible for sharing with refugees and migrants present. Pray for clarity and soft hearts to respond to the Gospel News.

7 of G & KB’s Muslim friends joined them for an evening of good food, Bible reading and gospel sharing at their family Christmas dinner. Lots of conversations have continued from this, and they look forward to more in the new year.
God continues to bring the kids to the children’s drop- in program every month. After Impact Kids on Saturday, one Muslim father gave them $20 dollars to support the program!
The Al Massira study has continued with R (a believer) and his wife, F, (still Muslim). They studied the story of Noah last weekend. F continues to think and answer thoughtfully and openly as we read the word together. They have gone through four studies together now.

Please pray for these gospel opportunities.

We have lunch next Saturday, (Jan 11th) with local pastors and imams. We had a similar event a couple of years ago which was very much appreciated by all parties. This is usually a time to break down barriers and build relationships. Please pray for good conversations and for much wisdom and guidance from our Lord.

Thank you so much for praying! The Gospel was shared very clearly in Arabic and English at our Christmas event (Dec 20) and the people at our table were mesmerized with hearing and understanding–for the first time–the whole Gospel!
An Iraqi lady leaned close to me and asked . . .”If Jesus paid the full price. . . What motivates you as Christians to do good?” I was able to share with her how it is our great love and deep respect for God and for the debt that He paid for us. . . that motivates us to please Him. . .
She answered that for the first time in her life she completely understands why it is good news. .

Please pray that God will intervene on behalf of an Egyptian family we have been reaching out to- that He will open their hearts to the Gospel.
Please pray that God will open up the hearts of a Libyan family we have been spending a lot of time with- that God will open their hearts to the Gospel as well.
Please pray that God opens the hearts of our students as we prepare to share about the true meaning of Christmas with our Muslim friends this month through many different outreach events.

Pray for Mo, one of the ESL students in Noel, MO. Pray that our opportunities to visit will continue and that we can share about Jesus. He drove 50 miles to/from to visit with us and desires to do it again! May we be a sweet aroma and proclaimers of the Gospel news.
Pray for people to join the DR US Unit to strengthen and expand our work across the US.
Pray for God to raise up people to work among Somalis in Twin Cities, MN. There are great opportunities to partner with others.

Praise for spiritual seeds sown through conversations at Friday night International Student Globe Café.
Pray for open hearts to hear and accept Message of Christmas story presentations at each ministry activity (Sewing, English classes, international students). Pray for the blessing of tender hearts to hear and accept the Gospel message.
Pray for provision of Christian volunteers with secondary school immigrant area homework clubs.
Pray for spiritual harvest from the seeds sown.

Pray that the truth of Christmas presented clearly at the kids club Christmas party on the 11th and the team outreach the 14th would be received and believed.
Praise for renewed contact with some of my island friends; pray for clear opportunities to share again the hope of Christmas and the Spirit to open hearts to Himself.

Pray for Pedro’s short-term outreach trips into Morocco. He and David are there now. They just reported that one person in a new region received Christ today.
Pray for the finances needed for two building projects here in Jerez. This week papers are being signed to purchase a building in the town center that would become a center for all of the refugee ministries through Tharsis Betel. Ask the Lord to bless this ministry.

Pray also for the new people of peace identified in Strasbourg, Antwerp, Turnhout and Marseille to begin Discovery Bible Studies.

Pray for the International student ministry at CSUN to connect with more international students and for gospel conversations.
Please pray also for all the other international students from all over the Diaspora Region who have heard the gospel the past few months, that they would yearn to know Jesus as their Savior.

Pray for the December 1, 8, 15, 22 “Storying” of God’s Story of coming to earth at Salem’s International Prayer Gathering. For these 4 weeks, RH teams up with a young man from Sudan (Arabic), and a gal from Rwanda (Swahili) to share God’s gift of Jesus for the “nations”.
Pray for those who come to the Salem prayer gathering who do not have a personal faith in Jesus the Messiah. Pray that we will share clearly and that those who hear will find life.

Could you pray for follow- up with 9 teenagers here in Malta who have made a decision to follow Jesus! and for their baptisms? Also please pray for the right people to do the renovation on our ministry center we will be using here in Malta. We want to have a place where diaspora peoples can feel welcomed.

Pray for opportunities to share the Gospel during Christmas. Pray for clarity and a deeper understanding of the story of Jesus, His death & His ressurection to defeat death. Many only know tidbits of information, but not the story of who Jesus really is and why He came down to earth. Pray for many to want to hear the whole story!

The Lord has connected me with two ladies who would like to facilitate a trauma healing group in Noel, MO. Please pray for the collaboration and preparation for this group and that that our Father will bring together exactly those who need to find hope and healing through His Son.
I have begun to meet and get to know some of the members of the African community and other diaspora communities through the ESL program in town. I would love to have some ladies come to the apartment. Would you pray that they would be interested in meeting and talking outside of class and that our schedules will allow for this to happen.

The visit of the team from NW Ohio went very well and they were a blessing to our team here. They were able to share the good news on an individual basis with our neighbors. Pray for those seeds to find good soil and sprout!
Praise the Lord for the ESL classes and tutoring that continue to provide opportunities to share the good news. May many believe in the One who was sent!

Please pray for open hearts for our Muslim friends and loving bold gentleness in our connections with them. Please pray for wisdom to know how and if to navigate through partnerships with the city and Somalis.

Tomorrow, December 7, we have invited around 25 Arab families to join us, and many volunteers from area churches are working hard to prepare for a really great afternoon. Please pray that the invited families will be able to come and hear the Good News of Christmas and enjoy a wonderful time of fellowship with believers. Details are still coming together for the various kids programs for this event and many volunteers are still needed to accommodate all the children we are expecting. Please pray that the Lord will provide and that He will meet with us and reveal Himself to these families.

Praise: We had a great first Al Massira study with R&F, an Algerian couple that
moved to Montreal a year ago. He gave his life to Christ in Algeria but she has been too afraid
(of family and relatives) to look into Christianity. She really enjoyed the introductory study last
night. Their son (S.) goes to our monthly gym afternoons.
Praise: God is blessing on our ESL and kids programs- adults are mingling with Christians and God is bringing up good gospel opportunities. Muslim parents are willingly sending their kids to learn English AND the Bible.
Pray for wisdom as we plan our Christmas event for our ESL students and for deepening
relationships with the kids and their families at our kids sports drop-in.

Leicester is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the UK and recently it became the first
city in the UK other than London where the ethnic minority population is thought to have
passed the 50 % threshold. Among the ethnic mix in the city are large groups from North Africa
and the Horn. Our organization has been approached by a church situated on the edge of an
Estate where around 3,000 Somali people are living, asking for assistance as they seek to reach out to their neighbors. Please pray that God will raise up workers for this ripe Harvest field. Ask God to go before and prepare many open hearts.