We have many opportunities to interact with people as they come to our homes.  We desire to study the Bible with our friends in our homes, at the church, or in their homes. Ask God to work in the hearts of our friends to join us in Bible study.

We had Abshir* and Fawzia* over for dinner. Abshir started pouring out his story, (*names have been changed). Even before he arrived in Canada from Djibouti Abshir had been plagued by nightmares. Terrifying dreams where he was chased by dark, faceless creatures that wielded frightening weapons.
Then one night a year ago the same dream began to unfold. But this time Jesus appeared to him with a host of soldiers. Jesus said to him, “Your enemies will not hurt you, because they cannot touch Me.” As long as Abshir stayed close to Jesus his foes were kept at bay. And from that day to this he has not had one more nightmare.

Praise God for his mercy towards Abshir. Pray he and his wife will decide to ‘stay close to Jesus’ and receive salvation!

• Pray for the SALT tutors who are assigned to Somali families. May they  understand that they may be the only “salt and light” into these homes and be very bold in sharing.
• Pray for the families who receive SALT tutors; pray that the Gospel and Spirit would penetrate their hearts in conversations and relationships.

• Praise: Before the holidays, we were able to share some of the reasons Christmas is so important and a joyful time for Christians. Keep praying that the seeds sown in different relationships between our Somali friends and our volunteers will grow. We long to see them come to our Savior.

• A Somali Christian couple who came here as young believers need our prayerful support as they face a sense of loneliness and rejection here at times. The woman shared that this past year some of the walls of mistrust from the rest of the Somali community is reducing in regards to them and just Christians in general; so we praise God for this. Lets lift them up to our Lord for continued growth in their relationship with Christ and for peace and wisdom as they go about their daily life.

Pray for God to open the eyes of a Saudi man and his 28 year-old daughter. A few days ago, Portland team members spent several hours with them, much of the time talking about Islam and the Gospel. Time is short as they may move away early next year. Pray that in their next location, other believers would continue planting & sowing Truth in their lives.

Today RH has the opportunity to story a portion of Luke for an Iraqi Christmas banquet. Pray for God’s Word to stick in their hearts and for conversational wisdom for all of us followers of Jesus at this event.

We want to have Kutchi friends come to a Christmas program on December 16th. Pray the Lord will draw them to Himself.
Some of our Muslim friends want to come to church. Pray for them to see through culture to the life giving message.

We have a Christmas program for a mosque planned on December 24th. Pray for sensitive witness and open hearts.

Christmas parties: December 8: with Arab Refugees, and December 11 with 3 Congolese families. Pray they would feel welcome, hear and accept the truth. Dec. 12: Pray for preparations to welcome refugee families to church for a Christmas meal, activities, and message.

Bible Studies: Please pray for a men’s study, a women’s study, and ESL group study. We have curriculum, but a low desire so far. May God change their hearts.

Pray for deeper connections with Libyan families in their community.

• Please pray for the upcoming Christmas party for Muslim friends- that the Lord would open many hearts to the Christmas story.
• Pray for opportunity to continue the Al-Massira video series with a Muslim family.
• Pray for ESL Living Nativtiy outreach on Dec 8, pray that non-Christians would attend and be open to the message.

We need wisdom to know when and how to share spiritual truth with our ESL students. Ask the Lord to open the hearts of our students. Pray they would ask questions about faith.  And pray that the Lord would raise more workers for the ministry here.

Please pray for our Iraqi friends W and A, as they return home soon and contemplate extremely difficult decisions regarding possibly trying to seek asylum. Please pray that they and their family would cross paths with other Christians and that the Lord would help them to turn to Him.

Pray for R in Marseille, France, as she begins visiting patients at a new hospital close to her, where there tend to be more Comorians. Ask the Lord to open the hearts of patients and family members to talk about spiritual truth. Please pray that the Lord will guide R to seeking friends and that she finds opportunities to share her faith.

Please continue to pray for the family I mentioned last month. The Lord is working in the hearts of Omar, his wife and three children. May He open their eyes and hearts to Himself and may they take steps of obedience to Lord.

We thank the Lord for the opportunity we had to share the gospel with the Imam and about 100 Muslims in the grand hall of one of Toronto’s largest mosques on October 27th. Addresses and phone numbers were shared with many Christians from across the city who joined in this day of dialogue. Pray that true friendships and clear personal gospel witness will follow in coming weeks.

We’re thankful for a new partnership with a Gospel-centered community center in Dallas, Texas. Foreign-born residents make up 42.3 % of this community with 22 different languages being spoken.
Pray also for conversations we are having to explore possibilities for partnership in Columbus, Ohio. There are 60,000 Somali people here!

Portland ESL Class—So far we have students from Eritrea, Morocco, Iran, Angola, Iraq, and Libya—just in one class! Our lives are richer through their friendships, but… may their’s be richer for eternity. Please pray for ongoing conversations regarding the Good News.

PLEASE PRAY 10:00-2:00 Saturday, Oct 27th

1. THAT JUST THE RIGHT NUMBER OF BELIEVERS FROM ACROSS THE GTA WOULD JOIN US
2. FOR OUR SPEAKER, AC, AS HE EXPLAINS WHAT BIBLICAL CHRISTIANS BELIEVE ABOUT JESUS

3. PREPARED HEARTS AMONG THE MANY MUSLIMS COMING TO THEIR OWN MOSQUE IN MARKHAM
4. THAT DOZENS OF “GOSPEL FRIENDSHIPS” WILL BE MADE
5. THAT PRECIOUS SOULS WILL BE SAVED

THIS SATURDAY, Oct 27TH
OUR FIRST CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM FRIENDSHIP DAY
Please be in prayer for us to build bridges & share the Good News.
Only God can do this! We have a wide open door to share the Good News of Jesus in the grand sanctuary of one of Toronto’s largest mosques. But for miracles to happen we NEED your prayers…

Pray for the church members who are having training sessions twice a month with AH to become fruitful leaders in reaching out to the Detroit disapora community. Pray for passion to teach others to proclaim the Gospel. Ask the Lord to be preparing hearts to hear and believe.

Praise God- The school year at the friendship center has gotten off to a good start. We have many returning students and a number of new students as well.
Praise God- The men’s program has a lot of men this year.
Please pray for understanding from students. We have 3 ESL levels that are full. It is hard to ask students to wait for openings.

Please pray that we will conduct ourselves with wisdom in our interactions with the students. That we will make the most of each opportunity, (treating it as something precious). Colossians 4:5 AMP

Please pray for Omar, his wife and three children who live Stateside. The Lord is working in their hearts drawing them to Himself. Please pray that they would have more contacts with other Christians who will befriend them and proclaim the Gospel.

Pray for a developing friendship with a Sufi leader from Senegal who is visiting the Bay Area. Pray for good opportunities and wisdom as JB shares the Gospel with him. Pray that the Lord soften this Sufi’s heart to be receptive to the Good News.

Praise for continuing salvations coming out of our Dream Teams in Spain. Praise for a successful visit by our partners in Spain to the Bay Area.
Pray for preparations for Dream Teams 2019 in Spain, France, Italy and Malta – there is lots of preparation work to do. Ask the Lord to go before and prepare many refugee hearts to seek Him.

Please pray for good opportunities to disciple Z and K, two Algerian believers, amidst their busy work schedules.
And for outreach to Algerian believers, and follow-up conversations with L and A, who are very open and interested.
Pray for meeting and sharing Truth with ESL Arab/Berber friends, both new and old. May the Lord open their hearts to the gospel.

Many Somali ladies have been calling LS since school started, asking for help. Pray for LS as she shares about the tutoring ministry (SALT) with her church body in Minneapolis in October- pray that she might be able to recruit several new tutors, who will have a heart to love Somali women and share the gospel with them.

While D & J are away in Kenya, ask our Lord for faithful people to follow up the work with Muslim ladies in the weekly sewing class, prayer meeting for Muslims, and our contacts. Praise the Lord for the interests of those who are working alongside D & J. Ask the Lord to grant faith to seeking Muslims.

Please pray for our volunteers at the ESL center in Portland to connect deeply with our students. Please pray for them as they invite new students into their homes and that they will have wonderful spiritual conversations.

Pray for our Portland team to follow up on conversations from our potluck dinner on Sept. 28. Please pray that God would allow deep spiritual conversations to happen and relationships to deepen with our diaspora friends.

Please pray for the start of a new school year at Portland. Please pray that God will provide for the needs that we have. Praise for all the new volunteers who have joined who have a passion for reaching the diaspora.
Please pray that God will open up the hearts of our diaspora students to spiritual conversations this school year.

As a group we are having lots of interactions with non-believers, but we would like to go the next step with them. Please pray with us as we ask God to give us ideas that would lead to Bible studies. Pray He would go before and prepare many hearts to receive Him.

Pray for connections with former Island friends and direction with new ones. Pray for a special leading to those who are seeking to know Jesus. “For I am with you and no one will lay a hand on you, because I have many people in this city.” Act 18:10 Ask God to lead us to them!

Please pray for our 4 Christian students (1 from France, 2 Algerian MBBs and one Haitian); that they would bond with their fellow Muslim students and have opportunities to proclaim the Gospel. In total we have 13 students. Ask the Lord to open the hearts of our Muslim students. Ask that we as teachers would be winsome and wise in lifting up the name of Jesus.

We have several Algerian believers in the area but it is proving almost impossible to connect with, though we really want to. Please pray that impossible schedules would align, and that these believers would connect and find encouragement from each other! Please also pray for 2 of them to find a church body to plug into consistently. There is also a chance that one might be able to live with the H. family, so please pray about that possibility, too.

Pray for D. to make contact with leaders of a nearby mosque. He’s been trying to meet them for 2 months and keeps getting passed to different people.
Ask God for open hearts in two training classes on reaching M’s that we are teaching at different churches.

We praise the Lord for the success of the soccer tournament earlier in August. Our volunteers will have a picnic on the 16th with the families of those we are reaching with the Good News. Pray that the Lord would soften hearts for his Word and that seeds would be planted.

I praise God that I had the opportunity to talk at length with my friend “A” about Eid AND Jesus, the One who forgives once and for all! It was a great conversation and I’m asking for prayer that we will continue to share openly with each other about our beliefs and praying that God will open the eyes of her heart to hear the TRUTH.

Please pray for follow up on the good spiritual conversations with a group of diaspora friends that we took to Washington to visit the farm on Saturday, September 1. Pray that these conversations would not be forgotten and would continue.

38 campers joined us from 6 African nations plus Palestine and Syria. 5 came from Muslim families. Just awesome to see them all heartily singing, “He came from heaven to earth, to show the way, from the earth to the cross, my debt to pay”!
The parents of two little Muslim girls want to meet up with J. and me as soon as possible in September. Their Dad says is having dreams about Jesus.

Please pray for our first church-based workshop for teaching Portuguese  that will take place in Londrina for area churches. We do not have a program in Brazil to teach Portuguese as a second language to refugees, but a Pastor and teacher of one church is helping us to organize this workshop. This is just an introduction to show the opportunities we have here to reach the refugees and immigrants all around us. We are already teaching Portuguese to one Muslim from Senegal (Wolof people) but we are open for more.

Pray for the seminar “Awareness and Evangelism of Refugees” that we are doing in different churches. It is meant to educate and make churches aware of the “strangers” among them and to equip them to reach out to them.
Pray also that we could have a donation of 60 Bibles to give to refugees.