Diaspora in Hong Kong: Please pray for L as her emotions have not been stable. Pray for God’s mercy to be upon her and for Him to nurture the seeds He has sown in her heart.
Many opportunities
Diaspora in Brazil: Pedro and Benvinda have had many opportunities to reach out to African immigrants in Toledo through an NGO. Praise God for many contacts that seem so open and ready for relationship. Pray for wisdom and words of life in these conversations.
Receptive hearts
Diaspora in Wales: The women in the Tuesday English conversation class read and discuss chronological Bible stories. Most have never heard these stories before. They would like to meet for additional class time so I will be teaching Thursday classes beginning this week. We thank God for their openness. Pray for receptive hearts to the Truth.
Retreats
Diaspora in Quebec: Praise for the fun weekend and lots of great gospel conversations during the men’s Algerian retreat. Please pray that God’s grace and truth would penetrate their hearts and that this desire to know more would result in a spring weekly Bible discussion. Those who were particularly interested are (names slightly altered): Chari, Hamil and Khalil. Pray for them.
Praise for the four Muslim women planning to come on a retreat this weekend May 10-12. Please pray that God would open up gospel discussions, and for boldness for us Christian women. Please pray for God’s peace and truth to penetrate their hearts. That their fears of the Bible and of the true Jesus would be transformed into a love and desire to know more. Please pray for their salvation.
Vulnerable women
Diaspora in UK: Pray for the vulnerable international women that we have met. I cannot mention any details of these situations even by alias name due to the danger it could bring to these women and those who know who assist them. Pray in their distress they would cry out to God and He would hear them and answer them.
Kunle and Yusuf
Diaspora in Ontario: I met Kunle, a Muslim refugee from Nigeria, during street evangelism. He had personal questions about sin, in regards to disobeying parents and doing business under the table. I used Bible stories and teachings to address him and Kunle sensed wisdom from God’s Word. Please pray for Kunle’s salvation and a desire to read the Bible.
I also met Yusuf, an Afghani Muslim high school student. The conversation attracted 3 of his Muslim friends from Bangladesh and Pakistan, and we all spoke for over an hour. The gospel and the authenticity/trustworthiness of Scripture was shared. Criticisms against Christianity were addressed and a challenge for them to read the Bible for themselves was given. Please pray for Yusuf and his friends’ salvation.
New brothers and sisters
Diaspora in Washington DC: We’re excited to be seeing new brothers and sisters join the family through baptism last month and this month. Please pray as they share their testimonies with their families back home for understanding and open ears and hearts.
Holiday camp
Diaspora in Paris: Please pray for our next Holiday Camp with the international university students and young professionals taking place next week. We are praying that many will come with hearts prepared by the Spirit to hear and understand the Good News! Please pray for good health for all of us and safe travels to and from the event.
Good connections
Diaspora in Brazil: Pray for good connections with African students through short courses, academic guidance, and other activities at the university.
Walls of Jericho
Diaspora in Georgia: Pray for the Lord to break down the tight spiritual and social “Jericho walls” that hold Muslims captive in the two local mosques, allowing them freedom to get to know Christians and regularly read Scripture together. Please pray for the salvation of Humor, Ed and Nama this month who are key mosque leaders.
Keen students
Diaspora in Wales: Praise God for the ones who are keen to hear more in the English Conversation Class. Many are hearing and discussing Biblical stories for the first time including Creation, the Fall, Tower of Babel.
Praise God for this year’s new Sewing class curriculum that has provided a more relaxed setting where helpers and students are able to share their joys and challenges as they sew together.
Pray for spiritual fruit from the conversations about Easter in English and Sewing classes.
Pray in the name of Jesus
Diaspora in Hong Kong: Recently, we have developed close connections with several Rwandan and Yemeni families through our resettlement assistance efforts. Praise the Lord for the privilege of sharing delightful meals and engaging in meaningful conversations with these Muslim families during Ramadan. Praise for them allowing us to pray for them in the name of Jesus. Pray the Lord will open their hearts to the gospel.
Gospel conversations
Diaspora in California: Pray for international students and volunteers who will be traveling to Yosemite National Park April 5-7. Pray for gospel conversations throughout the weekend and safety while travelling and hiking.
Pray for salvation for students Chris and Thomas in particular. They come regularly and have heard the gospel but appear to have no interest in spiritual matters.
One Miracle Night
For those interested in praying more for the Night of Power- the most holy night of Ramadan where many Muslims pray all night seeking God’s forgiveness and blessing, please see the prayer guide:
Dear Friends,
Please join us in earnest prayer for Muslims around the world, this Friday, 5 April.
The IPC has put together excellent material for promoting One Miracle Night – the Global Day of Prayer for the Muslim World.
For more info, prayer guides and 24 hour prayer schedule led by leaders around the world, visit:
Good news
Diaspora in England: Praise for the opportunity to share the Easter message at last week’s English classes. When I asked if anyone could sum up what I’d said, a Muslim woman said: “It’s good news”. I hadn’t even used that expression! Pray for faith to believe.
Praise that our parenting class ‘taster’ session went well this week. 9 women came to the session (7 S0m@li, 2 Sudanese). Pray that they would all return when the course starts on 16 April.
Soup and Bible
Diaspora in Finland: I started a soup and Bible program. Praise for a few Moroccan M’s, that I have been building relationships with, have come. Pray for wisdom in how to build these relationships more and that their hearts would open for the Lord.
Starting up again
Diaspora in Hong Kong: Praise for the Injil class that has resumed after a temporary halt for few months. Praise God that this month, we are pleased to see that our student, L, has shown even greater acceptance of Jesus than before. Pray for her growth in Christ.
Pray for reconnecting with a Bible literacy program, as we are preparing to start a class with a young M child who has difficulty in reading. Pray that the love of God will be manifested through this service.
Salvation and help
Diaspora in Georgia: Pray for the salvation of my ESL level 3 students as we read through the gospel of John. Pray for a clear testimony from each one of faith in Jesus by the time class ends in May.
Pray for the Lord to bring Africans and Muslims who need help to the pregnancy resource center.
Truth about Easter
Diaspora in Florida: Pray for the International student night tomorrow March 23rd for many to come and hear the truth about Easter.
New believers
Diaspora in Ontario: Please pray for new Iranian believers Rush*, Deddy* and wife Abby* to grow in their faith following Jesus and as they share the gospel with their friends and family back in Iran.
St Patrick’s Day
Diaspora in California: Pray for the St Patrick’s day dinner (March 15) and the Easter picnic (March 30) with the International students. Pray for students to come and for the gospel to be clearly presented and received.
Bible study
Diaspora in France: Pray for a Bible study we have started with 3 students. Praise for the encouragement of how the Lord is working in their lives. Pray nothing will interfere with meeting regularly.
Want to spend time together
Diaspora in Georgia: Pray for two Muslim ladies who I’ve begun developing friendships with. Pray that they would be tender and open to the Gospel while seeing God’s love shining through interactions they have with Christians. Pray that they would reach out and want to spend time together. Also, one of them, Z, is recovering from a herniated disc, so also pray for her healing.
Aslan
Diaspora in Canada: Pray for two dear cousins who are struggling academically, firmly committed to their Muslim faith, to be open to stories of God’s love and grace in Jesus. One is reading and watching the Narnia Chronicles and has been very interested in the role of Aslan, especially at the stone table. Pray that our discussion of the sacrifice of Aslan and the sacrifice of Jesus may bear fruit.
Exploring reason for Easter
Diaspora in Wales: Pray for the women’s literacy and sewing classes. In the weeks leading up to Easter:
Pray for the teachers and students as we explore the reason for Easter.
Ramadan starts Mar 10th which brings a heightened spiritual awareness but class attendance tends to decline.
Love and care
Diaspora in Hong Kong: We have started a language/homework class with K, a Muslim family. Pray for us to find a suitable venue at a local church to expand this ministry and accommodate more participants. Pray the Lord would open their hearts as we help and share.
Pray for provision and support for Muslim sisters T and N in meeting their basic living needs. Pray that they would experience the love of Jesus through our actions and care.
Good restart
Diaspora in Wales: Praise God for a good restart this term of the Women’s English and Sewing classes. Pray that God will continue to provide ladies to attend and volunteers to teach/help.
We are thankful for the opportunity that women have to discuss simplified chronological Bible stories in the Women’s conversation class. We pray for receptive hearts.
Emptiness
Diaspora in Florida: Pray for one of our imams, “Bruce” leading a group on an Umrah. Pray that God would show him the superficiality and emptiness of it all.
Pray for continued open gospel discussions with our Muslim friends.
Celebrations and Challenges
As I write this, I am on my way to India for 10 days. Twenty-five years ago, God used us to start a work in India to reach the K people. K had only a handful of indigenous believers and no full-time field workers. God has used earthquakes, persecution, and passion stirred by His Holy Spirit to grow the beginnings of a movement of K people to following Him. So we are celebrating the accomplishments in K: the NT, the Jesus Film, gospel radio broadcasts, a K themed gospel movie, gospel music CDs, many field workers, new believers, and more.
But challenges continue – the authorities are persecuting believers even more this year, funding field workers is becoming more difficult, and some are tired and discouraged that things are not happening as fast as they’d like. Pray for God to bring joy, a new passion, and great excitement from this time with gospel workers.
Seeking Allah Finding Jesus
Diaspora in Florida: Pray for a young Muslim man, “Larry” reading “Seeking Allah Finding Jesus.” Pray that God will use it to expose the lack of proofs for Islam and to open his heart to Jesus.
Life-changing work
Diaspora in Hong Kong: Pray for the resettlement ministry, specifically aimed at helping Middle Eastern and African asylum seekers in Hong Kong who cannot return to their home countries due to ongoing war and violence. Praise God for the recent significant breakthrough, as we have established communications with churches in Canada who are willing to assist us in initiating a few resettlement cases. Pray for additional Canadian churches and Christians to join in supporting and partnering with our ministry in this life-changing work.
Set free
Diaspora in Georgia: Pray that the Lord will bring Africans and Mslm’s to the ESL classes and the pregnancy center. Pray that the Lord will break open the two local mosques and set free the captives in them.
Street corner
Diaspora in Canada: Praise God for people being more receptive to receiving gospel tracts at street corners in the cold winter. Victor had good conversations with A (a Caucasian high schooler who had decided to become a Mslm) and M (a Canadian high schooler with parents from Chad and Nigeria). Pray for these young men’s salvation.
Prayer this year
Diaspora all over the world: Our prayer this year is, “Lord, over 19 million Africans are living off the continent. Most of them are not part of your Kingdom. We want to see more disciples made and for that, we need more workers. In obedience to Luke 10:2, we pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into your harvest.”
Seeking asylum
Diaspora in Hong Kong: Please pray for refugee B and his family who fled from Y*men. Since their arrival, B has been volunteering with some Catholic nuns at a shelter in Hong Kong while seeking asylum for a few years. Recently, an opportunity to resettle in Canada has arisen. A church in Canada is now considering helping him and his family to resettle and continue the gospel work with this family. May this process leads this family to encounter Jesus. May God guide us in exploring creative ways to engage with M*slims through resettlement ministry.
Connections
Diaspora in Minnesota: Pray for a new English class started at an apartment complex Friday, Feb 2. Pray for the students who showed up for good connections being made.
Pray for a few S people who attended a Christ-centered Christian wedding this weekend with us. Pray that it will lead to good discussions about our faith.
Seeds beginning to grow
Diaspora in France: Our team’s holiday camp outreach for international university students was a big hit, and many gospel seeds were planted. Some seeds have even begun to take root and grow! Please pray for them.
University break time
Diaspora in Brazil: Keep praying for the Lopes family during university break time, which means that the MANY African students have nowhere else to go. Opportunities are PLENTIFUL in the Lopes’ home, where they have many plans to host meals, watch movies, and even host events for these African students. Pray for good times of fellowship, discipleship, and sharing of God’s Word.
Beacons of love
Diaspora in Canada: Pray for several of the Som brothers and sisters’ families who are struggling with kids leaving the faith. Pray for the families to be such beacons of love and grace of Jesus that the lost will return.
Most of our Som believing families are having serious issues with mental illness and physical disabilities. Pray for their healing and for us to be channels of God’s peace to them.
Followup
Diaspora in Wales: In spite of the reduced attendance due to illness, we are thankful for those who came to the December Women’s English and Sewing classes which explained how and why Jesus was born. Pray for the followup (before the start of Ramadan in March) further exploring why everyone needs Jesus.