Divorced

Diaspora in Washington DC: Pray for S, a new believer. Her husband has divorced her because of her faith. They have joint custody of their daughter. She is fearful of her husband’s influence over their daughter. Pray for S to grow strong in the Lord and for her daughter to believe as well.

Pray for L

Hong Kong Diaspora:
Father God, please strengthen the faith of this homeless Muslim single woman, L, who loves reading the Gospel but struggles to believe in Jesus’ miracles. Lord, may you provide for her physical needs, including shelter, food, and safety, and surround her with people who love and care for her. Open her heart to the truth of the Gospel, and help her to see the love and power of Jesus. Show her the depth of your grace and mercy, and draw her close to you.

Reason for our hope

Diaspora in Wales:
Pray for the upcoming end-of-term activities for Women’s Sewing (June 26th) and English (June 27th) classes.
Please ask God to open hearts and minds of the attendees as we discuss the reason for our Hope through Jesus Christ.

Kids camps

Diaspora in Canada:
Pray for MAC kids camps this summer. I am hoping to sign up 150 pre-teens and teenagers for camps in Ontario and Alberta. Please pray that the Lord will lead children ready to listen openly to the gospel, for the their salvation and changed lives to follow Jesus faithfully.
Please pray for the Holy Spirit to lead me in preaching the right message through street evangelism at street corners.

Christian friends

Diaspora in Canada:
Pray for several of our S Christian families suffering stress due to mental and physical illness, and challenges with wandering children. Pray for harmony, forgiveness and for the lost to return home.
Pray for two young S women, to connect with Christian women friends this summer. Both eagerly desire to be friends with English speakers.

Church and Mosque meeting

Diaspora in Florida:
A church group and a mosque have met for a meal at a mosque. Now the church group will host a meal for the mosque group at the church. Pray for many to attend and for open hearts as the Pastor and Imam will share on what they believe about Jesus.

Faith to believe

Diaspora in France:
Praise God for several students from unreached people groups that spent a week at a renovation camp with us in April and heard a clear presentation of the Gospel.
Praise God that we are continuing to build on those relationships and are now in small Bible study groups with some of them. Pray for them for faith to believe!

Students’ testimony

Diaspora in Georgia:
Praise the Lord that Ma’ra, Na’eli, Ed’m, Sa’aka, Pao’a, Ver’nica, and Eri’a all gave testimony to personal faith in Christ after going through the gospel of John in our ESL classes this year. Pray for their protection and growth this summer, and that they will be ready to not only continue studying English but also will come to a home Bible study next fall. Pray for the Lord to be getting ready all those who would profit from a “home Bible study for internationals” next fall.

Exchanging books

Diaspora in England:
Pray for me and two co-workers to have a chance to visit M, a Sudanese woman from the conversation club who’s just had a baby. Pray for an opportunity to share our faith.
Pray for A, from my advanced English class. We’ve exchanged books – a Qu’ran and Luke’s gospel in S…ali. Pray that she’ll read Luke’s gospel. She’s offered to answer my questions about the Qu’ran, so pray for a fruitful first conversation about the Qu’ran (and hopefully Luke’s gospel too!).

Trafficked women

Diaspora in Hong Kong:
We pray for the African women who engage in survival prostitution. Many of them were once human trafficked to Hong Kong. In the name of Jesus, we pray that God will mobilize churches to help these women who cannot help themselves to get out of this trafficking system. We hope to share the Gospel with them, so that they may find hope in Christ.

Complicated and beyond capacity

Diaspora in France:
Pray for “Carla”, a Brazilian single mom of 1 ½ yr old twins in a really difficult situation relationally with her ex, and legally. We’ve started studying the Bible, discussed the Gospel a few times, but she has a hard time understanding why Jesus had to die. Please pray for her salvation, and that God would work miracles in her life, with situations really complicated and beyond her capacity.

Parenting course

Diaspora in UK:
Praise the Lord that the parenting course finished well and was very encouraging. Praise for the 7 S. women and 1 Nigerian woman who were very committed and engaged. At the end we had a “graduation ceremony” where each woman received a framed certificate and a big bouquet of flowers. The women each gave a speech and brought gifts for us too. Pray for ongoing relationships with these women and for the long-term impact of the course.

Bow his knee

Diaspora in Minnesota:
Praise God a S friend joined us for church on Easter. Pray that he will understand the gospel and bow his knee to the Lord Jesus.

Follow-up visits

Diaspora in Florida:
Praise God for excellent mosque visits and conversations during Ramadan. Pray for powerful follow-up visits.
Pray for deepened relationships with Muslim friends, especially the imams.

Gospel of Luke

Diaspora in UK:
Praise God for the opportunity to share the Easter message in my English classes. I’ve given one woman a copy of Luke’s gospel in her mother tongue based on our discussion after the lesson. Pray that she would read it and believe.

Truly loved

Diaspora in Brazil:
Pray as I walk with my Egyptian friend facing court hearings and seeking help for her family after suffering domestic abuse. Pray this woman will turn her heart to Jesus and find that she is truly loved.

Discuss God’s word

Diaspora in Washington DC:
Pray with us for students and volunteers to establish good relationships before summer so that they can stay in contact and continue to discuss God’s word over the break from English classes.

Open hearts

Diaspora in Wales:
Ask God to bring more international ladies who have never had the opportunity to go to school so they can participate in the literacy class in our Women’s English classes.
Pray for all our students and their families to have open hearts and minds to His salvation through Jesus Christ.

Prayed together

Diaspora in Hong Kong:
Praise God that for the very first time we held hands and prayed together for the healing power of Jesus with Y who is married to a nearly blind Malian Muslim. Please pray for this Muslim family that they may experience more about Jesus‘ healing grace. As asylum seekers, they are not allowed to work but depend on the government’s limited support. With recent policy changes, they may face deportation anytime. Pray for Y that salvation would come to this family through her open heart to learn more about Jesus.

Progress

Diaspora in Georgia:
Praise the Lord for the spiritual progress I see in our ESL students. We have now reached John 18 in our daily devotions and they are engaged. Pray as we finish the gospel of John by the end of the school year and watch the movie together. Pray they will all accept the Lord as their Savior.

Mother’s day party

Diaspora in Michigan:
Pray for a Mother’s Day party, May 5, we are hosting. We are hoping for 20-30 moms and their kids to come. Pray for the Lord to open hearts as we communicate a clear Biblical message.

Forgiveness

Diaspora in Canada:
Praise God for a young S seeker who stopped by our sharing shack yesterday and was intrigued by our little book on forgiveness in her first language. Pray she will keep her promise to come back and talk about it with us.

Engaging

Diaspora in Washington DC:
We praise Jesus for our students engaging with God’s word in the Bible Lessons. Please pray for them to seek the truth of God’s goodness in Jesus. Pray that as our students visit local churches, interact with Christians, and read the Bibles they have received- they will say: “Who is like the Lord our God…”  

 

 

Health issues and faith

Diaspora in Toronto:
Praise for a great time of fellowship, Bible reading, and prayer with Asher and Henry today. Asher had not called or answered calls or visits for two weeks. Praise that he is sober and happy… pray for his continued health and recovery.
• Pray for Alvin, son of a believing family, who has serious health issues, and is very angry with God about them. Pray for him to encounter Jesus and find healing for soul and body.
• Pray for Henry, another Christian brother with mental health issues, that he will find other Christian friends to encourage him and that he will find constructive ways to serve God.

Clear testimony

Diaspora in Georgia:
Lord, please save the seven international students in my ESL class: Edem, Aliyeroh, Sayaka, Paola, Mayra, Nayeli, and Veronica. May each of them give a clear testimony of faith in Christ by the end of our class mid-May. Thank you for bringing them to my class to read through the gospel of John together this year. Thank you for the clear evidence that several of them now believe in Christ and consider themselves Your disciples.

Prepare them to receive

Diaspora in Georgia:
Lord, please deepen friendships with Amna, Misha, Huma, Saba and their families. Thank you for the prayers you have answered already, demonstrating to them that you are the living God. Open doors for the gospel and for consistent Scripture engagement. Prepare them to receive Jesus as their Savior.

Dissatisfied

Diaspora in Minnesota:
Pray for Mr. H. who is dissatisfied with Islam and its strict tenants. Pray that he seeks after the truth and understands the gospel.

Easter bags

Diaspora in Michigan:
Our annual Easter bags are being handed out to 48 families April 3-16, with the help of local volunteers. Pray the gospel seeds sown would bear fruit, and it would foster relationships too.

Easter events

Diaspora in California:
Pray for activities with International Students during the month of April. Specifically pray for Easter events this week. May we explain the Easter story clearly and may hearts be open to understand and receive the gospel.
Pray for several students, some Christians and some Hindus, who are meeting in small groups for Bible Study. Ask the Lord to speak to them in His word.

English classes

Diaspora in England:
My English teaching with S’mali women is going well. The class is full and the women are very motivated and enthusiastic! Pray for opportunities to start sharing my faith in a natural and low-key way.

Parenting course

Diaspora in England:​
I’m running a parenting course at a local church for 6 weeks, which started on 23 February. Ten women have signed up, all S’ mali. Please pray for the course to go well and for a good connection with the women.

Explaining Easter

Diaspora in Wales:
Praise for how God is providing good attendance among attendees and volunteers in the English, Sewing, and Homework Club classes.
Praise for the opportunity for teachers to explain Easter in their English and Sewing classes this term. Ask for good discussion time and receptive hearts to the Easter message shared by each teacher in the classes.
Praise for literacy classes that are new to the Women’s English program. We are seeing real progress among women who do not read or write in any language.

Sharing his faith

Diaspora in Canada:
Pray for Med*, a new MBB believer as he boldly shares his faith with UBER passengers and people he meets at Iranian protests. He brought Sham* to attend church and they  ‘peeked’ into a few online Discipleship Explored classes.
Please pray for Sham’s salvation and for Med’s safety as he continues to witness boldly for Christ.

Developing friendships

Diaspora in England:
I am continuing to befriend and share the Gospel with people in the refugee community. Pray that this year I will see some of these relationships develop beyond a grateful acceptance of friendship and assistance to one of discipleship. Pray many will gratefully accept friendship with God and the salvation He offers!

Relationships developing

Diaspora in Florida:
Pray for connections we have made with North Africans- for relationships to continue to develop and opportunities to share truth.

Desires healing

Diaspora in Canada:
Pray for a family whose matriarch has driven several of the family away from Jesus by her anger and harshness. Pray that the grief of these grandkids and anger at the loss of their mom would be healed, and that they and their grandma would be reconciled. Pray for healing for the one member who comes to church faithfully with me, he has lots of questions, but eagerly desires his family and himself to be healed.

Special events

Diaspora in Spain:
Pray for the new opportunities for ministry that we have in Salamanca.
Pray for two events: one in the countryside with 150 refugees March 12, and then a special dinner for 40 new couples. Pray for the gospel message to be well received.

New students

Diaspora in Brazil:
Pray for good adaptation for all of the African students that arrived at Redenção/Acarape last month.
Pray that the event on International Women’s Day will have touched many hearts and they will seek lessons and fellowship at our place.
Pray for God’s wisdom to recognize the men and women of Peace among the students.

Desparate

Pray for the survivors of the shipwreck on Sunday near Calabria, Italy. Pray these migrants will be shown the love of Christ and would open their hearts to the gospel.

Conversations that lead to life

Diaspora in Brazil: Pray for us as we reach out to a Senegalese family. Our friendship has deepened as more family members have come to Brazil. Pray for good conversations that lead to life!