So grateful to God for the 30+ ladies who came to the final English and Sewing day presentations with Biblical messages. Please pray that they will remember these Gospel conversations and that their hearts would be hungry for the Truth.

Please pray for my friend from West Africa. She has received a Bible and often asks very good questions. This past Sunday, without prompting, she drove herself and children to church without us and worshipped with other brothers and sisters from West Africa. Please pray that the veil of islam from her family heritage be lifted and she will see “God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” 2 Cor. 4:6

Pray with us for the Lord to bring seeking African immigrants to each one on our team. Pray for friendships, opportunities to share the gospel, and churches to welcome them.

Two of my language students are about to finish our Bible storying series. Please pray that God will move in their hearts as the reflect back on the stories we have covered.

We have an outreach week July 11-15, with a youth group from Iowa. We will have a 3 day kids camp (grades 2-6) and a 1 day 3v3 soccer tournament (grades 6-12). May God bring the kids to hear the Word of God and see the love of Christ!

Pray for participants for our community garden and summer English classes. Pray for the Lord to us seeking friends and students.

Praise for one young Somali believer who has been going to church with me for the last few months. Pray for unity within his family, and for those members who have drifted from the faith to repent.

Pray for connections with International Students during July. May each student hear the gospel and desire to follow Jesus. Pray for more workers to join our team. Pray for boldness and clarity when these interactions take place.

My best African friend’s family will move to Canada early July. May God guide them and continue to help them preach the gospel among the unreached people groups.

Thank God for NS, African M’s family, finding a flat to live in. Our relationship has grown while going around looking at different flats. Pray for continued relationship and open hearts to the gospel.

S’s 16-year-old son almost lost his legs during an accident and now can walk a little bit with crutches. Pray he will know Jesus and give him hope.

Praise: Lots of good opportunities for conversation with parents and kids around the bike ministry lately.

Parents and older teens interested in faith around the campfires in our back yard.
One young Somali believer coming to church with me regularly.

Pray for an Afghan man I’m tutoring in English. Pray for our relationship and for the Lord to open his heart to healing and hope.

We would appreciate your prayers for the final day of class on June 27th for both English and Sewing classes. We will have a party and presentation of a Bible story.Pray for good engagement and the presence of the Holy Spirit.

A month ago a new church based Welcome Team was assigned to an Afghan family who had lived in a military base for 4 months, and a Detroit hotel for an additional 4 months. We were able to greet them with a house full of furniture donated by various church members each with a great story of God’s provision. After the family had been in the house a couple weeks, a Nigerian/Jamaican couple on the Welcome Team invited them to their local Nigerian church for a Sunday service. They were very warmly welcomed and even brought on stage, which they loved. In fact they loved it so much they went back a 2nd time.

May God continue to use this welcome team and Nigerian church to penetrate hearts for the gospel!

Ask the Lord to bless my children’s bike ministry. I need helpers. Pray for the children to listen well and respond to the teaching. May the Lord open their hearts to the good news.

Pray for connections with people from the Islands, that their hearts would be stirred up from past conversations regarding the Gospel News and they would long to hear more.

Our Chinese class members are mostly West African Muslims. I always share God’s words with them. May His words dwell in their hearts. Pray that they would understand the Truth about Jesus and bow their knees to Him.

The International Student Ministry is gearing up for summer activities. Pray that with each encounter with the students will be seasoned with the gospel. Pray for unity in all the planning and good attendance to the activities planned. Pray that hearts would be soften to be receptive to the Gospel.

Praise God for new opportunities with a community garden and a summer ESL program at our new “Welcome House”. The tools are in place, may God use these to make many connections in the community so many can regularly see and hear the good news of Jesus.
July 12-15 we will re-launch kids camp (grades 2-6), which has not happened since pre-covid. Pray God would bring the rest of the volunteers and at least 40 kids!

Through the Spring and Summer months, our team plans several “farm” trips to a picturesque valley at the base of Mt. Adams. Each time, we invite several international families. Our team almost always have some amazing conversations. Pray that we will be ready to use each opportunity God gives us this summer, and that lives will be changed.

Afghan: Build your church God, among our Afghan brothers and sisters. Help us to listen and connect our new friends well with your word in their language. Praise you God for the hands and hearts that have labored to translate it!

Sudanese: We pray for growth in the number of Sudanese students we serve and an open dialogue about your truth God.

Moroccan: We pray for the persecuted church and for those separated from loved ones because of that persecution.

God help us build strong relationships with students’ families this summer!

Please pray for multiple opportunities to share the gospel and continue developing friendships with H, M, A and E. Pray for open doors to minister to Africans through ESL and a nearby Pregnancy Resource Center, as well as through personal friendships with people we meet in our everyday spheres of life.

Please pray that during these summer months the Lord will work in local churches, giving them a desire to participate in outreach to Africans near them.

We are in the last week of hosting a Yazidi man and his son. They return to northern Iraq after 2 months with us getting medical care. Please pray for seeds that have been planted to take root.

Pray for a new friendship with a family from NA2 that lives down the street from us here in Philly.

Pray for ongoing ministry to a local Iraqi family working through cancer treatments and recovery.

We have seen a marked increase in refugee arrivals, which has been great as we and our team at Naomi House build relationships and help with settlement. Pray for the Lord to open many hearts to the gospel.

Also we are running our first MAC camp in Manitoba this summer. It is a week of camp geared for newcomer and refugee youth. Ask the Lord to draw many to Himself.

We had a wonderful sunny day of bike repairs, fellowship, and engagement with our neighbours on Saturday. About a dozen kids came to get bikes and left happy. We shared a hot dog meal following.  A local sign shop owner has committed to making us new signs for our big kids’ bike build program. One local youth imam came, and Jas said he’d like to arrange faith dialogues between his youth and Christian kids. We’re also kicking off ‘faith around the fire’ this week, or as soon as the signs are finished. Pray for deep conversations around the fire and for the Spirit to draw many to the Lord.

* Pray for us to be able to discern the needs of the people in front of us and then be able to share the Gospel in a way that speaks to people, just like Jesus and others did for so many people in the Bible
* Pray for H, M and JK, 3 students who continue seeking the Lord. Pray particularly for M that she will take that one last difficult step of paying the price to follow Jesus because He is so worth it.

* Afghan: Build your church God, among our Afghan brothers and sisters. Help us to listen well and connect our new friends with your word in their language. Praise you God for the hands and hearts that have labored to translate it! We praise God for several new friends who have rejoiced to have a Bible here as they lamented the loss of the Bible they had to leave behind in Afghanistan!
* Uyghur: We pray for your protection for those who believe, and we pray for those here that they may be able to hear your word God in their heart language.

* The Portuguese Class is growing in Passo Fundo and J. & A. are helping some students who have been open for relationship. Please pray specifically for M., an African Muslim, who is more and more open to relationship.
* More and more we are hearing about sexual violence against immigrants, including cases of human trafficking of young women. Pray that God will give us wisdom on how to help these women and engage against this practice.

* Pray for our restarted ladies craft and chatter event. It’s a great way for our church to reach out to the unreached people groups in our community.
* One of the church leaders and I attended an iftar (breaking fast during Ramadan) at one of the local mosques. Please pray for growing relationships and opportunities to share the gospel.

1. Thank God we were able to share His words during the Chinese Zoom class during Ramadan. Pray God’s words dwell in their hearts and they ponder it.
2. We will go visit our friends during Eid. May God guide us to have good sharing times.
3. God has started to stir up the church to be concerned and take part in the Diaspora ministry in Hong Kong. Pray to God to provide more volunteers for us.

This year, Easter came in the middle of Ramadan, so we planned a lavish banquet for our cousins after 8 PM when their fast was over. But first we invited them all to gather at 7 PM to listen, as I “storied” the entire chapter of Luke 24! These dear friends listened more carefully this time than ever before. Many voiced appreciation for God’s Word. Pray that the story of Jesus’ resurrection may play over and over in our friends’ minds, opening the way for true forgiveness from God!

* I have been doing in-home ESL tutoring with an Afghan man. Pray for our weekly meetings, that our relationship would grow and we would talk about matters of eternal significance.
* Pray for our continued relationship with our Somali truck driving friend, MH. He passed his citizenship interview. Pray for a receptive and soft heart when he hears Gospel truths.

* Ask the Lord to introduce each one of us on the Atlanta team to an unsaved UPG African.
* Pray that the Lord would save these Muslim friends: E., H., M., and A.

*  We have been working with about 30 Afghan families at a local hotel for 6 weeks. Pray for fruitful ministry and many to really listen to the gospel.
* Pray for Mr I who was asking me to “show him the proof in hand” that Jesus was real. May Jesus reveal Himself to him in a powerful way! Pray for Mr. F who recently accepted the Bible and showed interest in the story of Exodus. May he be freed from bondage of Islam!

* A couple weeks ago, “S” and “E” (“S” is an MBB) sent me an invitation to their farewell Open House. They are preparing to move to another city, closer to his job. We will really miss him! But I wish you could have been at their farewell last Sunday! We joined other families who filled their home with lively conversations, all of us discovering how God had used His Family assisting these refugees (S & E) in following Jesus in a new land and with a new language. Keep your eyes and hearts open! Is God tapping you to be part of His encouragement team?

* We praise God for new believers in Jerez and a few Muslim seekers involved in a Bible study. Please pray for faith to grow.
* Pray for new Ukrainian refugees arriving at our partner church Tharsis Betel in Jerez this week. Pray for God’s people to minister to them and ask the Lord to open many hearts to the gospel.

* Pray for the 20 students from India and 1 from Germany who attended a 3-day retreat in the mountains during their spring break. Pray that the Word of God that was spoken would penetrate their souls and cause them to turn from idol worship and become followers of Jesus.
* Pray for the Easter outreach planned for students. May those who attend be willing and able to hear God’s voice and turn to Jesus for salvation.

Several visits to mosques and homes are planned for Ramadan. Pray for Gospel opportunities and soften hearts to be willing to hear that Jesus is more than a prophet. Pray that they would initiate these conversations with true sincerity.

* Please pray for our Muslim friends during Ramadan to have visions of Jesus, and for us to continue to engage them productively during this time.
* Pray for “I”, who is boldly proclaiming his faith in his homeland. Please pray for him to stay strong in faith, and boldly, gently, respectfully, proclaim Jesus.
* Pray for “A” whose paranoia has increased markedly lately – please pray for his willingness to seek treatment for this and addictions. His love for Jesus is still very evident.
* Pray for “A” and “H” – brothers who lost their Christian Mom a few years ago. “H” is a believer who struggles with mental illness and loneliness and has begun coming to church with me lately. “A” is a self-avowed unbeliever now but is still eager to talk with me.  Please pray for his healing from a debilitating immune disorder, and for a genuine heart change to seek after Jesus.

* Pray for H and J: two students we are walking with and mentoring. Every day they are coming closer to the Lord. Pray for soften hearts.

* Praise God that through 7 personal Zoom “faith discussions” in February and March the whole plan of salvation was shared with B., a newly graduated Nigerian Muslim engineer. B. was not ready to put his faith in Christ at the end of the talks, but on his own asked if we could do a weekly Bible study with him. Pray that the Spirit of God would convince and convict B. during a chapter-by-chapter study in Mark’s Gospel.

* We have been asked to help start an ESL program for 15 Afghan refugees. Pray for wisdom as we begin this class in the next few weeks. Pray for opportunities to share Christ and for open hearts to receive this good news.
* Pray for increased connections among our Somali friends through Ramadan, even though connecting with them will be harder.