Pray for A, a believer who has returned to Islam and massive levels of demonization. She is currently non-communicative and in a worse state than she was even before coming to Jesus. Pray that this point of utter desolation and desperation would bring her decisively back to Jesus, never to leave him again.

Please pray for our team, as we often feel a lot of spiritual oppression and attack and discouragement.
Pray for continued protection over the Bible translation work, and that God would work in the hearts of the translators.

Pray for Mama S, whose hunger for Jesus has dramatically waned this year. Pray for it to be reignited.
Pray for B, an Islamic teacher who Jesus has been drawing for a long time. Pray that the kingdom of Satan in him will finally be broken and he will bow his knee to Jesus.

Please pray for H, one of the young believers- his father is trying very hard to bring him back to Islam.
Pray also for A, S, and Mama N, who have all fallen away from their faith. Pray that Jesus would open their eyes and win them back.
Pray against all Satan’s schemes and efforts to hold onto the Alagwa, and all the ancestrally inherited strongholds and ways of thinking that are opposed to God. Pray for renewed minds.

Please continue to pray for Mama S and Baba H that they would come to the place of seeing clearly and being willing to renounce the inherited demonic powers in them. May the Lord deliver them and bring them into the kingdom of His dear Son.

Would you please pray for N, a new disciple who has expressed a lot of interest in studying together and really understanding who Jesus is.

And please pray that God would lead us to a new skilled translator to replace the one we lost.

We would really appreciate prayer for M, who came to my house recently wanting to study the Bible together. He called afterwards and said he couldn’t stop thinking about what we’d studied, and that “Jesus is everything.” Pray his hunger would be genuine and sustained, and that we would get more opportunities to disciple him.

Ask God to bless the translation work. The Evil One is opposing the work- pray the Lord will intervene and protect those involved in the work, and give many the chance to hear His Word in their language.

Please pray for our local church, which is still struggling with a lot of internal divisions, grudges, and bitterness. Pray for unity, forgiveness, the filling of the Holy Spirit, and a missional vision.

Please pray for H, a young believer who came under some spiritual attack this month and almost returned to Islam. Please pray for him to stand firm in Jesus no matter the cost and to demonstrate Jesus’ worth to his community through his life.

Please pray for the H family, who I have been discipling for years, and who have come under various spiritual attacks these past months. Pray that they would take a firm and clear stand for Jesus and make a clean break with all other power sources. Pray also that Jesus would empower them and teach them how to forgive and love people who not only have harmed them, but continually seek to harm them.

Please continue to pray for the Lord’s protection over the Bible translation work. The translator who has been causing so many issues for us launched a new legal attack this week. Although it seems that her case has died before it even really got started due to lack of any legitimate grounds, it reminds us that this battle and opposition are still not over.

Father, give the Alagwa a new heart and put a new spirit in them; remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Jesus, bind and tear down the demonic strongholds of utilitarianism, pluralism, passivity, Islam, and group conformity; by the power of your broken body and poured out blood, bring these walls down. Spirit, breathe upon them and pour out an Alagwa Pentecost that these dead bones might live, that all the dead hopes, years of tears, and “No’s” of the Evil One may give birth to your greater “Yes”, your better resurrection, your bigger Passover! In the name of Jesus, Amen.

We grieve the increasing hardness of several backslidden disciples. Pray for a softening of their hearts, a desire to listen to the Word and an openness to be prayed for. I am truly frightened by the hardening I see in one in particular, a real rejection of, and trampling upon, the grace she once knew and the Savior whose sweetness she once tasted. I believe that though it may seem to us hopeless and far too late, the One who is the Resurrection and the Life may yet have the last word. Pray for us as well to be strengthened and persevere sharing that Christ alone is who we need.

Pray for the believers to grow in discipleship and courage to stand firm in the faith when faced with challenges. May they stay on the narrow path and refuse temptations to take the easy way.

The translation team is working hard and making good progress. Pray the Lord will continue to bless and enable them to make a good translation.
Pray the Lord would protect the team and this work from those who oppose us. Ask the Lord to convict one woman in particular who is causing us trouble. May she repent!

The translator who has been causing a lot of trouble for us has started a new volley of attacks this month. She continues to do everything in her power to get Pastor Petro and me out of the Alagwa area. Please pray against these concerted efforts to stop the translation work.

Many of our Alagwa disciples continue to mix traditional faith practices when in crisis or under pressure. Pray for them that they would really believe that “They have been given FULLNESS in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority” (Colossians 2:10). Pray for them to grow in actual loyalty, love, and trust in Jesus, even when he’s not working in the tangible, immediate ways they are used to in traditional religion. Pray they would taste of Jesus’ sweetness and never want to turn away from him again.

Join us in praying for an Alagwa Pentecost- that the Holy Spirit would be poured out and many would be saved!

Pray for H, a MBB from our community who is growing in his passion to share his faith and disciple others.

We would appreciate continued prayers for Asha and Mama H to see their lostness and run back to the Father’s arms. Pray against their loyalty to traditional practices/medicines and family pressures, and pray for loyalty to the actual person of Jesus himself.

The word I’m getting today for prayer for the Alagwa is that the Alagwa bride of Jesus would STAND UP. She’s held by so much fear and self pity and demonic baggage and inertia and passivity, but if she would just stand up, all the power needed for breaking these bonds is available to her.

Pray for Mama S, with whom I have been studying the Word for years. She seems more spiritually hungry than ever before, expressing her felt need for reconciliation with God. Pray for courage for her to lay hold of the one she knows can save her. And for her husband to get the same hunger.

Continue to pray for unity and wisdom for the translators as they tackle difficult concepts in Galatians which challenge their beliefs. May the Lord grant them understanding and faith.

Please continue to pray for Mama H, who has gotten epilepsy medicine now, but still has a foot in the camp of traditional medicines. Pray that she would come fully and irreversibly to Jesus. Continue praying for Asha, who has improved a bit in her mental illness, that she would remember and return to the sweetness of Jesus she once knew.

This week some Christians from another part of the country came through our area and were preaching the prosperity gospel and being really divisive among the believers here. Please pray for reconciliation and good conversations to come in the wake of this, and for our believers to understand and reject the dangers and lies of the prosperity gospel and cling to the Truth.

Pray for disciple Mama H, who, while I was away, returned to traditional ancestor practices to deal with her condition of epileptic fits. Please pray for her to come back to Jesus and put her faith in him even when he’s not healing her in the way and timeframe that she wants.

We’d appreciate prayer for Asha, one of only a handful of baptized Alagwa believers, who has now returned to Islam. She comes from a background of a lot of demonization and occult involvement as well as mental illness. While I was on home assignment, her condition worsened, and her family convinced her to return to Islam. Please pray that this is not the end of her story! Pray for her to remember Jesus and hunger afresh for him.

We’d really appreciate prayer for the Bible translation work, which is currently under spiritual attack. Some issues have arisen among the translators, who are largely non-believers, which could result in them no longer being willing to do the work. We would appreciate prayer for these translators to get a restored desire for the work, and for the work to be able to move forward.

Praise God that AICT leadership is coming to Kwa Madebe to ordain Pastor Petro today!

Please pray that this will be a witness in Kwa Madebe and beyond. Pray for Petro and his wife Lucy as they continue to lead the church there. Please also pray that the church would grow in their love for Jesus and boldness in sharing.

Last week one of the well-loved young men of our village died in a tragic motorcycle accident. The whole village is shocked and devastated.
Please pray for the Alagwa, who are very pluralistic and passive about spiritual matters, to actually feel their desperate need for salvation and hope in the face of such tragedy and death.

Pray for the Alagwa, as they’re finishing up the Ramadan fast, to know their spiritual need and inability to save themselves.
Pray for the young believers to keep listening to their Audio-Bibles, sharing their faith, and growing in relationship with Jesus.

Pray for an Alagwa secret believer who is beginning to study the Word together with some of his relatives and friends. Pray for him to facilitate a group coming to Christ together.

Pray for many of the secret believers and seekers who are trying to decide if they should fast Ramadan or not this year. Pray for courage to be publicly identified with Jesus.

Pray for one of the believers (A) who is struggling with mental illness as well as demonic oppression, and currently has little to no Christian support. Pray that the few believers currently in the village will reach out to her. Pray the Lord will stretch out His hand and deliver her.

“I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings…” Phil 3, 10
Please pray for the Alagwa seekers and believers; may this be the cry of their hearts! May they hunger to know Jesus more and be willing also to share in his sufferings. Praise God for the ways they are beginning in small ways to share scripture and testimony with others. May this increase!

Please pray for the local church as there are many transitions happening at the moment. Please pray especially for Petro and Mama Grace as they take on the leadership. Praise God for the passion God has given them both to minister amongst the Alagwa.

Please pray that God would break down the spiritual strongholds which continue to hold Alagwa hearts captive. May they be free to know and follow the One who gave himself fully to bring them fullness of life.

Please pray for one Alagwa believer currently considering baptism. May she have the courage to do this, knowing Jesus is worth any opposition she might face because of this step.

“Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit.” From Psalm 32

Repentance is such a restorative gift from God which many Alagwa seem blinded to. It is common for people to feel that they don’t sin or if they do, it is not a problem between them and God. Pray for this spiritual blindness to be lifted so that they may come to Jesus! Please pray for the believers to really lay hold of lives which are open and honest before God, confessing their sins and joyfully finding forgiveness.