The team went out Friday and Saturday from noon to midnight looking for people interested in talking about spiritual matters. The Father enabled them to engage with 99 people and 76 of them heard the full gospel message! Lots of them are interested in follow up conversations to discuss further. Praise the Father with us and ask that the HS would water the seeds that were planted. All glory to Him!

Ask for repentant humble hearts that feel the weight of sin and long for grace and the yoke of Jesus. May they have visions and find websites and meet believers who reveal Jesus clearly and truthfully.

A new believer has been kicked out of the house by her mother and brother for her faith. Please pray for Celia as she looks for a new place to live. May this experience strengthen her faith and cause her mom and brother to have a ‘Saul-to-Paul’ experience with the living, loving God!

Praise Jesus for the vibrant house churches who pray fervently for those persecuted for righteousness’ sake in nearby countries. Pray for the Lord’s encouragement and that He would answer their prayers.

May God reveal himself through his Word and humble those who are self righteous and blinded. Let each one who has heard your word feel the weight of their sin before our Holy God and receive the grace and forgiveness he offers only through Jesus.

Pray for Asher, a new believer. Pray he would continue to meet with other local believers and that this could become a group that meets regularly.
Pray for peace with his family and blessing on his business.

Pray for the people of Libya. A storm has caused major flooding. In one town the storm caused the collapse of two dams which caused a lethal flash flood. It is feared that more than 2000 people were carried away by the water.

There was a terrible earthquake in Morocco last night. So far, 1000 dead and 2075 injured. Please pray for mercy for those fearful of another earthquake, for healing for the injured, for God and his people to minister and comfort.

Pray for our medical outreach in October. We have prepared everything and are just waiting for permission from the Minister of Health to distribute medicine.
Pray for many to be blessed medically and spiritually!

Pray for our dear friend Jan, who was recently widowed. She is visiting us along with her daughters. One of her daughters, Sally, has suffered from frequent demonic attacks. Pray for our time today, that God would have mercy and deliver her and bless this family.

A colleague has been getting to know a local butcher. Turns out he’s an agnostic but open to discussions. However, we just heard that the butcher had a bad accident. He was trying to catch a train and something hit him in the head really hard. He survived but with a lasting head injury. It’s a reminder how short time is to share Truth! Please pray for his recovery and that our colleague would be able to resume their conversations about the Truth!

Continue to pray for our local brothers & sisters in prison for their faith. Historically, they have 2 choices…to recant OR stay in prison, which may lead to the death sentence. Pray for them to stand strong in the face of extreme pressure and persecution.

Please pray for our sister Joy. She managed to get a cleaning job this summer but was fired for talking with her colleagues about Jesus. Ask for peace and courage in the face of this disappointment. Pray also that her husband Simon, who is not a believer, would come to see that Jesus is worth it!

Summer is a time locals travel a lot, and towns on the coast double in size. Pray for divine appointments as teams go out into the crowds seeking to share the Truth.

May the Arabs hear Jesus knocking and open the door and eat with him and fellowship with him.

May Arabs believe in the Son and receive eternal life. May they obey the Son and see life and may the wrath of God be removed from them. John 3:36

Over 3 months ago, at least 10 Libyan Christians were arrested by the Libyan government. They were arrested because they had left Islam. One Nigerian & one Pakistani believer have also been arrested because of their association with these believers. They are being held for proselytism.
Please pray with us that these men & women would be set free. Pray that God would touch the hearts of the captors & government officials. Pray that the Libyans would be given the right to gather & worship Jesus.
We love Libya & we want to bless the country with our prayers.

May those who have never heard the gospel be drawn to Christian websites and tv programs. May they meet true believers from any nation and may those believers speak the gospel. May Arabs believe the gospel and be bold to gather together in obedience to Christ.

Today is a big day across the Muslim world as many slaughter a sheep in remembrance of Abraham killing the ram. Some do it just because ‘they’ve always done it’ and don’t even know why…missing the symbolism we know from the OT. Others hope it will count in their favor before Allah when he weighs their sins. Many this year can’t afford a sheep because of rising costs and worry what their neighbors and Allah will think. Pray that they’d see the hopelessness of working for their salvation and realize their need for a Savior outside of themselves, The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

Continue to pray for those imprisoned for leaving Islam to follow Jesus. May they have precious holy intimacy with Christ more than they have ever known. Protect their hearts from lies of the accuser and his followers. Pray they would be released.

As many locals prepare for their summer holidays and travel around the country, ask that they would encounter believers and willingly talk about Jesus. Often when they aren’t in their own neighbourhoods being observed who they talk to and what they talk about, there can be a greater willingness to discuss important issues. Ask that many seeds would be planted this summer which would find fertile soil.

Praise the Lord for ‘Asher’ who started reading the Word in December and recently decided he wanted to be ‘in the Family’. Pray for him to grow in his understanding of Jesus’ sacrifice for him and that as he reflects on those in his community as ‘dead’, he would have compassion to share the Life with them.

Praise the Lord for ‘Hank’ who decided to follow Jesus after an encounter on a language route walk. Ask that his hunger to read the Word would grow and that his wife and children would also decide to follow Jesus.

Please continue to pray for the believers in jail for their faith. Pray they would know God’s presence and grace in a profound way and that they would be released soon.

Praise God He is at work building His church. Pray for continued growth in local fellowships and wisdom for the local leaders.

PTL! We have a new brother in North Africa! He was met randomly on someone’s language route about a month ago and agreed to read the Word and learn more. The Father was clearly preparing this man, and on their 3rd meeting he chose to follow! Please pray for protection of this seed that has born fruit and that his wife and family would also choose to follow.

Please pray for family members of those in prison for Christ who are hurting and waiting. Some are ashamed. Some are angry. Most haven’t yet chosen to follow Jesus. Ask for each to see the light of Christ in each believer as they share in His suffering and may they recognize the worthiness of Christ.

Please ask God to give courage and peace to several believers who are in prison for choosing to follow Jesus and also to the foreigners who are also being held for teaching of Jesus. May the believers who are not imprisoned yet forgive those who revealed their names and be bold to identify with Jesus and their brethren as they pray for those in chains.

May fear not paralyze or cripple the children of God. May the church be strengthened (Phil 1) and may the lost recognize that no longer can they deny that there are Christians in this land. May each see that they are not born into any religion but that Jesus is calling them to recognize his call and take up the cross and follow him.

We have a new brother! Praising the Father! ‘Asher’ was helped to get a copy of the Word at Christmas and has been reading it since. In the last week or so he expressed a desire to ‘enter’ the kingdom. He just met with a local brother who explained things in more depth and Asher wants to be baptized. AND a new media contact who turns out has actually been a follower for a few months also wants to be baptized… a double dunking is being planned! Father is amazing!

Joy, a local sister meets with 2 of our colleagues regularly for fellowship, study, and praying together. Her younger son sometimes sits in and has started to read the word and is hungry for more. Please pray with us for protection over them and for continued growth in their faith and understanding of the Son. Joy is very lonely for local sisters to fellowship with. Would you please ask that Father would bring women to himself? Also, ask that His Spirit would fill Joy’s heart and she would be overflowing with the peace and love that characterize her life with God, the God of all comfort!

This morning is the beginning of “Eid Sghir”, the “Small Eid”, It is a 3-day celebration marking the end of the month of fasting and is a time to spend quality time with family and friends and practice various social and religious rituals and traditions. Eid Sghir typically begins with the Eid prayer, often held in a designated outside area where the men gather to pray, followed by a lavish breakfast and family visits. Charitable donations to the poor are also an important part of this celebration. As our friends across this country celebrate, please ask that there would be a time of sober review of this past month and that there would be a common sense of disillusionment and frustration at their inability to meet the required standards. Ask that there would be a new hunger and thirst for something that is missing.  Ask that they would begin a new pilgrimage in search of the only truth that can fully satiate that hunger and thirst, filling that void. Ask that they would meet the Son and trust in Him!

Jonah is a kind generous young man who loves spending time with us. He comes with a very dysfunctional family history and does not want his son John to grow up in that kind of environment. Pray that as we spend time together, conversations will turn to the ultimate, perfect Father and he will be drawn to His Son as he tries to ‘play it safe’ and participate in the fasting month here. He loves being a dad and is so proud of his son. Ask that this family will come to faith in the Son and that John will grow up learning the truth.

Tonight Muslims around the world will stay up all night praying and seeking God, asking for their sins to be forgiven, for revelation, and for dreams and visions. It is the holiest night of the year. It commemorates the night the prophet Muhammad received a revelation of the Quran. Pray that God will give many a revelation of Jesus.

Theresa (Sandy’s sister) speaks excellent English and teaches it to high school students in a distant city. She is a joyful person but struggles with depression and loneliness as she lives alone away from family. Julia spends time with her whenever she visits her sister Sandy. Ask that the Son would soften her heart and that she would have a hunger to know the truth and seek it until she ‘finds’ the Son. We have shared scripture with her by text on her phone. Ask that she would download the whole Word and read it.

Jonah & Sandy and their little boy John are probably the neighbors we spend the most time with. They could be our kids. We have fun together and they are grateful to have some “adopted” grandparents nearby. They are a bit disillusioned with the belief system here. Sandy has said how fasting is such a burden and she feels God loves her anyway – and she is right! Pray for more conversations that point her to understanding that Jesus is the way the truth and the life. AND that we will be able to read the word together.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28-30

Sarah (Fred’s wife) has been a huge blessing to us, bringing us meals, helping Julia host events, and sharing her life with us. She faithfully does her prayers and diligently tries to follow their beliefs requirements, but she has no hope. Please ask that Father would show her that He personally loves her and wants to free her from this life of bondage and fear, and has provided a means for that freedom through His Son.  Ask that she would understand that her motivation for spirituality can be love and joy rather than fear and shame. Ask that we would have opportunities to discuss His truth with her.

“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
John 8:36

Fred and his family have been good friends, almost like family. He checks in on us, drops off food, is available and helpful for whatever we need.  Fred is a networker and he seems to know everyone. But, he is missing a very important relationship! Please pray that, during these days of heightened sensitivity to the spiritual world, Fred would have an encounter with Jesus.  Ask that Father would give us the words to help point him to the most important person he will ever meet! John 14:6 “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

This month of Ramadan is typically very intense…
-for those who are truly longing for a relationship with or help from Allah- it is not uncommon for Jesus to meet these earnest seekers in dreams and visions.
-for the moderate Muslim, the month often serves as a religious ‘shot in the arm’… a hope that strict adherence will serve as penance for the other 11 months of the year lived less intentionally.
-for those who are disillusioned with Islam and religion in general-  the perceived hypocrisy can leave them feeling further disillusioned, even outright disgust.
-for those who have chosen to believe and put their faith in Christ, it is an especially intense month. There are copious amounts of pressure to conform.
Pray the Lord would meet with each one in a special way this month.

Three women are reading Scripture, eagerly asking questions and walking towards Jesus… but they are afraid to let go of Islam and believe Jesus is God. Pray that they would read Scripture with faith and believe God speaks the truth even when He is too awesome to comprehend (i.e. the Trinity).

Ask for courage for each believer to identify with Jesus even during the Islamic traditions of Ramadan. May they know how to honor and serve family while still being true and honest about following Jesus.