Price is high

A brother from the small community of Jesus’ disciples is having doubts. He feels it is not safe to continue in the faith. The pressures are very difficult for a follower of Jesus because all of life and traditions here are anchored in the fear of ancestors and Islam, thus, wanting to honor the God of the Bible, young believers are constantly confronted with choices, rejection, family and community isolation. Let’s pray for this brother, his family, and all those who would like to follow Jesus but are discouraged because the price to pay is very high!

Pray for RAIN

The Sahel is dry in every way, physically and spiritually! Let’s pray that it RAIN on this earth and in the hearts of these people, and that this rain brings LIFE! Let’s pray that the power and glory of God will be manifested in this place!

Forgiveness!

Thank you for praying for reconciliation. The two Fulani brothers have forgiven each other! Together they organized a Christmas celebration for the entire community- a powerful testimony to their reconciliation. People from the village came and were able to hear the Christmas message. I spent some special time with the children and also told them the story of Christmas with illustrations. Let’s pray that these seeds of the Good News fall into hearts ready to welcome it.

Still needing reconciliation

Pray that the main challenge that is dividing the two old men in our ministry location will be solved and that the body of Christ will unite and worship the Lord together.

Ostracized

Following their conversion, many people in this West African country are ostracized, making it difficult for them to find work and feed their families. Pray that God will care for them and that they will have the faith to trust Him in difficult times.

Pray for peace

My host country is currently going through a political crisis. Please pray for peace. Pray for wisdom to know when to return. Pray for the Kingdom to advance.

Enemy seeks to divide

The Fulani brothers and sisters in the village are going through a difficult phase. The rivalry between two men of the Assembly is slowing down its spiritual growth. Pray for a spirit of repentance, reconciliation, love, and unity of this young flock that the enemy seeks to divide.

Pray for peace

I would like to ask prayers for peace in WA2 and that the local population will be able to meet their needs. Pray also that the WA2 Body will be strengthened and unified, that they will not be scared but will share the Good News. Pray for the Fulani men that the Lord will deliver them from fears and many will turn to Jesus Christ.

Movement across West Africa

The Fulani are the largest nomadic people groups in the world. God has opened their hearts for His word. These people groups are dearly in our hearts and we love them. The South Sudan mission trip made me think of the possibility of a movement of the Fulani people group to Christ across West Africa by doing short term mission outreach trips across West Africa and preparing more Fulani believers for church leadership roles and making disciples who will make disciples in those short trips.
Keep praying for the Fulani scattered across West Africa and the world.

Trip report

Praise God for a wonderful trip to visit the Falata (a Fulani tribe) people in South Sudan. Praise Him for many opportunities to share the Good News. Pray for gospel seeds to bear fruit.
Ask the Father to send workers to live among the Falata as nomadic pastoralists.
Ask the Father to establish His church among the Falata.

Threatened with divorce

I have just received a call from the village to tell me that the young woman who has recently turned to Jesus and who publicly displays her faith has been threatened with divorce. Yesterday her mother-in-law gave the paper asking her son to divorce his wife. The young woman’s husband does not want a divorce and agrees that his wife should follow Jesus. But the believer’s mother-in-law and brother-in-law are very opposed to Jesus. Recently they took the MP3 player which I gave to the young woman so that she could listen to the Word of God. Yesterday the village assembly was gathered for a time of prayer and the chief (who is a Christian) when he received the paper to sign the divorce, simply tore up the paper!

Separated

Please continue to pray for a Christian couple who have been separated for over 5 months. Pray for grace to forgive each other.

Impressive and encouraging

My colleague J, and two Fulani brothers from here, are still in East Africa sharing the gospel with other Fulani. The news we receive is impressive and encouraging. For the past two days they have been in a village where community had been waiting for them since morning because they heard that Fulani people from West Africa were coming to visit them. It’s interesting to hear that these Fulani have a similar culture to those here and share the same dialect! It is the first time in their lives that they are hearing the gospel. This evening the village chief and some religious leaders came to see them to hear more. Let’s continue to pray that the wind of the Spirit will blow mightily over this place.

Healing hand

A Fulani woman has seen the healing hand of God in her body and has been coming for over a month to listen to the stories of the Word. Pray for her so she doesn’t get discouraged in the face of people’s critical comments.

Sharing the good news

My colleague J is currently traveling with two Fulani brothers. They are invited to share the good news with Fulani living in the bush of the South Sudan! Pray the Lord would anoint their ministry and they would see much fruit.

Now a child of God

Praise God for H, a woman who lives in a village south of mine. She is the sister-in-law of one of the Lord’s disciples. She has been attending a Bible study for about 4 years. For a very long time we had the impression that H didn’t really understand what she was hearing. We were sometimes discouraged by the slow progress. Often she simply repeated words she heard from the MP3 player but did not seem to understand the meaning. Then, little by little, the Holy Spirit worked in her life and opened up her understanding. We can truly attest now that she is a child of God. Her faith grows stronger week by week and she stands firm in the face of the remarks and mockery she hears from neighbors. She now asks deep questions related to her faith. We praise God for His work. She would like to be baptized soon.

Praise for T

Praise God for T, a young woman from my community, who chose to respond to Jesus’ call to follow Him. She sees the Holy Spirit at work in her life in that she no longer gets angry with her mother-in-law when she makes a remark to her! She has already come to worship twice but for the moment she will first be taught by the women of the Christian family, in order to be ready to face all the remarks that await her when it will be obvious to all that she is part of the Christians.

May salvation come

It’s been two weeks since the start of Ramadan. In my community, most of the men and a lot of the women are fasting. Please pray the Lord Jesus reveals Himself to them in dreams, visions, and whatever other way He chooses. Pray for B, a son of the chief who has been trained as an imam. Pray that in his sincere search for forgiveness and God’s approval, he will find the True and only Way. Pray for the chief’s other children and wives that salvation would come to this family and many others as well.

Marriages needing help

We are on a week of prayer and fasting. You can join us by praying for some key people in the church whose marriages are being tested.
In addition, the last two weeks the believers shared their vision with us. Pray that God’s will will be fulfilled in those visions.

Walk together

Pray for the local body of believers to identify with an existing local church that they can walk together with and build a good relationship.

Marriage problems

Pray for some local believers who are having difficult marriage problems. Pray the Lord would speak to them and give them grace to love.

Week of prayer and fasting follow-up

After our week of prayer and fasting, the tough situations are the same for now and darkness around seems even bigger ! Our enemy doesn’t like to see us on our knees so he tries to discourage us. But the Lord reminded me that my part is to be faithful.
Please continue to pray for perseverance, wisdom, discernment, patience and boldness.

Church planting

Pray for us as we prepare to have some conversations with the organization here, some local church leaders, and our team about church planting. Pray for a fruitful conversations and unity of vision.

Continue to pray for God’s kingdom to come. We are praying and fasting this week for a breakthrough and for wisdom and discernment for us to know God’s will and plan.

Prayer points

We have dedicated this week for prayer and fasting. Please pray for the following prayer points:
1) That God will deliver those who are attacked by spiritual forces of darkness and being threatened to abandon their faith.
2) That the body of Christ will be united to share the good news to the many unreached families across the areas.
3) That there will be fruitful conversations between different parties here on how to reach out to the lost.
4) That the local perception of “help” won’t hinder the spread of good news.
5) That God will prepare those we are specifically mentoring and training for the future of this ministry.
6) That those who want to meet the redeemer in DG community won’t be scared and threatened by the forces of darkness and the local religion.

Prayer and fasting

Our local Fulani church has decided to take this coming week to pray and fast. We invite you to join us. We believe when we unite in prayer and fasting, we will see the darkness recede and the power of God transform lives, heal broken relationships, and restore the broken hearted. We also want to listen to the Lord because we need wisdom and discernment to know how to advance. Please pray with us.

Persevere

We just visited one of our disciples studying in Bible school. We had dedicated a lot of our time as a team in mentioning this couple.The wife was the first one to believe and prayed a lot for the salvation of her husband. After the husband believed they started to serve God but the extended family of the wife were not happy and eventually persuaded her to abandon her faith. She left her husband in Bible training with their four children. Pray for the husband as he continues his training and cares for his children. Pray that God will provide for him and give him wisdom. That even through these difficult circumstances he will be obedient to the Lord.

Visiting and envisioning

We’re looking forward to visiting with some of the local believers we have discipled who are in different biblical training schools. We intend to prepare them to think about helping the local church here and some adjacent areas once they finish. Ask the Lord to call them to this work.

Critical time

One of the believers I have mentored recently went to a Bible training with his wife. But after just a few days the wife left him. They have had some challenges in their marriage for the last two years. The husband still wants to continue with his studies despite the fact that his wife left him. Pray that God will reveal himself to this man and his wife at this critical time.

God is the solution

Pray that locals will see God, and not missionaries, as the solution to their physical and financial needs.
Pray God will provide us with new people to engage with during this farming season. Pray for opportunities to teach about good farming practices and the Good News.

Partners

As we seek to partner with local churches, pray that they will understand missions better and desire to be involved in it. Ask God to give us the right people in the churches to engage with. We need more people on our team to help with the ministry.

Calls for genocide

Please pray for the protection and safety of the Fulani of Burkina Faso. This week there were hatred-filled audios shared on social media platforms calling for the genocide of the Fulani. We thank God that the Gendarmerie (special military wing) were already able to arrest a Muslim cleric, the main author of such audios against Fulani.
Please pray for the hatred-filled audios to stop, please pray for peace, security and safety of all people groups in Burkina Faso particularly the Fulani as they are currently put in the spotlight by these audios calling for their genocide.
Please pray for God’s kingdom to manifest powerfully in our country that faces many challenges. Thank you for your prayers.

Peace

Ask the Lord to soften hard hearts amongst the Fulani people. Pray they will seek peace with God and find the Prince of Peace.

Local believers

Pray for local brothers and sisters who have a burden to share the good news with their families. Pray for wisdom and boldness to share the good things God has done for them.

Stand firm

Pray for the few Fulani believers to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might, and to put on the whole armor of God, that they might be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil.

Nathaniel

Lift up ‘Nathaniel’ who I’ve not seen for some time. Pray he sees the benefit of fellowship with the body. May our Father reveal the hidden things to him.
“Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one ever bothered to ask!” b.graham

Come together

Pray for our ongoing discussions regarding working together with a local Fulani Body. May His hand lead us to them, or they come to us. May there be fruit from our discussions.

“Prayer lays hold of God’s plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit’s prayer .” – E. Elliot

Learning to read

Praise God for a group of Fulani MBBs as they gather this week to learn to read and write. Praise God for this opportunity and ask that they can use these new skills in order to deepen their faith as well reach out to others.

Households

Fulani men are caught in fear of their relatives and the religious teachers. Recently one of them, who had started to join the believers and wanted to hear more about JC, turned back because the other men were laughing at him saying he is following his wife and so she is the head of the household. He felt shamed and after weeks of pressure went back to his previous religion.
It’s really hard for the men to follow, even if many recognize JC is the Way.
Please ask for a breakthrough and whole families to come to the Lord.

Fulani church

Thank God for the ones who follow Him. Pray they will abide in Him and learn to trust that He is able and powerful to draw other people to Himself despite the hardship. He is building His Church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.