Prayer Points for the Romany

• Pray for continued unity among the Christian ministries that reach out to the Romany.
• Ask God to draw the Romany to Himself.
• Ask God to send more messengers to tell the Romany about His Son.
• Pray for justice for the Romany in their home countries.

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Persecuted Church: South Asia

"These are marks of grace," A. explained, referring to his blind eye and the scar on his forehead. "I could have died in the attack on the church."  

After his wounds had healed, A. explained to his small South Asian congregation, "God is using these things - the attacks, the bombs, the machine gun first - to purify and renew us, His Church.  He is calling us to reach out to the Muslims around us.  Will we listen, or does God have to do something more?"

As we have recently remembered the World Trade Center and Pentagon tragedies of Sept. 11, recommit yourselves to faithful intercession for Muslims.  Pray particularly for young Muslim men living in impoverished, hopeless situations to hear of God's love for them.  Pray that they will reject the temptation to become terrorists, choosing instead the abundant life found only in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  Also, pray for Muslim fundamentalists to have life-transforming encounters with Jesus Christ like that experienced by Saul, the terrorist targeting Christians, on the road to Damascus.

Praying Beyond the Wall of Islam

Missions Heroes Bio Byte: Jim Elliot

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose," Jim Elliot wrote in his journal during college. Only seven years later, Jim and three other missionaries gave the ultimate gift - their lives - in God's service in the jungles of Ecuador. Read more about Jim's life and death.

Bible Study: Becoming an On-Mission Christian:   Spiritual Awakening

By Shane Tucker

Spiritual awakenings are part of the heritage of students.  Because students cried out to God for Him to move during their generation and then they followed God where He led, great spiritual awakenings have shaken the foundations and changed the history of American Christianity.  If students aren't awakened to God's Spirit and work, however, they can't cry out to God to awaken our nation and our world.  Find out from Shane how to seek spiritual awakening in order to rock the nations with the love of Jesus.