Caring for the needs of people is integral to the missionary tasks of evangelism, discipling new believers, training leaders and forming healthy churches. Healthcare missions gives access to the unreached, allows for intimate conversations, meets needs, makes disciples and empowers the church.
Healthcare Prayer and Celebrations
South Asia
Bangalore Baptist Hospital, dedicated in January 1973, is celebrating its fiftieth year. The Golden Jubilee is being marked by opening of a new satellite urban clinic, construction of a hospice facility in an outlaying community, ongoing care of the poor, renovation of existing facilities to improve patient care, and networking to help other like-minded hospitals throughout India. Pray that the hospital will continue to provide quality compassionate care that brings healing and wholeness to those who come.
On the edge of the Sahara Desert unreached peoples live in villages with no access to water or healthcare. Through health lessons, Bible stories, and well projects, there are new believers and groups. Pray for them as they share with other villages.
People are struggling with depression, anxiety, suicidality, grief, and addiction. This crisis has been multiplied by the influx of refugees. Mental health workers ask for prayer that they would not be overwhelmed by need and be able to set priorities. Pray that trauma healing support groups will give hope beyond circumstances.
A worker asks prayer for the Caring Heart project which cares for at-risk mothers and children. The program includes some children staying in a home, a school for over 80 children, and a feeding program for almost 150 people. Pray for the workers and national partners.
A Bible story-based addiction recovery program will be piloted in coming months. The translation of the program materials is complete. Pray for the training of facilitators and formation of addiction recovery groups across South Asia. The goal is to have two pilot groups in 2022.
Doctors have moved from one nation to another to serve indigenous peoples who have no access to healthcare. Pray for them and their families as they travel to remote villages to treat the sick, guide them to better health, and tell them about Jesus.
Technology has allowed the development of new tools for remote healthcare through telemedicine. Pray for the development of strategies using telemedicine to provide care for those in need and give gospel access to communities which till now are unreached. Pray for a pilot project in remote Uganda where nurses and national helpers will use a telemedicine kit to examine patients with date being transmitted to a remote volunteer doctor in the US.
Pray for a busy clinic located in a community where patients regularly experience prayer and have opportunity to hear about ultimate healing through Jesus. Pray for the team doing home visits as follow up of both medical and spiritual needs. Pray for the local church which partners in witness and discipling of new believers.
Pray for a neuroplasticity clinic in Central Asia treating patients with physical disabilities that limit their mobility and function. Pray that as they find new hope for their daily lives they will also find eternal hope. Pray for transformation of their families.
