Join in praying for those affected by crisis, that they would experience God’s mercy, find hope in the gospel, and know lasting peace.
Use this guided prayer resource to pray for urgent needs, the lost to encounter Christ, and believers to share His peace.
Please pray for Ruth, a young woman from North Carolina who will spend her summer investing in students and making disciples at the Liberia Baptist Theological Seminary. Pray for the missionaries who will receive Ruth and assist her in language/culture learning and ministry opportunities. Lift up Ruth as she prepares, both logistically and spiritually, for her summer, as well as for the various ministries she will take part in. Finally, please ask the Lord to continue raising up more laborers -- both nationally and internationally -- to serve in Liberia.
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Pray that local brothers and sisters in Christ will be burdened to reach out to unreached people in the areas where they live. Ask the Lord to give them boldness and confidence to proclaim the good news, and pray that He will remove any fears that may be hindering them.
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Please join us in praying for campus fellowships in Incheon. University is such a critical time in students' lives as they form convictions, relationships and life direction. Student leaders involved in these ministries carry a lot of responsibility as they serve their peers while navigating academic pressure and personal growth. Please pray that these leaders and other believers on campus would be encouraged and strengthened in their relationship with Christ, finding steady joy and renewal as they walk with Him. Ask that their love for Jesus would overflow naturally into their friendships and conversations on campus. Pray that they would share their faith with joy and confidence and that many students would be drawn into community and deeper trust in Christ through their witness.
In December, you were asked to pray for Rose, who works hard to support her mother and her siblings. She has a lot of family concerns that seem to weigh her down. Rose has heard the truth many times from believers whom she has worked alongside, but since Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting (which ended in mid-March this year), she has been uninterested in hearing more. Over Easter week, Rose was invited by a friend to watch "The Passion of the Christ" movie. She and several women who have not yet followed Christ watched the movie with some others who do follow Him. Rose walked out in the middle, claiming that it was too scary for her. Please lift up Rose and her friends as they consider the truth portrayed in the movie -- the part or whole of the movie that they saw. Pray that, together, these women will seek to understand what is true and follow Jesus. Pray that Rose will be open to hearing and talking about what she is thinking. Intercede for her family, asking that God will be glorified in the difficult situations through which they are walking.
"While looking for one people group, we missed one of our connecting buses," missionary explorer Dean Missier shares. "So we decided to walk around that village. Not two minutes after asking the Lord for an opportunity to meet our group, we hit the end of a side street where a man came tearing out of his home adamantly telling us to come inside with him and his family (it was well over 100 degrees). After this family shared their lunch with us, we discovered that they were the group we were looking for! We spent all evening with them and shared the complete story (creation to Christ), which they had never heard before. They were friendly but not interested in hearing more. This people group is very proud, even arrogant, of their work and beliefs. They said that they are the gods' gift to humanity. Please pray for humility without which none of them can believe."
Please pray today for Josh Davidson, a missionary explorer who has been seeking to share the gospel with a Muslim unengaged, unreached people group (UUPG). His team found it difficult to share the gospel with them because of their strong beliefs. Josh wrote, "I tried to share, and one man would interrupt, and he didn't want to listen to me. But before we left, my national partner knew that he wanted to share with him, so he did! I'm just excited that he is being so bold, taking initiative, and not feeling like he has to follow my leadership to follow the Holy Spirit. We are having so much joy." Please pray for Josh and his partner to have more open doors to share among this UUPG.
Missionary explorer Emmie Johnston shared that one of the people groups they are seeking follows the Baha'i faith. Her team learned about a Baha'i temple in their city and decided to go. "We went but we didn't even have time to go inside because of the awesome conversations we got into. My partner and I got to talk with a young woman who started following Baha'i faith only a year ago. She gave us some good info, but we also got to ask her about what she believes. My partner did a great job asking about what happens when we die and sharing the hope of Jesus! At the same time, my teammate and her partner were able to share with an older man who has worked at the temple for 30 years but believed what they told him was true! We were able to bring him a Bible. Please pray for this man and young woman to be changed by the Word and for the truth of the good news to be clear for people of the Baha'i faith!"
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Pray for a group of local believers who have a research trip planned to a group of islands that lie off the southwestern coast of India. This trip will focus on meeting and sharing the gospel with groups on those islands who have never heard the truth of who Jesus is. Pray for boldness and protection from persecution.
(LEE-muh) - "The journeymen on our Lima Global City Team have been teaching English at a community center in hopes of building relationships with parents and engaging them with the gospel. Give thanks to the Lord that 17 mothers waited outside an English class last month! Pray for Maria, Raquel, and Lilli -- and for their husbands -- to invite us into their homes. Pray that they will hunger to hear the Word of God and be transformed by it."
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In March, two volunteer teams of university students joined Baptist representatives in Hungary to receive training in how to share the gospel. "Over the course of three mornings, the students were trained in how to approach people, introduce themselves as followers of Jesus, pray with individuals, share personal testimonies, and present the gospel. Each afternoon, the students put into practice what they had learned. We thank the Lord for the obedience and faithfulness of each student who participated. We also rejoice that three individuals have become followers of Jesus! Please join us in praying for these new believers and for the new Bible study group that has formed. We are especially excited that these three young men are already sharing with others how God has changed their lives. Please pray for another university volunteer team that will come to Budapest, Hungary, in May. This group will receive the same training, so pray for open and receptive hearts among those they will encounter; may those people hear and respond to the invitation to follow Jesus. God is moving in Hungary and throughout Eastern Europe. Thank you for standing with us in prayer and for joining us in the work that God is doing!"
(DEE-goh) - The Islamic month of Ramadan ended in mid-March on the East African coast. It's a month devoted to praying and fasting during the hours of the day when the sun is out. Muslims pray for Allah to reveal himself to them. Many people have dreams and visions of a "Man in White" during this time, but they can sometimes be reluctant, especially during what they consider to be a holy month, to seek out an explanation. Please pray that the Digo who prayed for Allah to reveal himself, or those who had a dream or vision, will have the courage to find a Christian who can explain who Jesus is or else secure a copy of the Bible and begin reading about salvation through Jesus Christ alone. "And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12 ESV). May they know that Jesus Christ is the only way to be saved.
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"Pray for unity within one of our Deaf Bible study groups that meets weekly and is currently experiencing conflict. Ask the Lord to bring healing, humility, and understanding, and to remind each person that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against spiritual forces (Ephesians 6:12). Pray that peace, love, and Christ-centered unity will be restored."
There is a growing presence of Chinese in one U.K. borough and an adjacent district. May God provide open doors for cooperation with two local churches to reach the Chinese community. May He help them identify needs and determine how to best partner in doing outreach and starting a Bible Study that will lead to a new church.
The Cai, also called Caijia, live in China's Guizhou Province and are one of many "Undetermined Minorities." They are similar to other minority groups, like the Lu, Gelao or the Miao, but they consider themselves to be distinct enough to warrant their own minority status. The Cai are often shepherds or goatherders and many of them worship various gods and spirits. Today, praise God, there are Cai Christians who heard the gospel from other minority groups who were sent out to reach them. Please pray for these believers to grow deep in their faith and take the good news to others in the community and beyond. Though many are poor, pray for them to offer their little to the God who still can do great things with a small offering. Pray for strong churches to populate the villages where the Cai live and begin to transform whole communities.
