1 GLOBAL August 1-30 is the Holy Muslim month of Ramadan (fasting from sunrise to sunset).  Pray for our workers in countries dominated by Islam that they will stay safe in traffic with many irritable and sleepy drivers and that they will have many opportunities to talk with their friends and contacts about what fasting is for.  Also pray for the 26th night of Ramadan when Muslims seek God.  The “breaking of the fast – Iftar” parties are great places to share one’s faith. 

2 SPAIN Carey and Sharon Owen write, “Pray for God's provision for the building of the first phase of the Evangelical Christian School for Sevilla. This school will be staffed by believers but the students will be almost all unbelievers. Historically in Spain this has been a successful way to reach people and now there is once again a great need for good education. Pray for God to open the way.”

3 AFRICA Zimbabwe Pray for the Harare Theological

College as they seek to register with the ministry of Higher Education and affiliate with a local university  (requirements of the Zimbabwean government). Pray HTC will not be adversely affected by these requirements and will find favor in the eyes of the authorities.

4 CHURCH CONNECTIONS Pray that missionaries on home assignment will be able to coach their churches in how to effectively engage in global ministry.

5 NORTH ASIA Missionaries have a baby that is ill with a terrible intestinal infection.  Continue to lift up the parents as they are very tired.  They are in the process of taking their baby back to the US for medical care. Please pray that they would get appointments with the right doctors that can identify the problem and prescribe a treatment that will be quickly effective. 

6 GLOBAL Pray for wisdom for missionary kids to decide on colleges to attend after graduation next year.

7 GERMANY Pray for Diet Schindler as he speaks at a special open air evangelistic service in the German city of Haiger. Pray that God would use Diets words to draw people closer to himself.

8 AUSTRIA Pray that God will provide a house and center for Heart Factory. More and more women are wanting to leave prostitution, but have no place to go and no income. They need a safe place to experience God’s love first hand and begin the process of healing and learning to trust.

9 AFRICA Chad Pray for Scott and Suz Downing who received two young families for their ministry team.  Now the Downings have the big task of getting them through orientation and language study.  Pray for them as they focus on teambuilding as well as maintain the momentum in their own ministry of well drilling and pioneer evangelism.  Suz is also homeschooling their children.

10 US TEAMServe Several people will be returning from short-term mission trips and participating in a time of “debriefing” at the TEAM home office on Aug. 9-11.  Pray that God would give these people direction as they process their experiences and figure out their next steps toward ministry.  

11 MIDDLE EAST Workers write, “We'd like prayer for a couple who is meeting with us privately -  he is a secret national believer and she's a European believer. They've been hit by an incredible array of setbacks and hardships since he came to faith, yet he has national people coming up to him all the time wanting what he now has. Many nationals are seeking! We are taking him through a 12-week course and afterwards he'd like to be able to give the course to others who are seeking.”

12 APPOINTEES Pray for Ted and Rachel MacKinney who served in Central Asia for 15 years with TEAM and have stepped out of ministry for about 5 years to be with their college-aged kids.  God is now directing them to return.  Ted is a physician, and both of them have a great interest in training medical professionals as well as reaching out to a minority group from a nearby country.  Pray for them as they re-assemble their support team and return to ministry…this time without children.

13 ITALY Missionaries write, “Pray for S, a believer of many years, who struggles with trusting the Lord in a severe family trial,  in which she is living. She has difficulty applying scripture to her daily life and often lives a defeated life, which discourages her and gives opportunity for criticism to her unbelieving family members.”

14 PAPUA Gail Vinje, TEAM missionary who has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, writes, “I will be in Papua June 24- August 19 to close up. This will be a very hard time for me after 35 years of ministry there.  Pray for my health, both emotionally and physically, during my time in Papua.”

15 SOUTH ASIA A worker asks for prayer that his medical license is granted quickly.

16 JAPAN The Tokyo Metro Ministry Initiative team’s first project  is SonRise Cafe/SonRise Church in downtown Tokyo.  Please pray for Cafe Manager, Midori Tamaki, as she continues to steer the cafe toward excellence and all of us as we continue to build relationships with many regular customers.  Pray for this to be a year of great increase in lives impacted for Christ through SonRise Cafe, and that many people will be funneled into Bible Studies or connected to SonRise Church.

17 NORTH ASIA Workers that run a hostel for outreach purposes report that the landslide below the hostel is still not fully repaired.  Ask that this will be repaired well enough that this will not happen in another rainy season! They still cannot open the Inn.

18 AUSTRALIA Pray for Marti Williams in her  new role of building up the women of Edwardstown Baptist Church – that God would enable, empower and encourage her in this step of obedience. Pray for the recruitment efforts for Australia as we would love to see God’s choice of partners to come and share in the ministry there.

19 AFRICA Chad Caught between missionaries coming and going for home assignments, Mechthild Roth finds herself alone on TEAM’s large Koutou station in southern Chad.  Pray that everything keeps running well.  Koutou station has experienced a couple cases of theft in recent months.  Pray for Mechthild’s safety and for peace of mind and heart.

20 MEXICO Art and Vicki Reyes write, “Our church plans to move to the new land in mid-August.  We hope to to meet under a structure with shade until we start building.  Art found a house for rent exactly in front of our land.  Omar and his family live in the house and can keep an eye on the land. The first floor will be used for the church nursery and pre-school Sunday classes.  Please pray for the transition from a rental house to our own property.”

21 APPOINTEES Pray for workers who leave this month for the Middle East where they’ll begin language study.  Eventually, they’ll be working with a hospital tol use dentistry and orthodontist skills to minister there.  Thank God for full support and open doors for them.

22 MIDDLE EAST Workers write, “Please pray for many in the royal and ruling families to come to Christ, and that we may live in peace & continue to share the Gospel freely in private.”

23 SPAIN David and Rose Prince have moved  into a new apartment complex and write, “Pray that God would make a way to enter into the real-life situations of our neighbors and that God would bring to light the situations and people to whom he would have us reach out to now. Pray that we would find those key people that can open doors for us in this complex.”

24 MIDDLE EAST Phil Schwab writes, “We have prayed for a vision among local believers in North Asia.  Now a group of 5-6 will join a short term trip in the fall to see for themselves what it means to penetrate Middle Eastern nations.  Pray for their support and that this trip will kindle a passion for reaching out with the Good News.”

25 ITALY TEAM Italy missionaries ask, “Please pray for three men who have expressed interest in taking on more responsibility in serving in the Mestre church. Pray for them to be faithful, teachable and that their shift-work schedules will not make it too difficult to meet together.”

26 SPAIN Carey and Sharon Owen write, “ Pray for us as we continue to evaluate and make plans for the next steps in our beginning church plant. Pray for God to guide each person and for us to grow together.”

27 SOUTH ASIA Workers write, “We are losing many long term families amongst the mission community this summer. Pray for us as we adjust, again, to these losses.”

28 JAPAN Praise God with us for the staff he has led to oversee the administration at the TEAM Japan Office.  Please pray for wisdom for this team as they work through a current restructure of operations so they can be more effective in serving and supporting the many TEAM missionaries throughout Japan in their various ministries.

29 US Please pray for EQUIP which will be going on August 29-31st.  Pray for the missions coaches who will be coming from all different parts of the US to attend this.  Pray that the Lord’s hand would be on these meetings, that we would learn a lot from each other, and that the missions coaches would leave encouraged.

30 CZECH REPUBLIC Mark and Gretchen Potma write, “Pray for us as we plan to host the “Lego Projekt” at Skalka from September 1-4. Each afternoon, the builders stop for a snack and a story from the Bible (told with the help of Legos). On the fourth day (Sunday), the kids can invite their family and friends to come to the church to see what they’ve created.”

31 PHILIPPINES David North writes,

“Last Sunday we listened to a message by Andy Stanley where he talked about some people who have a gift of evangelism where people just come up to them and ask them, ‘Can you tell me the way to heaven?’  Everybody on the DVD laughed at such an unrealistic idea… and we laughed along with them. 

On Monday morning Kathy and I were browsing in a Christian bookstore.  We were asking the cashier if their bookstore would provide a book table for a LifeWorks program we are holding.   Kathy explained that LifeWorks is a 9 week night course where Christians can bring their unsaved friends to hear about the basic message of Christianity.

 A lady who had been browsing in the store behind us, came up to us at the desk and interrupted, ‘That course you were just talking about, can I come to that?  That’s exactly what I need.’  We told her that it was completely sold out, but she said, ‘It doesn’t matter if I don’t get a meal or have a seat.  I’ll just stand in the back.  I just need to hear it.’ She told us she was in there looking at books and trying to find the way to God.   She said, ‘I want to know how I can be right with God, and be ready to meet Him one day.’

I realized we needed to make room for her at LifeWorks no matter what, but I also realized this was a ‘type A’ unbeliever, someone ready to accept the Lord who just needs someone to tell her. So I asked her, ‘Do you mean to say that you want to know God but you just don’t know how, and that you want to know that you will go to heaven one day, but you don’t know how to get there?’ She responded, ‘That’s exactly what I am saying.’  So I asked her if I could share with her right then how she could have a personal relationship with God and know she was on her way to heaven.  ‘Yes, please do,’ she responded.

After we shared the Gospel with her there in the book store, she accepted Christ with tears.  Later as Kathy and I drove home, we were stunned at what had just happened.”