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A young missionary, wife and mother learns life in a new home. Learn how to pray for all new missionaries as Becky tells you her story... Season’s Greetings I moved to Russia in the middle of January. My friends thought me brave (albeit a little nuts) to be traveling to one of the coldest countr...
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1 ZIMBABWE Pray for Roland and Kathy Stephens as they serve at Karanda Mission Hospital. Pray especially for Roland as he carries a heavy surgical load while Dan, the other surgeon, is traveling. 2 CHURCH CONNECTIONS TEAM is sponsoring a one-day Ignition Conference October 4th to equip churches to select, prepare, and deploy missionaries from among their own body. Pray for TEAM personnel involved in the planning as well as Steve Beirn, Missions pastor of Calvary Church, who will be presenting. 3 PHILIPPINES Becky Martin writes, “Please pray for the TEAM Philippine Field Celebration, Oct 4 - 7, as we work together to cast vision for how the Philippines can be a springboard into Southeast Asia and beyond.” 4 US TEAMServe will have an Orientation on Oct 4-7. This will be a 4-day intensive, pre-departure preparation event for those leaving for their short-term assignments around the world. Pray that the TEAMServers who attend would be surrendered to Christ and open to all he has for them – even long-term service! 5 SOUTHEAST ASIA Pray for a worker in his supervisory roles at a TEAM hospital. Specifically, please pray for effective and inspirational leadership of our nursing department, which currently is collectively rather discouraged. 6 CZECH REPUBLIC Pat Foster writes, “We will offer 12 English courses this year and for most of the year, I will teach 8 of those classes. That represents a lot of people to impact with the Gospel. Pray for God to send us students with prepared and open hearts who are seeking his truth. Pray now that he will give them the desire to stay the extra half hour for the Bible time following the English lesson.” 7 PHILIPPINES Please pray for coaching of frontline national workers from October 7-14 in the Philippines as Candy Preston and Becky Martin join with a pastor and a mentoring coach to encourage and strengthen Filipinos serving in resistant unreached people groups. 8 APPOINTEES Pray for Peter and Kimberly Freund who have only recently arrived in North Asia to begin their work there. Even though they lived there several years ago, they both will be studying the language initially. Pray for a smooth transition, for patience in language learning, and especially for their two boys that they would quickly make new friends and become happy in their new location. 9 JAPAN West Tokyo Ministry Initiative—We praise the Lord and ask for prayers for Pastor and Mrs. Shiraiwa whom the Lord brought to our ministry team. Pray for there to be multiplication of salvations, baptisms and disciple making by the Japanese believers now that we have a Japanese couple working with us. Pray for the Sloans, Jordans and Nancy Abner to finish our work of disciple making and equipping the Japanese for the transition from missionary to fully reproducing Japanese churches within the next two years. 10 ZIMBABWE Please continue to pray for wisdom for the Board of the Harare Theological College as they search for a new Principal for the college when Dave Rousseau goes on Home Assignment. 11 US Kelsey Wales, Missions coach, writes, “Please pray for the Moody Missions Conference October 11-14. We have a few missionaries on home assignment and myself going to represent TEAM, to be a part of the teaching breakout sessions and to be active in building relationships with students. Please pray for the conference, for us as we seek to gather more workers for the kingdom and the relationships and contacts that will be made as we meet with students and live in their dorms for the week.” 12 MIDDLE EAST Workers write, “Oct-Nov is conference season here. Pray for the international, Annual Consultation - for the Body of Christ around the world to network their gifts and abilities in reaching the Middle East for Christ. Please pray for seminars and trainings offered to believers here such as spiritual dynamics/warfare and other vital instruction. Pray for those who want to reach their Muslim brothers and who will be attending conferences like these alongside Christian workers, many for the first time.” 13 SPAIN Jay and Carolyn Sensenig write, “Pray for a team-building event with the Tenerife church planting team. Our desire is to help that team grow and become even more effective as a new church is launched. Also, pray for a member care visit to the Ukraine to touch base with the Zurburgs and Denise Carter. They are doing an admirable job in a difficult ministry area and our desire is to encourage them.” 14 MIDDLE EAST Praise God for a resolution to the legal problems with the architect at the St. Paul Cultural Center. Pray for the start-up of a counseling center nearby; for funding, staff and permits. 15 NORTH ASIA Workers participating in three different outreach efforts ask, “Please pray for spiritual vitality for all our workers, more workers to join every one of these efforts, protection for the health of all our people, especially the children. Pray for God to burden our people to be about the main thing - sharing the Gospel and beginning communities of Christ followers.” 16 PERU Pray for more workers to help on the Piura church planting team with Brenda Matthews. Pray also for more church planters to start the second and third churches in Arequipa 17 IRELAND Linda Wagner would like prayer as she begins the fall counseling season. Pray for wisdom for the many difficult situations that are brought to her. 18 AFRICA Chad The Chad Ministry area would like prayer for good follow through on decisions they made at a recent retreat. They would like prayer for relationships with partner agencies. 19 US TEAM will hold an EXPLORE workshop at Tulsa Bible Church, Tulsa, OK on Oct. 20-22, 2011. Pray for those attending this workshop that God would make clear his leading in their lives. 20 SOUTH ASIA Two workers have had their visas fall through. Please pray for God to provide visas soon so they can begin ministry to the people for whom he has given them a great love. 21 SPAIN Carey and Sharon Owen write, “Praise God for his provision for clearing the land for the new school outreach from which we hope to see families come to know the Lord and begin a church. Pray that God will provide for fencing the land.” 22 COSTA RICA Thousands of students are taking advanced theology classes via the internet. The staff is aging and we need the “next generation” to step up. Pray for new staff members with a heart for this ministry to join us here. 23 PORTUGAL We need more workers. There is an exciting holistic vision and a wide open door. There is an openness to the Gospel not seen before in Portugal. 24 AUSTRIA Daniel and Rachel Zuch write, “An evangelism course and a new, intensive Bible study group are being planned for the Beheimgasse church in the fall. Since our last baptism in June, others have expressed an interest. We are tentatively planning another baptismal service for November. So please keep praying that we as a church will become more effective at making disciples who also make disciples. “ 25 NORTH ASIA Pray for two couples as they adjust to life in North Asia to master the main language and then to have the perseverance to tackle a second language practiced there. Pray for them to discover visa platforms whereby they can live and work for the long-term in this great city. 26 US Josh McQuiad, TEAM Missions Coach, writes, “Pray for follow-up from the Cornerstone University Missions Conference last month. Pray that we will build quality relationships with students, and that God will use us to help them discern his will.” 27 APPOINTEES Pray for Jennifer Hylton who hopes to go soon to work in France. She has to hold down a job while doing deputation, and her work environment is very difficult. Pray that God would use her to make changes and that her support would come in quickly so she can begin her work in France. 28 JAPAN Stella Cox writes, “The Lord is filling my days with people who have seeking, needy hearts. Pray for the Friday Bible class - unsaved ones will be attending so pray for their minds and hearts to be open. Remember a university student, Chiharu, who will visit me soon. She has heard the Gospel many times and seems close to believing.” 29 NORTH ASIA Phil Schwab writes, “Missionaries have been working with a group of national pastors training them with special emphasis on cross-cultural missions. Now the nationals have decided to start a two-year missionary training school. They are choosing 12 students, with special priority on training minority young people. Pray for God's Spirit to be in control of this new venture to further his kingdom!” 30 THAILAND Kennedy Paizs writes, “Recently I met with a man that has opened up a good place to have a Bible study with artists. They offered to let me hang some of my art there. As I go out and spend time with people I hope to invite them to this particular center to do a chronological bible study. Pray they would come and feel comfortable there and God would use my art to speak to their hearts about Christ.” 31 FRANCE Linda Guest writes, “So many people, like I once did, question the need for missionaries in France. When I was first approached about serving in France I scoffed at the idea but after research I became convinced that France truly is one of the least evangelized countries of the world as so many reports have indeed claimed. My neighbor’s granddaughter (age 15) popped by during lunch today and noticed a few wall crosses I have displayed. She, not I, initiated a conversation about God. I just about fell out of my chair! We talked for an hour about the difference between ‘religion’ and a ‘relationship’ with Jesus. I shared about how after submitting my life to Christ he delivered me from 15 years of alcoholism. I told her about the daily joy and guidance I get from reading the Bible. I gave her a devotional I had in French and suggested she look over it and if she would like to do so – we could meet regularly and start exploring the Bible together. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will motivate her to seek. She lives an hour away but visits her grandmother often.” |
