How to Pray: Mek'ele Youth Centre, Ethiopia

We believe in the power of prayer and that it is an essential component that brings the global church together. So when you pray for the Mek'ele Youth Centre, please pray for:

• MYC to develop and implement successful community-based models of sports centers and school sport centres for multiplication over all of Ethiopia.
• For more volunteers from abroad to help with our project and youth activities.
• For the development of programmes for our deaf community to more fully engage in the mainstream youth community and address their unique needs.

For more information about how to get involved, please visit www.sim.org/contact-us and quote the Mek'ele Youth Centre, Project number ET-92742.

How to Pray: Hidden Abilities

Thank you for your interest in Hidden Abilities. We value and believe in the power of prayer.

So, if you pray, please pray...

• That God would raise up a missionary physical therapist who has a heart for children with special needs who can also be the project manager for Hidden Abilities.
• That Hidden Abilities will be a place where children experience quality treatment, love and respect and will learn about Jesus’ love for them
• That parents will be patient as the children overcome their physical challenges so that they develop to their full potential

How to Pray: South Sudan Water Project

Pray that...

• People will come to take the water that gives eternal life.

• The water project staff would be lights in communities where he’s least known

• The Lord would provide the many needs of the water project to maintain its ministry in South Sudan.

Young men use a borehole installed by SIM

How to Pray: Grieve Memorial Clinic

• Pray that people coming through the doors would encounter Christ the healer

• Pray that the Gospel would shine from the clinic and chaplaincy staff

• Pray for churches to be planted and strengthened through this ministry

How to Pray: Leaders of South Sudan

Pray that our ministry may encourage the teachers in reaching the many young minds eager to learn.

Pray that there would be an increase in the number of girls seeking to attend school.

Pray for more churches to be involved and want to start their own schools.

In Hope of Completeness

Pray for those in the transgender community to find wholeness and healing from past trauma.

Pray for churches to know how to best welcome and be community to transgenders who want to follow Jesus.

Pray for Shalom's doctors and community health staff to have wisdom, grace, and unlimited emotional energy as they treat and counsel those from the transgender community.

(How to Pray) Disability in Kenya: Reaching out to the Hidden and Forgotten

Pray for the families coping with disability every day and their new support network.

Pray for Sports Friends Kenya as it partners with the local church to reach out to the ostracised families.

Pray for the team as it identifies a new area from which to connect with new families.

Pray that the local Kenyan church would embrace the vision for sports ministry, and that many more coaches would be trained to reach out to youth, their families, and communities with the gospel.

Do you feel compelled to pray for the Sports Friends ministry in Kenya and beyond? Sign up to receive prayer requests at www.sports-friends.org/pray

From the Nations to the Nations: How to Pray

Pray the Lord of the harvest to send out more workers into his harvest field.

Pray for them as the Lord places them in tough places of the world; in communities where he is least known.

Pray for the Harvest Workers currently serving in South Sudan; Getachew, Builanty, Marilla and Marina.

I Can Breathe Again: How to Pray

Pray for those who have experienced such traumatic events in their lives and are still living with those memories.

Pray for those who are victims of war today.

Pray for the team in Nairobi to be able to comfort those carrying trauma and for the strength and protection (peace) to do so.

Pray for those with unfinished healing and that they may receive counselling and put their troubles at the foot of the cross.

Pray for the funding needs to be met in order to provide trauma healing courses for the thousands of French speaking refugees in Nairobi that need healing.

Pray for the ongoing translation of course materials into French and Kiswahili.

Banda Go Up and Running: How to Pray

Pray for daily strength for Mary and the many other Christian healthcare heros serving in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.

Pray for the SIM Banda Health team in Nairobi as they continually upgrade and deploy Banda Go together with the clinics.

Pray that God would provide the funding (USD$1 million) being sought to enable the team to support the first 500 clinics.

Celebrating Ezra's First Graduates

Pray for theological training programs like Ezra Theological Course to continue being able to offer high quality training to rural pastors in their contexts.

Pray for the trainers with Ezra Theological Course to be wise and gracious as they teach and council students.

Pray for the students and graduates of ETC to be faithful in how they apply their knowledge of God's word.

Walking Into Mystery

Pray for partnerships like that between Jagdish and Sunil to be marked by mutual encouragement, discipleship, and understanding.

Pray for pastors and their families who work to support themselves while simultaneously pastoring their churches.

How To End a Life

Please pray for family members who care for someone who is dying. Ask God to give them compassion, wisdom, and an absence of fear.

Pray for the families who are facing the death of a loved one to hear the good news of Jesus and find hope in him as Savior!

Pray for Chetna staff as they comfort family members, speak with those who are dying, and educate their communities. Ask God to use their efforts to minimise the fear, guilt, rejection and isolation that flourish with ignorance.

Mothers in Missions: How to Pray

Pray that women struggling to balance cross-cultural ministry and motherhood (like the women in this story) would be sustained by the Holy Spirit and their families and communities.

Pray for a shift in thinking that would allow women's contributions both in the home and in formal ministries to be valued alongside those of men. 

Pray for mission organisations, leaders and husbands to value their women enough to give them an equal share in discerning God's will and leading.