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
Pray for SIM’s administrative personnel - people like Veronica who are often making big sacrifices in order to ensure the work of bringing good news to people who haven’t heard can go on.
It’s often really hard for people providing essential infrastructure services (like accounting and personnel management) to raise sufficient funds. Pray that donors will understand the necessity for these roles and give enthusiastically.
Pray for new admin personnel to join the work of SIM. In many regions one or two personnel are managing the needs of hundreds of cross-cultural workers. They need more help!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Pray for the urban poor communities of Bangkok to see the love, dignity and acceptance offered by the gospel - good news for the poor.
Pray for the Rac Chum Chon team (read/watch more about them here) as they continue to build relationships amidst these communities and wait patiently for people to respond in their own time.
Pray for greater awareness of the poor among the usually middle-class churches of Bangkok.
Pray for more coaches like Aof (watch her story here) who can use their own experiences of deciding to follow Christ to mentor kids in their communities.
Pray for the hundreds of local football clubs that are currently mentoring youth throughout Southeast Asia as a result of Sports Friends coach training.
Pray for the Sports Friends trainers and leadership in Northern and Central Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and India. Pray for team unity, wisdom and energy.
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.
Pray that the millions of traditionally Buddhist Thai people (like Tee, watch his story here) who feel distant from their parents' religion would have an opportunity to be introduced to Jesus.
Pray for the Thai church to be unified in reaching their own people who are less than one per cent Christian.
Pray for more church planters from Thailand and all over the world to come and help establish churches in Thai cities without any Christian presence.
