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.
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.
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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 that more young men like Pbeemai (read his story here) will be introduced to Jesus and see the value of sport as a tool for serving him.
Pray for Sports Friends trainers who are mentoring the mentors of thousands of youth all over South East Asia, Africa and South America.
Pray for wisdom beyond their years and an openness to the Holy Spirit for all the women and men serving with Sports Friends.
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.
Pray for help for young women like Prabhouti (read her story here) who are under cultural pressure to marry before the legal age of eighteen.
Pray for young girls and boys who have already been married off at young ages to find comfort, protection, and strength.
Pray for the villages in Bihar to be transformed into communities where men, women, and children can thrive and live into their fullest potential.
Pray for local village ashas in rural India like Khushboo (read her story here) who are working hard to ensure the health and safety of people in their communities.
Pray for the dozens of Chetna village teachers, nurses and other volunteers who make Chetna programs possible. Pray that they would be diligent, dedicated, and excited about their job.
Pray for Chetna staff to have wisdom, creativity, and stamina to face the challenges and opportunities they encounter on a daily basis (read more here). Their work is possible because of the good relationships they strive to maintain in the villages. Pray that those relationships would grow stronger and be protected.
Pray for the villages in Bihar to be transformed into communities where men, women, and children can thrive and live into their fullest potential.
Pray for families who are choosing between the long-term vision of education and the short-term need to provide food and shelter. Pray they'll have wisdom, foresight, courage, and that God will provide for their needs.
Pray for teachers and administrators of rural schools to be creative and compassionate as they teach in difficult environments.
Pray for Chetna staff as they seek to support communities in solving their own problems.
Pray for kids like Sacchi and Ashish to study well and be a blessing to their families and communities. - Photo by Sarah K
Pray for the city of Bangkok, with a population of 9 million (and more who commute into the city for work), that the people would not feel drained by urban life, or lonely in the big city.
Pray for Thai Christians living in Bangkok and Christian workers like Chris (read more here), that they would live out their faith in their workplaces and non-church settings.
Photo courtesy of Roberto Trombetta.
Pray for survivors of human trafficking to find safe places to be heard, recover, and grow.
Pray for those who are caring for girls in places like Redlight-Greenlight's home. They need wisdom, strength, deep love, and hearts that remain tender.
Pray for an end to global human trafficking and slavery.
Pray for Myanmar - as the country continues to open to the world, its political scene is still changing.
Pray for peace and reconciliation in this country, especially between the ethnic groups and the ongoing conflict (read more here).
Pray for Christian workers like Sandra and Tim (read more here) that they would be encouraged by God and their communities in their work, especially when it feels slow-going, and find a niche in terms of daily life in Myanmar and relationships.
