February 2023

Your Prayer Guide To Reach The World

Ethiopian Christian woman standing leading other women sitting on cushions on the floor in singing praises to God
February 1

Help Spread the Gospel in Ethiopia

In a recent one-day evangelistic campaign, a ministry mobilized churches to spread word of Christ’s salvation in personal conversations in an urban area, resulting in 45 people repenting and putting their trust in Christ.

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A Chinese man sits on a stool playing guitar while two other Chinese men sit and stand nearby listening and watching
February 3

Provide for Workers’ Expenses in China

Building relationships with recovered addicts and their loved ones, including home visits, native missionaries spread the Good News of Christ’s salvation to people who otherwise had almost no chance of hearing it.

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Peruvian woman with a sling hung over her shoulders and a bible in her hand shares the gospel with others
February 4

Help Form Well-Rooted Christians in Peru

Suffering stomach pains, a mother of four who made offerings to an earth goddess and was addicted to coca leaves visited a native missionary’s church. She accepted Christ, and after the worker prayed for healing, her stomach pains subsided a few days later.

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Child refugees at a camp in Turkey
February 5

Provide Critical Aid to Refugees in Turkey

Refugees from Syria needing clean water, food and health care are facing even greater shortages because of runaway inflation. Local missionaries are helping to meet these needs, including distributions of rice, flour, sunflower oil, sugar, salt, lentils and baby food, along with clean water, soap and feminine hygiene items.

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Indonesian Christians sitting outside on a tan tile floor intently studying the Bible
February 6

Help Workers Plant Churches in Indonesia

A secret Christian who has long been an influential Hindu priest has asked a native Christian worker to disciple him; he wants to learn more about how to follow Christ as he considers whether to make a public declaration of his faith.

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Middle Eastern refugees sit on couches made of wooden pallets while gathering supplies for their children
February 7

Provide Aid to Desperate Refugees

A refugee with a serious disease could not obtain critical blood transfusions because he didn’t have the legal papers that hospitals required. A local missionary found a way for him to receive Emergency Room care at a hospital, where doctors found his condition so critical that they treated him for nearly a week.

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Brazilian children sitting in a semicircle wearing headbands that they made and listening to a Bible lesson
February 9

Help Power Gospel Outreach in Brazil

While native Christian workers establish new contacts with members of an ethnic group in one area, others have been working for more than 40 years in a village where another tribe has long resisted the gospel.

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Pakistani women receive bibles
February 10

Provide Bible Study Materials in Pakistan

Many people write to a local ministry about how its Bible correspondence courses have led them to Christ. The ministry sends its Bible courses to Christian youths and adults, as well as to seekers, with non-Christians representing 25 percent of those enrolled.

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Lebanese Christian missionary delivers aid in cardboard boxes to Lebanese women
February 12

Enable Workers to Form Strong Disciples in Lebanon

Amid social, economic and political chaos, Lebanese nationals and refugees are putting their faith in Christ as local missionaries reach out to them. Distributing Bibles and gospel CDs and providing food and help finding work to the unemployed, workers also proclaimed Christ in home visits as they planted seven new home fellowships.

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Two Filipino teenage boys study the Bible together after school
February 13

Equip Gospel Workers in the Philippines

A high school graduate came to faith at Bible studies of a native ministry, which also provided him work as a cook at its Bible school, critically needed as his father had lost his job when Typhoon Odette hit and tore off the roof of their hut.

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February 14

Help Sow Gospel Seed in Burma

A worker with a native ministry went to a new village and visited homes one by one until he reached the last one – he did not know it was that of a military family, much despised by the community after the February 2021 coup.

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Chadian men and women stand around their town well to pump water
February 15

Help Bring Word of Life Everlasting in Chad

People in predominantly Muslim areas are more open to the gospel as local missionaries improve their lives with clean water, health care and education, but in some areas they brace themselves against hearing the gospel after receiving such expressions of Christ’s love.

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Jordanian woman receives a cardboard box out of the back of an SUV from a Christian missionary
February 18

Help Transform Lives with the Gospel in Jordan

A young man who served as an assistant to the leader of a mosque came to a local ministry’s church to argue with congregational leaders about Christianity. Later going through severe hardship, he had a dream that Christ was bearing his pain and had transformed His suffering on the cross to glory.

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African women checking into a health clinic
February 20

Provide Gospel Tools and Training in North Africa

A patient at a native ministry’s medical clinic despaired of ever being healed of a diabetic wound, and local missionaries read to her from John 5 the narrative of the invalid healed after 38 years. At the workers’ urging she prayed in Christ’s name, and she gained hope as healing advanced to miraculous stages.

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Cameroonian Christian families standing in a line in front of a hill
February 21

Enable Workers to Proclaim Christ in Cameroon

Native workers saw hundreds of villagers come to Christ during outreaches earlier this year, but sometimes the Lord worked in other ways. Local workers took the opportunity to proclaim the gospel at a birthday party, and 21 people put their faith in Christ.

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Iraqi Christians sit in chairs and on couches for a bible study.
February 22

Help Fulfill the Great Commission in Iraq

Security issues keep Christians from attending local churches in many areas, but they grow in the Lord through worship and study of God’s Word through a WhatsApp group, including questions and answers. In addition, about three times a year new Christians who wish to devote themselves to winning Muslims to Christ are trained in effective ways to communicate the gospel.

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Latin American children stand praying before they eat their dinner on the table in front of them
February 23

Help Feed Poor Children in Latin America

A nourishing meal helps impoverished children in Paraguay and other countries to learn, grow and hope for a better future. Every Sunday morning native Christian workers provide meals and Bible stories for poor children, then visit their homes to determine needs and share the gospel.

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Gambian Christian students sit in a row in chairs
February 24

Help Spread the Good News in Gambia

A student at a native ministry’s school was distraught by the absence of her father, who had left her family when she was a baby, but then a local missionary shared about knowing God as her Father and spent much time sharing the gospel with her family. The girl attained joy and confidence after accepting Christ.

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People gathering for a banquet outside in a town in Spain
February 25

Help Workers Proclaim Life in Christ in Spain

A family of five fled war-torn Ukraine, arriving in Spain frightened and without hope. Local missionaries spent time developing trust with them, and the family began coming to meetings at the ministry’s refugee center and accepted Christ.

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February 26

Bring God’s Love to Children in South Asia

Local missionaries providing literacy classes to poor children paid special attention to a 10-year-old boy who was anxious and withdrawn after the death of his father, and one day a teacher taught about how Christ will not leave His people as orphans (John 14:18).

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Chinese Christians gather for church with the choir singing in the front and the rest of the congregation sitting and listening
February 27

Provide Compassionate Aid in China

Many children in a remote mountain area experienced Christ’s love for the first time as native workers brought them food, school supplies and education. Without this help, more than 30,000 ethnic minority migrants without official citizenship would have no opportunities to become educated and obtain work.

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