April 2023
Your Prayer Guide To Reach The World
Help Train Leaders in China
Learning leadership in hands-on ministry and practicing spiritual disciplines, students at a native ministry’s Bible school developed deep commitment and conviction. Among the spiritual disciplines students practiced was regular intercessory prayer for the needs of others.
Help Bring Salvation to the Lost in Turkey
A fellowship that began after people heard the gospel through social media has continued to grow. The Christians have shared the gospel with friends, and recently eight church members were baptized in a pool belonging to a relative.
Support the Spread of the Good News in Ecuador
The Lord penetrated the hearts of criminals as local Christian workers proclaimed the gospel in prison courtyards. “Several converted to the Lord and along with others attend the daily services,” the native ministry leader said.
Help Reconcile People to God in Nigeria
Christ’s command to help the poor helped break down hostilities from Muslims and open the hearts of the poor to the Good News. “Our work has continued to grow as we witness converts in many fields,” the ministry leader said.
Send Messengers of Eternal Life in South Asia
A mother tried witchcraft among many treatments she tried to relieve migraines she had suffered for a year. As a last resort she went to local Christian workers for healing prayer, and within a few days she was completely cured.
Help Bring Christ to Refugees in the Netherlands
A Muslim refugee from Syria came to the Netherlands after concluding that his wife and children, kidnapped by Islamic State terrorists six years prior, were no longer alive. “He would cry a lot and feel very guilty because he could not help his family,” the native ministry leader said.
Help Workers Bring God’s Saving Power in Malawi
As an evangelistic team recently went to villages and towns, they saw people hungry for the Word of God who were touched by God’s grace. “We saw the Lord moving at each meeting with His power, and everywhere we went, we saw many got saved and set free and healed during prayer,” the native ministry leader said.
Enable Local Workers to Share their Faith in Burma
Meeting only during the day because of gunfire and rockets at night, local Christian workers held a six-day event that 100 people attended daily, strengthening their faith. “There were testimonies by people saying, ‘Only now I’ve come to see the real Christian life,’ or, ‘Only now do I know the victorious spiritual life,’” the ministry leader said.
Provide Christ’s Healing and Salvation in Iraq
A local ministry’s Mobile Medical Clinic treated all manner of illnesses, including heart disease, cancer and diabetes. The workers prayed with patients, provided them Bibles and shared the gospel.
Support Native Missionaries’ Gospel Work in Argentina
A married mother of four children who had gone to church activities only as a child and never accepted Christ recently began attending worship services. “Listening to the gospel, she realized her need for forgiveness and salvation,” the ministry leader said.
Provide Crucial Aid for the Needy in Bangladesh
People suffering from unprecedented flooding received critical aid from a native ministry thanks to your donations. A Muslim father of three children said no one came to help his family when flooding left them hungry and unable to work until a native Christian worker brought them food.
Help Build Strong Disciples in North Africa
A street vendor used to defraud customers until he received a visit from a local Christian worker who invited him to a gospel event, where the man prayed for forgiveness and accepted Christ. Every aspect of his daily life has changed as he has grown in the Lord.
Bring the Message of Eternal Life in China
Forming new relationships and sharing the gospel, native missionaries recently baptized seven new Christians. Workers disciple them and others through private visits, and Christians also help to build each other up in small groups in homes.
Help Drive Kingdom Expansion in South Asia
Tribal people steeped in centuries of animist tradition have become more open to local Christian workers sharing the gospel with them. “Because they are very strong in their belief, it’s not so easy to have a big break-through,” the native ministry leader said, “but one woman has been a blessing to us when she accepted Christ and took baptism, and now she is very strong in her newfound Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and very active in the women’s ministry.”
Help Spread the Word of Salvation in the Philippines
Among tribal people attending recent gospel presentations were former communist rebels. Local missionaries also taught witnessing as a lifestyle to church members who then began proclaiming the gospel to many others; one shared Christ with relatives and friends at a graveside vigil during All Souls Day.
Equip Gospel Workers in Lebanon
The kingdom of God is expanding as local Christian workers and refugees coming to Christ share the gospel. Muslim refugees from Syria and elsewhere who have accepted Christ are eager to testify to others despite dangers.
Help Turn Occultists to Christ in Africa
Athletes and those supporting them at market-day matches resorted to witchcraft in efforts to gain an edge, but one of the top athletes heard the gospel at a native ministry’s evangelistic event and received Christ, leaving the occult to serve the Lord in a church.
Help Plant and Grow Faith in Christ in Nepal
Recently 239 new Christians were solidly grounded in their faith through a three-day training that local Christian workers provided. A high school girl said she thanked God for the training, adding, “I learned many things about God and the Bible.”
Provide Aid to Desperate Refugees in Greece
A local ministry over the course of a year arranged for 105 nights of emergency housing for the most vulnerable refugees, such as unaccompanied minors and single women with children facing homelessness or domestic violence. Thousands of other refugees received baby formula, diapers, food and clothing.
Help Proclaim the Messiah in Israel
The brother of a man who received Christ at a local ministry’s church also became involved with the congregation, including attendance at meetings for young adults. Recently he called the ministry leader and joyfully told him he had repented and that Christ had given him a new heart.
Provide Compassionate Aid in Zimbabwe
Learning of a widow who suffered partial blindness for five months, local Christian workers prayed she would be able to get an eye operation, though the costs were far beyond what anyone could afford. After more than three months, on faith they took her to a hospital – on a day when doctors happened to be doing eye operations for free.
Provide Critical Care for the Needy in Sri Lanka
Villagers that once opposed outreach are now more welcoming after seeing and experiencing God’s love through local Christian workers’ aid to the poor. “These days village poor people are suffering,” the native ministry leader said.
Help Bring Christ’s Love to Refugees in Spain
A Muslim refugee from sub-Saharan Africa arrived at a local ministry and began attending Bible studies. The son of a mosque leader, he received a Bible but had to read it in secret as he was sharing a room with Muslims from his country.
Support Evangelism and Discipleship in Indonesia
New Christians learned to share their testimonies and pray in house churches spread across several villages, with local Christian workers using MP3 players to convey Bible passages to those who cannot read. Workers identified a “person of peace” in each village who helped them make contact with other people.
Equip Workers to Share Christ in China
Family members were appealing to several gods for healing from an illness they had suffered for many years when native Christian workers paid them a visit and shared the gospel. The family put their faith in Christ, and in later visits the workers continued to pray for them, seeing great improvement in their condition.
Help Plant and Grow Gospel Seeds in Laos
After three years of COVID-19 pausing a native ministry from holding seminars, local Christian workers were overjoyed to resume the meetings with 60 pastors and other leaders to advise and encourage them. At another seminar where 106 attended, 46 had been persecuted, including one who was imprisoned for traveling to unreached people.
Help Provide Gospel Transformation in Kenya
People who have never seen a movie walk miles through the jungle at night to see the Jesus Film in their own language. Local Christian workers providing the film saw conversions at every screening.
Help Bring the Good News in South Asia
A 17-year-old girl heard a local Christian worker’s gospel message on YouTube and wanted to learn more, so she began attending a native ministry’s church. She put her faith in Christ and, as her village had no church, requested workers start a prayer meeting at her house; now more than four new families and others are worshipping there. “
Help Form and Strengthen New Christians in Peru
Local Christian workers praise God for opportunities to work among new tribal communities. Visiting homes and sending biblical messages to those they’ve met through WhatsApp, they have seen villagers begin to attend area churches with their families.
Help Find, Vet and Evaluate Workers
Even with the tremendous inroads the gospel has made in the past few centuries, there are more than 7,000 people groups that remain unreached. Native Christian workers wake up every day with zeal to reach these groups, as they are their own people.