March 2023
Your Prayer Guide To Reach The World
Help Workers Share The Gospel in Vietnam
As churches multiply and grow, native Christian workers are key to training pastors with an accredited program of theological education by extension. More than 3,000 students enrolled in the first-level courses, and more than 1,000 began the second level of instruction.
Support Kingdom Expansion in Nigeria
In spite of widespread terrorist dangers, local Christian workers are providing aid to the displaced, drilling boreholes for fresh water and proclaiming Christ’s salvation. After distributing more than 4,000 audio Bibles, workers followed up with recipients and many put their faith in Christ.
Send The Message Of Eternal Life in Peru
After praying and fasting to discern where the Lord would send them, local missionaries recently set out to proclaim Christ and planted 17 congregations in the mountains, jungles and on the coasts. At the same time, their radio program daily reached about 200 towns in one area and 121 villages in another.
Help Form Steadfast Disciples in China
A native ministry regularly trains 20 workers from different areas to share Christ with ethnic groups in remote areas. At the same time, native missionaries from nine ethnic groups brought Christ to their own people.
Help Bring The Salvation Message in Kenya
Meeting many people who are ill and oppressed by unclean spirits, native Christian workers offer to pray for them and see God manifest His power. One worker prayed for a woman who had suffered with an illness for 15 years, and the Lord delivered her.
Help Equip Evangelists in Syria
Even among a staunch Muslim population, people in the war-torn country show a readiness to hear and respond to the gospel. Bringing compassion and hope to those who know Christ and to those who have never heard of Him, native workers are helping the displaced, teaching the Bible and planting churches.
Help Power Evangelistic Outreaches in South Asia
A native ministry focused efforts on revival and youth, bringing joy to workers as spirits were refreshed and members of the next generation committed their lives to Christ.
Enable Gospel Efforts in Bangladesh
New Christians at a local ministry leader’s church are growing in their faith as they pray during worship every Sunday and lead their families in evening meetings at their homes.
Help Bring Life in Christ in Greece
Praise God for refugees coming to Christ as a local ministry provides them aid that creates occasions to share the gospel. Local missionaries went to a refugee camp to pray for one family that had recently arrived and continued visiting them after they moved into a house.
Help Save The Lost in Burundi
In areas where witchcraft, prostitution and alcoholism are rampant, native Christian workers visited homes to pray for people and share the gospel with them; over the course of six months, they shared the gospel with more than 2,000 people.
Help Fuel Gospel Proclamation in Turkey
Workers distributing aid at a refugee camp shared the gospel with a married couple in a tent where other relatives were present, so they were able to ask questions about the Bible and the Savior sent into the world.
Help Save the Unreached in Brazil
Waves of COVID-19 have subsided and then resurged, and a native ministry leader and those close to him were infected and praise God that they recovered.
Help the Gospel Go to Thousands in South Asia
The chief priest of a local tribe’s religion persecuted churches for many years, but when he faced a life-threatening illness, he requested that his family take him to Christians for prayer. Local missionaries and other church members prayed for him for three days, and he was healed.
Send the Salvation Message in Burma
Sometimes relocating from one place to another to escape military and other violence, native Christian workers at one ministry shared the gospel with more than 4,000 people over a period of six months.
Help Plant Churches in Indonesia
A native ministry has 151 church planters sharing the gospel throughout the country, and over the course of six months they planted 34 house churches. Including people who heard about Christ through social media, workers shared the message of salvation with 15,800 people.
Help Train Church Workers in Jordan
The pandemic helped a seminary develop its online programs for church leaders and others being trained to expand God’s kingdom throughout the Middle East.
Send Word of Life to the Unreached in North Africa
Sports evangelism is helping to break down misconceptions that Muslims have about Christians. One 23-year-old Muslim involved in program soccer games said he was surprised to learn that Christians were good, moral people.
Help Enable Gospel Break-Throughs in Nepal
A missionary effort by native workers brought break-through instances of repentance, with many youths growing closer to Christ after sensing His presence in worship.
Send Critical Aid to Refugees in Europe
At a time when refugees in Greece could not apply for asylum until they tested negative for COVID-19, local missionaries helped families to obtain rapid tests so they could begin steps to recover their lives.
Provide Aid To The Needy in South Asia
Native missionaries took great joy in seeing how 60 needy children at their hostel advanced in mind and spirit as they provided them food, lodging and schooling. “We taught them Bible verses and stories,” the ministry leader said.
Help Save Lost Souls in Sierra Leone
A Muslim couple who attended a local ministry’s church service afterward said they had heard that Jesus can still heal people, and they asked the pastor if he could help them, as the wife was suffering stomach pains.
Bring Eternal Life to the Lost in Cambodia
A native ministry provides accommodation for university students and others where the gospel can be shared. One impoverished young man was neither a Christian nor a student, but after coming to Christ he has moved back to his home village, where he has obtained work and eagerly shares his faith with others.
Open Gospel Opportunities in Mexico
To work among indigenous peoples who have resisted the gospel for centuries, native missionaries received training that includes practice periods among different tribes. In two areas they are also providing education to poor children, meeting a deep need as indigenous children have very limited access to schools.
Send Aid to Devastated Refugees in Spain
Most of the refugees arriving from Ukraine, the Middle East and Africa are traumatized, especially women and children, and a local ministry has a team of psychologists who care for them and help them re-integrate into society.
Help Bring Gospel Transformation in Sri Lanka
As economic and political crises led to medicine shortages, native missionaries invited many sick people to worship services where they received healing prayer. One woman who had suffered for six months with chest pain received healing and is now testifying of the Lord’s power to other villagers.
Help Support Native Workers in China
Providing solid biblical teaching to deepen Christians’ faith amid hostilities and pressures, native workers organized seminars and Bible training. Workers at the ministry have established four college fellowships and planted 14 house churches since the organization began 15 years ago.
Help Send Gospel Hope in Chad
A girl whose father died told native Christian workers caring for her that she was in deep despair before learning about Christ. “Christ set the example by accepting to die for us,” she said. “I regained my sanity when I gave my life to Christ; today I radiate joy because I have Christ.”
Form And Strengthen Disciples in Pakistan
A native ministry that provides Bible correspondence courses also distributes a magazine as a follow-up tool to address issues for those exploring Christianity.
Help Plant Gospel Seeds in China
Pandemic-related church shutdowns have expanded local missionaries’ reliance on small group meetings and home visits to share the gospel. Meantime, a new training center is helping workers who are serving minority ethnic groups to learn how to better reach them
Provide Compassionate Aid in Lebanon
The need for medical care is growing as living conditions deteriorate among both the vulnerable and those with higher incomes. Medicine prices have also skyrocketed after the government lifted subsidies on most drugs.
Help Find, Vet And Evaluate Workers
In the most difficult mission fields where there are no churches and no Christians, native missionaries are doing more than anyone to bring the gospel to the unreached.