September 2022
Your Prayer Guide To Reach The World
Send the Gospel in South Asia
A family suffering from various diseases for many years thought the gods had cursed them. Broken, hopeless and bitter, they turned away local missionaries who offered to pray for them. When workers returned, the family gradually heard them out and eventually allowed them to hold extended, fasting prayer in their home.
Bring Eternal Life to the Lost in Peru
A woman came to a native ministry’s worship and, deeply troubled, confessed that the man for whom she had left her husband and children was mistreating her, and she wished to seek God’s forgiveness and return home.
Provide Christ-Based Training in China
Local missionaries met a university professor six years ago and developed a deep relationship with her, and she said she saw Christ in them and became a disciple. They have nurtured her faith for about a year, and she is now discipling others and helping in local outreaches.
Help Plant Churches in Togo
Local missionaries took the gospel to a village that was in bondage to unclean spirits. Two village women saw demonic images day and night and couldn’t sleep, but they were delivered from these attacks after workers led them to faith in Christ.
Supply Compassionate Aid in Spain
The isolation resulting from COVID-19 hit highly relational Spaniards hard, with depression and suicide rates spiking especially among youth.
Enable Workers to Proclaim the Gospel in Iraq
An 8-year-old boy who received a children’s Bible at a local ministry’s Christmas event read it to his illiterate father and asked the native missionaries to visit them.
Send the Message of Salvation in Pakistan
A brick supplier who became ill and was unable to pay his medical bills became aware of his moral shortcomings when a local missionary visited and prayed for him.
Help Support Native Missionaries in Burma
Buddhists are usually closed to the gospel, but recently local missionaries were able to proclaim Christ to hundreds displaced by war, with 50 coming to saving faith in the Lord’s death and resurrection.
Help Form and Grow Disciples in Turkey
People in various cities in the overwhelmingly Muslim country have repented and committed their lives to Christ as Lord and Savior. In one city, local missionaries baptized two new Christians.
Unleash Gospel Proclamation in North Africa
A local missionary led a woman and her three children to Christ, and she and her kids began sharing the gospel with relatives and others. One of their neighbors also accepted Christ when one of their family members was healed of a debilitating illness following local missionaries’ prayer.
Help Bring the Word of Redemption in South Asia
A graduate student uninterested in the Lord asked a local missionary why God was not answering his parents’ prayers for his father to recover from COVID-19.
Help Cover Worker Expenses in Vietnam
Qualified leaders were able to guide and disciple new churches thanks to officially recognized training they received from a native ministry. Workers offered the theological training through an extension program offered through 12 centers.
Make Gospel Outreach Possible in Argentina
As COVID-19 cases declined, local missionaries resumed sharing the gospel in town squares, hospitals, train stations and other sites, besides home visits and telephone calls.
Foster Gospel Transformation in Ivory Coast
As people in some villages left ill will and vice since coming to the Lord, officials in other areas have taken notice and have requested that local missionaries come and teach about Christ.
Sow Gospel Seed in Cambodia
A native ministry was able to reach thousands of people with the gospel through its radio program. One listener said the Bible message brought rest to her soul for the first time since an accident that killed her relatives, as Buddhist monks had told her it happened because of things she had done in a previous life.
Help Spread the Gospel in Mexico
The depressed wife of an unfaithful husband put her faith in Christ after visiting a native ministry’s worship service, and then gospel workers contacted her husband, a mason and electrician, to help them construct their church building.
Help Expand God’s Kingdom in Nepal
A mother suffering for many years from leg pain and an ear disease began to be healed after she put her faith in Christ and called on Him in prayer. Local missionaries have been following up with her in home visits and by phone to build solid foundations for her faith.
Send the Gospel Far and Wide in Europe
The gospel is spreading strategically throughout Europe as refugees from troubled countries in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere receive aid from local missionaries, hear about Christ and then relocate to other parts of Europe.
Provide for Workers’ Upkeep in China
About 80 Christian ethnic youths attended summer camps where they were trained to abide in the Lord and cultivate a vision for the kingdom of God. About 20 workers were equipped to carry out these discipleship events, while others proclaimed Christ in mountain areas and on college campuses.
Help Plant and Grow Churches in Ghana
A community that practiced idolatry before local missionaries led many youths to the Lord has recently seen older adults also come to faith in Christ. Seniors that used to believe church was only for young people are now attending worship services, and workers are guiding the young people to grow in their faith as they obtain jobs and start families as adults.
Help Provide for Needy Workers in South Asia
When a 17-year-old girl suffering from bleeding problems visited a church and asked for prayer, a worker prayed for her there and later at her home. She began attending services, slowly began to recover and has accepted Christ.
Send Aid to Refugees in Greece
A Syrian refugee mother whose husband abandoned her when she became pregnant with her seventh child was homeless after officials rejected her application for asylum a second time.
Help Provide the Word of Life in Tanzania
Native missionaries are training new believers how to form and teach other disciples, advancing God’s kingdom amid hostile spiritual forces. Miraculous healings at evangelistic events opened many hearts to the gospel, and the message also sounded forth as workers visited people in homes, hospitals and small group meetings.
Bring Gospel Hope to the Lost in Lebanon
The parents and four children of a Muslim family in a refugee camp put their faith in Christ after local missionaries had several gospel discussions with them. In discipleship they are growing in their faith and are inviting others in the camp to meetings; recently a distant relative also accepted Christ. In various outreaches, workers recently planted seven house churches.
Proclaim Salvation to the Unreached in China
Visiting new Christians among the ethnic Lisu in their homes, local missionaries taught biblical truths and deepened their faith through a series of questions and answers. At the same time, workers recently visited unsaved families, sharing the gospel with them and planting eight churches.
Help Draw People to Christ in the Philippines
Many unreached people became interested in Bible studies after workers provided food, helped them obtain livelihoods and educated their children, while others came to the Lord through gospel events, film screenings and social media.
Help Lead People to the Lord in Burundi
In an area where most villagers practice traditional religions, local missionaries established a base for visiting homes with the message of salvation in Christ. After one such visit, a mother with three young children received Christ as Lord and Savior, and she has grown in faith in small group prayer and Bible study.
Send Critical Aid to the Needy in South Asia
Orphans and other poor and needy children received nourishing food thanks to food distributions by local missionaries, who also assisted families unable to pay school fees and medical bills.
Help Bring the Joy of Salvation in Jordan
A young Muslim began looking into Christianity online and made contact with a local missionary, but before they could meet, the seeker was frustrated when a traditional church he sought to visit turned him away because of his religion.
Find, Vet and Evaluate Workers
If COVID-19 along with economic, political and other tensions have darkened lives in rich countries, imagine what it’s like for native missionaries in poor countries. Violence and the pandemic have ravaged the lives of workers from Nigeria to Burma to Iraq and beyond, many of them barely able to feed their families.
