Prayerline September 2024
Your Prayer Guide To Reach The World
Deliver Critical Aid During Tumultuous Times in Niger
With many areas of the country facing insecurity and upheaval caused by famine and political turmoil, people have great difficulty finding enough food. One native ministry aims to help those most in need through providing resources that will help sustain them through difficult times, such as goats for income-generating purposes.
Encourage Persecuted Believers To Stay Faithful in South Asia
A native ministry organized 20 trauma healing workshops in various locations and in six different languages to encourage and support Christian workers and first-generation believers who have been persecuted for their faith. One of the workshop goals was to train counselors to help address the challenges Christians across the region face as they try to live out their faith in places hostile to the gospel.
Help Struggling Families Earn A Living in North Africa
A mother of two children from a poor village decided to ask the local church for help through their lending program because her husband’s job did not provide enough income to cover their expenses. With the money lent her through the church, the woman began to sell fruits and vegetables, which provided the family enough extra income to cover their children’s educational expenses as well as pay back the lending service.
Restore Hope Through Community Outreach in Lebanon
A mother of four children, several with serious medical needs, became increasingly anxious and prone to anger due to the constant struggle to cover the family’s basic needs as well as medical costs. When the children received food boxes through the outreach of a native ministry, the family was overjoyed.
Support Missionaries Through Difficult Days in Myanmar
A native ministry has been unable to communicate with many ministry workers because of the ongoing civil war. In April, one worker’s village was bombed, and he fled to the jungle. He has not been heard from since that time. A ministry worker in another place fled with his neighbors after a heavy battle in their village.
Praise The Lord Alongside New Believers in Ghana
A native ministry organized a four-day convention and spent many days training ushers, counselors, prayer warriors, and other committees to ensure the event ran smoothly. “Praise the Lord!” the ministry leader said following its conclusion. “The Lord ministered and won many souls to the glory of God.”
Assist Those Whose Worship Is Monitored in China
Native missionaries continue to face more restrictions in their evangelism and discipleship efforts. Churches were required to install surveillance cameras on their pulpits, villagers have been told to report anyone under the age of 18 who attends church meetings, a particular translation of hymns has been banned, and wastebaskets were installed in churches in which anything deemed illegal must be thrown.
Spread The Gospel Through Community Engagement in South Asia
Part of a native ministry’s outreach includes helping with people’s basic life necessities and expenses that many would otherwise not be able to afford. During the last three months, the ministry assisted seven people with medical expenses, nine with house payments, and six with motorcycle maintenance so they can travel through difficult terrains.
Transform Lives With The Salvation Story in Kazakhstan
A teenager who recently became a believer traveled with native missionaries to a sports conference during which she was able to fellowship with other young believers like herself. But during the trip, her parents pressured her with negative conversations and told her the missionaries were crazy.
Share Jesus With The Lost And Lonely in Italy
When two native Christian workers began teaching Italian language classes to refugees at a local facility, they had no idea how many people would attend. And as refugees trickled in, they initially greeted the missionaries with uncertainty. But when their greeting was returned in their own language, their entire demeanors changed.
Distribute Bibles In Indigenous Languages in Laos
A native ministry is preparing to distribute audio versions of the books of Matthew, Mark, Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, and Galatians in an indigenous language, as well as Bible stories, worship songs, and copies of the entire Bible. “These audio tools have been a key source in proclaiming the gospel, as well as spiritually feeding both new and existing believers,” the ministry leader said.
Hold Steadfast To The Great Commission in Türkiye
A handful of believers in a city opposed to the gospel began a house fellowship with the encouragement of a native ministry. A Muslim man learned of the group’s meetings via the internet and contacted them. “At first I was just jokingly taking up his time,” the man said. “But the person listening showed such patience sharing the gospel with me.”
Embolden Believers To Evangelize in Nigeria
Christian workers from a native ministry continue to build relationships with the thousands of internally displaced people who currently live in camps across the country. In one camp of more than 10,000 internally displaced people, approximately 93 percent of the people are Muslim. But when Christian workers visited, they gave out 600 Bibles and delivered the gospel message.
Lead The Lost To Jesus in Argentina
A prison guard at a women’s prison met Christian workers who came to the prison to lead a Bible study with the inmates. While the missionaries waited to be admitted into the chapel, they conversed with and, ultimately, shared the gospel with the guard.
Tell Of Christ’s Transforming Power in China
A patient in a native ministry’s rehabilitation program had no confidence in his ability to withstand temptation. He was from a broken family and addicted to drugs, and he had been sent to prison several times. But during his time in the program, Christian workers shared the gospel with him and helped him slowly rebuild his life.
Support Missionaries’ Daily Work in Europe
During a recent prayer walk, native missionaries prayed for their neighbors by name as they passed homes and apartment buildings. When they approached a gas station, the owner came outside, and the missionaries asked if they could pray for him. “No one in my life has ever prayed for me like that,” he said when they concluded.
Comfort The Poor And Oppressed in Pakistan
At a school run by a native ministry, 225 children from families who work in brick kilns are able to receive an education free of cost. These families are mired in debt bondage that often stretches back for generations, and ministries such as this one not only support these vulnerable children, but they also share the gospel, distribute Bibles, baptize new believers, establish Bible study groups, and teach Sunday school in the brick kiln villages.
Share Christ’s Saving Message in MENA
A prisoner stumbled upon a Christian magazine and, as he read through testimonies of those who had put their faith in Christ, his curiosity about Jesus grew. “The more I read, the more captivated I became by His transformative power,” he said. “His message resonated with the longing in my heart.” In his prison cell, the man gave his life to Christ and began to study the Bible daily.
Bring The Gospel To Jungle Villages in Brazil
Many hearts turned to Jesus following native missionaries’ evangelism in a village deep in the jungle. “God has done wonders in the midst of that people,” the ministry leader said. Now, the villagers have become self-sustaining through the production of their own coffee as well as through the production of acai, chestnuts, and paprika.
Support Discipleship Of New Christ Followers in Kenya
Christian missionaries have organized multiple events and fellowship opportunities to encourage believers and nonbelievers alike. They evangelize door to door, lead open-air and tent revivals, visit the sick, and attend school rallies. They have also created seminars for youth and women, planted a new church, and baptized new believers.
Lift Up Weary Persecuted Believers in Southeast Asia
When a widow chose to put her faith in Christ, her son and daughter-in-law forced her to leave their home and she was banished from the village. Christians in another village built her a small hut and now help to take care of her. In another place, a believer who was a successful nurse was constantly asked to renounce his faith, which he refused to do.
Support Missionaries With Their Gospel Work in Palestine
In the midst of economic and political hardship, native missionaries serve their communities through local churches, which not only provide Bible training and fellowship, but also compassionate aid to those who need it, such as delivering medication to the sick. Christian leaders recently organized a women’s retreat, youth meetings and activities, and home visitations.
Tell Of The Mercies Of Christ in Mexico
After a native missionary shared the gospel with a construction worker near his church, the man asked the missionary to go with him to his hometown and meet his wife, who had cancer. Upon hearing the gospel, the woman gave her life to Christ, and she and her husband asked the missionary to return and plant a church.
Help Christian Workers Expand The Kingdom in China
A woman who was the only believer in her family of six moved away with her husband to find work in another city. In their new home, their job situation prevented her from attending church, and her zeal for the Lord faded. But, eventually, the couple returned to their hometown, and, after many visits and prayers from native missionaries, the woman’s faith burned bright again.
Reach Indigenous Tribes With The Gospel in Bangladesh
Missionaries from a native ministry have worked tirelessly among eight indigenous tribes, sharing the gospel and baptizing 1,940 people during a six-month period. Their work has had a transformative effect on many villages as people put their faith in Christ.
Support Income-Generating Training Programs in Burundi
A tailoring center run by a native ministry helps women—mostly single mothers—learn how to make different types of clothes. The center can accommodate up to 10 students and their teachers, and the women spend six to 12 months learning this trade.
Lead Idol Worshippers To Jesus in the Philippines
When native missionaries learned that the aunt and uncle of one of the ministry’s Bible students practiced witchcraft, they journeyed to the couple’s home to present the gospel. “It is her [the Bible student’s] prayer that all her family will hear and believe the gospel and be saved,” the ministry leader said.
Deliver Basic Necessities To The Vulnerable in Greece
Christian workers at a center for refugees provide compassionate aid to those who come to them for help, but they do not distribute Bibles because they do not want anyone to believe that taking a Bible is a requirement for having received aid. Instead, they gift Bibles to those who directly ask for one, which has created a ripple effect of sorts.
Support Critical Outreach To Hungry Families in Sri Lanka
Because of a native ministry’s food distribution program, families in several villages have been able to feed their children. These families often do not have jobs because finding employment is difficult, and as a result, they do not have the income necessary to provide for basic necessities.
Build Relationships With Indigenous Missionaries
In the midst of war, famine, natural disasters, and everything in between, indigenous missionaries carry on. They present the gospel in villages mired in witchcraft, brave maximum-security prisons to lead Bible studies with convicted murderers, and pray with refugees in disease-riddled camps. They are bold carriers of the gospel, concerned more for the salvation of others than for their own earthly safety.
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