SGWM AUG PRAYER UPDATE

EUROPE

Mitch and Christine Sorensen – Nice, France

Dear prayer warrior, thank you for your faithfulness in regards to us.

Prayer Requests:
1. Pray for Christine’s dad who is not saved in the hospital and slowly going the way of all flesh.

2. Pray for Christine who has been working hard and very tired now after all her efforts.

3. Pray that as the government here is planning obligatory vaccines we will stay strong in our convictions.

4. Pray that as the fear level increases we will be there with the hope of the Gospel and a Promise of Peace.

5. Pray that we will speak the Truth in Love whoever we come in contact with.

God bless you as you serve Him,
Mitch and Christine Email Blog


AFRICA

Brian and Jill Kanyike

Prayer Requests:
1. Uganda is once again in full lock down due to covid. Pray for the Kanyike Family to stay safe.

2. Also pray for accomplishing everyday tasks and ministry as no personal or public transport is allowed.

3. As most businesses and markets are closed accept for food many people are suffering to provide for their families. Pray for Brian and Arise Christian Fellowship as they try to reach out and help those they are able.

4; Pray for safety as crime is so bad during this difficult time that the American Embassy issued a warning about it.

5. Brian is videoing the Sunday services and putting them online. Pray that the church members and many others would watch and grow closer to the Lord during this time.

6. Pray for Jill and the children as they continue to homeschool. Pray that they all get along and learn without going stir crazy during this lockdown.

7. Pray for things to get better in Uganda health and safety wise so the lockdown can end in 6 weeks as proposed.

Thank you for praying for the Kanyike family and for the people of Uganda. 

In Him,                                                                           
Brian, Jill, Luke, Laylee, and Liana –  Email Blog


Ends of the Earth Ministries

In South Sudan:
Please continue to pray for the nation of South Sudan. Decades of Civil War have collapsed the economy, resulting in mass starvation and desperation. Hopelessness and violence run rampant throughout communities.

Pray for our 500 students that are being daily discipled in the love of God and His Word, so they may lead their nation Into a new season of hope.

Pray for the 75 children and young adults in our children’s home and for the Missionary parents that are laying down their lives to provide peace and unconditional love to these precious ones. 

Please pray for the new churches in the Tauso & Taposa villages. Pray that the pastors and medical staff will have the spiritual and physical tenacity to handle the countless challenges while living amongst Stone-Age tribes.

In Kenya:
Pray for the refugee students in our missionary training college in the Kakuma Refugee Camp. They are fasting and praying as they prepare to return to South Sudan to begin reaching cities across the border in North Sudan, with hopes to plant churches amongst Muslim peoples in 2020-21.

In USA:Pray for the Missions Equip Training Programs. We are in the throws of launching two new schools this year.

The first – International School, will be used in Bible Colleges as a complete missions training course. 

The second – Transformation, is a cross-cultural immersion training program, equipping missionaries to assimilate into their new culture while learning the language and world view.  

Pray that God would continue to empower, envision and sustain us as we seek to establish nationally led, culturally relevant, biblical-based churches among unreached peoples.

Thank you for your prayers!

Yours for the unreached, 
Rob Douglass – Email Blog


Matt and Noelle Harris – Gulu, Uganda

Thank you for standing with us in prayer.

Praise God:
– That the harvest has come in, which is extremely helpful for those effected by the lockdown here.

– The work that He has been doing through the home churches that have been started because of the meeting restrictions.

– For our families current health.

Please Pray:
1. That our community receives the Gospel through our home churches.

2. For our daughter Apio to settle into her new life with us.

3. For our teammate Luke who broke his shin in two places last week.

Thank you for praying.

In Christ,
Matt, Noelle, Apio, Emma, Madeline, Noah & Charlotte – Email Blog


NORTH AMERICA

Nancy Schipke – Mazatlan, Mexico

Prayer Requests:
-1. Please pray for God’s guidance, peace and healing. 

-2. Many people in our church as experiencing COVID at this time.
Thank you. 
Nancy – Email Blog


Deanna Jevas – Tijuana, Mexico

Praise Report!
-We are at full capacity with her after school program/soup kitchen. We are truly blessed and helping these children all summer with a, “math and literature camp.“ We are helping them with fun math games to learn fractions and learning to read for fun.

Prayer Requests:
1. For our annual VBS that we will be having July 26th – 30th from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Pray for God‘s provision and for a special encounter with Jesus for every single child. There is a limit of only 60 children that can come.

2. Funds for a construction project. We plan to demolish an existing building and build another building to help support our retaining wall. It would be a multi-purpose room. Pray for funds as we are proceeding in faith that God will provide.

3. For a speedy healing of my right knee. I am limited in the activity that I can do makes it very difficult at times. Patience for me in this process.

4. For an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on our church leaders and members. Former servants in the children’s ministry.

5. For much-needed wisdom, Knowledge, and guidance from God and all that I do say and think.

6. Blessings on the adult singles group that I recently started up. That the girls would have a hunger for God‘s word.
 
Thank you so much for your prayers for me and the people of Mexico. I cherish them

Serving Jesus always,
God bless!
Deanna – Email Blog


Leo and Pilar Gray – Ensenada, Mexico

Thank you For Your Support and Prayer for Us.

Prayer Requests:
1. Pray for our Church to be growing day to day.
2. Pray our church believers to be grow in God word.

3. Pray for our Church member as well as our Family.

4. Pray For our Ministry to be fruitful.

5. Pray our health to be physically fit so we can serve God.

6. Pray God will allow to open Lockdown soon and we gather and Praise our God together.

7. Pray safety to all students who were studying in bible school as well as safety of all staff.

Thank you for your prayers.

God bless you,
Leo and Pilar – Email Blog


Joel and Amy Garcia – California, USA

Thank you all for praying for our family, it means the world to us!

 Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for our students at the Calvary School of Missions this Summer, that God would use that school to raise up the next generation of missionaries

2. Pray for Joel as he helps lead the rest of the church and SGWM staff in Pastor Trent and Pastor Tim’s absence

3.Pray for our missionaries out on the field who are under constant spiritual attack as they do the hard work of reaching the unreached with the Gospel

In Christ,
Joel, Amy, Maggie, Harrison, Jude, & Clara – Email Blog


Bond, Heather and Breanna – S. Asia and Africa

Prayer Requests:
1 Pray for God’s timing for rescheduling our trip to Nepal. We need God’s wisdom and timing to know if that will work and be the best time.

2. Pray for our time of teaching at the Calvary School of Missions the last week of July. We will be traveling as a family to Mexico to teach and invest in the students. Pray that all that is shared with the students would bear fruit as they are prepared to fulfill the Great Commission.

3. Pray for leading for the fall semesters and for all the details in Asia for the Bible Colleges. Pray that the governments in S. Asia would lift restrictions for the closing of schools so that meeting in secret would not be necessary.

4. Pray for the next church planters that are being raised up. Pray for God’s timing to send them out through the 10/40 window.

5. Pray for Uganda and all of our missionary friends and national pastors / leaders as the country is in a 40 day strict lockdown now.

Thank you for praying,
Bond and Heather – Email Blog


Mike and Sarah Vincent – Rosarito, Mexico 

Prayer Requests:
1- Protection for our church and family of the flare up of the Corona Virus. 

2- God’s blessing on our upcoming Church Planting Conference in August! 

3- God’s blessing upon our next church plant, CCHermosillo sent out in August! 

Thank you for faithfully praying for us! 

Con mucho amor de Mexico, (with much love from Mexico)
Mike, Sarah, Grace, and Daniel – Email Blog


Jana Sandbulte – Indiana, USA

Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for our family situation. Pray that God will deliver us from all evil.

2. Please pray for my dad’s health and complete healing.

3. Praise the Lord that He has blessed us with four little girls! Please pray that they will grow in knowledge of and love for Jesus and trust in Him completely..Thank you for your prayers!

God bless you,
Paul, Jana and Sari, Kaylee, and Rose –  Email Blog


Joni Houser – Indiana, USA

Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for our family’s health, especially my dad who was in the hospital this week. Pray that they will be able to accurately diagnose and treat him, and pray for complete healing.

2. Praise the Lord, He has opened up nursing home ministry for us again! Please pray that many lives will be touched and many will be saved.

Thank you so much for your prayers!

God bless you!
Joni – Email Blog


The 10/40 Window

The 10/40 Window is a rectangular geographic area stretching from North Africa through the Middle East to Asia, covering 68 countries. Two-thirds of the world’s population live within the 10/40 Window.

Three out of every five people in the 10/40 Window have no access to the gospel. According to the Joshua Project, 68.6% of the 10/40 Window’s ethnic groups (5,984) are considered unreached, with a total population of 3.09 billion.

(Some names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.)


Worker 3 – 10/40 Window

Greetings to you all in the matchless name of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for all of the people I interacted with in the last month, that God will touch their hearts so that someday they will come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

2. Please pray for our nation, that God will save this country. Also, pray that God will heal our nation from the coronavirus.

3. Please pray for Mrs. BD from BPL; she has some land problems in her family.

4. Please pray for me and my family, that we will grow in the Word of God.

5. Do continue to pray for the growth of our local church. Thank you very much for your prayers and support!

In Him,
P and R


Anand and Usha – Nepal

Thank you all you prayer warrior for your prayers

Praise Report:
-God had bless all student in last semester in Bible College and they are serving in their home town.

-We are able to serve the family who had lost they mom last month.

-We are able to visit some of our Church members in this semester break.

Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for our good health.

2. Please pray for coming up new semester of Bible college that God may bring student.

3. Please pray for Leprosy colony that again God may open door to serve there again.

4. Please pray for new believer in Church that they may grow in His Grace and word.

5. Please pray coming up semester that we may run Bible college smoothly like last semester.

Thank you for your prayers and support.

God bless you,
Anand, Usha, Asher and Amos   Email Blog


Prakash and Muna – Nepal

Praise God for He’s been so good and faithful so far.

Prayer Request
1.We are still under lockdown here. Transportation in partially open, but schools, colleges, large gatherings and churches are closed. We have been continuing our online services and home visitation. They are being blessed. Our Bible College is on vacation, and the students have gone to their respective homes. Please keep us in your prayers.  

We appreciate your continued prayers that’s a great blessing for us as we Serve Him.

Blessings! 
Prakash and Muna – Email Blog


Rabi and Mahima – Nepal

Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for a certain area where there are local pastors asking to be able to go to a Bible college/training center. This place is connected to the border road of our country. In the future, it is planned for this road to go from the capital to the district on the border. 

2. Please pray that this church will have sound Biblical doctrine teaching. 

3. Pray that God will change the thinking that Christians are low in the caste system.

4. Pray for the People of this area that discriminate Christians as low caste. 

5. Please pray for the church to be able to own some land. The number of believers is increasing. They have been collecting money to buy land and build their own church so everyone will be able to fit inside. 

6. Pray for the local pastors and leaders. They are doing different social activities.

Please pray that these activities can flourish and be fruitful.
 
Thank you for your prayers for us!

In Him,
Rabi and Mahima – Email Blog|


Worker 11 – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for believers and villages here was a lot of flood in this month due to which people’s houses were broken and now they are making tant on the highway road. God would provide food and treatment for them.

2. Please continue pray for Pinky and her husband. She left her village because she is persecuted by her village and family because of faith in the Christ.

3. Please continue pray for Surendra healing. He is suffering from rare disease Olmsted.

4. Please continue pray for safety from anti Christian groups and covid 19.

5. Please continue pray church’s members to be faced persecution boldly and understand word of God deeply.

6. Please pray for a little land for Christian graveyard.

7. Please pray for some audio bible for those believers who don’t know reading and writing.

Thanks for your prayer, love and partnership for the Gospel.

God bless you!
Worker 11


Worker 15 and Family – 10/40 Window

Thank you for your prayers. We thank God for you, our prayer partners, who uphold us in prayers.

Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for the ministry in our area, that people will be saved. 

2. Please pray for the believers in our church, that they would continue to grow in the knowledge of the Lord. 

3. Please pray for God’s grace and wisdom to do the work of the Lord. 

4. Please pray for our health. Vinita and I are not doing well. 

5. Pray for our daughter’s safety as she has been working as a nurse. 

Thank you for your prayers and support!

Co-workers in Christ,
Pastor 15 and Family


Worker 1 – 10/40 Window

Thank you for your continued prayers and financial support which allows us to focus on the work the Lord has set before us!

Prayer Requests:
1. Please continue to pray for our country as we are suffering from severe new strains of Covid.

2. Pray for our family to stay healthy.
3. Pray for our students and staff as they are also waiting for school to reopen.

Thank you for your prayers for us

God bless you,
Worker 1


Majhiya and Sarita – Nepal

Prayer Requests:
1. We have found the opportunity to share with other about Jesus, praise the Lord! Please pray for more open doors.

2. We conduct small house fellowship services. Please pray for unbelieving neighbors who have joined us sometimes, as they are curious and confused during this time of lockdown. Pray that their hearts will soon be changed.

3. Praise God for safety and protection during this time!

4. Remember us in your prayers for His guidance in upcoming days, and pray that God will open the hearts of our neighbors for salvation.

Thank you for faithfully praying for us

Blessings,
Majhiya and Sarita


Worker 2 – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray that if it is God’s will, I will be able to go to a certain village and teach the Word to the Christian families there, as well as share the Gospel with the unbelievers.

2. Please pray that I will be able to build relationships and share the Gospel with the village

3. Please pray for my health and safety

Thank you so much once again for your prayers.
Worker 2


Milan Pariyar – Nepal 

Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for my family to mature in their relationship with Christ and to have good health.

2. Please pray for the believers here to grow in their faith.

3. Pray for my community to know the difference between the Truth and false teachings.

4. Pray for me for safety and for good health

Thank you,
Milan


Worker 4 – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for me, as I have been busy with many things. I need strength, wisdom, peace and direction about where to buy things for construction.

2. Please pray for more male students to come to our Bible School.

3. Please pray that the Lord will give me wisdom and Godspeed with translation.

4. Please pray that in the midst of all of this, that I will depend upon God alone, and not on my past experiences.

Thanking you.

Yours in Christ,
Worker 4


Raju – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests
1. Please pray for my daily spiritual growth in the Lord.

2. Please pray that I may be able to teach God’s word properly so that the Church will grow continually.

3. Please pray that my parents and the rest of my family members will know the Lord.

4. Please pray for the need of a church building.

5. Please pray for our church members, for protection from the pandemic that is all around.

Thank you for your prayers.

God bless you,
Raju


Worker 6 and Family – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:
1. Please be praying for the work that’s happening here in our city.

2. Pray for our new church plant to keep growing.

3. Pray for the new place that we want to start a Bible study.

4. Pray for our slum ministry.

5. Pray for our youth ministry.

6. Pray for our worship leading ministry and park ministry.

7. Pray for another new church plant we are doing (It began 3 months ago.

8. There are more places that we need to reach; please be praying for God’s timing and resources.

9. We are praying for food distribution in the areas where people are suffering and needy and hungry. Many of the daily wages workers don’t get to eat properly even when things are normal, but now everything is shut down and they have no chance to go out to find work. Now people are not only dying from corona, they are also dying of starvation.

10. Please be praying for our Bible college.

11. Please be praying for our financial needs for Bible and food distribution

Thank you for praying.

With love in Christ,
Worker and Mrs. 6


Worker 16 – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:
1.  Please pray for the ministry in this lockdown, that God will open the doors for Gods words.

2. Please pray for my children that they my grow in Lord’s Fear and knowledge.

3.  Pray for God’s wisdom and strength to take care of my children and learn His Word.

4. Please pray that the lord would intervene for the problem the world is facing.

Thank you for your faithful prayers!

God bless you,
Worker 16 and Family


Worker 8 and Family – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:
1.Please pray for brother M, having problems like fire in his body. 

2. Please pray for sister P, who is having some physical problems. 

3. Pray for my church’s growth and development. 

4, Pray for brother Sh’s life to change. 

5. Please pray that we will be able to build God’s house on the land. 

May God bless you 

Thank you,
Worker 8 and Family


Worker 9 – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for me, that I will continue to grow in the knowledge of the Word of God. 

2. Please pray that God will teach me to be a good leader for His people. 

3. Please pray that God will protect all students and staff of the Pastors School from all illnesses and diseases; pray that they will remain healthy. 

Thank you so much for your prayers.

God bless you!
Worker 9


Worker 13 – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for me and my ministry.

2. Please pray for all of our believers, that they will grow in their knowledge of Bible verses.

3. Please pray, we have some new men who want to know about Jesus. I shared the Gospel with them, so pray that they will come to Christ.

4. Please pray for my family.

5. Please pray for my village, that God will make open doors for me to share with them His Word.

6. Please pray for a new mobile phone, because mine is not working well. Today, I was using it for Sunday service and it turned off on me. I have tried to have it repaired 5 or 6 times already.

May God bless you.

Thank you for your prayers!

God bless you,
Worker 13


Worker 10 – 10/40 Window

Praise Report:
-Praise the Lord! Thank you for remembering me in your prayers. 

-Thanks be to the God Who has taken care of us until now in this lockdown! God blessed me, and all in the house. We are growing in the Word of God. We are happy that the new boys are coming home to their villages. We are getting the opportunity to talk with them and teach them the Word.  

Prayer Requests:
1. Pray for me, that God will use me mightily in my village, and for those who know about Jesus but still do not believe; that God will change their hearts.

2. Pray for my father’s complete healing from his fall.

3. Pray for my parents, that they will wholeheartedly believe in Jesus Christ.

4. Pray for me, because I am making a church building. Pray that God will give me wisdom and understanding to do it correctly.

5. Pray for the village believers, that God will strengthen them in the Word.

6. Pray for me, that God will open new doors for me to share the Gospel.

7. Pray for one brother who I have been sharing the Gospel to; pray that he will come to Christ.

Thank you for your prayers!

God bless you
Worker 10


Worker 12 – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:
1. Pray for the people, who don’t have jobs. And also those who have lost their friends and family members in this pandemic.  

2. Pray for our church people, for their faith, that they may be good students of God’s Word and pray for our online meetings, that we can find more opportunities with new people.  

3. Pray for the villagers, that people would be strong in their faith. Pray for food because there is no good transportation and their grocery markets are so far from the village. It is very difficult to survive especially during this pandemic.  

4. Pray for a piece of land for a church building, that we can have fellowship without any objections and have our own church building.  

5. Pray for me, that I would lead our believers well, and for my health also. 

6. Pray for a computer to continue to send my updates with, and to do our online fellowship with. It is very difficult to use my phone to write newsletters; a computer would be very helpful to keep in touch.  

7. Pray for the new people who have come to Christ recently; pray that they will grow with the Lord and with his kindness.  

Thank you for your kindness!! 

God bless you
Worker 12


Worker 7 – 10/40 Window


Prayer Requests:

1. Pray for the online teachings I am preparing.

2. Pray for our country, as a new wave of disease has come, not only corona but other diseases. People are living in fear and trouble and loneliness.

3. Praise God that He has kept us safe and kept my YouTube ministry open!

Thank you,
Worker 7


Worker 5 – 10/40 Window

1. Pray that God will protect us from the present situation. 

2. Pray for our neighbors, that they will come to know the Lord. 

3. Pray for my daughter who is studying nursing.   

Thank you so much for the encouragement and partnership! 
Worker 5


Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.” – Hebrews 13:3 

Thank you for praying! Your prayers are impacting lives and helping  
“Reach the Nations…One Soul at a Time”. 

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