AFRICA

Matthew and Noelle Harris – Uganda Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Thank you so much for your continual love and support.   This month, we can praise God that:  ·   After three long years, the pastors and church leaders finished their last week of Bible school!  ·   God is sending an intern named Morgan Landrey to live and work with us for two months!  ·   A wonderful new church was just built in a rural area of the north by the father of a wonderful friend of mine who is a general in the Ugandan military.  This month, please pray with us that:  ·   God will bless the churches represented by the 35 church leaders who have just finished their last week of classes with the pastoral school of discipleship. ·   Pray that their churches will be fruitful in the Lord and abounding with good works that are worthy of the name of our Lord Jesus.  ·   God will bless Morgan’s time with us that she will learn what God has sent her here to learn and accomplish what He has sent her here to do.  ·   God would heal my legs. (I broke the navicular bone in my left foot by stepping into a hole I didn’t see, and my right leg was mauled severely by a dog)  In Christ,Matt & Noelle & Family – Email Blog

USA

Bond and Heather Gaona – USA, Asia, and Africa   ·   Pray for the teams heading to Nepal in March for medical and hiking to remote places for a fruitful time of sharing and for ready hearts to receive the good news.   ·   Pray for our time in S. Asia in March as we teach at the bible college, host a conference for nationals and encourage / refresh the front line workers.   ·   Pray for the new semesters that are underway in Nepal and S. Asia, for the new students, for the teachers, for the Word being taught to take root and for transformation in the students lives.   ·   Pray for us to manage our time with additional responsibilities in this season, for good health, for protection from spiritual warfare, for sweet times as a family.   Thank you for praying, Bond, Heather and Breanna Gaona  Bond, Heather and Breanna Gaona – Email Blog

Jana Sandbulte – Indiana, USA  ·   Please pray for the salvation of some of the residents in our Bible Study at the assisted living facility. Though they know much about God, pray that they will fully surrender their hearts to God and belief in the truth of His Word, and receive Him in their hearts. ·   Please continue to pray for my parents’ health. ·   Please pray for the safety of all the workers in South Asia, and that God will strengthen their hearts and faith. ·   Please pray that God will continually strengthen our faith and service for Him.  Thank you so much for your prayers! God bless you,Paul, Jana and Sari, Kaylee, and Rose – Email Blog

Joni Houser – Indiana, USA ·   Please pray for the Christians in South Asia that are going through persecution. ·   Please pray for my father’s health, for complete recovery. ·   Please pray for our nursing home ministry, that the lost will come to know Jesus. God bless you! Joni – Email Blog

Joel and Amy Garcia – Yorba Linda, California ·   Praise God Joel is approved and funded for a trip to Uganda this June! ·   Please pray that the Lord gives guidance and provision as he works with our missionaries on the ground there on details of the trip.  ·   Pray that if the Lord has a larger team to join him and Isaac (his traveling partner), that the Lord would speak to those people.  Thank you all!   Love in Christ, Joel, Amy, Maggie, Harrison, Jude, & Clara Garcia – Email Blog

Gary and Tina Barrow – Reno, California I’m headed back to South Asia for the next 2 months. I’ll be leading a small team of pastors and faithful servants.  We will be holding a 2 day youth conference in the north, another 3 day conference and graduation in an area that SGWM has not been able to visit for the past 6 years due to heavy persecution. We will be going to an area never visited by SGWM before in order to witness the work going on there and to encourage our workers. After this, we will be headed to another area where a new work has started about a year ago. The worker there has recently be brought on as a SGWM worker. God has really been blessing this work and it’s a joy to go there and witness what the Lord is doing. Then we are headed to an area where SGWM has recently completed construction on a new facility that houses one of our CBI’s. There we will be teaching a block class through one of the books of the Bible and doing a week long discipleship meeting with former graduates. We will be focusing on what it means to be a pastor. Finally we will head out for a few weeks to be with a newly married couple. They are also engaged in a new-ish work. Our time there will be spent on discipleship, coming alongside them to encourage and strengthen them in the ministry God has called them too. The over arching theme God has placed on my heart for this trip is the importance of God’s Word and serving Him faithfully, in the way He would have us serve Him. As I leave the South Asia, I will stop over in Germany for a short stay. I will be revisiting many people who were in our church, when we lived in Leutershausen, to catch up with them. One of the members of our church, Calvary Chapel Ansbach, recently got married. He’s a young man that we consider to be part of our family, so I will spend time with him, meet his wife and pour into them for 4 days. Please pray for God’s mercy & grace, as well as the presence of His Spirit to lead and guide as we are engaged in a great work in His name. Pray that God would bless each and everyday with a greater blessing than He blessed the day before. Thank you for your prayers. God bless, Gary and Tina Barrow – Email Blog

Mexico

Mike and Sarah Vincent – Rosarito, Mexico   Hi friends,  Here are the prayer requests for Mike and Sarah!   ·   That God would bless our next church plant in the prisons (Libre en el, Free in him) which will be officially launched in April!  ·   For God’s blessing as we try and do a better job of connecting and plugging in our guests and visitors to the church!   Answered prayers?  Good jobs in San Diego for our children, Grace and Daniel!  Thanks for your prayers,  Mike and Sarah Vincent – Email Blog

Deanna Jevas – Tijuana, Mexico Hello and here are my prayer request for February:  PRAISE— my mom is doing so much better. (84 years old lives alone with Parkinsons). I am just so thankful to the Lord for this and continue to pray for her well-being.  ·   A nursery worker for Wednesday night. ·   A teacher for the 8 to 11-year-olds on Wednesday night. ·   The homes of our neighbors in this community during the rainy season as the rain enters into their homes.  ·   For Much needed wisdom in the day-to-day with the kids in the afterschool program (Special needs children, children with trauma), We need God‘s wisdom and love to help them. Thank you so much for Your prayers!   – Deanna Jevas – Email Blog

South America

Craig and Daisy Tippie – Huacho, Peru Hey SGWM FAMILY, thank you for your faithfulness to keep us missionaries in your prayers!  ·   Pray for Daisy’s therapy and pain management. She has been going through intensive pain in her neck, back, lower back and hands since november. Thank you from our hearts, Craig and Daisy – Email Blog

Andrew Weakland – Peru ·   For a right hand man to help me with the ministry. ·   Growth in fellowship at Calvary Moyobamba – Andrew Weakland – Email Blog

Joshua Vanrenterghem – Peru ·   Grace, mercy, and peace as I begin to assist pastor Cory with things related to the children’s home and discipling the teenage boys, interning at the CBI, and finishing my last class. ·   To learn much from a conference I will be attending this February 20-22 in Trujillo about equipping people to take care of children from traumatic backgrounds. ·   Wisdom for how we can help the teenage boys from Ninos del Mundo get better taken care of. ·   To find the perfect property for the children’s home, and all the different resources that we will need to raise children rescued from trafficking. – Joshua Vanrenterghem Email Blog

10/40 Window

The 10/40 WindowThe 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 11 – 10/40 Window Praise Points     ·   Praise the Lord, He has kept me and my family safe.   ·   Praise the Lord, He is leading the people of our church forward in faith and in the Word.    ·   Praise the Lord, there was idol worship in our village, and they installed an idol in front of our house, but by the mercy of the Lord, we were not attacked.  Prayer Requests       ·   In the coming days, there are many types of Hindu festivals in our area. May God protect our family and Christian brothers and sisters. ·   There are elections in the coming months. Pray that God will give us a government that allows us to worship and pray in peace, and pray that no law will be made against spreading the Good News. ·   We are planning to do several types of outreach in the coming months. Please pray that God will open the door to a village that has not heard the Good News yet. ·   A pastor from the states in coming soon to visit, which will be the first time in our area. Pray that God will protect him and that God will keep us safe, too. ·   Please pray for my wife. Three of her teeth are painful and hollow, and she needs treatment. Pray that God will provide a good place to go for medical care near here so that we will not have to travel for treatment. ·   Two students from my church are ready to go to Bible school. Please pray that there will be no hindrance to them going, before the next semester. The last time I sent a student to Bible school, his parents called the police. Thanks for your prayers, Christian love, partnership and participation in spreading the Gospel!  God bless you all!  Worker 11

Anand and Usha – Nepal Prayer Requests:     ·   Please pray for good health for our team. ·   Pray for our upcoming trip to the northern part of Nepal, where we will be sharing Christ in the coming days. ·   Pray for our community outreach, where we will be inviting local people to hear about the Gospel. Pray for our Bible school, which has started this week, that God may guide us in teaching and equipping the students.·     Pray for our interns, that God may use them powerfully in ministry. Thank you for your prayers and support,Anand, Usha, Asher and AmosEmail Blog

Darryl and Kayo Record – Cambodia ·     Please continue to pray for my (Darryl) recovery from Guillain Barre Syndrome. I’m making rapid progress and having opportunities to praise God in the process.  ·     Please pray for us as we have been able to return to most of our regular ministries recently and please pray for all of our ministry partners here in Cambodia. ·     Please pray for a restful summer as we will not be able to return to visit the USA as we had hoped.  In Christ’s Hands,Darryl, Kayo, and Benjamin – Email Blog