SGWM OCT PRAYER UPDATE
EUROPE
Brenna Kulla – Pécs, Hungary
Praise Report:
-Praise God for his kindness and patient, continued pursuit of hearts!-Praise God for granting a new residence permit
Prayer Requests:
1. Prayer for our Lighthouse college outreach ministry, wisdom and vision in the planning of events, relationships to be built and the gospel to be shared, hearts to be drawn to Jesus!
2. Pray for our new women’s discipleship groups starting up this month. Pray for these 40 women as we study the book of Ephesians together, pray that that those who already know Christ will grow secure in their identity in Him and pray that those who have yet to surrender their lives will do so and be transformed and as they encounter the word of God.
3. Continued prayer for health
4. Pray for further understanding and comprehension of the Hungarian language, and pray that I would be more bold to speak.
Thank you for your prayers!
Love in Christ,
Brenna – Email Blog
AFRICA
Vincent and Melissa Aniku – Uganda
Praise report!
-This month we were able to get everyone that serves in our church a study Bible. We were also able to give all staff at the hospital, football/soccer players (both Christian and Muslim), over 150 members and others all Bible’s!!!!!
Prayer Requests:
1 Please pray for wisdom and God’s timing of reopening the churches in Uganda. We pray it is soon but also praise God for our viewing groups through YouTube.
2. Pray for the rebel activity near us. So far 6 have been killed. We have some solders that are staying near by to help protect our area.
3. Pray for the school and also for the hospital! Pray that the schools will open soon. We have so many young girls giving birth in our hospital. Unfortunately some families are not bringing them to the hospital in time and we have lost many. It’s heart breaking!
4. Pray as we hope to purchase land for large scale farm and animal rearing to hopefully become more self sustaining.
5. Pray for our soccer outreach. Our team will once again start traveling all over Uganda for the Big League. Pray they will continue to be a great testimony both on and off the field.
6. Pray as we try to get dates to come to America for 1 month and go for the pastors conference.
Thank you for your prayers!!!!
In Him,
Aniku Family– Email Blog
Bond, Heather and Breanna – Africa and Asia
Prayer Requests:
1. Pray for the campuses in S. Asia that are open and bible college classes are taking place. Pray for continued protection, health and for wisdom as the students and teachers grow in Gods Word.
2. Pray for our travels to S. Asia, for Gods perfect timing and for an open door for our family to be an encouragement to pastors and leaders after a long season of pandemic lockdowns.
3. Pray for the various opportunities we have to share this month on Oct. 17th for Missions Night and Oct. 23rd for a Missions Conference as well as online classes and meetings.
Thankful for your prayers,
Bond, Heather and Breanna – 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
NORTH AMERICA
Tim and Jenn Pappas – California
Praise report:
1 Praise God for sustaining us financially emotionally physically and most of all spiritually through the 2021 Calvary school of missions.
2. Praise God that Jenn got to serve by my side the whole time this year
3. Praise God for good friends and family who took care of our pets and property while we were in Mexico for six weeks
Prayer Requests:
1 Please pray that Jenn would be able to find a job now that we have returned from Mexico
2. Please pray for my sister Maria. As many of you know she has turned her life over to the Lord, we are driving out to see her get baptized this weekend in Albuquerque New Mexico.
3. Please pray for safe travels on our trip and that this would be a sweet time for Jenn and I to bond and draw nearer to each other and to the Lord.
Thank you for your faithful prayers!
All for His Glory,
Tim and Jenn – Email Blog
Isaac, Hope and Fletcher Douglass – California
Thank you for your continued prayers for us in the Lord. We need your prayers now more than ever!
Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for our move to Truckee and for our transition to life and ministry there.
2. Pray for our cars to withstand the hard winters and for God’s provision if that’s not the case.
3. Pray for us and for our family and friends back home to find comfort in the Lord when we miss each other.
4. Pray for guidance in ministry and that the ministry in Truckee would flourish as God moves in our midst.
5. Pray that God would create a missions minded church culture in CC Truckee.
6. Pray for my WiFi to be strong so that I can do everything I need to do for SGWM.
Thank you again! God comforts and sustains us through your effectual prayers.
Blessings,
Isaac, Hope and Fletcher – 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 continue to pray that the Lord would open up doors and give direction on where He would like me to travel next. I take traveling seriously, as it costs money and precious time from my family, so I want to make sure that when I do travel, it is exactly where the Lord would have me to go to minister to missionaries. So far, I have not sensed open doors from Him to any specific area.
2. Please also pray for our new batch of interns, that the Lord would direct their paths and help us leaders at SGWM to disciple them well.
3. Please pray for Amy as she navigates homeschooling 4 young kids at very different developmental stages.
In Christ,
Joel, Amy, Maggie, Harrison, Jude, & Clara – Email Blog
Mike and Sarah Vincent – Rosarito, Mexico
Praise Reports!
– Praise God for a wonderful church planting conference, with many getting encouraged!
2- Praise God for our new church planting evening course, that has 21 first-time students attending! (Along with 30 in our afternoon course)
Prayer Requests:
1- That God would bless the church planting schools of our new partners, in Wildomar (Ca), and in Peru!
2- That God would provide for the financial needs of our family, church, and church plants, and keep us safe in these dangerous times!
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’s health. My oldest daughter hurt her ankle running down a hill; please pray for complete and rapid recovery.
2. Please pray for our family situation. Pray that God will deliver us from all evil.
3. Please pray for my dad’s health and complete healing.
4. 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 so much for your prayers!
God bless you,
Paul, Jana and Sari, Kaylee, and Rose – Email Blog
Joni Houser – Indiana, USA
Praise Report:
-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.
Prayer Request:
1.Please pray for our family’s health, especially that they will be able to accurately diagnose and treat my dad, and pray for complete healing.
Thank you so much for your prayers!
God bless you!
Joni – Email Blog
SOUTH AMERICA
Craig and Daisy Tippie – Huacho, Peru
Thank you all for standing in the gap in intercessory prayer!
1. Pray for Daisy and I as we have taking care of my parents for the last 30 days as my dad broke his hip, then my mother hurt her back and has two compression fractures! We are trying to honor our parents and help them become independent once again!
2. Pray for our SOM interns as they are putting into practice what they are learning!
3. Pray for our support as we just lost a major supporting church!
4. Pray for our son Ryan who moved to New Mexico and has a new job!
5. Pray for our health, and the health of our church during these pandemic times!
6. Praise the Lord for restoring the relationship between my brother and I.
Thank you from our hearts,
Daisy and Craig – Email Blog
1040/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 5 – 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. Pray that God will protect us from the present situation.
3. Pray for our neighbors, that they will come to know the Lord.
4. Pray for my daughter who is studying nursing.
Thank you so much for the encouragement and partnership!
In Christ,
Worker 5
Worker 7 – 10/40 Window
Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray that I will reach many more people with God’s Word and that I will be a good steward for our Lord.
2. Through our YouTube channel, I am able to reach a couple hundred people, so I would like to begin to teach live on facebook and YouTube in the upcoming days. Please pray about that.
3. Please also pray about the students who received their diplomas and those who are about to finish this coming semester.
Thank you,
Worker 7
Worker 3 – 10/40 Window
Greetings to you in the matchless name of our Lord Jesus Christ!
By God’s grace we have been doing wonderful. Thank you so much for your valuable prayers. For this month I would like to share some of the prayer concerns.
Prayer Requests:
1. Please for the salvation of Mr. S.K. (40-years-old Roman Catholic).
2. Please pray for our nation, India that God may saved this country. Also these days new believers are been persecuted in different parts of India, pray that God may strengthen them in their faith.
3. Kindly pray for R my wife as she is working in school. May Lord use her for the expansion of His kingdom. Please pray for me and my family so that we may grow more in the word of God.
4. Do continue to pray for the growth and need of our local Church.
Thank you very much for your prayers and support!
In Him,
P and R
Worker 15 and Family – 10/40 Window
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.
6. Please pray for a couple we witnessed to, that God would bless them with a child and that the family would know that Jesus is the true God.
Thank you for your prayers and support!
Co-workers in Christ,
Pastor 15 and Family
Anand and Usha – Nepal
Thank you all you prayer warrior for your prayer…
Praise Report:
-It is a great blessing as we had started Bible college and God had brought new students in this semester also.
-God had been adding His people in the Church and Radio ministry had been started.
Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for our good health.
2. Please pray that we may run Bible College smoothly in this semester also.
3. Please pray for Bible college students for good health.
4. Please pray for the Radio ministry that people may Listen to the Gospel and respond it.
5. Please pray for graduating students that they may start Bible study or Church in their community.
Thank you for your prayers and support,
God bless you,
Anand, Usha, Asher and Amos – Email Blog
Prakash and Muna – Nepal
Praise Report:
-Praise God for good health of all our Church members and CCBC family so far.
Prayer Report:
1. Please continually pray for our CCBC students and staffs for the good health and wisdom so that we can learn from the word of God together.
2. Please pray for CC Nepal to grow mature spiritually and practically in the Lord.
3. Please pray for the growth of Charis spiritually, physically and of course numerically.
4. Please pray for Church Property for Charis Bible Church Kathmandu Nepal (CBCKN) so that we won’t have to move our Church location again and again.
5. Please pray for our new fellowship at Hetauda.
6. Please pray for tow more new locations that we have been praying about planting new Churches in near future. One in Chapagaun Lalitpur and other one in the East Nepal.
Thank you for your concern and prayers, I appreciate it.
Blessings!
Prakash and Muna – Email Blog
Rabi and Mahima – Nepal
Prayer Requests:
1.Pray for our family, our church believers, that their health will be physically fit and not contaminated from Covid.
2. Pray my wife’s young brother He was suffering from Typhoid and the infection seen in his intestines.
3. Pray my wife’s Father; he became ill which seems to the doctor to be pneumonia.
4. Pray my wife’s Homeplace; all the people they have been suffering from viral and Covid.
5. Pray for our health, I may also suffer time to time from tonsil infections. If God wish he will remove tonsils from my body forever.
6. Please pray for our Bible School Students and all the staff for their health and that their mission will be successful where they are doing ministry.
7. Please pray for our students. Some of them are coming in upcoming days. God may provide them safety.
8. Please pray i can teach and train our students nicely and effectively this semester. I am going to teach from the Book of Mark through Zoom.
9. Please pray; we want children and that God may allow us to have children soon in God’s time.
Thank you for your prayers for us!
In Him,
Rabi and Mahima – Email Blog
Worker 11 – 10/40 Window
Praise Report:
-Thank you lord for solving all this problem of ETANI.
-Thank you Lord for keeping us safe from all kinds of diseases and for saving us from road accidents. -Thank God for fulfilling all our needs, why after the lockdown, the price of everything has doubled, yet God is fulfilling our needs
Prayer Requests
1. Please pray for the believers of our church to understand God’s Word more deeply and to persevere in persecution.
2. Pray Lord save my state. After the lock down, many people have become unemployed, due to which a lot of illegal work is being done every day, seven eight-year-old children are working, rape is happening, prostitution is happening, suicide is happening. Now the word of God is the last hope for my state.
3. Pray that lord send the NGO here which can do social service. As in the region of North and South.
4. Pray that the Lord will remedy a small piece of land so that we can build a Christian graveyard in it.
5. Pray that where the local election is going to be held, may God keep a good person here who can take care of the poor, the last time the leader who was the leader had murdered someone, he is still in jail, so pray anyone can be a good leader Give and do not obstruct the work of God.
Thanks for your prayers and support for the Gospel.
God bless you!
Worker 11
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 one man who said he used to attend church when he was a child and left church when he got older. When he re-listened to the Gospel at our medical outreach, he decided to come to church the following week with us! Please pray for him and for his salvation.
2. Please pray for my family to mature in their relationship with Christ and to have good health.
3. Please pray for the believers here to grow in their faith.
4. Pray for my community to know the difference between the Truth and false teachings.
5. 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
Praise Report:
-Praise God that even in such a pandemic situation, our church was able to provide some medical things to our community.
Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for all of our church believers, that they will grow spiritually in God.
2. Many people in the village where our church is located have heard the Gospel; pray that they will turn to Christ.
3. Please pray that God will grant me wisdom as I labour in Bible study.
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
Praise Report:
-Praise God for safety and protection during this time!
Prayer Requests:
1. We have found the opportunity to share with other about Jesus, praise the Lord!
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.
Remember us in your prayers for His guidance in upcoming days, and pray that God will open the hearts of our neighbors for salvation.
May God bless you
Thank you,
Worker 8 and Family
Worker 9 – 10/40 Window
Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for me and my ministry in the mountain village.
2. Pray for us here in the mountains, there are many Hindu festivals going on here lately. Please pray that God will open their eyes and know God’s truth.
3. Please pray for 2 brothers who are new believers. Please pray that they will grow more with Jesus.
4. Please pray that God will open more doors here for me to share His Word.
May God bless you,
Thank you for your prayers!
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 parents, that they will wholeheartedly believe in Jesus Christ.
3. Pray for me, because I am making a church building. Pray that God will give me wisdom and understanding to do it correctly.
4. Pray for the village believers, that God will strengthen them in the Word.
5. Pray for me, that God will open new doors for me to share the Gospel.
6. 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 are having difficulty financially. Also pray for those who have lost their friends and family members in this pandemic.
2. Pray for our church people, for their faith. Pray that they will be good students of God’s Word, and pray for our online meetings, that we will be able to find more opportunities to share with new people.
3. Pray for the villages, that people will be strong in their faith. Pray for food provision, because the villagers do not have good transportation during the pandemic, and their grocery market is 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, so that we can have fellowship without any objections and have our own church building.
5. Pray for me, that I will lead our believers well, and pray for my health also.
6. Pray for a computer to continue send my updates and use for our online fellowship. It is very difficult to write newsletters in my phone, so a computer would be very helpful for keeping in touch.
7. Pray for the new people—those who have come to Christ recently; pray that they will grow with Lord and with His kindness.
Thank you for your kindness!!
God bless you,
Worker 12
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
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