SGWM MAR 2024 PRAYER UPDATE

Monthly Prayer Requests
AFRICA

Brian and Jill Kanyike – Kampala, Uganda

– Please pray for a little girl in Jill’s Bible study who is named after her. Little Jill has been sick for 3 weeks. She has been on many treatments for many things but today is very ill. Please pray they find out what exactly the matter is and can treat it properly. Pray for God to heal her. 

– Pray for the Kanyike kids as they are back to school. Pray for Luke and Laylee as they are finding their new grades much harder than before. 

– Please continue to pray for the Kanyike children to get called for their citizenship interviews in the States. 

– Pray for the chaplains who have been coming to Kampala for medical treatment. 

– Pray for Brian as he pastors and leads the ministry team at Arise Christian Fellowship.

Thank you for praying for the Kanyike family and for the ministry in Uganda. 

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

Tim and Jenn Pappas – Yorba Linda, California

Prayer Requests
– Please pray for our son, Andy, he continues to refuse treatment, or any other kind of assistance to change the course of his homelessness and drug addiction.   
– Please pray for an increase in people to partner with us financially as our support has dipped down recently.   

Praise Reports
Praise God with us…

– For those who have given generous one-time gifts and ongoing monthly support to help us do the work the Lord has us called to.  
– For His continued strength as we engage in missionary care.  
– For the way Jenn and I are able to work side-by-side with no problems in our day-to-day and overall relationship 

All for His Glory,
Tim and Jenn – Email Blog

Bond and Heather Gaona – USA, Asia, and Africa

– Pray for the new students at each of our campuses in Nepal and S. Asia for all of the new students to learn quickly and fall more in love with God through His Word. Pray also for the teachers for wisdom and to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 

– Pray for several teams traveling to Nepal in March to minister through medical help in the mountains. Pray for divine appointments and for the churches to be strengthened.  Pray for our family as we plan out our travel for the year! Pray also as we handled many building projects currently in Asia. We need wisdom, clear communication, and favor from the Lord. 

– Pray for our family to stay strong in the Lord and remain healthy physically to accomplish all He has called us to as we work together to reach the nations for Jesus. 

Thank you for your prayers,   
Bond, Heather and Breanna Gaona – Email Blog

Jana Sandbulte – Indiana, USA

– Please pray for good health for our family this year. I am having problems with kidney stones; pray for wisdom and healing.

– 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 use us for His glory. 

Thank you so much for your prayers!  

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

Joni Houser – Indiana, USA

– Please continue to pray for my dad’s recovery. Praise the Lord, he is doing a little better!

– Please pray for the Christians in South Asia who are going through persecution.

– Please pray for the children’s ministry I am a part of, that many children will be saved and grow in the Lord.

– Please continue to pray for my mom’s health and complete recovery. 

God bless you!

Joni – Email Blog
Mexico

Mike and Sarah Vincent – Rosarito, Mexico  

Here are the Vincent Family prayer requests!

– Part-time jobs for our children, Grace and Daniel! 
– God’s blessing on our 36 new church planting students!   

Praise Reports:

– Thank you Lord for our 39th church plant, Calvary Chapel New Zeal in Las Vegas, Nevada!

Thanks for your prayers,  
Mike and Sarah Vincent – Email Blog

Ron and Kristy Struska – Rosarito, Mexico 

Praise Reports:

– Praise God for our newest full-time volunteer staff member – Yesenia Lopez! Yesi served with us last spring and summer and has committed to serving at Connections House for one year.

– We also want to give praise to the Lord for our part-time volunteer staff member, Jody Gonzales! Jody has recently taken over as Intern Coordinator at Connections House. She has also started training to take on some administrative responsibilities.    

Prayer Requests:  

– Prayer for Yesi as she begins to raise prayer and financial support. She stepped out in faith last month to come on staff full-time. She is helping in the kitchen and training to help with accounting and other areas as needed.

– Please pray for more full-time volunteer staff for Connections House. While we are blessed to have the new help the Lord has provided, it is long overdue. Over the last year, the number of teams hosted at Connections House has doubled, and with that comes a lot more work that needs to be done. We are searching for two full-time volunteer staff, or one married couple. 

Thank you so much for praying! 

Blessings!
Ron & Kristy Struska – Email Blog

Deanna Jevas – Tijuana, Mexico

– For God to move on the hearts of the parents of the kids in our after-school program to attend our service on Easter Sunday, (their children will be presenting a special dance), AND that there would be decisions made for Christ!   

– Anointing on the special Easter drama that the men from our church will be presenting—again, the goal is to win hearts for Jesus! 😁  Provisions for a youth room and nursery makeover.  

– Continued good health for my mom who just turned 83 and lives alone and has Parkinson’s.  

– For the Lord to continue to use me as He so desires for his honor and glory!  


– Deanna Jevas – Email Blog
South America

Craig and Daisy Tippie – Huacho, Peru

Hola SGWM family, thank you for your faithful prayers for us on the mission field.

– We are having one of the hottest summers on record, pray for us, because the heat affects everything, even the chicken in the market.  

– Pray for our summer outreaches, teams, and spiritual growth. We have some of our leadership going to Iquitos for the pastor’s and leader’s conference next month. Stalyn is graduating from CCBC Cajamarca in May and we are going to do a church mission trip up there the week before.

– Everyone is getting summer colds and flu, it is going around like wild fire in Huacho and in the church. Daisy is sick, and so is Sarah the young foster child living with us. 

Thank you from our hearts, 
Craig and Daisy – Email Blog

Andrew Weakland – Peru

– Pray that God can equip the saints from Calvary Moyobamba to help with the responsibilities and ministries. 

– Pray for peace in my heart and sensitivity to God. I really miss my mom and grandma. 

– Praise God that we have made wonderful friendships with people at church. 

– Praise God that we have been able to minister to people in the community and share Christ.

– Andrew Weakland – Email Blog
10/40 Window

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 6 – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:

– Please pray for the new Sunday worship service that started in a village that has been very anti-Christian.

– Pray for those who heard the Gospel in Christmas outreaches.

– Please be continuously praying for us to reach the unreached places to share God’s love to His people. 

Thank you! 

God bless you,
Worker 6

Worker 9 – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:

– Pray that God will continue to use me for His glory.

– Pray for my health, as I have a dust allergy, and we have a lot of dust in my town. As a result, I do get sick very often.

– Pray for the students, that they will be prepared to start church planting ministry.

– Pray for my ministry among youth and young adults, that the Lord would continue to use me to minister to them. 

Thank you so much for your prayers.

God bless you all! 
Worker 9

Worker 10

– Pray that all of the believers to whom I have preached the Gospel will grow with the Lord’s blessings in their lives.

– Pray for a brother who I preached to. He was greatly attracted to the Gospel. May God bring him to saving faith.

– Pray for me and my family. My health is not getting much better. The medicine did not help, and I had to go to another place to a doctor, and still I could not get completely well. Pray to the Lord that I will be completely healed soon.

– Pray for me, in the village where I preach God’s Word. May God give me strength and blessings so that more will be converted.

– Pray for the young believers in my village who are ill and for those who have bad financial conditions. May they be healed in the name of the Lord Jesus, and may they grow in the Gospel of the Lord and prosper in their lives. 

Thank you! 
Worker 10

Worker 11 – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:

– I thank God that I was able to reopen the churches which had been closed earlier due to the government, and that it went safely.

– Thank God that our institution has started again.

– Thanks to God, people are moving forward in the Lord despite physical and mental persecution.

– Thank God for keeping me and my family and parents safe.

Prayer Requests:

– Please pray continuously for our safety.

– Please pray for our CBI friends with faith, that God will protect them from the coming suffering.
Please pray that God will provide land for a cemetery for Christ’s people.Please pray so that peace can be established between the Hindus and Muslims. There are riots during every Hindu festival, and as a result, the internet is closed for three or four days.

– There is a 22-year-old paralyzed boy in our church, whose name is R. About 60 to 70% of his body is paralyzed. May God heal him completely.My sister’s wedding is on May 16th. Please pray that God will fulfill all of our needs for the wedding. 

Thanks for your prayers, Christian love, partnership and participation in spreading the Gospel!

God bless you all! 
Worker 11 

Worker 13 – 10/40 Window

– Continue to pray for our ministry around the villages here.

– Pray for all of our believers in the area, that they will stay with God during persecution and problems.
Yesterday, I was in a meeting, and they were talking about the main religion here, that they want it to grow. They are doing very dark things. Pray that God will help them to open their eyes so that they will see the truth. Pray that God will open new doors so that we can share the Gospel in this area.

– We have some new families who have just accepted Jesus. Pray that they will grow in God’s Word faithfully. 

Thank you so much everyone for praying for us! God bless you!

Worker 13

Worker 15 and Family – 10/40 Window

Please pray for…

– Pray for our health. Vinita and I have been suffering from cough, cold and headache.

– Pray for our safety, as persecution has increased in our area since the new government (anti-Christian) has come in power.

– Pray for the ministry in our country.

Thanks for your prayers!

God bless,
Worker 15 

Worker 16 – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests

– Please pray for my children to grow in the Lord’s fear and knowledge.

– Please pray that the Lord will intervene in the problems the world is facing.

– Please pray for the village ministry in our local area. May the villagers grow in Lord’s Word.

– Please pray M* (the niece of one of our students). She is suffering from Chickenpox.

– Please pray for our state believers, as they are facing persecution. 

Worker 16

Rabi and Mahima – Nepal

Prayer Requests:

– Pray that God will allow the children in our area to come to our church.

Thank you so much for supporting us, praying for us, and raising us up. May God bless every family in the Saving Grace family. 

Grace and Peace,
Rabi and Mahima – Email Blog

Darryl and Kayo Record – Cambodia

Thank you for your prayer cover!  It really makes a difference!  

– Please pray for me as I teach Apologetics/Evangelism at a Cambodian church and train the teachers at a Cambodian Christian school.

– Please pray for our health as we enter the Cambodian hot season. Kayo and Benjamin have recently had some minor health issues and fatigue and the heat makes things more challenging.

– Please pray for our ministries alongside organizations, churches, and schools here in Cambodia. We need wisdom to maximize and balance all the opportunities.

– Please pray for our upcoming trip to Japan this summer to visit senders and family there.  Please pray that we will be able to encourage the believers and be strong witnesses before the unbelievers.  

In Christ’s Hands, 
Darryl, Kayo, and Benjamin – Email Blog