SGWM OCT PRAYER UPDATE

 Monthly Prayer Requests
AFRICA

Brian and Jill Kanyike – Kampala, Uganda

– Thank you for praying for Jill. Her shingles are almost cleared. Pray for the effects to go away completely.   
– Pray for the women in Jill’s bible study to grow and for those who are not saved (2 Muslims and 1 alcoholic) to continue to come and for the Lord to touch their hearts.  
– Pray for the children to stay healthy as they keep passing coughs around. Pray for Brian to be well.  
– Please continue to pray the children would get called for their citizenship interview.  
– Many visitors are coming through the guest house from now till end of October. Pray for their time in Uganda and Sudan to be fruitful and for all the arrangements to come to pass smoothly.  
– Also please pray for safety as there have been a couple of terrorist attempts around Kampala the last 2 weeks.  

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

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

Matthew and Noelle Harris – Uganda

Hello everyone,   
Thank you so much for your partnership with us in the Gospel!  

Praise God with us that:  
– Many people received salvation through a crusade that one of our students held!  
– God provided a beautiful new home for our family!  

Please join us in prayer that:  
– God will continue providing for each of the pastors in our school.  
– That Noelle and I would have a wonderful 10th anniversary!  
– That God would fully fund our soccer outreach.  

God Bless You, 
The Harris Family – Email Blog
USA

Bond and Heather Gaona – USA, Asia, and Africa  

– Pray for the new churches that have been planted in S. Asia and Nepal. Pray God would bring many new believers and the churches would grow in the Word and many would hear for the first time.  
– Pray for the CBI campuses in S. Asia and Nepal for each of the students as they are being equipped in the Word daily. Pray for the teachers and for the Lord to do a mighty work. Pray for protection and for confirmation for next steps in ministry for those who are graduating.  
– Pray for us as we plan to travel this Fall to teach, strengthen, and visit new locations for ministry in the 10-40 window.  

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

Jana Sandbulte – Indiana, USA

– My baby is due very soon. Please pray for a safe and healthy delivery and baby, and that God will help us to choose a good name for her.
– Please continue to pray for my dad’s health and recovery.
– Please pray for the safety of all the workers in South Asia, and that God will strengthen their hearts and faith. 

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 father’s health and recovery.
– Please pray for the Christians in South Asia that are going through persecution.
– The after-school children’s ministry that I work with is starting up again. Please pray for the children’s salvation and growth in the Lord. 

God bless you!

Joni – Email Blog

Joel and Amy Garcia – Yorba Linda, California

– Pray for a fruitful trip for Joel to the Middle East and North Africa at the end of October and early November 
– Pray for continued strength and vision for raising our family and serving in ministry  

Love in Christ, 
Joel, Amy, Maggie, Harrison, Jude, & Clara Garcia – Email Blog
Mexico

Mike and Sarah Vincent – Rosarito, Mexico  

Prayer Requests!

– Jobs for our college age children Grace and Daniel!  
– God’s blessing on Mike on his four trips visiting our church planters over the next two months. (Santa Barbara, Lima Peru, Las Vegas, Punta Gorda Florida) 

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

Deanna Jevas – Tijuana, Mexico

Hello and thank you so much for your prayers for me and the people of Mexico. Here are my prayer requests for this month:   

– For my mom, health and safety as she lives alone and suffers from Parkinson’s.    
– For the parents of the children in the afterschool program to come to Christ.   
– An afterschool program to reach the junior high kids. They age out of the afterschool program at age 12. We need more staff.   
– For our pastor’s wife, Elena, who was just diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Pray for funds, comfort, wisdom, and understanding in all of this. 

– Deanna Jevas – Email Blog

Brian & Brittany De La Cruz – Calpulalpan, Mexico

– Calvary Conexión México is doing well, praise God! We would like to ask for prayer for the upcoming missions team coming to Calpulalpan from Calvary Rosarito. They will be starting the construction on the property that was donated to the church. Pray for sufficient funds to complete the project, for safety for everyone involved in the construction, and for the children’s outreach that they will be doing. 

Thank you! God bless!  

– Brian & Brittany De La Cruz – Email Blog
South America

Andrew Weakland – Peru

– Prayer that the 70+ people coming to Moyobamba for a mission trip. That the trip is organized, unified, the gospel shared, and that the people of Moyobamba know that Calvary Moyobamba is a place of truthbound love.   
– Pray for our friendships with the locals, that we disciple them and they have a hunger for God’s Word and will in their lives. 

– 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 7 – 10/40 Window

Thank you for praying with me for these souls!

Praise reports:

– The Lord continues to open doors for ministry, meeting new people and sharing the Gospel with them.
– I continue to see fruit in the new believers and an eagerness to know the Lord.

Prayer requests:

– I am looking to move closer to the village I minister in; pray that I can find a good place and for favor with the landlord.
– Please pray for the believers I am shepherding to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus.
– Please pray for continued open doors to minister to the youth.
– Please pray for the young man I recently met, A, to open his heart to the Lord and be raised up to serve Him.
– Please pray for full restoration of my mother’s health, for stronger lungs and the ability to walk without the help of a walker.Please pray that God would bring my helpmate. 

Thank you,  
Worker 7

Worker 8 and Family – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:

– Please pray for G.N. who is demon possessed.
– Please pray for S.; she is only 5 and has swelling in her lungs.
– Please pray for G. and his health problem. 

In the Lord,
Your brother,
Pastor 8 and family 

Worker 11 – 10/40 Window

Praise Points:

– Thank God, another believer in our church publicly showed faith in Jesus this month.
– Thanks to the Lord for the rain; the farmers were able to cultivate the rice paddies.
– Thanks to God, He is providing for all of our needs.
– Thank God for giving me good health in spite of the heat. I did not have any major disease.
– Thank you Lord for strengthening the believers in their faith and for giving them strength to face persecution.
– Thank God that P began attending church again after her family prevented her from coming last month.

Prayer requests:

– Please pray for G.N. who is demon possessed.
– Please pray for S.; she is only 5 and has swelling in her lungs.
– Please pray for G. and his health problem.
– A brother lives near our village and has mouth cancer. He believes in God and has also publicly shown his commitment to follow Jesus. Right now, his condition is critical. A few days ago he needed blood, and another friend and I donated blood for him.
– Please pray that God will increase our church in the knowledge and faith of His Word.
– Please pray for our country, that God will bring goodwill and love here. And that God will bring peace to those who are spreading hatred in the name of religion.
– Please pray for R., who has been disabled for almost 21 years, and also for A., who has been mentally ill for almost 24 years. May God heal both of these believers.
– Please pray for the believer in our church, P. Her husband has locked her in her house so that she cannot come to church. May God release her soon.Please pray for the heat here to go down. Due to the heat, my wife, my family an I have prickly heath. There are frequent power cuts, so we are not able to sleep well at night. Because of the crowd in our church, it is very hot during church. May God give us quick relief from the heat.
– Thank you for your prayers, support and Christian love and for sharing the Gospel. God bless you and your family very much. Please pray that God fulfills all our needs. 

God bless you all! 
Worker 11 

Worker 12 – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests:

– Pray for me to be used for the kingdom of God and to reach places where the Gospel of God has not reached.
– Pray for the growth of the church, and that we will grow more in the Lord. Please also pray for church registration if it is God’s will.
– Please pray for our outreach ministry and for those who come with me; please pray for our protection and safety because we cannot drive easily because of the difficult roads.
– Pray for our slum ministry, that the Word of God reaches the people and changes their lives.
– Pray for our prison ministry. There are many prisoners who are innocent but are in prison. Pray for their release, and also for those who have heard the Word of God, that the Lord will deliver them so that they will be able to live a normal life. 

Thank you so much for lifting us up in your prayers! 
– Worker 12

Worker 16 – 10/40 Window

Prayer Requests
– Please pray for my children, that they will grow in the fear and knowledge of the Lord.
– Please pray that the Lord will intervene in the problems the world is facing.
– Please pray for the village ministry of the local area, that they will grow in the Word of the Lord.
– Please pray for the church members, that they will grow in the Word of God.
– Please pray for our area. 

– Worker 16

Anand and Usha – Nepal

Prayer Requests:
– Please pray for those who heard the Gospel through our students’ ministry in the village.
– Please pray for all of our CBI students as they grow more in His Grace and in His Word. 

Thank you for your prayers and support,
Anand, Usha, Asher and Amos – Email Blog

Prakash and Muna – Nepal

– There are fanatic Hindu groups trying to destroy the church building in the east. Please pray for the situation.
– The same groups are trying to begin a religious war. Pray that God will intervene in every situation. 

Blessings!
Prakash, Muna and Eutychus  – Email Blog

Rabi and Mahima – Nepal

Prayer Requests:
– This years’ students will be graduating soon. Please pray that God will mightily use them and bring changes to the churches in our country.
– Please pray for brother Harka, a former student, who is doing ministry now. Pray that God will bless and provide for him.
– Please pray that God will give us a baby. 

Thank you so much for helping us and lifting us up through prayer and partnership.

Grace and Peace,
Rabi and Mahima – Email Blog

Majhiya and Sarita – Nepal

– I’m currently planning to go to a nearby country to share the Gospel.

Thank you! 

Blessings,
Majhiya and Sarita 

Milan Pariyar – Nepal 

Prayer Requests:

– Pray for my family and our health.
– Pray for our church family and the new believers, that they will grow in the Word.
– Pray for Godly wisdom as I am leading the church as well as leading the district youth community. This month we are having a youth conference October 22-25.
– Pray for the people in my area.
– Pray for the surrounding village people who are following false gods; pray that they will find the true God and hear the Gospel. 

Thank you,
Milan

Darryl and Kayo Record – Cambodia

– Please pray for strength and wisdom for me as I teach a two-week intensive Apologetics class at a Cambodian Bible school from Sept. 25 to August 6. 
– Please pray for Light Association, the organization I volunteer for, to raise funds so that we can provide trainings on a variety of much needed topics to Cambodian churches and organizations, including mental health. 
– Please pray for our regular ministries/ministry partners in Cambodian (Precious Women organization, Bible Schools, ministries to Chinese, a Cambodian church and the international church.  
– Please continue to pray for our health and strength.

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

Doru and the Pavel’s – Romania

Greetings, 

Please lift us up in prayer regarding our migration to a new support platform. While we navigate out of the SGWM system into a new one there are many challenges ahead and many uncertainties to our mission. 

Blessings and Prayers,       
Doru and the Pavel’s – Email Blog