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Please pray for the 30-40,000 Lokwa in South Sudan. Praise the Lord there are some believers and local church gatherings. In recent years, mission partners have been seeking to make Jesus known among the Lokwa, and have visited many villages by bicycle, preaching the gospel and showing the Jesus Film. Please pray for those who continue this work, that they will have strength and resilience, and that the Lord would raise up co-labourers for this vast work to bring the gospel to the Lokwa.
Isabel served at Kijabe Hospital in Kenya for her medical elective from April to May. During her six weeks there, she spent time with both the General Surgery Department and the Internal Medicine Department. It was a steep and daunting learning curve, and at times the feeling of inadequacy was overwhelming, especially when she felt she was ‘holding people’s lives in her hands’. However, the team was incredibly supportive. A significant part of the challenge was patients presenting later in the course of their illness, when complications had already developed, which sadly led to many patient deaths. The weight of pain and suffering, and the emotional toll that accompanied it, felt unbearable at times. It was during moments like this that she learned to bring her questions, doubts, and emotions to the Lord, as her ever-present help in times of need and the anchor of her soul, surrendering these burdens to Him time and time again. She was also deeply grateful for the opportunity to do this alongside other staff members. Please pray for Isabel as she transitions to the next stage of medical training as a Foundation Year Doctor and considers how she can continue to use her skills to serve the Lord in the future.
Paul and Elizabeth are teaching mission courses at Africa International University (AIU) in Nairobi and mobilising local church leaders to serve as missionaries among Unreached People Groups. With AIM Eastern Region becoming a sending region (supporting local missionaries to take the gospel to Unreached People Groups), there are growing opportunities for collaboration. Tanzania is home to many UPGs and in the months of April to July, Paul and Elizabeth spent time in Tanzania, engaging church leaders in various parts of the country by facilitating mission awareness. Please pray that God will use their efforts to raise up more workers from within East Africa, so that many may have the opportunity to hear and respond to the good news.
Rebecca teaches at Rift Valley Academy (RVA), Kenya. Last week, Rebecca’s local church had their vacation Bible school (VBS) and youth programme. Please pray that what they have heard will take root in the hearts of these young people and lead them to know Jesus for themselves. Pray too that through them more families will come to the church. Term 1 is going to look very different for Rebecca when she starts back in September. After teaching biology for the past two years, she is excited that she will get to teach chemistry and use her degree more. It also means she will be teaching the same children she taught last year and has built good relationships with. From mid-October she will be back in the UK for home assignment, until the end of December. Please pray that this time in the UK will bring physical and spiritual refreshment, and that she will know how to best use the time.
Ruth works on an Indian Ocean Island, seeking to share the gospel with people who have never had it explained to them. Praise God for more opportunities that Ruth has had to deepen friendships and share her faith. Recently, she was helping a friend who kept commenting about what a good person she was, and Ruth was able to explain that naturally she is not loving but, because of Jesus, she is being changed by his grace at work in her heart. Please ask the Lord to shine through Ruth as she seeks to point away from herself and give glory to Christ. Pray for stamina in the coming month as the busy season continues. Pray too for a 30-year-old single lady that Ruth will be reading the Bible with while her team leaders are away. There are many difficulties so please ask that the Holy Spirit will give Ruth wisdom and touch this lady’s heart.
John and Zoe serve at Rift Valley Academy (RVA), AIM’s boarding school in Kijabe, Kenya, which educates and disciples the children of missionaries. The school year is finished and this marks the completion of two years as dorm parents to their current cohort of Junior High girls! God has been so faithful in sustaining and blessing them with great relationships and opportunities. At the same time as letting go of the boarders, they are also letting go of their daughter, Sadie, as she has now graduated from RVA and will be starting university in September. Please pray for them as a family in this season of transition, and as they spend the summer helping empty the homes of those leaving, and preparing them for new staff.
Please pray for the 7-10,000 Laarim who live in the Boya Hills of South Sudan. Praise God that there is a growing sense of belonging and unity among the Laarim believers. At the start of the year, the local church came together with the team of mission partners to build a church structure – a beautiful picture of shared commitment and partnership. Please pray that the Lord would strengthen the local believers, enable them to guard against division, and that their love for Him and for one another would bear spiritual fruit.
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