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Timo and Laura serve in Finland among the refugee population, sharing Jesus with them and equipping Christian refugees to reach out to fellow internationals and the Finns they live among. Recently, a family in their community from South American country got very negative news. They weren’t given asylum and this family with a young daughter will be sent to their home country in the next 1-2 months. They have not lived there in 9 years and are quite afraid of what will happen due to the corruption and insecurity. This family has been part of Timo and Laura’s community for 1.5 years. A recent encouragement was that in small group they were looking at John 15 and what it means to abide in the Lord. The husband asked many good questions, and they were able to explain what walking with Jesus is really about. He shared then how they had not seen real followers of Jesus before becoming part of their community. Please pray for this family, that the seeds sown by Timo and Laura will bear the fruit of repentance and faith and that they may be able to entrust them into the Lord’s hands.
Pray for the 60,000-70,000 Gujarati of Madagascar. An urban church has expressed interest in being involved in outreach to the Gujarati population in its community. There are many cultural barriers that the Malagasy church will have to overcome to make inroads with the Gujarati neighbours. Please pray for the right training opportunities and partnership possibilities with the Malagasy church.
Elle is part of a medical ministry team on the Indian Ocean Islands. She has been finding hospital work frustrating recently – please pray for her patience and understanding! Ask that the Lord would help her to advise and support well where there has been a lack of training, in a way that will be appreciated. Pray for wisdom as to what to focus on first, and peace to be able to give to the Lord what she cannot control.
Please pray for the Rangi of Tanzania. Several people from the village just came back from “Hajj,” which is the annual pilgrimage to Mecca that every devout Muslim has to complete at least once in their life. Pray that for those who are just returning, that their attempts at earning favour from God through rituals and sacrifice leave them unsatisfied! Pray they would come to know and believe that only Christ’s sacrifice can restore our relationship with God.
In her last update, Margot shared that they will no longer be moving to serve in Chad as previously planned. It’s been a long time since they have been able to catch up with Margot’s sending church and supporters in the UK and over a year since they have been in the US with her husband, Fernando’s, sending church and family. After some time in the UK, they will be heading to the US on the 5th of July, before ending the trip with an AIM Conference in Atlanta. Since the decision to step back from ministry in Chad, they have many questions about their future. Margot and Fernando have been having conversations with their sending churches and AIM to discuss what potential options there are moving forward. Please pray that God will give them wisdom and clarity.
In partnership with the local church, Sandrine shares the love of Jesus with North African immigrants in Montréal, Canada. At the end of April, they launched a “Bridges” course with a dozen Christians from three local churches, meeting every week for seven weeks. This course helped in better understanding Islam, developing friendships with Muslims, and learning how to build bridges to the gospel. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will give those that took the course courage to love Muslims and share the gospel with them. Sandrine has also started another course, after multiple people approached her wanting to explore the foundations of the Christian faith. It is called ‘Jesus according to Jesus’ : a journey of discovering the person and work of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark. Ask that the Lord may use this course to bring spiritual sight!
Praise the Lord for reports of multiple baptisms last month across the Indian Ocean Islands! Unfortunately, pictures of these professions of faith were posted on social media, so those in the pictures are almost assuredly to face stiff opposition from their community. Please pray for the Lord’s hand of protection to be over them, that He will grant these new believers courage, and that He will use this for good to draw many to Himself.
Pray for the 89,000 Gabbra that live in the Chalbi desert in Kenya, close to the border with Ethiopia. Some of the workers recently completed a course which is designed to help participants carefully examine how Scripture aligns with—or challenges—different cultural practices, and to consider how to faithfully move forward in light of God’s Word. Please pray for wisdom and clarity as the team prepares to take this material and share it with local leaders. Ask that these discussions would be guided by the Holy Spirit, and that they would lead to deep understanding of the gospel and healthy, rooted discipleship. Pray especially that many would come to see that following Jesus is not the rejection of their identity, but the transformation of it—that someone can be a faithful Christian while still fully belonging within Gabbra culture. Ask that God would raise up strong local leaders who rightly handle His Word and faithfully shepherd new believers in truth, grace, and love.
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