Prières quotidiennes
Pray for the South Asians of East Africa, of whom 82,000 are in Kenya, 60,000 in Tanzania and 15,000 in Uganda. South Asians in East Africa include Punjabi, Gujarati, and Kutchi speakers and often live in close-knit communities and maintain their culture and close ties to family in India. The majority of South Asians live in the big cities – Nairobi, Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, and Kampala. Most of them are involved in business (they are believed to control about 40% of Uganda’s economy) with their involvement in manufacturing, pharmacies, insurance companies, sugar industry, banks, real estate and hotels. Pray the Lord of the Harvest to call labourers into this harvest field. We need wisdom and guidance on how to effectively reach this South Asian people group.
Pray for AIM as we seek to foster caring communities among AIM members, ministry partners, and local believers. Ask the Lord that, in the power of His Spirit, we would love, serve, encourage and admonish each other in order to grow in unity and demonstrate the truth of Jesus to the world. (John 17:21-23)
Pray for long-serving workers whose funding has dropped as supporters have retired or gone to glory. Finding time to raise support alongside daily ministry can be really hard, and building connections at a distance is not easy. Pray for new partners to come alongside to further the work of the gospel in and through these faithful servants.
Saskia is a short-termer teaching at Rift Valley Academy for a year. She has been visiting the hospital in Kijabe every Wednesday to pray for children and their parents. She has found the lack of privacy for patients particularly striking. Saskia goes with two others, and they go through the wards together, praying at each bed. They start in the ward with very sick children. The suffering she has seen so far has had a profound impact. It puts all the discomfort and challenges in her own life into perspective. Everyone on the wards wants prayer. Last week, she was able to pray for three Muslim women who were in the hospital with a sick child. She also prayed for a boy of about eight who had just arrived and will be receiving cancer treatment. She prayed for a mother who looked very sad and was holding a child with obvious deformities. The hospital is very close to the RVA (National Emergency Medical Service), and there is such a great need! Pray that the Lord would help Sakia as she visits and answer her prayers for those she spends time with.
Jurgen and Katja Hofmann serve in Madagascar, reaching out to the Tanala people with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Ancestor worship and spirit veneration are deeply ingrained in the local culture and the spiritual battle is very real. Jurgen recently led a team of Malagasy Bible students on an outreach trip to the village of Maroamboka, where there are at least 15 witch-doctors, some known for cursing people to death. On the first day, a woman came asking for help because several people were very sick. “Sick” can mean many things, but in this case, it was demonic possession. They found a young woman in her twenties, who had been perfectly healthy three days earlier, but was now unable to do anything but growl and was paralysed in the legs. During prayer, she started kicking, hitting, and contorting, but “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4). After much prayer, the demons left. Within an hour, she was calm. She was placed under the supervision of a local believer, to teach her about the Lord Jesus, so she can follow Him instead of returning to ancestor worship. The next day, the group continued ministering to the other “sick” people, all of whom were freed in the same way! Praise the Lord that people are being released from a life of fear and are learning that freedom is only found in the Gospel.
Elle* is part of a medical ministry team on the Indian Ocean Islands. A family on her team had a possible threat made against one of their children by a mentally disturbed man in the town. Despite discussions with community leaders, they were unable to find a way to guarantee his safety. So for the time being, this family have returned to the US to rest and seek the Lord’s will regarding their future. Please pray for them as they recover from this trauma and ask the Lord to guide them. Praise Him that they were able to say goodbye and leave with many positive memories from their time there. Elle is encouraged, knowing that they planted so many seeds in the community. Our heavenly Father knew this was going to happen, and nothing can thwart His plans for the kingdom. Please ask for comfort as Elle grieves losing teammates, and wisdom about what her priorities should be as the only team member there until January, when a colleague returns. * Name changed for security reasons
John and Zoe Putman serve at Rift Valley Academy (RVA); AIM’s boarding school, which educates and disciples the children of missionaries, in Kijabe, Kenya. They have had a great first term, with five girls returning to the dorm from last year and six brand new ones. With 11 students, they are now a little busier with more questions, more homework to help with, more sports games to support, more hearts to nurture, more hair to braid, more hot chocolate to make, more jokes to be listened to, more medications to administer, and more parents to liaise with. Their role as dorm parents is so special, and they are grateful to God for trusting them with the care of these 11 precious people at such a vulnerable age and stage. The girls are very mouldable and influenced by the world around them, and John and Zoe have the chance to step in whilst parents are away and take on the noticing; the growing of their personalities, characters, understanding of themselves and God, friendships, habits and hobbies. Please pray that their friendships with each other will be healthy and strong, that they will be bold to encourage each other in their faith, and that they will choose good study habits. There is a wide range of backgrounds and cultures within the dorm, so please pray that they can honour everyone to create a warm and welcoming environment with clear expectations and boundaries.
Pray for the 650,000 Saharawi of North Africa, who primarily live in Western Sahara, Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria and Spain. Praise the Lord that several Saharawi ladies came to a festival where they heard the gospel presentation, Christian music and two testimonies. Pray that they will ponder what they heard and believe. Keep praying for the Saharawi woman who received a Bible from a worker. May she read it and have her eyes opened to the Truth. Ask the Lord to enable efforts to mobilise the Spanish church so they can join in reaching out to Saharawi and other Muslims in their area.
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