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Barry and Heather Mann work with Growing Nations, an organisation based in Maphutseng, Lesotho, which shares God’s love through a focus on agricultural knowledge and training. Barry also serves as AIM International’s Crisis Consultant. Praise God that after 2 years of drought and poor crops, good spring rains have fallen across Lesotho, even in Maphutseng, the home of Growing Nations. The fields and vegetable garden have been prepared, seeds have been planted and have germinated, which is fantastic. Ask the Lord for the right amount of rain to continue throughout the season, with no damaging hail, to enable Growing Nations to be a showcase of Conservation Agriculture in Lesotho and to allow it to continue transforming lives both physically, through better harvests, and spiritually, through an increased knowledge of God’s love for each person who interacts with Growing Nations. Please also pray that Farming Quest 2026, a 2-week course to equip missionaries & church workers in Farming God’s Way, will proceed as planned from January 24–February 6, 2026. This is a great opportunity for people to come to Growing Nations and learn how agriculture can be used to share the gospel message in their ministry settings.
David Gray is a new missionary with AIM AIR based in Kenya. Pray that he will be able to sort all the paperwork to convert his South African pilot licence into a Kenyan one. He has recently taken on the role of Assistant Director of Operations in the team, so pray for wisdom and enabling as he grows into that role. He and his new wife, Lindsay, will be relocating to Uganda for the month of February to cover flight needs there.
Pray for the 1,140,000 Tanala of Madagascar who live near and in the forest of South East Madagascar in difficult-to-reach areas. Workers recently showed the Jesus Film in the villages of Midongy and Befotaka, and the reactions were incredible! The Bible stories became clear to many. Please pray for the new brothers and sisters in Christ that they would shine and remain firm. Following Jesus is not easy when families fear ancestral punishment, and sorcerers are not happy about more Christians.
Ann works among an unreached people group in northern Chad. What a gift it is to bring some measure of healing. But what sadness to see how people suffer. She has now been seeing mentally ill and epileptic patients in Eastern Chad for about 10 years. Recently, she went to a health centre in a village with, reputedly, many such patients. 60 new patients came, but she could only see 50 in the two days available. Pray for resilience in the face of the suffering there. Seeing so many mentally ill people in two days, many of whom were very troubled, was a challenge to her heart, especially considering how long they had suffered. Ann is conscious that she will be retiring soon and so has asked the WHO team working with such patients if they could organise training so that the work can continue. Pray not only that this will happen, but that there will be people interested to learn.
Paul and Elizabeth Makau are teaching mission courses at Africa International University (AIU) in Nairobi and mobilising local church leaders to serve as missionaries among Unreached People Groups. Praise the Lord for the successful mission trip in September to Lependera, which included the construction of a church building for the church plant, a visit by their sending church pastors, the church leaders in the Machakos Area committing to sustainable partnerships in sharing the gospel among Unreached People Groups (UPGs), and a fruitful free medical camp. Please pray for God’s provision as they trust to make AIC Lependera a mission base to launch gospel campaigns to other unreached villages. Ask the Lord to protect and grow the believers in Lependera and Marsabit as a whole. Pray too for the discipling program and the pastors in the area (Ngurunit, Siang’an, Namarei) as they work as a team to share the gospel in the many other unreached villages, as a lot of UPGs need to be reached.
Ruth Mahood serves as AIM Care Manager at Tumaini Counselling Centre in Nairobi. When she is not travelling, her days are a mixture of emails, client work, setting budgets, and meeting with various team members – including connecting with Charles, the Director of ABS (please continue to pray for Charles as he grieves the sudden death of Elizabeth, his wife, in June). There are many moments where she is scratching her head, unsure what she should do, but she is grateful for God’s wisdom and the support of the team. Pray that Ruth would continue to grow into this new role well and that the team would be fruitful in their work as they depend upon the Lord.
Rebecca Welsh teaches chemistry and broader science at Rift Valley Academy (RVA), Kenya. She worships at a local church plant, and she has loved seeing how the church has grown and the community deepened over the past months. She loves being able to be part of the local community and serve alongside her Kenyan brothers and sisters in Christ, who have been so warm and welcoming to her. Although the church has, on average, 30 people on a Sunday morning, they had 150 kids come along to hear about the love of Jesus at recent holiday bible clubs. Twice a month, folk from the church do outreach in the different surrounding areas, and even though it is mainly done in Swahili, it has been one of the most life-giving things Rebecca has done this term. The leadership team are intentional in building community at the church, so there are often ladies’ events, praise and prayer events, invitations round for meals and even overnight stays. The few that go from Kijabe (where RVA and the mission hospital are located) invited all the young adults from the church to Kijabe and gave them an experience of some more western style food – the carrot sticks and hummus didn’t go down very well! Praise the Lord for this church plant and pray for Rebecca to grow in her walk with the Lord alongside her brothers and sisters there.
Amelia serves in West Africa, sharing the gospel with those in a region that is very opposed to the message of Jesus Christ. Her team leaders have recently left, and they are not the only ones. At a recent prayer weekend, there was a collective intake of breath when it was announced that one African couple who have been there for 17 years would be leaving. In the last two years, 19 long-term workers have left, with half of them having been there more than ten years. At the same time, new people are coming in (Amelia included), so it’s definitely a season of change. Pray that they would have eyes to see what God is doing and that in the midst of goodbyes and hellos, they would keep remembering that this is God’s work, not theirs, that he has good plans for this country and for his people there, whether they are staying or going.
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