Praise the Lord for coming as one of us at great cost to himself. Pray for those who have gone to make him known to others and are far away from family and loved ones. Pray too for those on home assignment, that this will be a precious time catching up with family.

Pray for Morgan that he would have a rich learning experience on his short-term placement with a training team in Northern Kenya. Morgan has been involved in language learning, building houses, and visiting a Pastor in a shepherd camp. He has also had the opportunity to attend an AIM Conference and has enjoyed meeting new people and learning about the ministries that others are involved in.

Pray for people on Mayotte to be provided with their immediate basic needs: water to drink, food to eat, a roof over their heads; phones reconnected so they can reach loved ones; leaders to have wisdom beyond all human wisdom, both for the immediate crisis as well as for longer term rebuilding efforts; peace and order not looting and violence. But also pray that their longer term needs to feel safe, find comfort as they grieve this immense loss, and discover hope for the future would ultimately be met in the Saviour.

The recent cyclone in the Indian Ocean has had a terrible effect on the island of Mayotte. The 140 mph winds devastated the tin shacks of the large population of undocumented migrants, and all have been entirely flattened. Larger houses with tin roofs were not spared, with roofs ripped from many. Tens of thousands are without water. Pray for effective disaster relief in the short term.