Daily prayers
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.
Elle is part of a medical ministry team on the Indian Ocean Islands. The short-termer who had been there for six months, ‘Z’, left at the end of July and is safely back in the UK. She had to go round and say a proper goodbye to all her friends (very important in that culture), and it struck Elle how many people Z had got to know, and how many seeds for the good news have been sown during her time there. Please pray for Z as she prepares to start university in October, and for all her language helpers and friends, that they wouldn’t forget the light and love of Jesus that shone through her, and that Elle and her teammate can maintain links with them and be ready for any questions they may have.
Ruth works on an Indian Ocean Island, seeking to share the gospel with people who have never had it explained to them. Ruth has continued to meet with Holly, her language helper, each week. Holly had heard some Christian songs from previous team members before but hadn’t been interested in discussing faith for a while. At the end of one of their lessons this month, however, she suddenly asked Ruth if she knew the song called ‘Oceans’ by Hillsong. When Ruth started singing it, Holly joined in and there was something very special about sitting on her roof watching the sun set over the ocean, singing a song about the Lord. The following week they studied the lyrics to help her understand more of it and Ruth shared about Peter walking on the waves and then sinking when he lost faith. Ruth was able to share the whole story and Holly really engaged. Please ask that these sorts of conversations can continue and Holly would develop a real hunger for the Word.
Simon and Miriam are serving in Antananarivo, Madagascar, encouraging and equipping the Malagasy church for mission and reaching out to vulnerable women. These last two months have been full of new connections for Miriam’s ministry with vulnerable women. One of their supporters also put her in touch with two soap companies! One is a social enterprise helping individuals with learning disabilities. There are many similarities between them and what Miriam wants to do, so this has been a huge blessing as she thinks through ways of starting a business with which to offer employment to the women. Please join them in praying for wisdom and guidance as to when to advertise for the Business Manager position and when to start the business, as Simon and Miriam plan to return for some time in the UK towards the end of the year.
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