Daily prayers
Chad
Ann, one of our workers based in Chad, asks us to pray with urgency for the situation facing her American colleagues in Chad. In response to President Trump refusing further entry of Chadians to the USA, the Chadian President has refused to allow Americans to enter Chad. This is having a significant effect on the missionary community, with people having to leave suddenly because their visa is running out. Some have been there for many years, and their ministry is ongoing. But they can do nothing. They don’t know when/if they will return. AIM has several people affected. What will happen to their ministries? What should they do with their belongings? Difficult questions. Pray for a change of heart in the respective governments and wisdom for those affected.
Amelia
Amelia* serves in West Africa, sharing the gospel with those in a region that is very opposed to the message of Jesus Christ. One thing her team has been working on is praying in the local language. Amelia really wants to get to the place where she can pray freely and fluently, and obviously one of the best ways to do that is to pray with someone who does just that. It has therefore been a little frustrating to have a language helper with whom this could happen and yet who always just wanted Amelia to pray. However, recently the language helper was watching the news about the ME conflict when Amelia arrived, and she announced that today she was going to pray. It was a beautiful moment – the first time Amelia had heard a local woman really pray. Their lives have been very different, and yet they are both children of our Father in heaven, and they both live in a broken world that needs him. Ask that praying together would become the highlight of the week for both of them. Currently there is a gathering head of steam around language learning among workers, including a short Bible study in the local language after their Sunday house church. Pray this would continue and that they would all become better equipped for kingdom work.
Ruth
Ruth* works on an Indian Ocean Island, seeking to share the gospel with people who have never had it explained to them. A new believer, Natalie*, came to the monthly Bible study recently. When she arrived, she was nervous as she realised her relative, Nora*, lived next door, so she came in quickly and didn’t want to be seen by anyone as she entered. However, just a few minutes later, Natalie* said, ‘Why am I so bothered? Everyone will know soon enough what I believe!’ and at the end of the study she left slowly with her head held high, not afraid to walk in her new beliefs! (As it happened, Nora wasn’t there.) Please pray for Natalie*. She is highly educated and has a good job. She is travelling overseas this month for work. Ask that she would remain rooted in God as she travels and that she would continue to see the cost of following Him as worth it.
Tim and Heather Matthews
Pray for Tim and Heather Matthews. Tim serves as Director for AIM’s Asia Pacific Mobilising Region, leading a small team in Australia and coordinating teams in Hong Kong and New Zealand. One of Tim’s responsibilities is to ensure AIM sends the right people to be disciple-makers, who are suitably equipped, and not everyone who is willing to fill an urgent need is ready or suitable, so pray for needed grace and wisdom. In May, Tim connected with a couple of church leaders interested in partnering with AIM to work towards new ministry in a North African country that still has very little gospel ministry taking place. Please pray this new partnership initiative will take shape.
John and Zoe Putman
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. Every school break, students travel far and wide on buses, planes and trains to return to their families. One girl from their dorm travels 20 hours on the bus across the border to Uganda with her sister. The Putmans have started a tradition to lend her one of their Maasai blankets for the journey as it gets cold overnight. She may only be 14 but she trusts the Lord! Pray for the Putman family and other RVA staff and students; for safe travel over the summer and good times with family.
Mahafaly of Madagascar
Pray for the 310,000 Mahafaly of Madagascar who live in the South Western part of the island, which is dry with unpredictable rainfall. They herd goats, sheep, and zebu, which they especially prize, adorning kings’ and chiefs’ tombs with zebu horns. We are still seeking partners to go and share the Jesus film in their land. We have one church starting the work. Pray for a good partnership and for many Mahafaly people to believe the message.
Christ-centredness
Pray that all in AIM would be Christ centred: compelled by Christ’s love (2 Cor 5:14) to love, pray for, and proclaim the Gospel to Africa’s unreached peoples. Pray that our sufficiency, hope, and ministry would flow from our relationship with Christ. Ask that we would serve by His grace and strength and submit to His will.
Hannah Jackson
Hannah Jackson is the Assistant Child Safety Officer for AIM. In the middle of June, she joined some Eastern Region Office colleagues and 12 newly-arrived short termers at the GO Programme in Mombasa for a few days. The ‘Goers’, who are from Zambia, Ethiopia, Australia, Brazil and Kenya, started with two weeks of orientation before going to their ministry placements along the coast. Hannah led a child safety training session and shared about her ‘journey to mission’. The sessions on the Friday were on Islam and they gathered to pray when they heard the call to prayer from local mosques. Hannah was excited by spending time with these individuals who are interested in cross-cultural mission and exploring how God might be guiding them! Pray that God would work in and through the Goers as they are now on their placements.
Africa Based Orientation
Africa Based Orientation (ABO) for workers new to Africa runs from 15thJuly to 5th August. Steve and Sharon are leading this for the first time and 77 people are attending, including children! Pray for logistics, health, great teaching, fellowship, and fruitful preparation for these new workers.
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