Daily prayers
Chad Unit Annual Conference
Pray for logistics to come together for the many different guests attending the Chad Unit annual conference in June: childcare team from the US, keynote speaker and wife from Kenya, Central Region office staff, and several International Office members. Pray for the Holy Spirit to be guiding Pastor Chris Mwalwa as he shares from God’s word.
Simon and Miriam Desborough
Simon and Miriam Desborough are serving in Antananarivo, Madagascar, encouraging and equipping the Malagasy church for mission and reaching out to vulnerable women. They want to ensure their mobilisation efforts are founded upon much prayer and reflection. As they have now formed a mobilisation committee, they are beginning to advertise new roles. Simon presented on the work of AIM to the Firahalahian’ny Mpitandrina Evanjelika (Brotherhood of Evangelical Pastors) and many were excited to receive training and partner in various initiatives. They are due to provide some missions training to a church in July, and take part in a youth camp teaching on mission in September. It’s been a flurry of new opportunities since returning, but they are thankful to God for ensuring they are not overwhelmed and that they have time to cover these events in prayer.
Hannah
Hannah works at Wellspring School in Chad. Pray for the final month of school – that teaching staff will have perseverance to finish the year well despite the heat, and wisdom as they prepare report cards. Pray for students leaving at various times throughout the month and for the practicalities of finishing up assignments remotely. Praise God for the recent review of their Vision, Mission, Objectives, Goals and Core Values. Pray that they will be committed to working towards these goals, and that the Lord will continue to guide them in this ministry for His glory and their good.
Claire Weddell
Claire Weddell is based in Chimoio, Mozambique, working with local churches in discipleship and leadership development. Thank God for her recovery after illness. Please pray for God’s intervention following a surge of criminal activity in her locality. Pray for the perpetrators to come to Christ.
Karana-Gujarati of Madagascar
Pray for the 60-70,000 Muslim Karana-Gujarati of Madagascar. They are generally descended from Indian immigrants from the Gujarat province, a people known to be resourceful in business. Their estimated control of 50-60% of the Malagasy economy causes resentment and the Malagasy church has little vision for reaching out to them. Pray for a family of Karana believers who are joining a church in Ambilobe to be encouraged. Pray for the witness of a lady who is a fervent Karana believer, and also half Antakarana, who has a deep burden to reach the Antakarana in the North of Madagascar as well as her Karana relatives.
Voice and Tone
Pray that AIM’s communications would be supportive, informative, and optimistic. Pray that we would inspire readers to engage with the mission’s work actively; highlighting both the challenges faced by communities and the strides being made toward reaching Africa’s unreached people groups.
Claudia Middendorf
Claudia Middendorf serves the local church in Beira, Mozambique, in leadership training. She has finished teaching Biblical Geography at her church and enjoyed helping the students understand how real biblical places were and still are. Please pray for wisdom as she now starts to revise the material to leave with the church for future teachers to use, plus a booklet for interested readers. She is also leading a discipleship Bible study with four young students. Pray that they would be able to attend regularly, learn from God’s Word and grow in their faith.
Dawn
Dawn* works to bring the gospel to unreached peoples in the Indian Ocean Islands. Please ask for wisdom in choosing what to be involved in as she settles back after a break. On the Bible translation front, there are plans for a consultant check on a draft, which will be done remotely in a couple of months’ time and community testing of drafts to be done as they try to finalise other books. Other options include embroidery with some ladies, local language lessons for a Malagasy partner, and help with English for her former translator. Pray she will commit to the right options, along with investing in many long-term friendships with women across the island and women in the local church. Also continue to askt hat there will be a real hunger for the Word, and a desire to support one another and meet together. *Name changed for security reasons
Repurposed
April was a big month for AIM Eastern Region (Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia) because Mayfield Ministry Centre had its grand opening. Mayfield used to be an AIM guesthouse in Nairobi. This much loved large 60 room house was a hub of activity for many years as missionaries passed through on their way toand from placements, home assignments and various appointments in Nairobi. Mayfield’s use began to dip in the 2000’s due to both the growing popularity of Airbnb’s and then finally the pandemic. Despite its prime location in the centre of Nairobi, it failed to sell when put on the market. After many meetings, prayer and decisions, on 25th April it was re-opened and dedicated as a Ministry Centre for Kenyans being trained and going into cross-cultural missions. Pray that African mission organisations and churches will collaborate well to train and send missionaries into the most unreached areas, fostering Christ-centred churches across cultural and national boundaries.
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