Dawn works to reach unreached peoples in the Indian Ocean Islands with the gospel.
Dawn’s platform ministry is working with mother-tongue language resources. Up until now this has mainly been teaching literacy and numeracy to women with little or no formal education. However, Dawn is actively involved in hands-on work in a strategy to get more biblical resources into Island languages in different media forms.
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Dawn* works to reach unreached peoples in the Indian Ocean Islands with the gospel. Pray for her friend and local believer Regina*, who is facing serious threats from her father due to her faith, and could lose her home, but she is continuing to trust Jesus and share the gospel in her neighbourhood. Pray that God will soften her father’s heart and that God will strengthen her and Dawn’s friendship so that together they grow in their love and witness of their Saviour.
*Names changed for security reasons
Dawn* works among a people group in the Indian Ocean Islands. Give thanks that the island ladies’ Bible study she leads is still meeting twice a month. Pray for these ladies as they read about the one true God and His salvation plan for all creation. Pray the women will attend regularly, amid the busyness of life, and that God will enable Dawn* to explain the gospel in a way that is easy to understand and communicates the immensity of what Christ has done for each one of them on the cross.
*Names changed for security reasons
Dawn* works to reach unreached peoples in the Indian Ocean Islands with the gospel. Pray that God will provide time in her friends’ and neighbours’ schedules to meet and speak of faith together and read the Bible as they once used to. Dawn has found that Ramadan’s disruption to people’s usual routine along with the daily demands of life, has meant that the Island believers women’s group that usually meets to study and encourage each other has lost momentum. Pray that God will give these women a thirst for His word and fellowship together and that these meetings will become a priority in future weeks.
*Names changed for security reasons
Give thanks for the news of three new believers on the Indian Ocean Islands. Pray for endurance to continue pressing on towards Christ on their own while their main Christian mentor is and for their hearts to grow in love and devotion to Jesus.
Give thanks with Ruth for the bound books of Genesis, Exodus, Luke and Acts and Bible audio players that were delivered to the Indian Ocean Islands recently. One believer left his book of scripture on his office desk at work and told Ruth that everyone who has come into his office has picked it up and then asked for a copy. Pray that each would be supplied with one and that God’s word will open their eyes to the truth of the gospel and their need of Jesus.
These beautiful tropical islands are 99.9% Muslim and for security reasons we refer to this area as the ‘Indian Ocean Islands’ rather than naming individual islands. Islam is deeply rooted on these islands and to be an islander is to be a Muslim. There are a small number of believers on each island but many follow Jesus secretly for fear of rejection and persecution.
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We long to let all Africa's people know that they can have life, in all its fullness, for comfort rather than being in fear of breaking taboos or working to earn favour in the eyes of their gods.
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Our heart is to see people’s whole lives redeemed by the love of Christ, and communities changed as people understand their value in God’s eyes.
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One of our team leaders serving on the Indian Ocean Islands shares how her TIMO experience fortifies her current ministry.
We asked Amelia to share what she has learnt about sharing her faith over the 13 years she has lived on an island in the Indian Ocean, and how important it is to understand other people’s faith before sharing your own.
F* shares why he is serving as an English teacher on an Indian Ocean Island and the challenges and joys it brings as he seeks to share the gospel.
