Tuesday

“Elijah was a man with a nature like ours,

and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain;

and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

And he prayed again,

and the heaven gave rain,

and the earth produced its fruit.”

James 5:17-18

 

 

The monthly share group meeting will be Thursday at the Alford cabin. Please feel free to join us at 6:30. If you need directions or more information, please contact me.

 

 

FULBE/FUTA JALON OF GUINEA (FUL-bay/FOO-tuh jah-lone). “Mom, I want to go out visiting women soon,” proclaimed the 15-year-old daughter of a Fulbe/Futa Jalon Team member. Her mother writes: “When I asked her MK (missionary kid) friend how her English classes were going (she is teaching a teenage Fulbe girl some conversational English), she said that it was going really well. The girls’ interest level is still high, which is good since they often will start something and then stop when they get a little discouraged. As my daughter and I go out visiting women in and around town, please pray that we will see where God is working and join Him there. Ask for my daughter to have confidence in her ability to speak and understand the Pular language. Pray that the Great Physician will heal the sick through our prayers, comfort the discouraged, and save the lost. As this other teenage MK teaches English to her Fulbe friend, please pray that their hearts will be united and that she will recognize opportunities to share her faith as well as her English.” http://www.fulbefouta.com/

PUNJABIS OF INDIA (pun-JAH-bees). J is a young Baptist pastor. He has a church, and he also works in several other villages. He wants to see God’s kingdom grow, but sometimes feels discouraged. “It is really hard work,” he says. One problem he faces is that many people come for prayer and healing but aren’t really interested in knowing Jesus. A Baptist representative is mentoring J and encouraging him to press on. J is looking for leaders in the other villages whom he can train to start and lead new churches. Pray for J and other pastors like him who need encouragement to keep pressing on, and ask that they will see good and lasting fruit. Pray for their church members to grow deep in their faith. Pray that the pastors will be able to train lay leaders to share in the ministry and start more churches. pr4punjabis@topicbox.com; http://www.go2southasia.org/

MISSIONARY PERSONAL NEEDS. Praise the Lord for a journeyman who will soon be joining a team serving among a Last Frontier people group. Intercede for him as he studies the local language in a major city for a few months. Pray that the Lord will enable him to get a good grasp of the language–better than what could be humanly possible–during this short time of language study.

MUSLIMS: PRAYING BEYOND THE WALL. Pray for East African Muslims of Western Europe. Even after a century of immigration to Western Europe, many of the East African communities are closed to outside influence and are difficult to penetrate. They have not integrated well into their host communities and are suspicious of Western involvement. This makes it difficult to reach them with the gospel. Pray for those working with East Africans in Western Europe to be able to engage this community creatively. Pray that they will not become discouraged by the slow progress. http://btw.imb.org/