Cape Town Metropolitan Evangelism Team
Pray for churches in Cape Town, South Africa seeking training for their children's leaders in regards to abuse. Physical, verbal and sexual abuse are major challenges with children in South Africa. Every 28 minutes a child is raped in South Africa. Children daily live with the fear of abuse. It occurs so often because of many factors like poverty, alcohol/drug abuse, and previous abuse of the adult. Churches are wanting to know how to protect the children in their community. The churches are also wanting to know how to screen leadership, to know what questions to ask and ways to avoid abuse issues. Pray for churches to be educated to know what to do in the event a child is abused. Pray for churches to be able to protect the precious children in their community.
Recently World AIDS Day was observed on December 1st. South Africa has more people living with HIV than any other country. Our province, KwaZulu Natal, is recorded as having the highest HIV rates in the country. Pray for continually renewed efforts on the part of organizations and individuals who are seeking to educate people in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. Pray that the many who are dying each day will have opportunity to hear the gospel and find a personal relationship with Christ before it is too late. Pray for members of the DUETeam as they consider strategy for 2011 in teaching abstinence to youth and young adults.
Pray for returning career missionaries, Roger & Meg Hesch, as they settle back into Durban. We praise the Lord that they are here!
Pray for career missionaries, Boyd & Rhonda Hall, as they minister to youth in Port Elizabeth.
Soweto Evangelism Team
Two Hands On personnel will be joining our team for four months beginning in late January. This IMB program allows young adults to experience missions first hand. Please pray for these two young women to be spiritually prepared. Pray for a good experience and safety. Pray for the others of us as we supervise, mentor and direct. Pray we would be able to work together as a team. Then pray for Alan and me as they and the two journeymen will all return to the states and leave just to the two of us to continue work in Soweto.
Tswane Evangelism Team
The pastor of Laudium Baptist Church (Indian congregation) resigned the end of July and I will be helping them out on a regular basis and preaching at least two times a month for them. They are surprisingly in great spirits and praying and fasting and seeking God’s direction for their church. They are small and need your prayers. This church definitely has some challenges ahead, but I believe that God is going to help them to rebuild and make an impact on their highly Muslim community.
Pray for Victory Baptist Church, which is also in Laudium. This is an African Black congregation led by two Malawians. They continue to reach out and their attendance is between 20-40 people on Sunday afternoons. Though small they have also begun another church in another community near Johannesburg where there was no church. This church also may be facing a challenge of finding another place to meet for their services. Pray that God will continue to draw people to this church and that it will grow in numbers and in spiritual maturity and strength. Pray that if they have to find another location that they will find one quickly.
Bev’s Women’s Precepts Bible Study has completed part three of the study of Romans and they have a short break and then will begin the fourth and last part of their study of Romans. This Bible study really ministers to a number of ladies from at least five different churches. Pray for Bev as she prepares and teaches these fine ladies.
Windhoek Evangelism Team
Please pray for the continuing work of the WET as they begin the new year!
Support Center:
Finance Team
Please pray for our attitudes as we continue to go through the transition
that we would glorify God with all we do and say. Our desire is to serve
our field personnel well and meet all requirements in a timely way. We are
thankful that some office processes that are working well now and progress
has been made by creating a new team structure.
Logistics Team
Pray for all the support staff as they settle in to the new building.
Personnel Team
Please pray for our medical coordinators. Pray that the Lord would bless them with endurance and good health as they minister to all of us. Praise the Lord for giving us such dedicated and loving nurses. Praise the Lord for our member care team who are always there for us when we need them. Pray that others would answer the call to join the member care team.
Impoverished communities. Jobless fathers. Desperate mothers. Abandoned babies. A Baptist church planted in a struggling inner city community has a Door of Hope, where babies who might otherwise be abandoned in a vacant lot or empty building can be left by their parents, no questions asked. The babies are loved and cared for and prepared for adoption through another of the church’s ministries. Pray that communication team members who volunteer at Door of Hope ministries will have opportunities to share God’s love with the babies and the children awaiting adoption, and with the staff who take care of them.
