Last week, the Windhoek Team had a special Easter outreach at one of the local HIV/AIDS clinic. It was a great success! We appreciate everyone's prayers.
Please forgive me, the administrator of this site, because I did not get a prayer request out for this event. No excuses are good enough. I simply lost the request.
Again, we thank you for praying. Please continue to pray for all those who were part of the outreach and heard the gospel message. Pray that God will speak to their hearts. Pray that those affected with HIV/AIDS will come to know that no matter what they are going through, God loves them and is with them!
Monday, April 18, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Linge School - Cape Town
On any given Friday around 12:30 PM, 125 to 150 students from Linge School can be heard singing loudly praise songs such as, "We Want To See Jesus Lifted High" from the school's multipurpose room. For most of these students this is their only opportunity to worship the Lord within one of the many townships in Cape Town where currently there is no Baptist church. God is at work to change this. Following the sharing about Christ by m Bruce Erickson, 6 young men prompted by the Holy Spirit came up and asked to be baptized. On the following Monday, Bruce returned to meet with them and Mike M., the Christian teacher instrumental in helping start the Friday worship. They were encouraged to find not 6 but rather 16 boys and girls wanting to learn more about how to faithfully follow Christ. As the CTMET meets with them through April, please pray for these students to have a clear understanding and assurance of their salvation and for them to be able to move forward in obedience in their walk with the Lord.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Praise from Cape Town!
Blessed be our LORD! Seven boys and girls wrote out their testimonies in preparation towards baptism. At Linge, more students asked about being baptized. At Andile, during the girls club, Sarah and Michal had the privilege of seeing God move in the heart of one of their girls to invite Jesus into her heart. At Mzamomhle, 150 students heard the story of Boaz and Ruth or Amnon and Tamar and learning the difference between genuine love and counterfeit love. After school, 15 boys and 15 girls from Mzamomhle heard, some for the first time, about the greatest gift of love in Jesus Christ. Friday is student worship service at Linge, and once again, perfectly timed by God, a great set of stories to share about the many that Jesus healed (Mark 1:21-34, Luke 4:31-41, Mark 2:1-12, Luke 5: 17-26).
Thank you for joining with us in prayer. There have been some requests by the students for prayer concerning fear of evil spirits in their homes. Stories from the gospels will be shining the truth of God's light right into the darkness of an enemy's stronghold. Please pray that NOTHING will detract from the clear message that there is victory in Jesus Christ.
Thank you. Your prayers are a VITAL part of our ministry.
Friday, March 11, 2011
March 2011
Cape Town Metropolitan Evangelism Team
Centrifuge, will begin a five year partnership with the International Mission Board’s Sub-Saharan Africa region the summer of 2011. A FUGE team will be coming over to South Africa to discover specific ministries in which they can be involved in Cape Town. Please be in prayer as the discovery team seeks out ministry areas in which to work and then as they prepare their teams to return to Cape Town to begin their ministries this year. Pray for their safety and begin praying for the young people who will encounter Jesus through the Centrifuge ministry.
New Crossroads Baptist Church has been looking and praying for a pastor for the past 2 years. God has answered their prayers by sending Kwanele Yako and his wife. In an induction service on Sunday, January 30th before the congregation, local Baptist pastors and guests, Pastor Kwanele along with the leaders of the church confirmed that God has called him to the church and community of New Crossroads. Please pray that God would strengthen and equip Pastor Kwanele and this church to reach the Xhosa people within New Crossroads and neighboring communities for Christ.
Pastor Lucas Mpendulo and Samora Michal Community Church are believing that God has plans to start a new church in a nearby township known as Gugulethu. They have set up a tent and are asking God to draw their Xhosa neighbors to hear the hope of salvation in Jesus Christ. Every week day evening from 7-8 PM all the way to Easter they are inviting the community of Gugulethu to come. Please join Pastor Lucas and Samora Michal Community Church in praying for God to move in the hearts of the Gugulethu Xhosa.
Pastor Lucas Mpendulo and Samora Michal Community Church are believing that God has plans to start a new church in a nearby township known as Gugulethu. They have set up a tent and are asking God to draw their Xhosa neighbors to hear the hope of salvation in Jesus Christ. Every week day evening from 7-8 PM all the way to Easter they are inviting the community of Gugulethu to come. Please join Pastor Lucas and Samora Michal Community Church in praying for God to move in the hearts of the Gugulethu Xhosa.
Durban Urban Evangelism Team
Please pray for our team as we train, disciple and witness to the peoples of Durban.
Johannesburg Evangelism Team
Please pray that people of peace will be found in UPG’s in Joburg.
Port Elizabeth Evangelism Team
Prayer for Rhonda's mother, Neva Lyp, who suffered a herniated cornea about a week ago! This comes on the heels of her step-dad's heart surgery.
Please pray for Boyd's dad, Jim Hall. He does indeed have lymphoma. As soon as he returns from a mission-trip to Haiti, he will begin chemotherapy. The doctor's prognosis for this is very positive.
Give praise for the awesome experience with Uitenhage Baptist Church's youth leaders in a leadership "camping" trip!
We thank God for an inspirational Xee training in evangelism, resulting in an exciting new tool to reproduce with local leaders.
Pray for Rebekah as she prepares for a mission-trip to Slovenia during Spring Break from OBU.
Soweto Evangelism Team
We are excited, a Centrifuge discovery volunteer team joins us mid-March. The eleven members will minister with the goal of sharing the people and the work here with youth and kids who attend “FUGE events this summer. A partnership will be formed as a result. We pray the FUGE leaders will see where God wants them working and be able to share needs and God’s work. The March group will be in secondary schools, witness and spend one-on-one time with Christians from local churches.
Tswane Evangelism Team
The Women’s Precept Bible study class will be studying Deuteronomy for 8 weeks. Bev leads and hosts this class. Pray that we will have most of the ladies returning and that there may be some new ladies who join in.
A volunteer team will come to Pretoria from Feb. 19-28th. The team will be doing prayer-walking and evangelism in different parts of Pretoria and Laudium. The team is from First Southern Baptist Church, Scottsdale, Arizona. Four members of this team will explore the possibility of forming a partnership to help reach and plant churches in Urban Pretoria. Pray for this time. Pray for wisdom for all of us and for safety as we walk in different cities and pray.
Windhoek Evangelism Team
Career missionaries Ron and Lisa Jones just recently returned to Windhoek after a short Stateside Assignment and will be applying to renew their work permit in Windhoek this month. For a number of years prior to the Jones arrival in Namibia in 2008 the government had been refusing requests for work permits by our personnel desiring to enter the country. But by the grace of God, and as a result of much prayer, the Joneses were granted a two year work permit which will expire this month. Therefore they are asking you to intercede once more on their behalf, asking the Lord to have His will in this matter. Ron is currently teaching at the local seminary and is looking forward to beginning to train pastors in the local township. Lisa is currently involved in women’s and children’s ministry; and, the door has just been opened for her to partner with Philippi Trust in Windhoek in the area of counseling as well as training nationals. Both Ron and Lisa feel the Lord called them to Windhoek in order to use them in equipping and empowering Namibians to do the work of the church. Thus they are trusting that once again they will find favor in the eyes of the government to continue doing just that!
Support Center:
Finance Team
The FST praises God for time and opportunities team members have in outside the office ministry. Please pray for Tim and Jeanne Mahoney as they prepare for leading a week of preaching in Kitwe, Zambia for the Kwacha Baptist Church, 18 – 27 April leading up to Easter. Pray for clarity as Tim prepares the messages on the atonement and sacrifice of Christ, that people would come to know the Lord.
Pray also for the Bible study in Somalia Park of Tokoza Township where Dan Forman co-leads a Bible study with Pastor Benias for a group of believers. Pray that the members of the study would be bold to share their faith in their community. Pray also that the Bible study can continue when Dan goes on STAS in April.
Logistics Team
Pray for all the support staff as they settle in to the new building.
Personnel Team
Please be in prayer for changed lives through the True Love Waits program. Pray for God’s Word and design for the youths’ lives to be spoken through Richard, Kristin, Meaghan and Elaine. Presentations scheduled for March 4th at EBC and two at a local high school in May.
Also pray for salvation for those that are hearing the Word through all the outreaches our team is involved in.
Communications Team
Recent world events have demonstrated the powerful influence of social networking. Pray that the communication team will find creative and meaningful ways to utilize Facebook, Twitter and other social networking tools to share the stories of how God is at work and of how Christians can partner with Him in sharing His love in Africa.
www.africastories.org, www.facebook.com/africastories, www.twitter.com/africastories.
Friday, March 4, 2011
February 2011
Cape Town Metropolitan Evangelism Team
In July 2010, the Cape Town Team held Holiday Bible clubs at schools in three townships. Over 260 gave their lives to Christ. Since then, the team has been meeting with the principals, offering tutoring and Bible study each week at their schools. The team has also been meeting with the pastor and elders of New Crossroads Baptist church across the street from Linge (ling – a) school to see how they can join in the discipling of these youth and children. Please pray for New Crossroads Baptist church as they seek ways to join God in working with the children of Linge School. Please pray for the children as they are faced with the witness about Christ weak week that they will desire to know Jesus and be growing disciples. Pray also for the missionaries (Bonnie Doughtie, Bruce and Sheri Erickson, Sarah Cowan and Michal Mitchell) who go to this school each week to tutor and witness to the children of Christ’s love and offer of salvation for them.
Durban Urban Evangelism Team
Umlazi Baptist Church will be hosting a men’s conference Feb. 26-27. Ask the Father to allow the Holy Spirit to speak into the lives of these men in a mighty way!
Volunteer Caren Eagleburger will arrive at the end of the month to present “Success Now!” seminars to business professionals and university students. Ask the Father to give her many opportunities to interact with business professionals and university students during this time. Pray that hearts will be open to hearing her testimony and responding to the “Good News”! Please pray for Meg Hesch as she recruits and trains people to facilitate the follow-up course to Caren Eagleburger’s presentations in March. Ask that God will raise up committed Christians who will be able to lead the participants on a journey toward deeper discipleship and greater success in all aspects of their lives through applying biblical principles.
Port Elizabeth Evangelism Team
Pray for career missionaries, Boyd & Rhonda Hall, as they minister to youth in Port Elizabeth.
Soweto Evangelism Team
The focus of the Soweto Team, this month, is discipleship. Please pray for 8 young people and half-a-dozen grade 7-10 girls that our j-men are leading. Pray that they will grow in their knowledge of the Bible and their love for God.
Alan Locke added one new student to his TEE students. This young man worked with Zach at the soccer clinics/Bible stories in primary schools the last two years. Please pray that he will stay the course and become a strong leader in the church. Six young men work towards a certificate. Pray for them as Alan will require them to preach once a quarter in their church.
Tswane Evangelism Team
The Women’s Precept Bible study class will be studying Deuteronomy for 8 weeks. Bev leads and hosts this class. Pray that we will have most of the ladies returning and that there may be some new ladies who join in.
A volunteer team will come to Pretoria from Feb. 19-28th. The team will be doing prayer-walking and evangelism in different parts of Pretoria and Laudium. The team is from First Southern Baptist Church, Scottsdale, Arizona. Four members of this team will explore the possibility of forming a partnership to help reach and plant churches in Urban Pretoria. Pray for this time. Pray for wisdom for all of us and for safety as we walk in different cities and pray.
Windhoek Evangelism Team
Please pray for the continuing work of the WET as they begin the new year!
Support Center:
Finance Team
The FST rejoices that God is sending a journeygirl to work on the team later on this year. Please pray for her as she prepares to come. We also have two units who are in the apprentice program and we are praying that they will be able to complete their program while continuing to work part time in the office.
We are thankful that the FST is getting caught up on the ER’s and allowing time to focus on other work. We are also praying that the goal of having time for ministry outside the office will soon be realized.
Logistics Team
Pray for all the support staff as they settle in to the new building.
Personnel Team
Please be in prayer for all our medical coordinators. The changes to the insurance have been a daily challenge as they desire to serve us. Please pray for endurance and wisdom for them as well as Stephen.
Communications Team
Ministering to the unreached of Madagascar is a priority for the communication team. Training followers of Christ to share their faith is an important aspect of this ministry. Mahafaly Christians in Madagascar will learn to compose praise songs in their heart language during a 22-26 February music workshop led by two members of the communication team. Pray for a fruitful time of learning and creating new songs. The following two weeks, team members will initiate a two-year project for engaging four of the island nation’s unreached people groups. National believers who want to share the Gospel through oral means will be trained in biblical storying methods. Pray for good communication during the training sessions as well as when the trainees go out to share what they have learned.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
January 2011 Prayer Requests
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.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
October 2010 Prayer Requests
Cape Town Metropolitan Evangelism Team
Many of our seminary students are finishing up their studies this year and are looking for jobs. With the BU assembly in session, they will be interviewed as potential candidates for ministry in SA churches. These students are waiting for God's hand to show them where HE wants them to place themselves. Please pray for the ministerial students. We all remember what it was like after seminary wondering where God was going to open the door.
The church that opened up for all the new Christians after Life Champs Camp has called a full-time pastor. He has begun his duties but, since they are paying him full-time, there is very little money left for other things. One of their biggest ministries was the soup kitchen. This will be non-existent until more monies arrive in the offering. As this subsides, the young ladies Bible study that I have been teaching at the same time will also be stopped. Please pray for this church as it goes through growing pains; that they will listen to and follow God's will for the church in their community.
Five photographers, videographers and orality specialists on the Communication Team will be involved in ministries during Cape Town 2010: The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 16-25 October. Enabling video access to GlobaLink sites around the world, videotaping and photographing sessions and events, and providing orality training and resources will keep team members busy! Pray for flexibility, stamina and senses attuned to where God is at work and what He wants them to cover.
Recently 60 persons from 20 local Baptist churches received Disaster Response Training. This group will meet again on October 16 to begin organizing a local team. Please pray that leaders will step forward from this group and everyone will be unified in making plans to share the love of Christ in times when people need a helping hand. Pray that interest will grow in this viable ministry opportunity so that there will be a sense of preparedness if a disaster were to occur nearby.
We are thankful for temporary workers who have come in and helped to catch up after the new program came on line. W are also thankful that the system did NOT crashing during the World Cup! And we are thankful for the flexibility of the team as co-workers have gone on STAS and to help one another meet deadlines for the RVA Budget Committee.
Pray for quick adaption back into the office and FE for Gary and Bobbi. Also pray for a good time of rest and renewal for Alvin and Jane as they go on STAS. And pray Tim, Lee, Anna and Daniel Shaw as they settle in Joburg. Also, for continued learning of FE and ways to help field personnel learn how to send their ER’s and MER’s.
Pray for journeyperson, Amber Lunn, as she plans a large outreach ministry for Soweto and Joburg called, Serve Soweto and Serve Joburg. We are hoping to have several churches from around the area join the outreach.
Three missionaries met with the pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church hoping to encouraging him to begin prayer walking & evangelizing an area called Bez Valley once a month. Please pray that he and 2 other leaders would begin reaching out with the gospel in this area.
Pray for all the support staff as they settle in to the new building.
Please continue to pray for our personnel affected by many health issues. Also pray that critical job positions will be filled.
Pray for career missionaries, Boyd & Rhonda Hall, as they minister to youth in Port Elizabeth.
The churches in Dobsonville and Faith Baptist in Snake Park are both growing, but there is a lack of leadership. One woman just discovered how exciting it is to study God’s Word, so pray as she shares with others they would catch her excitement and also lead Bible studies. One young woman has been doing some Sunday school teaching. However, there are far more kids of a wide age range than she can handle on her own, so others must help. Career missionary, Alan Locke, has three young men in Theological Education by Extension and journeypersons, Rachel Jensen and Zach Townsend, both have people in discipleship. Another strong Christian young man has joined us. We are excited to see who God is calling. Please pray with us that people will grow into taking full responsibility for their churches. Pray also for someone to be called to pastor these churches.
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
Answered Prayer:
Original Prayer -
“Youth with a Purpose (YWAP) will be hosting its annual camp June 18-20!”
This announcement is always met with cheers as teenagers who attend weekly Bible studies in Windhoek anticipate a fun and exciting weekend. The annual YWAP camp is known for lives being radically changed. This year, the theme is “Worship” and the youth will be led to discover more of what it means to enter into worship of the Most High God. Music, testimonies, sermons, small group Bible sessions, recreation and fellowship will be centered around teaching this vital part of our relationship with God through His Son, Jesus Christ. The Chris Allen Band will be joining us and bringing to the camp their expertise in leading worship through music. This year we are asking God to move in a mighty way. Some youth will be hearing for the first time what it means to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and will be moved by the Holy Spirit to give their hearts to Jesus. Christian young people will fall under conviction to get their relationships right with God as they confess sin and receive God’s forgiveness. We are asking God to move our youth group as a whole to a higher level of spiritual maturity. We are greatly anticipating God to perform a ‘spiritual leap’ throughout our camp weekend. Along with all these, we are praying that God will call out young people to commit their lives to serving Him in complete obedience and devotion in any area where He will lead them.
Thank you for praying for our youth camp in June and the discipleship that has followed. Many young people made solid commitments to stand firm in the power of Jesus, while others prayed for Jesus to become their Savior. God used The Chris Allen Band in mighty ways here in Namibia as they lead and taught how to come into God’s presence through worship. We thank God for your faithfulness in praying for our Namibian youth.
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