Author: bbyrd

Give thanks for participants involved in Unleashed for the Unreached web based broadcast promoting prayer for the unreached people groups of the world. Ask God to increase U4theU, identify more churches to adopt unreached people groups, and to use these monthly webinars to impact the nations with the Gospel.

Team Expansion strives to love and nurture her workers. With over 300 fielded workers, it is nearly impossible to hold a family reunion in one location. It has been a long time dream to stage regional retreats on field. Pray that, by God’s design, a regional retreat might happen this year to encourage and refuel workers where they live and serve.

Celebrate 300+ Team Expansion workers whom God has placed in regions around the world where unreached peoples are located. Give thanks and praise for what God is doing through His Spirit to draw unreached peoples to Himself. Pray for protection of workers and their families as they carry out God’s call to make disciples of all nations.

Praise God for Christian satellite TV programs being broadcast in Muslim Arab cultures, for websites and phone apps that bring access to the Gospel. Pray that 2015 will be a year when 1000s throughout the Arab World will listen to and learn from Bible-based information technology; that 1000s throughout the Arab World would seek and find Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, that 1000s would experience the immeasurable love of Father God.

Praise God that parts of North Africa are experiencing an unprecedented explosion of Christian growth after several years of intercessory prayer. Pray for lasting fruit to come from these answered prayers.

There are currently around 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, marred by a spirit of hopelessness and rejection. Yet God is using this crisis to bring about greater openness and greater willingness to hear His Gospel. Pray for the power of the Gospel to take root and break the chains of bitterness and unforgiveness among Syrian refugees. Pray God brings His servants in contact with key individuals of peace in the Syrian communities who will lead these people to the truth and freedom found only in Christ.

Pray for the huge goal of 80 church planting movements among unreached peoples by the end of 2015. Ask God to light a spark that will make it happen. Praise God for using Team Expansion’s 340 missionaries in mighty ways in 2014. Ask Him to multiply their efforts in 2015. Pray for more workers for the harvest.

Pray that God would pour out His Spirit on the city of Ancona in 2015 more than He has done before so that His church would ignite, that God would be glorified, and Jesus would be proclaimed even more in Ancona than ever before.

Bible translators have worked hard to complete the very first Crimean Tatar translation of the Bible in all of human history. Pray that the Crimean Tatar translation might be distributed among the people who will receive it with joy and read it with gladness.

Pray that God will provide for the current facility at Emerald Hills to be completely paid off and for the next phase of development to be funded in order to provide housing, training, and missionary kid space.