Author: bbyrd

Give thanks and praise for God’s orchestrating hand in bringing people to Team Expansion for serving among unreached people groups. Pray for the Mobilization Team’s efforts in identifying, visiting, and connecting college campuses with God’s heart for mission in seeking out new mission candidates.

Years ago we prayed for God to flourish the Discipleship School of the Outdoors (DSOTO), and He has! Celebrate, and then ask God to guide in developing and implementing a training program for new DSOTO facilitators.

Praise God for the many volunteers that serve Team Expansion through hospitality, administrative skills, maintaining the grounds, missionary kid care, prayer ministry, technology, etc. Ask God to increase the territory of volunteers so Team Expansion may continue ministry to train, mobilize, send, and plant churches, all for the purpose of taking the Gospel to the unreached.

As a Kairos intensive course takes place at Emerald Hills today through May 23, give thanks and praise to God for using this mobilization tool in a mighty way both locally and globally. Pray that participants will catch the vision for God’s mission of world evangelization and join in His work to make disciples of all nations.

Praise God for preparing people for cross-cultural interaction. Ask the Holy Spirit to lead individuals to fill out profiles and submit to Team Expansion’s website to raise up more harvest workers for the unreached and to fully staff International Services.

Give praise and thanks to God for prompting more people to pray for unreached peoples. Ask God’s wisdom, insight, and competence in staging another Global PrayerCast at the International Conference on Missions in November.

Lift up Team Expansion’s Creative Arts team in producing a summer issue of TELL magazine rather than the usual autumn issue as both team members expecting babies in the fall.

Praise God for opportunities to speak into lives of missionary families that can reaffirm, encourage, or even challenge in their spiritual walks, often in lands where Christianity is forbidden. Pray for our MK coordinator to have purposeful debriefing activities for MKs while their parents are in meetings at the International Services office. Lots of visits are scheduled from now throughout the summer months.

Praise God for the spring college-aged missionary retreat that was held at Emerald Hills in April. Thank God for each of the kids who was able to attend and for Penny Lucas and Sarah Longest who planned the retreat.

Praise God and give thanks for prayer partners that cover missionary kids in prayer. Ask the Lord to raise up 300+ intercessors for MK Prayer Force.