Author: bbyrd

Praise God for how He is moving among the Filipinos! Pray for the successful establishment of Team Expansion’s Philippines Sending Base.

Praise God that for blessing the work in the Philippines with 28+ simple churches started. Pray the momentum continues, that God steers them through challenges of training and sending Filipinos to unreached peoples in Asia.

Most children in Indonesia have not heard about the love of Jesus. Mosques are abundant but provide no real hope. The islands of Indonesia are rich in beauty. Ask God to supply people of retirement age to share oral and written stories about God’s way of salvation with the 42,900 Muslim Tamiang.

Give thanks to God for His faithfulness and guidance to a couple who has been serving many years and moved out of a strict Muslim law area into a predominantly Christian area. They are networking with other organizations to create a language and culture center that will be a base to develop written and oral material with a view to reaching unreached peoples in 3 provinces. Their personal focus is on the most unreached areas. Pray that this culture center would provide freedom in Christ for thousands upon thousands coming out of a Muslim background.

Sometimes it is hard to imagine the expansion of the church happening again like it happened in the book of Acts. However, if people today saw the same signs and wonders that the people witnessed then, the church would expand rapidly. Pray that God reveals Himself to people of the Pacific Rim as He sees fit, so that churches will multiply and expand like the early church!

Pray for the plight of the Rohingya people and for a disciple making movement to take place.

As part of an initiative to reach the 30 largest cities in the world, Disciple Making Movement training will be offered in Manila. Missionaries from the Philippines are very good at cross-cultural work and can help take the Gospel throughout Asia. Pray that thousands come to know Jesus as Savior and Lord as a result of this training.

There remain Muslim groups that have no Christians among them, no Scriptures, and no workers. The Karata (Russia) place their loyalties to clan and family and live in rugged terrain in Dagestan. The Dabarre in Somalia are primarily farmers, speak Arabic as trade language. The family is ruled by the male. The village is ruled by a council of elders from each family. Decisions and business with other villages are conducted by the council. The Midob (Western Sudan) are Arabicized, nomadic herders in search of good graze. Pray for disciples of Jesus to go and make disciples of these nations. Pray for oral Bible stories to sweep through these cultures and be transformed by God’s Word. Pray for men to come to Christ and lead their families and villages in obedience to Him.

The Kumbewaha (Indonesia) are an isolated, little-known coastal group following Islam and difficult for Christians to reach. The Khalaj live in central Iran with no access to evangelical print, audio or human resources. The Waneci (Pakistan): the constant threat of war has led to fear and hatred of outsiders, greatly hindering outreach. Ask God to orchestrate the resources so that these peoples may soon have Christ followers. Pray for an oral Bible in their own language that will penetrate and transform lives. Pray for people to bring the Gospel to these Muslim groups.

Pray that God would use the North American Christian Convention to spur congregations into his mission of making disciples of all nations. Pray that the church gains new vision for mission work, responds to mission needs, and has a sense of urgency to finish the task of global evangelization