November 2022
Your Prayer Guide To Reach The World
Enable Gospel Outreach in Burkina Faso
A question in a local ministry’s Bible study material spurred Christians to mobilize villagers for a community improvement project, opening the way for workers to lead 54 people to Christ, including many Muslims.
Help Form New Christians in Lebanon
Despite the presence in a refugee camp of Islamic relatives and neighbors, a Muslim family of six has put their faith in Christ after hearing the gospel from local missionaries who provided aid. The family members are inviting others in the camp to meetings.
Send the Good News in South Asia
As COVID-19 protocols allow, local missionaries visit new villages, befriend residents and start small groups to share the gospel. Many sick people attend the meetings and receive healing prayer.
Spread the Salvation Message in China
In summer camps for children, Bible studies, parenting seminars and other outreaches, local missionaries have multiple opportunities to present the gospel.
Help Bring Gospel Transformation in Mexico
A 33-year-old man well-known in his ethnic community for mistreating and abandoning his family wanted to take his own life and continued rejecting the gospel and a local missionary’s other efforts to help him.
Provide Aid for Disaster Victims in Bangladesh
Torrential rains caused flooding in southeast Bangladesh this summer that caused many people to lose both their homes and their daily work, and local missionaries provided emergency food and shelter to hundreds of them, including some recently baptized Christians.
Bring the Message of Eternal Life in Indonesia
People taught that Christians are wicked learned otherwise when they received clean water, food and health care from local missionaries, opening their hearts to hear the gospel.
Send Crucial Aid to Refugees in Greece
A minor who had fled a troubled country arrived at a local ministry’s offices with only the clothes on her back. Native missionaries helped her find accommodation and provided her food and clothing.
Provide Gospel Tools and Training in Burundi
In areas where traditional tribal religion and Islam are practiced, local missionaries have been visiting homes with the Good News of the kingdom.
Help Build Strong Disciples in Turkey
After Sunday services each week, members of a local ministry’s church travel to two cities, each about two hours away, to share the gospel and lead services for new congregations.
Equip Gospel Workers in Nepal
In discipleship training with local missionaries, two young men learned to bless and do good to those who curse and hate them. When a co-worker found out they were Christians and began reviling them in foul language, their refusal to retaliate and instead respond with kindness piqued his curiosity.
Help Plant Strong Churches in South Asia
During the three and a half months that a pandemic lockdown kept a church from meeting, the gospel advanced beyond its normal reach as local missionaries created Zoom and YouTube links for services. Ministry team members also planted 10 house churches over the course of six months.
Provide Aid to the Needy in Burma
As military conflict has intensified, more people have lost income or been driven from their homes into jungles. Local missionaries have provided food, health care and other aid to Internally Displaced People and children’s homes.
Help Workers to Proclaim Christ in China
An elderly man had repeatedly rejected the gospel, but he returned to local missionaries when he was in the final stages of cancer, and they again shared the message of salvation with him. He repented of his sins, received Christ and was joyously anticipating heaven at his death.
Help Lead People to the Lord in Chad
In gospel outreaches that included screenings of the Jesus Film and home visits, local missionaries recently led 47 people to Christ and planted five churches. A woman who received an Arabic Bible attended discipleship courses along with her children, received Christ, and now she composes songs that she and her kids sing to worship God.
Send Message of Eternal Glory in Spain
Inmates in prisons, prostitutes and refugees are receiving the imperishable inheritance of salvation after listening to local missionaries share the gospel. Officials in one city were so impressed by the transformation they saw in immigrants, prostitutes and narcotraffickers that they provided a place for workers to minister to them.
Bring Christ’s Love to Prisoners in Ecuador
An inmate continued selling drugs in prison and extorted money from other prisoners until he heard the testimony of a cellmate whom a local missionary had led to Christ. Touched by how his cellmate’s life had been redeemed, he accepted Christ, receives biblical discipleship at the church workers planted inside the prison and shares the gospel with other prisoners and their families.
Provide the Gospel Word in Pakistan
An impoverished Christian had been looking for an audio Bible for 10 years before he met a local missionary who provided him one. The illiterate Christian has found it invaluable for strengthening his faith and sharing Christ with others.
Help the Internally Displaced and Refugees in Iraq
More than 1 million internally displaced people and refugees remain unable to return home due to military destruction or ongoing violence, about half of them children. Some of these people have lost loved ones to Islamic extremists or other militants, and all have lost their homes and jobs.
Help Equip Gospel Workers in Ghana
From soccer tournaments where youths hear the gospel to seminars for merchants on how to do business with Christian principles, local missionaries have seen much fruit from multiple opportunities to proclaim Christ. Through their sports ministries, 179 young adults have received the Lord’s salvation.
Reconcile the Lost to God in Peru
A 35-year-old farmer whose foot had to be amputated after a minor wound became infected went to a Christian retreat for a local Quechua community, where he put his faith in Christ. Workers continued to care for him and, through biblical reflections, helped him reconcile with family members, which led four of them to receive Christ.
Help Power Gospel Outreach in Laos
When two or three families put their faith in Christ, initially they worship at a local missionary’s church in a nearby village until some can be trained to lead church services at a home in their own community. This can lead to persecution by relatives, neighbors and officials in their own villages, but Christians have refused to renounce their faith.
Plant and Grow Gospel Seed in China
Workers recently visited unsaved families in home visits at eight locations, giving workers the opportunity to learn of needs and share the gospel.
Help Form Strong Disciples in North Africa
Local missionaries recently planted two churches in spite of opposition to the gospel. At one evangelistic event, more than 75 people put their faith in Christ.
Send Aid to Desperate Refugees in Jordan
A refugee father of two learned his home in Iraq had been destroyed and that he could not return. Local missionaries taught him to make mosaics, and he has earned income selling those through the church.
Help Workers Proclaim God’s Grace in the Philippines
Men in a tribal area showed no interest in Bible studies, saying they were too busy working and that such meetings were only for women, but a local missionary has involved men from two villages in study of God’s Word. “These men have shown great change in their lives by committing themselves to join the Bible study,” the ministry leader said.
Help Send Christ’s Love to Refugees in Europe
Two young men from Africa survived an Islamic extremist attack that killed the rest of the members of their family and fled to Spain, where they received aid and a secure place to heal at a local ministry’s center. After putting their trust in Christ, they were zealous as they shared their faith with other refugees.
Help Bring Gospel Power in South Asia
Knowledge of the Lord is transforming lives throughout the region. A young man who was working to help support his parents and siblings had an accident that left him unable to stand, creating hardship as his mother was paralyzed and his father struggled to support them as a day-laborer.
Help Announce the Salvation Message in Kenya
Praises that churches on the verge of collapse due to the pandemic have been revived, and home visits have resulted in many people coming to the Lord. In one area terrorized by the sound of screams and of invisible stones hitting homes, local missionaries organized Christians to pray against unclean spirits.
Help Find, Vet and Evaluate Local Workers
In remote areas as well as urban centers amid daunting difficulties, locally based missionaries are making disciples in spite of threats from disease and opposition. Often their biggest obstacle, however, is poverty. Your support enables them to take on these challenges to proclaim the gospel in joy and in confidence with the backing of the worldwide Body of Christ.
