December 2022
Your Prayer Guide To Reach The World
Provide Aid to Refugees in Turkey
In the unofficial tent camps where Syrians have taken refuge, the only food many families and individuals see comes from local missionaries, as the plunging economy further shuts off job opportunities.
Help Lead the Lost to Christ in South Asia
A woman who had an alcoholic husband and a son with an ear infection was bitten by a venomous snake. When local missionaries shared the gospel with her family and prayed for them, the Lord healed all three of them.
Help Train Local Missionaries in China
After graduating from a native ministry’s Bible school, six local missionaries shared the gospel with three to five people every month.
Help Power Gospel Outreach in Brazil
Praise God that native missionaries visiting villages are developing relationships with indigenous leaders and others to open the way for gospel proclamation. Assistance from Christian Aid Mission donors has provided workers and their families their daily food and the fuel to travel for such outreach.
Help Form Strong Disciples in Kenya
A native ministry’s church committed to ministering to five villages, and recently 65 people in one of the communities were saved. Workers bringing the gospel to homes saw people healed through prayer.
Help Cover Worker Expenses in Burma
Local missionaries are distributing aid and sharing the gospel with people living in desperation amid war, COVID-19 and economic collapse. Displaced persons and others receive rice, clothing and financial help along with the gospel, bringing hope in Christ.
Provide Aid to the Poor and Displaced in the Middle East
Some refugees from Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Somalia are unable to return home because war and criminality have deprived them of home and work, while others wait for improvement in their homelands.
Help Desperate Refugees in Greece
A Kurdish family of four from Iraq had walked 37 days through mountainous terrain when they arrived with a skin disease at a native ministry’s center. Workers provided them breakfast, clean clothes and medicines and looked up a hospital with an emergency dermatologist.
Help Plant Churches in Pakistan
Distributing food packages and Bibles, local missionaries are seeing many opportunities to share the Word of God with impoverished villagers. Workers visiting areas where there were no churches saw the Word of God change hearts.
Send the Message of Salvation in South Asia
An impoverished married couple with five children battled unclean spirits, illness and hostilities within their family. After receiving gospel literature from local missionaries, the wife phoned a worker and attended worship the following Sunday.
Help Expand Christ’s Kingdom in Chad
Native missionaries at one ministry are expanding the kingdom of God, with 40 working among more than 25 unreached people groups. More than 10,000 people heard the gospel last year as workers planted more than 20 churches.
Help Workers Proclaim Christ in China
Praise God that local missionaries led seven people to Christ in one town and two other people to saving faith in another. A family had suffered for years from the same disease as pleas to their gods and idols for healing were ineffective. The workers shared the gospel with them, and after they accepted Christ, the team prayed for healing.
Provide Aid to Persecuted Christians in Southeast Asia
Christians driven from their village for their faith recently received aid, encouragement and biblical teaching from local missionaries who strengthened their relationship with Christ amid persecution.
Help Give Aid to the Poor in Guatemala
In a country where impoverished children are tempted to join criminal gangs to obtain security and financial reward, local missionaries providing hot lunches and grocery bags encourage kids to follow God’s ways.
Help Proclaim the Good News in Israel
An unbelieving soldier who attended a local ministry’s church for more than two years came to realize his knowledge of science did not conflict with faith as he had thought, and he recently testified of accepting Christ at his baptism.
Send the Message of Eternal Life of North Africa
In a country where officials have closed churches under various pretexts, native missionaries encourage congregations to meet in homes for worship and fellowship where the gospel is taught.
Meet Urgent Needs of Refugees in Europe
A 17-year-old shepherd boy whose parents died on their journey from Iraq, four minors from Syria who had nowhere to sleep and a 26-year-old mother of seven whose husband abandoned her are among the refugees who have fled strife-torn homelands seeking recovery in Europe.
Help Make and Grow New Christians in Nepal
In spite of the pandemic, people heard the gospel by visiting with Christian neighbors as they attended online worship services. Workers at another ministry met with every member of their congregations in their homes during lockdowns, encouraging them and praying for them.
Help Refugees and the Poor in Lebanon
When refugees and Lebanese nationals impoverished by a collapsed economy receive food, clothing and other aid from local missionaries, they often ask workers why they are helping them. The workers gladly share about the love of Christ.
Help Provide the Gospel and Follow-up in Burundi
A team of local missionaries brought the gospel to areas in the northern part of the country and saw 75 people trust in Christ for salvation.
Equip Gospel Workers in Indonesia
Various tribes are hearing about Christ in person and online, and new believers receive in-depth discipleship as they face strong pressures to recant. A convert from Islam who became a local missionary specializes in deepening their faith.
Help Send Word of Salvation in Sri Lanka
Leaders of a local ministry are constantly training new people for evangelism as they see a large window opening for gospel acceptance. Teams are visiting homes and hospitals with the Lord’s healing power and the message of forgiveness in Christ.
Build Biblically Grounded Disciples in China
In spite of obstacles, the gospel is reaching remote corners of the country; in one area, seven people were baptized after local missionaries led them to faith in Christ.
Provide Gospel Tools and Training in Spain
When the pandemic curbed large gatherings, the gospel continued to spread as local missionaries encouraged new believers to invite family and friends into their homes to learn about Christ.
Help Spread the Good News in Kyrgyzstan
Local missionaries sponsor various camps for youths that exert a powerful influence on young lives. Muslim parents allow their children to attend such camps, as they see the godly values they learn and how much they enjoy them even as they learn about Christ.
Help Bring Gospel Transformation in Sierra Leone
A community so overrun with criminality that women would not dare go out after 6:30 p.m. has become safe again, as the area was transformed when many families put their faith in Christ.
Equip Workers for Gospel Proclamation in South Asia
People who have received gospel tracts and Bibles from local missionaries are coming to faith in Christ. In one area, five fathers were freed from worldly corruption and entered into God’s kingdom, while a worker in another visited a home where four family members trusted in the Lord for eternal life.
Help Implant Faith in Christ in Ghana
Praise God that workers with a native ministry providing assistance to widows led 39 of them to put their faith in Christ. The gospel is also spreading through a literacy class where 180 adults use the New Testament as a text. “Most will encounter Jesus as they read the Gospel,” the ministry leader said.
Help Provide Compassionate Aid in Peru
Impoverished children feel strong pressure to leave school to sell candy and soft drinks on the streets. Local missionaries have a feeding center where they get to know the children, visit them in their homes and share the importance of continuing their schooling in order to break the cycle of poverty.
Help Propel Gospel Initiatives in Bangladesh
Praises that the leader of a native ministry and two other workers traveled to a village and, visiting one home after another, saw enough people put their faith in Christ to plant a church there. The leader recently dedicated three tribal children of the new Christians to the Lord.
Help Find, Vet and Evaluate Workers
At a fraction of the cost to send a foreign missionary, native Christian workers are doing more than anyone to bring the gospel to the world’s unreached people – in large part because the unreached are their own people.
