July 2023
Your Prayer Guide To Reach The World
Help Spread Word of the Kingdom in North Africa
Pastors leading churches in predominantly Muslim areas face the challenges of members losing opportunities for jobs or marriage because of their new faith, as well as lack of worship buildings. Native Christian workers offering leadership and evangelism trainings address these challenges and teach values such as servant leadership and unity.
Help Sow Gospel Seed in Türkiye
So many people have come to Christ that a Turkish disciple who began assisting the leader of a native ministry has been commissioned to pastor a church that is growing in another town. “Just a few years ago there was only a handful of believers there, but now there are about 120 people coming to worship,” the leader said.
Help Workers Share the Gospel in Laos
In spite of persecution and other hardships, godly and faithful leaders have helped a native ministry to grow God’s kingdom exponentially. Workers have led more than 30,000 people to Christ and planted more than 250 churches since the ministry began 26 years ago.
Equip Gospel Workers in China
As pandemic restrictions were lifted and college classes resumed, students who had received food and other assistance from a native ministry’s satellite churches were eager to share Christ’s love; some led summer camps and/or were led to attend the ministry’s Bible school.
Help Spread the Word of Life in Latin America
While thousands of people flee economic chaos in a Latin American country, native missionaries remain to bring hope in Christ. Besides providing aid to children and the elderly, workers have shared Christ in home visits, Bible studies and public events.
Help Send the Message of Grace in South Asia
Native workers shared the gospel in 21 villages over a two-month period earlier this year. Pastors, evangelists and lay leaders led gospel outreaches that included home visits, open-air events and discipleship training.
Help Form Witnesses for Christ in Gambia
The joy and confidence that a high school-aged girl has shown since accepting Christ has made a strong impression on her family, and her older sister also decided to become a Christian and is attending church services with her. The ministry leader who led them to faith is also encouraged by a worker who shares the gospel in radio broadcasts in his native Manjago language.
Help Build Strong Disciples in Spain
The gospel took root in the hearts of many Spaniards and refugees as native Christian workers shared the message at dinners for married couples, young people or children. Word of Christ’s salvation also spread in street festivals, prison outreaches, sports activities, home groups and on radio and TV broadcasts.
Support Gospel Workers in Lebanon
The message of God’s love is bringing hope to both Lebanese nationals and refugees as they struggle to survive in an imploding economy. One ministry reached 400 people with the gospel at its worship meetings and other outreaches over six months, and another 500 received the message on live broadcasts of its Sunday services on Facebook.
Help Send the Gospel in Bangladesh
In areas of poverty, disease and persecution, native workers guided by the Holy Spirit brought the message of eternal life to 1,420 people over a six-month period, with 270 of them trusting in Christ as Lord and Savior. Workers provided Bibles and discipled new converts as they brought them into fellowship.
Help Train and Send Gospel Workers in Nepal
Native workers recently provided 239 new Christians with foundational training to set them on the path of discipleship in local churches. Basic tenets of the faith were taught over three days. One high school girl said she learned much about the Lord and the Bible but was especially thankful to learn of the role of baptism as a public testimony of faith.
Help Proclaim Christ as Lord in Brazil
An ethnic woman maligned a native Christian worker and tried to keep her from spreading the gospel until severe illness drove her to seek her help. The worker explained the gospel, and the villager gave her life to Christ; her health was restored, and she now leads a women’s ministry.
Help Power Gospel Proclamation in Indonesia
A native Christian worker who pastors various home churches recently had the opportunity to share the gospel at a worship gathering that a curious newcomer visited. “He wants to come again and again to see and hear more teaching,” the ministry leader said. “Now the pastor has a dual focus – discipling the church and evangelizing new people who come.”
Enable Workers to Share Christ in South Asia
From urban slums to remote rural areas, native workers saw Christ bring light to the hearts of people living in darkness. A recent outreach to youth in one slum resulted in eight young people accepting Christ. In rural areas where alcoholism is rampant, new Christians gave up drinking and other unhealthy habits.
Help Support Gospel Workers in Burma
In spite of ongoing military conflict, eight disciples recently graduated with bachelor’s degrees in theology from a native ministry’s seminary, including five in absentia, and eight others received diplomas for lesser studies. “It was a small celebration on our campus, yet a good reminder of God’s faithfulness through the years despite the many challenges confronting us,” the native ministry leader said.
Enable Gospel Outreach in Kenya
The gospel is spreading as people are delivered from the powers of darkness and the Holy Spirit leads them to share their testimonies with others. These testimonies lead to more invitations for native Christian workers to share the Good News.
Help Form New Christians in China
A Christian leader impressed by a native ministry’s Bible study materials invited pastors and co-workers to his city, where he taught them how to use the curriculum to lead studies of Scripture in their areas. Overall, the ministry trained 21,400 pastors and group leaders over a six-month period, expanding biblical knowledge and discernment in many areas.
Help Workers to Share the Message in Sri Lanka
Villagers who had strongly opposed proclamation of the gospel are now listening to native Christian workers after seeing how they showed Christ’s love through aid to the poor, including food and English lessons for children. They have also seen the Lord heal the many people suffering from illnesses amid shortages of medicines.
Support Gospel Proclamation in Syria
In spite of intense pressures and conflict, native workers have continued bringing compassion, hope and encouragement to people who have never heard about Christ as well as to those who are suffering for following Him. Workers have numerous opportunities to answer the questions of both new disciples and people who are considering becoming Christians.
Help Form Disciples in Cameroon
Male initiation rites lasting three months disrupted boys’ education until native Christian workers taught villagers how faith in Christ frees them from fear of the powers of witchcraft. “We taught that in Christ they are free from any demon; we advised them to be confident and to send their children to school,” the ministry leader said.
Help Spread Gospel Seed in the Philippines
A company that delivers free food to poor people scavenging in dumps required employees to do a dance before distribution to entertain the crowds. One of the employees was a new Christian discipled by native ministry workers, and she requested to share something spiritual instead of doing a dance.
Provide Aid to the Needy in Peru
More than 60 children living in extreme poverty have received food every weekday from native Christian workers. “Before each meal, we sing as a choir, and in prayer we thank God,” the ministry leader said. “Also, on the weekend in Bible classes we share the Bible with each child in depth. Our desire is that they grow up knowing and trusting God, as they are the future of our ministry and community.”
Help Build the Kingdom with God’s Word in Pakistan
A native ministry’s correspondence courses focus on the theme of salvation through Christ and also include studies of biblical books, such as the Psalms, the Gospel of John and 1 Corinthians, among others. A monthly magazine acts as a follow-up tool for teachings on timely subjects and has been helpful for evangelists, Sunday school teachers and pastors.
Help Plant Churches in Ivory Coast
Local missionaries from a native ministry helped a villager work on his farm, and when his family invited them to dinner at the end of the day, the workers spoke to them about God. “The whole family gave their lives to the Lord,” the ministry leader said. Many Bible studies arise from workers coming alongside villagers in this way.
Send the Message of Eternal Life in China
Native Christian workers found various ways to encourage church members to share Christ amid the pandemic. Some visited with neighbors while going out for mandatory COVID-19 tests, deepening relationships and following the Holy Spirit’s guidance into discussion of the gospel.
Provide Critical Aid to Refugees in Greece
As economic turmoil causes governmental and other programs to fade, more refugees are seeking ways to survive. “The projects and organizations working with refugees are closing one after the other, leading the people to despair and pushing them to leave the country as quickly as they can,” a native ministry leader said.
Help Send the Salvation Message in Iraq
Native Christian workers have multiple opportunities to share the gospel as they distribute Bibles, tend to the needs of refugees and the internally displaced and bring medical care to the poor. Workers with a native ministry’s mobile medical clinic share Christ daily with those receiving treatment, along with praying with them and providing them Bibles.
Help Transform Lives with the Gospel in Togo
A native ministry was able to share the gospel with 3,450 people over the course of six months. Among them was a 19-year-old man who had left school and gone on drinking binges. “During our soul-saving seminar, by the grace of God he was saved and was baptized,” the ministry leader said. “Since then he is now respecting his parents and has stopped drinking; he has gone back to school and is preaching the Good News to his friends.”
Help Bring the Gospel to the Unreached in South Asia
A native ministry provides one year of biblical training to young men and women who wish to engage in full-time ministry, and those who seek further study are sent to Bible colleges. Ministry leaders are training them especially in bringing the gospel to areas where it is unknown.
Send Aid to Desperate Refugees in Europe
Refugees fleeing dangers in the Middle East and Africa rarely find a warm welcome in Europe, and the love of Christ that native Christian workers offer makes a deep impression. Besides the food, clothing, infant care items and other aid they need to survive, the spiritual and psychological support they receive is a salve for weary souls.
Help Find, Vet and Evaluate Workers
Bob Finley founded Christian Aid after going overseas as a missionary only to have Christians abroad ask him why he had come; North American missionaries brought government suspicion of foreign involvement on native churches and tended to export their denominations’ internal problems. By contrast, native churches were shining beacons of committed faith.
