June 2023
Your Prayer Guide To Reach The World
Help Transform Lives with the Gospel in Peru
A 67-year-old villager in the Andes had spent his life worshipping ancestors and was addicted to coca leaves and alcohol. Native Christian workers found him no longer providing for his family and emotionally broken, and when they shared the gospel with him, he tearfully gave his life to the Lord.
Help Form Strong Disciples in Bangladesh
Visiting new Christians in various villages and teaching two seminars at their mission center, native Christian workers strengthened faith and made churches stronger. Their distribution of Bibles – 50 in one village, and 50 to a different people group in another, for example – has planted seeds for kingdom growth.
Help Train Gospel Workers in China
At a training for leaders of student fellowships, native workers taught 20 participants how to better carry out campus evangelism. “The leaders were committed to learning different, effective ways to evangelize, deepening their burden for souls and actively carrying out the gospel ministry on their own campuses,” the native group’s leader said.
Help Send the Message of Eternal Life in Liberia
Traveling five or six hours on foot through hilly jungles, sometimes at night, native Christian workers brave disease-bearing mosquitos and other dangers to bring the message of eternal life. At times they go without food if villagers have none to sell them, but the workers leave them with the spiritual nourishment of the gospel, leading 318 people to faith in Christ and planting three churches over six months.
Provide Aid to Desperate Refugees in Turkey
Native Christian workers provided the food and clean water crucial for Syrian refugees even as they listened to cries for pain relievers, medicines, baby formula and clothing. The workers took note of the refugees’ pleas so they could provide the requested items on ensuing visits, thankful for the donations from Christian Aid Mission supporters that enabled them to meet the growing needs.
Help Plant Churches in South Asia
A native ministry has established four new mission stations from which workers are planting house churches. “By the grace of God, post-COVID-19 ministry in the mission fields is growing faster than the earlier movement,” the group leader said, adding that 12 new churches emerged in seven districts.
Support Gospel Proclamation in Spain
A man listening to a native ministry’s open-air worship service on a neighborhood street received a Bible from one of the church members, and he recently came to the congregation’s regular gathering saying that Scripture had changed his life. He put his faith in Christ and asked for baptism.
Help Form New Christians in the Philippines
A young woman who grew up in church had suicidal thoughts since her high school years, but after hearing a native worker teach about salvation and the Holy Spirit, she learned to trust in Christ. “It is her desire to keep on growing in the knowledge of God,” the ministry leader said.
Enable Gospel Outreach in Iran
Native Christian workers taking Bibles to a remote village where evangelizing comes with great risks met a man with a large tattoo on his neck. He was shocked when they offered him a Bible, as it was forbidden in the strict Islamic area, but he had been wanting one.
Help Send the Salvation Message in Kenya
A local chief who persecuted the church in his area, frequently jailing native workers, attended a funeral. After hearing the pastor preach at the memorial service, he came forward and announced that hearing the gospel had changed him.
Provide Aid to the Poor in Guatemala
More than 60 children whose parents lost their jobs due to the pandemic are living in extreme poverty, but native Christian workers are providing them meals twice a week. They are also helping the children catch up on schoolwork that dropped off due to COVID-19 lockdowns.
Help Power Gospel Proclamation in Pakistan
More than 60 children whose parents lost their jobs due to the pandemic are living in extreme poverty, but native Christian workers are providing them meals twice a week. They are also helping the children catch up on schoolwork that dropped off due to COVID-19 lockdowns.
Help Proclaim the Savior as Lord in South Asia
More than 60 children whose parents lost their jobs due to the pandemic are living in extreme poverty, but native Christian workers are providing them meals twice a week. They are also helping the children catch up on schoolwork that dropped off due to COVID-19 lockdowns.
Provide Medical Care for Refugees in Jordan
The needs of pregnant women and infants are growing among Syrian refugees suffering from conflict and displacement. With limited resources, native Christian workers are meeting the vital health care needs, both physical and emotional, of the mothers and infants.
Send the Life-Changing Gospel in Chad
The son of a Muslim woman who came to faith in Christ sought to attack those who led her to the Lord – until the Savior was revealed to him as well, and he received the gift of eternal life. Native Christian workers visiting homes have planted a church in one area that has gained favor with Muslim neighbors.
Support Gospel Workers in China
During strict COVID-19 lockdowns that have limited people’s ability to buy food, native missionaries have been able to continue offering discipleship crucial for anxiety-stricken Christians. One young Christian woman bore a grudge toward the Lord for not intervening.
Bring Christ’s Love to the Needy in Burma
A native Christian worker from the La Hu people went to his ethnic group in a jungle village, where the local animists worshipped evil spirits. The worker became friendly with the local priest, sharing about the heavenly Father who casts out evil spirits, and the leader called the villagers together and told them of the one God who created all things; some villagers believed and formed a small group worshipping Christ.
Help Transform Lives in North Africa
The pleas of spiritually and economically needy people are daily in the ears of native Christian workers, whose first priority is to point them toward the Lord. Workers shared Scripture and prayed with a mother who was in despair because her two daughters viewed God as cruel for taking their father, and soon peace came to their home as they allowed Christ to be Lord of it.
Build Strong Disciples in Greece
Native workers sharing the gospel with refugees disciple hundreds of new Christians each year, as new arrivals stream into the country while others move on to new destinations. Faith grows in weekly Bible studies, Zoom calls, WhatsApp messages and meetings with individuals.
Help Form Witnesses for Christ in Sri Lanka
Villagers opposed to gospel outreach softened after seeing aid that native Christian workers brought. “Village people changed as we were helping poor people and children,” the ministry leader said.
Support Christian Workers in Nigeria
Native Christian workers sustain their families as the Lord provides even as they face risks of kidnapping and death at the hands of terrorists. Some workers are returning to villages to rebuild homes and schools that were burned down.
Help Provide Compassionate Aid in Lebanon
A non-Christian retiree who lost most of his pension in Lebanon’s banking crisis of 2019 recently received help from a native ministry with acquiring the medications that he and his wife needed. He told Christian workers, “It is because of the strong faith that you people at the church have that I came to believe in Jesus too.”
Help Send the Message of God’s Grace in Mexico
Many young people see working in poppy fields for drug cartels as their only way to make a living, but a 20-year-old man recently left that work after a relative discipled by a native ministry led him to Christ. Now Christian workers are discipling the young man, who is sharing the gospel with his parents and siblings and wants to bring the message of eternal life to other areas.
Help Workers’ Seize Gospel Opportunity in Europe
Most of the refugees that a ministry in Europe serves are Muslims coming from countries in the 10/40 window where it is dangerous to share the gospel. Native Christian workers providing food, clothing, legal orientation and other aid have daily opportunities to share the message of eternal life in Christ with them.
Help Spread the Word of Life in Uganda
A woman who left Islam to become a Christian had gone two months without a Bible when the native missionaries who led her to Christ were able to provide her one and helped her to learn to read. “She started practicing reading daily, and she is one of the most committed and devoted disciples in our church,” the ministry leader said.
Equip Gospel Workers in Vietnam
In 22 provinces over six months, native Christian workers sharing the gospel with Vietnamese and ethnic minority groups saw 1,350 people put their faith in Christ. They planted seven new house churches.
Help Workers Share the Gospel in Indonesia
A poor woman came to faith in Christ after meeting with one of the female church planters of a native ministry, who taught her to pray for healing of her husband’s long-term mental illness. She prayed for a month, her husband was healed, and soon he accepted Christ as Lord and Savior.
Help Sow Gospel Seed in China
A native ministry’s workers led church members to visit unbelievers in their homes, first teaching them how to use the Bible to encourage them. “Such face-to-face fellowship can motivate unbelievers spiritually and strengthen them physically and mentally every week,” the ministry leader said.
Help Spread Word of God’s Kingdom in South Asia
Recently trained Christian workers are undertaking pioneer church-planting in six areas. Besides reaching people online, they are proclaiming Christ in home visits, Bible studies, film screenings and by other means.
Help Find, Vet and Evaluate Native Workers
The native Christian workers we assist express great gladness – and relief – when they learn that Christian Aid does not tell them how to do ministry as a condition for receiving funding. The native ministries are fully independent, not affiliates of Christian Aid, and our guiding philosophy is that they know best how to reach their own people with the gospel.
