May 2023
Your Prayer Guide To Reach The World
Help Build the Kingdom in Chad
Praying for the Holy Spirit to act on the Word sown in hearts and minds, native workers gave thanks for their co-labor with the Lord last year, when 473 people put their faith in Christ and 39 home churches sprouted. The last three months of the year were fruitful as 61 people accepted God’s grace and 16 churches were planted.
Equip Gospel Workers in Iran
A group of new Christians has begun meeting led by a member of their ethnic group. Elsewhere, native Christian workers shared the gospel with a woman whose husband and child had accepted Christ, and a few days later she had a dream and called a leader, who along with his wife led her to saving faith.
Provide Aid to the Poor in South Asia
In areas where 90 percent of the people live below the poverty level, a native ministry distributed staple items that families could not afford so they could cook meals. Workers also distributed food packets to 80 poor families.
Help Start Churches in Peru
A husband and wife with a native ministry walk many hours three times a week to help shepherd remote congregations and proclaim the message of eternal life, and they are winning souls to Christ. In another area, seven workers travel through the Andes, braving hunger and cold to bring the gospel to places inaccessible to most people.
Help Form Strong Disciples in China
A once-strong church was decimated by outside influences, the latest being COVID-19 restrictions, and workers from a native ministry helped members first focus on growing closer to Christ and then trained them to serve the community. Gradually the church helped outsiders to transform their lives and combat the pandemic.
Help Bring Muslims to Christ in North Africa
Muslims who once refused to listen to any talk of the gospel are asking native workers about their faith in Christ. The villagers have begun requesting prayer as they and their families need healing, work and other help.
Provide Education to Poor Children in Pakistan
More than 185 children from poor families who work in brick kilns received education at a school that local Christian workers made available to them. Without education, such children have no way of escaping a future of working off the debts of their parents, who are essentially bonded slaves unable to escape indebtedness.
Help Workers Share Christ in Greece
Reaching out to both refugees and nationals, native Christian workers bring the gospel daily through home visits, online means and church services. “We continue the church services where we can see more people get converted and grow in Jesus,” the ministry leader said.
Provide Compassionate Aid in Burma
Unable to work amid military offensives and COVID-19, people are struggling to survive. Native Christian workers are providing rice, cooking oil, beans and basic medicines in several places.
Help Spread the Gospel in Iraq
Ministering to people of varied ethnicities and religions, native Christian workers focused on one group after their ethnic religious rite. “The Lord allowed many of them to accept Christ after we delivered the gospel and Bibles to them,” the ministry leader said.
Support Evangelistic Outreach in Nepal
A pastor with a native ministry joyfully carried on work in spite of suffering from a tumor and illnesses in his family. “Despite all this, God remained faithful, especially in saving the lost,” he said.
Help Children Know Christ in Bangladesh
Workers at a native ministry are caring for 350 children, providing materials and tuition for school, supporting their Bible teachers and operating a quarterly spiritual camp, Sunday schools and a hostel. “Our children are the future of this ministry and the church of the Lord,” the ministry leader said.
Send the Salvation Message in Laos
A stagnant house church increased from seven families to 22 families after native Christian workers gave members 10 radios for sharing electronically loaded gospel messages. “They love it very much and listen to it every day, even when going to rice fields to work,” the ministry leader said.
Equip Workers for Gospel Outreach in Ecuador
Native Christian workers invited local men to the anniversary celebration of their men’s ministry, and several of them accepted Christ. Workers have established 20 home Bible groups of 10 to 15 people each where they explain the gospel and disciple new Christians.
Help Reach the Lost in China
A husband and wife team have begun leading one small group each in their pioneering church-planting efforts. One group has more than 20 people, while the other is made up of 15 young Christians.
Send Messengers of God’s Grace in Malawi
People in a remote area walked nearly nine miles to hear a visiting ministry leader preach at a church. “This touched my heart to see the hunger for the Word of God,” he said, adding that the venue was filled with people.
Provide Disaster Aid in South Asia
Poor migrant workers were struggling to feed their families during COVID-19 lockdowns, but native Christian missionaries came to their aid. “We distributed grocery items for these poor migrant factory workers who were locked down in their own quarters with police observance,” the ministry leader said.
Provide Gospel Tools and Training in Spain
Native Christian workers have planted a church with its own building in one city and a house church in another. Besides reaching Spaniards through personal evangelism, sports activities, street festivals and prison visits, workers are bringing the gospel to refugees in events for married couples, children, teenagers and young adults, as well as in Bible studies and daily interaction while providing aid.
Help Bring Aid for the Poor in Africa
A native ministry leader in Zimbabwe was thankful to native workers who made it possible for impoverished families to prepare meals for their families at Christmas. “There were elderly people too who deeply appreciated the food, especially this time of the year when many have zero,” the leader said.
Support Spread of the Gospel in Vietnam
A Communist Party member had heard the gospel many times, but he opposed it until another party member shared her faith with him. After receiving Christ and returning to his village, his wife and children saw the change in him and also were saved.
Help Proclaim Christ to the Unreached in Lebanon
The gospel is sounding forth among Syrian refugees as well as Lebanese nationals, with seven new house churches forming over a six-month period; two of them emerged among the refugees. Workers started small groups and led Bible studies while providing aid for both nationals and refugees.
Help Expand the Kingdom in Cameroon
Through its evangelistic outreaches and school for missionaries, pastors and teachers, a native ministry overcame spiritual attacks to expand the kingdom of God. The ministry recently sent a native worker to a primitive village where there is no Christian or church.
Equip Workers to Lead People to Christ in China
Some of the ethnic migrants a native ministry serves are notorious for vandalism, bullying children and persecuting Christians. After praying with ministry leaders, workers had the opportunity to stop an outside gang member from beating one of the more notorious migrants and took him to a hospital.
Provide Critical Aid to Refugees in Europe
A refugee family of five fleeing war in Ukraine was frightened and without hope when they first arrived at a native Christian ministry’s ministry center. Soon they came to trust the workers helping them.
Help Needy Children in Sri Lanka
Economic and political chaos left destitute kids in even greater need, but a native ministry’s school was able to continue providing classes and nutrition. “Some were coming to school without even breakfast,” the ministry leader said.
Enable Workers to Share Christ in South Asia
A young woman’s parents and siblings were continually fighting, some enslaved to drugs, when she asked the heavens if there was any god who could deliver them; the next day a local Christian worker came to their home and explained how Christ died to deliver people from sin.
Help Bring Crucial Relief in Latin America
The pandemic has left many families in Chile without work, and native Christian workers are distributing basic necessities and food to them. “Now we do it more frequently, twice a month,” the leader said.
Equip Gospel Workers in Liberia
A young man put his faith in Christ without ever possessing a Bible, as he learned about the Lord through Scripture reading by native Christian workers. One day he felt too tired to attend his group’s Bible study, but at the last minute he roused himself to go on the very day that Bibles were freely distributed to all present.
Help Send the Word of Life in Turkey
An Afghan refugee who put her faith in Christ initially feared her Muslim husband would divorce or kill her if he found out, but recently she decided to get baptized. When those discipling her asked what her husband might do if he learned of her faith, she said she prayed for him daily – and that she only worried that, when he comes to the Lord, he will be upset that they will not be baptized together.
Help Power Gospel Proclamation in Indonesia
After leading a woman and her husband to Christ, church planters helped them in the fields so they could get work done – freeing up time for Bible study. The native Christian workers’ discipleship of their family included helping them overcome their troubled past, along with aiding in health and informal education.
Help Find, Vet and Evaluate Native Workers
We praise God that your support has enabled native Christian workers to bring the love of Christ to their own people – people who might otherwise never hear the gospel. Staff members at Christian Aid pray for you and for workers abroad as we take joy in connecting your generosity to their efforts; it’s a privilege to connect your faithfulness in one part of the world to theirs in another for human transformation and God’s glory.
