Far East Broadcasting Company - David & Vicki Creel
Ministry Focus:
Far East Broadcasting Company’s primary emphasis is providing Gospel radio and internet broadcasts to the unreached in closed countries who have no other means of hearing the Good News. FEBC broadcasts are heard in 152 languages and 50 countries around the world aired from 260 stations and transmitters, totaling 1,571 hours of programming a day/365 day a year.
Praise:
- Praise the Lord for the completion of the new self-supporting tower project in Phnom Penh.
Prayer Needs:
- Pray for the Lord’s help in learning the language and culture of Cambodia.
- Pray for good health, for protection, and for the empowering of the Holy Spirit in our ministry.
- Pray for more opportunities to share Christ with those we meet.
- Pray for FEBC Cambodia to be fruitful as we share Christ with the unreached in this predominantly Buddhist country.
- Pray for the Lord’s guidance as we near the end of our initial 2-year commitment to serve with FEBC Cambodia in March.
Frontiers - Alan & Beth Barrett
Ministry Focus:
The Barretts are part of the Barnabas Team of Frontiers, which provides pastoral coaching, member care and critical support for cross-cultural workers, all of whom are working with Muslims. We are a listening ear and encouragement for them, and our role is to help them thrive and stay on task as they live and work there on the “front lines.” We do coaching for cross-cultural life, ministry, marriage and family and team life. Alan is a pastor by training and brings these skills to the role of being a pastor to missionaries. Beth works alongside him with couples, and on her own with women workers.
Prayer Needs:
- Thank God for His work through the Barre s in the Frontiers organization. Ask God to bless their work as they minister to those serving overseas. Ask God to give them wisdom and discernment as they carry out their ministry.
GEM Teams - Pere' Gonzalez
Ministry Focus:
GEM Teams is a strategic short-term teams ministry that provides the opportunities for short-term mission teams to help build the Kingdom of God in Europe. The purpose is to help the local churches and ministries in Europe meet their needs in evangelism and discipleship by sending teams on short mission trips to help create an atmosphere where non-believers can hear a clear presentation of the Gospel.
GEM Teams does the preparation work by networking with ministries in Europe in need of help. We then coordinate the details between the local ministries and the short-term team and provide staff to lead the team while they are on the ground to ensure an effective me of ministry together. GEM Teams searches for church-based teams and individuals that are willing to invest their me and talents to serve God and bring Him Glory.
Prayer Needs:
- Pray for the strength to do necessary tasks in a continent with fewer than 3% believers.
- Pray for the awakening of believers in Spain and Europe to spread the Gospel in Europe.
- Pray for financial support. Funding is very short and hardly ever lasts to the end of the month.
- Pray that the team leaders’ families, especially for their children that they would remain in the Lord. Pray for Pere' and his recovery from recent surgeries.
Guzman Ministries - Johnny & Mary Guzman
Ministry Focus:
Guzman Ministries was founded by Johnny’s parents, Rev. Florencio Guzman and his wife, Maria, in 1982. Johnny and his wife, Mary, moved into full me ministry with the organization in September 2015. Their ministry focus is children’s ministry, school reinforcement, men and women ministry, church planning, evangelism, and missionary training. Their work includes coordinating missionary training sessions in Columbia and Peru. Through this training, the gospel is presented to people around the world, from Kazakhstan to our own Shoals area. In addition, the Guzman’s provide evangelism, medical assistance, church building, and youth camp services. The ministry works with adults, children, and youth sharing God’s love and inviting them to be witnesses of how God can transform lives of people who may have never been considered without God’s guidance.
Prayer Needs:
- Thank God for His work through the Guzmans.
- Please pray for God’s favor for financial support for ministries in Mexico, Colombia and Peru.
- Please pray for equipment to extend our ministry to other areas. Please pray for youth and teenager materials for Bible classes.
- Please pray for health and protection for our staff, our church members, and their family.
Heart of Christ Ministries - Lee & Gracie Murphree
Ministry Focus:
Lee Murphee is the Mission Coordinator, along with his wife, Gracie (President & Director of Operations) for Corazon do Christo. Heart of Christ specializes in rescue, care, restoration, and empowerment of justice for women, children, the elderly, and the disabled by discipling them and the leaders around them to be the solution to the problems. Honduras is one of the most violent countries in the world, so the opportunities for presenting the gospel are numerous and presented through discipleship, evangelism, leadership development, humanitarian aid, and justice ministry. Heart of Christ houses several orphans on its campus, providing food, shelter, education, medical care, and spiritual leadership and parenting.
Prayer Needs:
- Thank God for His work being accomplished through Lee and Gracie.
- Please pray for God’s provision of funds for the justice center.
- Please pray for an increase in monthly funding and for an increase in sponsors for the growth of justice center.
- Please pray for people to come and serve with them.
- Please pray for the health of the staff and especially for Gracie and Lee.
- Please keep praying for vehicles and other needed equipment upgrades.
L'Arcada Camp
Ministry Focus:
L’Arcada Camp is a ministry focused on evangelism, discipleship, and leadership for the growth and establishment of the church in Spain and around the world. The purpose is to establish an atmosphere where non-believers can hear a clear presentation of the Gospel and make a life changing decision accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Anna & Juan are the Directors of L’Arcada Camps with GEM.
Prayer Needs:
- Pray for all campers – those who will be joining us in the future, and those who have experienced Camp L’Arcada already. Pray for the campers who asked for bibles – that they will read and be changed by the Word. Pray for the follow-up especially of those who accepted the Lord. God has given us full camps so there are more to follow up.
- Pray for the effectiveness of the discipleship camps. These camps are crucial in developing continued interest in following the Lord.
- Pray for the leaders and volunteers who led the discipleship programs. Pray for our volunteers and staff to grow in the Lord.
- Pray for Anna and Juan Antonio. As directors we ask you to pray for us. May God give us wisdom to make the right decisions. As we raise support, please pray that God would touch hearts.
- Please pray for the completion of many improvements and repairs that need to be completed before next summer.
Seeds of Grace - Kevin and Cynthia Weldon
Ministry Focus:
Kevin and Cynthia operate a children’s home in Nepal call Seeds of Grace. They minister and love orphan children by providing them a safe, nurturing home environment. They conduct pastor training for remote mountain pastors that have no formal training with over 100 pastors enrolled in the three-year seminary course. The Weldon’s run AWANA Bible Clubs that meet weekly in the slums. They also host short-term teams that operate medical and vet camps, as well as various construction teams.
Prayer Needs:
- Thank God for His work through the Weldons and this ministry.
- Please pray for the protection of their family and the Nepali Christians they serve.
- Please pray for Nepali staff who work alongside the Weldons.
- Please pray for Nepal and its people. Nepal is a closed country and very hos le to Chris ans. The Hindu government seeks to expel all Chris ans.
- Please pray for the Weldons’ safety and ability to minister within Nepal.
- Pray for guidance, discernment, and protection as they serve the Nepali people and that they can reach them for Christ.
- Pray for short-term teams to continue to go and assist the Weldons with various projects and ministries that are ongoing in Nepal.
Hope & Light Association Ministry - Laurentiu Grigore Timis
Ministry Focus:
The Hope and Light Association brings the Gospel to those that do not know Christ personally by using different means such as church programs, camps, VBS, social work, counseling, teaching, discipling, and helping others in any way possible. Hope and Light ministry reaches people from a variety of social rankings. There are a variety of groups ranging from elderly people to adults and children, orphans, and regular families to street people. Laurentiu began his ministry during his university years by organizing youth camps and activities with orphaned children. Upon graduating from university in 2000, he began his pastoral ministry. His current assigned mission is to bring the Gospel to as many people as possible through church planning, pastoring and strengthening churches. He also does social work (especially with children and elderly people) as president of an organization. Location: City of Timisoara, villages: Varias, Comlosu Mare, Vizejdia and more.
Prayer Needs:
- Thank God for His work through Laurentu and his ministries. Ask God to bless Lauren u, his family, and his work.
- Pray for God to have power in the mission and for His gospel to be proclaimed.
- Please pray for Eclesia, the church in which he serves, to grow numerically and spiritually.
- Please pray for the spiritual and physical health of the children from the orphanage.
- Please pray for financial support for our three missionaries.
Life for Children - Michael O Agwanda
Ministry Focus:
Life for Children Ministry cares for orphans of HIV/AIDs and vulnerable children, providing shelter, parental love, food, education, healthcare and spiritual nourishment. The focus is to educate orphans and provide all their needs. To date, over 500 orphans have been educated. Life for Children serves in Kenya and within the counties of Kisii, Homa Bay, Kisumu, Siaya, Nandi and Migori. Over 100 homeless children are fed every week, also receiving faith-based activities. This ministry has also served over 1500 women, mostly widows, by helping them establish small businesses through loans. This has enabled them to feed their families and provided much needed dignity. The ministry has also provided clean water to over 5000 people. They have built a church and planted 5 more. The ministry has built a school with over 400 children and has offices for the operation of the ministry in Kisumu. This has been made possible through partnerships with sponsors and churches who give towards the ministry.
Prayer Needs:
- Please pray for more donors to sponsor orphans in the coming year with Life for Children Ministry.
- Pray that my family and I will get a USA religious visa to visit USA.
- Pray that the Lord will provide for all the needs for Life for Children Ministry in the upcoming year. Pray for the orphans, guardians, board members and the staff of Life for Children Ministry.
- Give praise for the VBS program and the opportunity to share Christ with over 250 children.
Global Missions of Mercy - Sarita Carson
Ministry Focus:
The Lord called me to his service in 1991 to help the neediest families in Guatemala as his word says in Matthew 25:35-40 and Luke 4:18 19. Our ministry serves 165 families, teaching them to be disciples of Christ and helping with social development projects. We have a totally free school where we help 210 children, a dining room, and we help families in many communities with food. We have medical teams to serve hundreds of people. God has allowed us to reach thousands of people and win many souls for his kingdom. Search for Global Missions of Mercy on www.facebook.com to follow along.
Prayer Needs:
- Pray that God would keep us safe to continue working for His Kingdom.
- Pray that God takes care of the community where we work as He has done so far.
- Pray for God's provision for basic needs, and for food and health to not be lacking.
- Pray for God to provide work for all the people in our communities who lost practically everything due to the pandemic and hurricanes.
- Pray that the support for our ministry is not lacking and continues with the vision.
Reach a Village - Robert Craft
Ministry Focus:
We seek to find and reach villages with the Gospel which have no churches, missionaries or believers. We do not send missionaries from America, but rely on indigenous, local partners in the country to reach areas of their country where the Gospel has not gone and that foreign missionaries will probably never reach. We help local believers be able to accomplish that mission through biblical equipping, training and building their ministry capacity for outreach and multiplication. We believe that our mission strategy is the most effective and efficient way to fulfill the great commission in villages that have remained unreached and untouched by previous mission efforts.
Prayer Needs:
- Health and safety of workers is always a priority because of the rugged, or resistant or hos le environments of many of our workers as they reach into unreached areas of their countries. Especially those in ministry in countries currently at war, civil war or experiencing famine or natural disasters.
- Pray for the printing and transport of Scriptures into the countryside to new believers for their growth and the establishment of the new churches
- Continuing need for Bibles and materials for the evangelists reaching new villages.
- Pray for the wars to end in Myanmar and Ukraine.
- Continued need for funding for training events for church planters and evangelists that are going into new villages with the Gospel.
- Pray for open doors back into the country of Vietnam.
TMS Global - Mark & Robin Howard
Ministry Focus:
Mark and Robin Howard hold leadership roles in a local Spanish church (Algeciras, Spain) composed of an international congregation and cooperate with PI’s Moroccan Launch team. Also, they disciple and train believers from several nationalities both locally and internationally. Mark is also involved in a New Testament translation into a Moroccan dialect. In partnership with the local church, Pioneers focuses its work on sending teams to unreached people groups. Cross-cultural workers serve alongside local believers with a heart to see disciples making disciples, worldwide. Keeping in step with our missions´ vision we have been working among various cultures in the Mediterranean now for over 40 years. Mark is originally from Kentucky and Robin, Guntersville. They met at Asbury College, have three married children all serving the Lord through their prospective local Spanish churches, and two foster children.
Praise:
- The NT has been printed in northern Moroccan dialect and recorded for those who can’t read
- New people are coming to the Spanish church and growth has restarted.
- A base translation of the whole OT in northern Moroccan dialect has been completed and is under revision now.
Prayer Needs:
- To finish revision of the OT translation. Genesis and Psalms are ready for testing. Work has stalled in the last chapters of Exodus and needs a new push forward.
- For checking the accuracy of the recordings of the NT in northern Moroccan dialect for distribution soon through YouVersion.
- Being close to retirement age, they need wisdom and guidance for knowing God’s will for the future.
Voice of Liberty - Cunningham Family
Ministry Focus:
The mission of Voice of Liberty is Provide holistic assistance through our programs, in order to provide opportunities and to generate positive changes in the family and social dynamics of people involved and affected by crime. We see a society that promotes and applies restorative justice among families involved and affected by a crime, in order to avoid prison recidivism, and provide security to the society and the victims. We provide comprehensive assistance, covering the following areas: Social, Physical, Spiritual, & Emotional. We serve inmates, former inmates, their families, & victims of crime
Prayer Needs:
- Ministry with inmates, families of inmates, former inmates, & those affected by crime
- Planning and sharing the vision of Voice of Liberty to other churches and ministries in the US.