June 30, 2013

Tis the season, “the “volunteer season” in Africa. Short-term volunteer teams do many things… leadership and True Love Waits training leadership, work with all ages and the ill and… always sharing Jesus. Pray God will accomplish His purposes in all the activities of volunteer teams.

Today's nudge and many more nudges in need of prayer are shared at https://www.facebook.com/ZambeziClusterPrayerNeeds. (Page can be viewed by non-FB members.)

June 28, 2013

Last Wednesday the Lord led missionaries on foot, across sand dunes, to a village on the Mozambique coast that has never had Gospel access. A man extended an invitation to teach the Bible to his clan. Pray for this man, his clan and those making plans to return for chronological Bible teaching there.

For more stories from the eyes, hearts and lives of missionaries in the Zambezi Cluster, visit https://www.facebook.com/ZambeziClusterPrayerNeeds. (Page can be viewed by non-FB members.)

June 27, 2013

Take a few moments to view what a team of American pastors viewed as they worshipped and prayed with a small group of believers on an island in Uganda.  WARNING:  Viewing the VISION FOR AFRICA* photo album may also give you a new vision for Shattering the Silence among Sub-Saharan African Peoples!
* http://www.commissionstories.com/africa/photos/view/sbc-president-visits-africa-for-first-time/1

June 26, 2013

Branding – telling the world who you are and what you have to offer! Pray that Sub-Saharan African Believers will boldly and clearly show the world that they are God’s children, His disciples, His ambassadors proclaiming His love and salvation. (2 Corinthians 5:20)

June 25, 2013

Joy comes from… reading God’s Word in your own language!   Praise God today that the Maasai People are becoming a people reached by the eternal gospel.  Thank him for Maasai Believers who take time to guide others in knowing God and His Word! 

Visist http://www.tzmaasaiconnection.blogspot.com/  for the latest post from the Maasai Team of Tanzania.

June 24, 2013

What happens when a diverse team of American pastors worship and pray with a small group of believers on an island in Uganda?  Take a few minutes to read one pastor’s testimony and renewed desire to be a part of sending out workers into our Father’s harvest field at Visiting Africa inspires Luter to issue missions challenge.*

*http://www.commissionstories.com/africa/stories/view/visiting-africa-inspires-luter-to-issue-missions-challenge.

June 23, 2013

West African refugees’ reaction to receiving millet, beans, peanuts, milk, sugar: JOY! Missionary’s response: THANKS! “Thanks for all who give to BGR* and the LMCO** that allows me and others like me to be a part of days like this and spreading the Good News across the globe.”
*Baptist Global Reponse – http://www.baptistglobalresponse.com/

** Lottie Moon Christmas Offering – http://www.imb.org/main/lottie-moon/default.asp

June 22, 2013

“The nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Sovereign LORD, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes…I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you." Claim Ezekiel 36:23, 26 for God’s ambassadors among Sub-Saharan African Peoples today.

June 21, 2013

From young couple celebrating one year of ministry in Madagascar: Thanks to you, our faithful prayer warriors, we are covered in prayer daily. We have seen God use your prayers in powerful ways to comfort, protect, heal, and more…how grateful we are for prayer…thank you.

June 20, 2013

"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear…The one who fears is not made perfect in love." (1 Jn 4:18) Take a minute to visit Missionary Blog Digest* and join others around the world praying for a Believer BEATEN FOR HIS FAITH.
*http://missionaryblogdigest.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/beaten-for-his-faith/

June 19, 2013

What happened when the believers of the early church (Acts 2:42-47) devoted themselves to teaching, prayer, worship and fellowship with one another? Praise God that as the Echelon team serves Him with glad and sincere hearts, they are also seeing people saved! More at http://www.commissionstories.com/africa/photos/view/echelon-team-lives-out-their-faith-in-community/1

June 18, 2013

“My sheep … were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.” (Ezekiel 34:6) Pray that God’s workers will respond to His call to search and look for Sub-Saharan African Peoples who have yet to hear a proclamation of the eternal Gospel. Praise God that these two young shepherds live among the Maasai People - a SSAP that are being reached by the Gospel!

June 17, 2013

“Thank God this week for the many believers who are already in DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), and even among the TAABWA. Ask God to shine His light through them, and to give them a passion for their countrymen to know the Way, Truth, and Light.” *

*More nudges to prayer for the Unreached Taabwa people (the 'June Call to Prayer for Sub-Saharan African Peoples') were shared on June 4th and 10th.

June 16, 2013

Request for summer missionaries: They will be able to use cell phones and have some electricity, but collect their water each day. No showers, just sponge bathing! Pray they will adjust well to their new living arrangements and ministry sharing the TRUE LOVE WAITS message in schools in Swaziland.

June 15, 2013

Mozambicans celebrate their independence from Portugal each June. Pray for the Chuabo of Mozambique to celebrate their dependence on God in their lives. Praise God for the peace that Mozambique has enjoyed. Pray that more Chuabo of Mozambique will come to know the One who gives peace.

June 14, 2013

Pray for Sub-Saharan African Believers as they share the eternal gospel in their world of contrasts – contrasts such as women hauling water for miles each day just as their great-grandmothers did, but doing it today under sophisticated electricity cables and communication towers.

June 13, 2013

From a volunteer: I've completed my term and am safely back home in Alabama.  The good-byes were hard in Senegal…Thank you all for praying for me during these 22 months that I have been on this journey.  You have been a big part of my opportunity to serve God during my ‘retirement’.

June 12, 2013

Praise and Prayer Request for the Jola-Fonyi People: 20 years ago M accepted Jesus as his Saviour  was baptised  read the Bible and obeyed what he read… as people saw changes in his life, he received persecution. After 8 years of faithfully following Jesus, he… went back to Islam… pray that he would come back to Jesus.

June 11, 2013

Praise shared yesterday on Facebook by missionary: “You know you are in/have been to a Maasai church when the chairs and benches are pushed to the sides and back to make an empty place up front for them to jump when they sing. Great time of worship at Ngirigiri church this morning.”

For more from the Tanzania Maasai team, visit  http://www.tzmaasaiconnection.blogspot.com/. 

June 10, 2013

“The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is home to over 851,000 Tabwa living along… Lake Tanganika, with 79,660 living across the border in Zambia. The farming and fishing lifestyle of the Taabwa can be a bridge to faith if believers are willing to go into these isolated areas and share the Gospel message.”  

More nudges to prayer for the Unreached Taabwa people (the 'June Call to Prayer for Sub-Saharan African Peoples') are found at  http://www.imbafrica.org/gap/profiles/Taabwa.pdf.

June 9, 2013

Praising God and thanking those who gave to the 2012 Lottie Moon Offering.*  Your gifts strengthen and encourage your missionaries as together we “proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvellous deeds among all peoples.” (Psalm 96:2,3)

*http://www.imb.org/main/news/details.asp?StoryID=11925&LanguageID=1709

January 8, 2013

Praising God and thanking Him for the breaking news from the IMB: The 2012 Lottie Moon offering, finalized June 5, totaled $149,276,303.72. It surpassed last year’s offering of $146.8 million by more than $2.4 million and marked the third-highest amount given in the offering’s 124-year history. For more of this story, visit Lottie Moon mission offering climbs to $149.3 million.*

*http://www.imb.org/main/news/details.asp?StoryID=11925&LanguageID=1709

June 7, 2013

"Wherever the spirit would go, they would go” (Ezekiel 1:12). Many missionaries must arise long before sun-up to have quality times with their Father before the daily taps begin at their gate. Pray today for uninterrupted times in prayer and Bible study so they confidently sense and obey the Spirit’s guidance.

June 6, 2013

What is like to live among an Unreached People who “live in fear -- fear of starvation, fear of the next cattle raid, fear of death and fear of God.” How do you share Jesus with these people and what it means to be his people, his church? Answers found at Being the Church: Living in community to reach the lost of Uganda.*

* http://www.commissionstories.com/africa/stories/view/being-the-church-living-in-community-to-reach-the-lost-of-uganda

June 5, 2013

"Is God moving you to respond in some way to the stories you're viewing" on this page or in other places? If so, HOW TO RESPOND TO THE STORIES YOU'VE SEEN,* is for you! Yes, this story has been shared before, but there are still many, too many Unreached/ Unengaged Peoples in Sub-Saharan Africa waiting for someone to respond.
* http://www.commissionstories.com/africa/stories/view/how-to-respond-to-the-stories-youve-seen

June 4, 2013

June Call to Prayer for Sub-Saharan African Peoples: Please pray for the Taabwa people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Pray for God to raise up believers, including those in the DRC, who are willing to do whatever it takes for every people group among them to know about Jesus.

June 3, 2013

“Praise be to the LORD… Praise be to his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory” (Psalm 72:18, 19 NIV). What will you do today to bring praise to our Father and to share His glory with the Unreached Peoples of our world?

June 2, 2013

"Look at the nations and watch-and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.” Do you believe that God can still do this? If so, claim his promise to Habakkuk (5:1 NIV) for the nations and peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa!

June 1, 2013

Pray for strength, boldness and clarity as God’s workers from other countries and cultures “praise his name, proclaim his salvation… declare his glory among the nations, his marvellous deeds among all peoples” (Psalm 96:2,3) of Sub-Saharan Africa.