March 31, 2014

“A Story of Miracles.” “The Story of a Transformation.” “The Story of the Abyei Tree Baptist Church.” You choose the best title after reading "By hiring her to cook, Josephina’s family is transformed,"
a TRUE story from Baptist Global Response of what happens when Believers invest prayers, finances and time in a hurting community. Story found at https://gobgr.org/news/news_detail/by-hiring-her-to-cook-josephinas-family-is-transformed.

March 30, 2014

What brings you joy? For these boys, it was having their photo taken. The disciples, even during persecution, were filled with joy when “The word of the Lord spread through the whole region" (Acts 13:49-32). Claim Psalm 5:11 for God’s workers among Sub-Saharan African Peoples today. Pray that they will be filled with His joy and know His protection as they share His good news.

March 29, 2014

FB post from Mozambique: “At this time every day, our neighbors retrieve their recharged phones. We're the only folks around with electricity! They mostly use their phones for listening to music.” Missionaries want to change this by sharing memory chips for the phones with a recording of the God Story, the Creation to the return of Christ, told in 75 minutes in the local language!

March 28, 2014

View how a group of Believers in South Africa diligently used their “gifts, according to the grace given us” (Romans 12:6-8 NIV) to share their Good News. How are you using your gifts and abilities to share our Father’s Good News? http://www.commissionstories.com/africa/interactives/view/south-african-artists-creatively-interpret-psalms

March 27, 2014

“Open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest” (John 4:35). Pray for strength, boldness and God’s wisdom for African Believers as they pray, plan and go out to share their Father’s Good News with the Unreached Peoples in their homes, villages, countries, continent and world.

March 26, 2014

Shared in a newsletter from Zimbabwe: “Ask God to clear missionaries’ minds of daily cares and worries so they can discern His will for their lives and ministries. (Romans 12:2) Pray also for discernment and wisdom about whom they should choose to spend time discipling and equipping for ministry. (2 Tim 2:2)"

March 25, 2014

“Ina kwana? Yaya aiki?” “Lafiya. Mun gode.” Want to enrich your prayer times for the Unreached Peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa OR to entice your church to pray for our Peoples? Visit link 'Language Learning' - SSAPeoples* to download audio and printed files sharing greetings of a few of the hundreds of language spoken in Africa. *http://subsaharanafricanpeoples.imb.org/resources/sub/language-learning

March 24, 2014

Pray for the men and women participating today through Friday at the IMB’s School of Prayer for all Nations. Pray that they will be inspired and equipped “to walk closer with God, to pray more fervently for spiritual awakening, to intercede more effectively for missionaries and the nations, and to mobilize others to join in prayer.” For more information, visit  http://www.imb.org/main/pray/page.asp?storyID=11646&LanguageID=1709.

March 23, 2014

Would you join others today in claiming Paul’s prayer in Colossians 4:2-6 for God’s children living among Sub-Saharan African Peoples? Pray that they would boldly enter the doors God opens for their message, making “the most of every opportunity” to clearly proclaim and explain “the mystery of Christ.”

March 22, 2014

Waiting for a meeting to start, children rush to greet them. While teaching women or discipling leaders in a church, the children of these people are often around… Pray that missionaries in Zambezi Cluster would be sensitive to the needs of the myriads of the children who come their way each day.  Pray that they will use every opportunity to nurture and encourage them to be a follower of Christ.
For more from the Zambezi Cluster visit  https://www.facebook.com/ZambeziClusterPrayerNeeds.

March 21, 2014

What happens when Believers go and make disciples among Coastal Mozambican peoples? Whenever these Believers pass through neighboring villages, people who have heard about the chronological BIble teaching ask: "When will you bring the good news to our village?"

March 20, 2014

From new worker among the Kaonde People (Zambia and the DRCongo), who was "plumb excited" by understanding 1% of a worship service in the language they are learning (August 12, 2014 post): “This past Sunday I shared my testimony and a gospel presentation in Kikaonde. I still need to read much of it… they filled in the blanks for me when I got stuck... and it seems like they understood.”

March 19, 2014

They have the Bible, the Jesus Film and Gospel recordings in their language, so why are most of the Mamprusi People still waiting to hear of the Good News of Jesus Christ? Because “Ghana’s north is full of remote and inaccessible villages.”  Pray for good health and strength for those training Believers in Ghana to go and make multiplying disciples in these villages.

More Nudges to Action and photos for the Mamprusi People at http://www.commissionstories.com/africa/photos/view/ghanas-northern-region/1 .

March 18, 2014

New workers, responding to God’s call to "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you” (Genesis 12:1), will soon leave the States to work among Sub-Saharan African Peoples.  Pray that they will be filled with “all joy and peace as THEY trust in him, so that THEY may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Romans 15:13).

March 17, 2014

Praising God for women and men who obey God's commands in Deuteronomy 11:18,19 and have fixed His words in their hearts and minds, taught them to their children and the children in their communities when they sit at home, at church or wherever they are. (Women are in the uniforms of the Baptist Women of Kenya/ Wanawake Wabatisti wa Kenya.)

March 16, 2014

One small tin-roofed church… 100+ adults in brightly coloured clothes… quite a few babies on the backs of young mothers… toddlers crawling around as their mommies listen to the teaching translated into 6 languages.” Praising God for a successful training in late February in Burkina Faso for Route 412, a new program leading children to grow spiritually and be disciple makers.

More of this story at  http://www.shaftonews.blogspot.com/2014/03/route-412-que-personne-ne-meprise-ta.html.

March 15, 2014

Churches needed to invest time, energy and resources into praying for and taking the Gospel to key Sub-Saharan African unreached people groups (UPGs) and unreached, unengaged people groups (UUPGs) in desperate need of the Gospel. Could the Lord be leading your church to take on this task?
Visit http://subsaharanafricanpeoples.imb.org/explore/view/people-group-map  to learn how your church can remove one pin from the map!

March 14, 2014

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16 NIV). These kids live are hearing of God's love. But two thirds of the people in our world still lack an adequate opportunity to believe in Him and have eternal life.

March 13, 2014

NO, it’s not Christmas when there is lots of interest in giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.* BUT it is not too late to give so that the 2014 offering goal of 175 million. YES that’s a lot of money, but this is an investment with eternal impact on the 4,790,195,992** people without access to our Father’s Good News! Check out the links below for more information.

* http://www.imb.org/main/lottie-moon/default.asp

* At 10AM Eastern Daylight Time - Population Clock which is updated by the second - http://master.media.imbresources.org/files/179/17983/17983-100088.swf 

Population Clock Download - http://www.imb.org/main/give/page.asp?StoryID=8709&LanguageID=1709

March 12, 2014

What happens when an African Believer becomes a disciple and obeys Matthew 28:19-20? Take a few minutes to read of a pastor in Ghana who accepted Christ’s commission to go and make disciples and “reach people for Christ … even up to the ends of the earth."  An ITINERANT DISCIPLER's story is found at  http://www.commissionstories.com/africa/stories/view/ghanaian-baptist-pastor-adapts-imb-strategy-to-multiply-leaders.

March 11, 2014

Praise from young couple in language study: “While we do not always feel like we are making progress while in class, we can see a huge difference every week in our ability to understand and communicate in Wolof with our Senegalese neighbors, friends, and new acquaintances. These relationships are growing as deep and as fast as our language will permit, which provides great motivation to keep learning.”

March 10, 2014

Too young to read, but this little one is loves looking at Mom's Bible.  Will you pray for sensitive and open hearts and minds for those learning “how the Bible is translated and made available to Bible-less peoples … and how to share Bible stories” at today’s HIS WORD/HIS WORLD conference in Tennessee.  Pray that this training will lead to more people groups hearing our Good News in their own language.   

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HIS WORD/HIS WORLD – http://www.brentwoodbaptist.com/brentwood/announcements/2014/02-25/scripture-translation-conference

More on Orality Strategies – https://oralitystrategies.org/strategies.cfm

March 9, 2014

How can God’s Word be used among Unreached Peoples?  In Uganda it was used to comfort a man after the death of his teenage son. As the man’s community feared that the son had been poisoned and advised going to the witchdoctor to find the poisoner, a Believer shared Matthew 11:28-30 and told him of the one offers rest to those who are “weary and burdened”.

March 8, 2014

Planners of a Story Together project among the Toposa, Turkana and Karamojong peoples of Uganda, South Sudan and Kenya need your prayer support.  Pray for workers as they choose the best venues for their project and the size and make-up of the groups who will be equipped to compose and share God’s stories with fellow members of his/her people group.

March 7, 2014

“Come on, did that leader accept Christ?”  A comment asked after last Friday’s post seeking prayer for a leader of another faith in need of opening “his heart to the one who casts out evil spirits.” We don’t know and may never know!  Pray for “great endurance and patience” (Colossians 1:11) for those praying for and for those planting seeds among unreached Sub-Saharan African Peoples.
UPDATE from workers whose story was shared last Friday (Feb 28): Hey, our local imam did not (yet) accept Christ (as per your reader's question). In fact he has successfully avoided us for a week - a difficult task in a small village where he is our nearest neighbor! We hope people will still pray for him.

March 6, 2014

How can the Zande of South Sudan “call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them” (Romans 10:14 NIV), someone who is willing to live among them and share our Father’s Good News?  More prayer nudges at http://www.peoplegroups.org/explore/GroupDetails.aspx?peid=42503 and at http://subsaharanafricanpeoples.imb.org/pray/view/03-14-emphasis-zande.

March 5, 2014

And where are these kids going as they eat a bit of sugar cane? To the first baptismal service in a village of a new church plant among the coastal peoples of Mozambique. Praise God for how new Believers in this area are sharing their faith with their families and friends. Pray for the workers training these new Believers to share the amazing stories found in God’s Word.

March 4, 2014

"Satan’s ‘Hissy Fit’" – How a volunteer described the happenings on their last day among the Maasai of Tanzania after a great trip sharing God’s Word and welcoming new Believers into His family.  The full story of what can happen when you join in our Father’s work among one of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples can be found on the latest TZ Maasai Connection blog post!  

http://www.tzmaasaiconnection.blogspot.com/

March 3, 2014

Praising God for Sub-Saharan African Believers who study and share God’s Word. BUT many peoples have not yet heard our Good News in their own language and too many still lack even Bible portions in their language. “Partner with the IMB to make an eternal impact on a Bible-less people group” by praying or even registering for the upcoming HIS WORD/HIS WORLD* conference!

* http://www.brentwoodbaptist.com/brentwood/announcements/2014/02-25/scripture-translation-conference

March 2, 2014

Getting a little practice in carrying babies before the arrival of baby brother! Thank God today for young families who serve among Unreached Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Pray for good health for the kids and their parents, as you praise God for how the presence of Missionary Kids often provide an added welcome into a community in need of our Father’s Good News.

March 1, 2014

What can a volunteer group accomplish in a few days when they answer, "Here am I. Send me!" (Isaiah 6:8) and go to minister among unreached Sub-Saharan African Peoples? One group in Lesotho, reports: “Tons of stories of God’s faithfulness, tons of pictures… 2000 patients given medical care and tons of mountain Basotho heard the gospel, some for the very first time.”