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Pray for Believers Training for Church Planting ...

“Let’s pray that they don’t become discouraged or forget that God is with them.”

Pray for Believers Training for Church Planting in Bolivia
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Clarity can be Challenging

Pray that Dan and Judy would be able to teach the Chimane men and women with clarity. Pray that the Chimane believers would understand the teaching and grow in their walks with the Lord.

Clarity can be Challenging
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Preparing to Share the Gospel in Asia Pacific

“Pray for our friends’ hearts to be soft and receptive to the gospel in the future. Pray for us to have insight and courage to plant seeds of truth even now, as we talk and interact with our friends on a daily basis.”

Preparing to Share the Gospel in Asia Pacific
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Bible Translation and Youth Group

Pray for the Nahuatl young people attending weekly youth group. “[M]any of them are hearing God's Story for the first time. Pray their hearts would be soft to the gospel.”

Bible Translation and Youth Group
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Dental and Medical Professionals Needed

Praise God for the way He uses these ministries as an important part of the Body of Christ. Pray for more labourers.

Dental and Medical Professionals Needed

When You Can't Plan Ahead

When You Can't Plan Ahead

Some days, you simply need to do what needs to be done. Sure, some of those things fit neatly into categories like literacy, translation or community service. But sometimes (or most of the time?) when I wake up, I have very little idea of what the day will hold and what will need to be done. 

The Believers "Took It Upon Themselves"

‘They Took It upon Themselves.’

This week’s article was written by Adam and Julie Martin who minister to the Akolet people of Papua New Guinea.
 
Yesterday at church I noticed that a man took it upon himself to enlist some of the young men to build more benches in our church. You see, we’re having a “marriage conference” of sorts here in this next week.

missionaries and their friends from the village

Discipleship without PowerPoint

This conference is something entirely unprecedented in Akolet church history. We even have guest speakers! They are dear believers from other people groups, traveling here to share with the Akolet believers what they’ve learned about walking with Jesus and growing with their spouses.
 
This event is something we’ve been working to get arranged for over a year. There won’t be any PowerPoints, and certainly no one encouraging husbands and wives to hold hands and gaze into each other’s eyes or anything equally mortifying to an Akolet couple. But we hope there will be Scriptures unpacked that help the Akolet see, from fellow Papua New Guinean believers, what a Christ-centred marriage can look like. We are beyond excited.  

Akolet family with their Scripture portions

Building Benches Demonstrates Spiritual Growth

But where was I? Oh yes, the benches. There are 13 visitors coming for this marriage conference, and our bursting-at-the-seams church building doesn’t have the space! So this Akolet man saw the need and took it upon himself to get more benches built off to the side of our current structure. And there’s no Mitre 10 nearby to pick up more timber, either. We’re talking, “Boys, let’s go chop some trees.”

These are small steps in many ways. Yet for the past seven years since the Akolet church was first born, the believers have relied heavily on us as the missionaries. Slowly but surely, some are seeing the needs and taking it upon themselves to ask the Lord how He wants them to meet those needs.

Praise the Lord for the growth among the Akolet church. Would you pray for continued growth? And pray for more spiritual fruit as a result of this marriage conference.