Weekly Prayer DigestHelping you pray around the ABWE world.
Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were edified. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied. —Acts 9:35
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With the dramatic re-emergence of South Africa into the world community, cities such as Cape Town and Durban are experiencing population shifts, economic resurgence, and newly-opened doors for church planting.
Pray for South Africa | Learn more about South Africa | Opportunities to serve in South Africa
Steve and Jan Trostle
Steve and Jan Trostle have 49 students enrolled at Good Hope Christian School. Steve is serving as principal again and teaching 13 third and fourth graders. Jan has organized the Learning Disabilities program and has begun with four students. Some of the men of the church are studying at the Church Ministries Institute and they will be taking a turn leading the Thursday night Bible study in the coming weeks. The church building is still a work in progress. At this point they have added a room on the front that is under roof, and they are filling it to the brim each Sunday morning.
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The initiative and industry of the four million people is an asset to the ABWE goal of church planting. ABWE missionaries have found the Togolese people very responsive to the gospel, therefore, they are eager and zealous to open new ministries on their own. Church planters are needed to execute the plan to multiply churches in the urban centers.
Pray for Togo | Learn more about Togo | Opportunities to serve in Togo
Sharon Rahilly
Sharon Rahilly is in Ghana for meetings there that are very important to the initiation of a Community Health Evangelism (CHE) ministry in that country. She is working with January, the key person directing the CHE ministry in Ghana. The objective of the CHE ministry is evangelism and church growth; and that communities would be changed as villagers adopt lifestyles that will improve their total health. January and Sharon will be meeting with other ABWE Ghana missionaries, with members of a partnering organization, and with the chief and leaders of a nearby village. Pray for God’s wisdom in these meetings and for God’s clear direction in how to establish a CHE ministry in Ghana. Sharon will return to Togo on March 17.
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Papua New Guinea, a fairly youthful member of the world community of nations, occupies the Eastern half of the Island of New Guinea. The world's second-largest island stretches like a 1500-mile-long bird across the tropical Pacific. Its mountains and valleys, jungles, and South Sea shores are a tourist's and anthropologist's dream in today's progressive world.
Pray for Papua New Guinea | Learn more about Papua New Guinea | Opportunities to serve in Papua New Guinea
Rich and Marcia Ernst
Rich and Marcia Ernst are teaching at Goroka Baptist Bible College. The new school year began on schedule, January 25. Marcia is leading a Practice Teaching class. Rich’s greatest challenge this term is in seeking to help a total of 20 third- and fourth-year male students learn to preach more effectively through his two Practice Preaching courses (one in English and one in PNG Pidgin). Marcia is making progress in the library. Presently, she is processing new books and seeking to train six of the students to work in the library. Pray that first-term missionary pilot, Joel Prigge, will receive his pilot’s license from the PNG government so he can begin his flight ministry. Funds are needed to complete an additional GBBC national staff house.
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ABWE personnel plan to establish Baptist churches, train national leaders through theological education by extension, and start works among the youth of Nicaragua, where almost half of the population is under the age of fifteen.
Pray for Nicaragua | Learn more about Nicaragua | Opportunities to serve in Nicaragua
Steve and Terri Robinson
Please continue to pray for Pastor Donald and those involved the church plant as they seek to share Christ in the community of in Las Flores. Terri's mom continues in her recovery with daily signs of improvement.
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ABWE Team Slovakia attempts to glorify God by our personal conformity to Christ, by sharing the Gospel with the unsaved, by discipling those who receive Christ, by developing leaders, and by establishing reproducing Baptist churches. Three priorities demonstrate our commitment to national partnerships: speaking Slovak, local church involvement, and dependence on Slovak leadership.
Pray for Slovakia | Learn more about Slovakia | Opportunities to serve in Slovakia
Jeff and Jodi Demerly
Jeff and Jodi Demerly (furlough) are reporting to their supporting churches and ministering in their sending church. Jodi’s health situation is complicated and they are still working with her doctor to find answers.
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ABWE-USA focuses on the establishment of reproducing Baptist churches that are centers for evangelism and world missions.
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Dan and Betsy Delavan
Dan and Betsy Delavan’s daughter Rachel is recovering at home following knee surgery. They hope to be able to take her back to college next week. The whole family has been passing around a stomach virus. Rachel has not been able to keep fluids down which has made it difficult to take her pain medicine.
Stephen and Karen Borders
Steve and Karen Borders are in need of a larger building for their church plant. There is no room for additional chairs. The kitchen is being used for overflow and the children are meeting in a converted garage. Pray for the couples they are working with. Some have unsaved spouses, all need Christian growth and obedience to Biblical principles. They also seek wisdom in expanding their outreach to children and their families. On Saturday afternoons they are trying starting a choir/drama/art program to reach neighborhood Hispanic children.
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ABWE works in nine areas of this vast country.
Pray for Brazil | Learn more about Brazil | Opportunities to serve in Brazil
Lloyd and Athena Peace
Bible classes resume in Betânia on March 15. Lloyd will be teaching Christology. Pastor Henrique has voiced several concerns that he would like help addressing. Discord amongst the deacons, unbiblical ideas about church discipline, and teachers of false doctrine coming into the village are just a few of his concerns. Lloyd has been asked to share with the church what the Bible has to say about false doctrine and those who propagate it. Lloyd started a midweek Bible study with the teen boys last month. They have had some well thought out questions. Many neighborhood kids come to the Peace’s house to play. They are praying about starting an organized ministry with them.
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The capital city of Santiago has been the center of ABWE ministries for years. Santiago has a European lifestyle and many large shopping malls can be found in the city. Many nationally pastored churches exist along with a thriving seminary program with three annex ministries. The ABWE Team however is extending ministries to Northern Chile where a team of missionaries serves in the city of Iquique. The team will extend to the south with a ministry to the Mapuche Indians. Adelphos Chile, a national mission board established in 1993 with 140+ missionaries serving in nine countries of the world, contributes to an ongoing national mission’s movement for the glory of God.
Pray for Chile | Learn more about Chile | Opportunities to serve in Chile
Alejandro and Robyn Armijo
Alejandro and Robyn Armijo left Friday March 12 to help set up tents in an area affected by the earthquake. They will spend a few days in the towns surrounding Rancagua giving out food and sharing the gospel. Pray that these contacts will help the church plant that nationals and an ABWE missionary has started in Rancagua.
Pedro and Stephanie Garcia
Pedro and Stephanie Garcia children’s school was evacuated on March 11 when three aftershocks prompted tsunami warnings for coastal Chile. Pedro writes, “Please continue to pray for Chile. Everyone is very much on edge, as today's events confirmed even to us so far north. Tomorrow (3/12) our Iquique church sends a team down to affected areas in the south and your prayers for their protection, strength and wisdom as they distribute help and hope are greatly needed.”