Water City, South Asia

Lewis and Lucy

Personal and Family:

• Their family of four arrived safely back in Water City but now are being forced to move. (Because of the epidemic, people are displaying some prejudice. Lewis and Lucy have been here five years, but now the landlord is making them look for another place to live.) They really need some comfort; please pray they can find a suitable new home.
• Pray for them and their family members to have a close relationship with the Lord and to understand His will.
• Pray for Lewis’s new visa, for what the new company is going to do, and for their choice of coworkers.

Ministry:

• Pray for the homes of the coworkers they serve, that their eyes be opened to understand the True Way.
• Pray for the local community medical service they do, that they can give real help to the people. Pray for wisdom for them in speaking with outsiders.

Jeremy and Iris

Personal and Family:

• Jeremy arrived back in Water City the beginning of March and first had to isolate himself at home for 14 days. This time, Jeremy returned alone first in order to find a way to get a long-term visa. Please pray their whole family can get long-term visas to Water City. At this time they still haven’t found a good way and really need God to open the way for them.
• Please pray for their finances. They need money for monthly living expenses including their children’s education expenses on the field, for buying some furniture, etc.
• Also please pray for Iris and the two children in Korea. May the Lord give her more strength to take care of the children well during this time she is separated from her husband.

Friendship City

Giles & Joan family

Personal and Family:

• Giles’ mother is very sick; may the Lord lessen her suffering, and may all things go according to His will. Pray for their eldest son who is coming back to the field, who was here previously for more than six years.

Ministry:

• Pray for their ministry to young people

Levant – Tree City

Peter & Sally

Personal and Family:

• Pray for their Arabic studies.
• Pray for Sally to be able to do better in her work at home, her managing, and her studies.
• Pray for their children to be active and healthy in body and spirit.
• Pray for Peter’s safety traveling around, and for spiritual insight to plan and manage the team better.
• At this unusual time may God give them insight and awareness of everything that is going on.

Ministry:

• That team members will be obedient and in unity, each one doing their part.

Ben & Emma

Family:

• Please intercede for Ben’s mother, who had an operation two years ago for lymphatic cancer, and now during the epidemic got a sore throat and had to go to the hospital for a checkup. May God preserve her health!
• May God give them ability to understand and use Arabic as they study and also to manage and plan their time well during this epidemic.

Ministry:

• On March 24 Tree City had 37 new cases of the coronavirus and a total of 304 cases, 8 of which had fully recovered and 4 had died. Because the virus’s spread, the government ordered everyone to stay at home. Please pray for the welfare of Tree City’s residents during this epidemic!
• Please pray for each member of Antioch Church to be strong in spirit, to put their full trust in the Lord, and to have peace in their hearts during this time in isolation while they can’t meet together.
• Please pray for the refugee children near the Center, that God will soften and prepare their hearts to receive His grace and keep alive the seeds of the Gospel that are planted so they can grow and bear fruit for His Kingdom!
• Please pray that a shipment of masks, fever thermometers, and other things sent from Home City will arrive in Tree City and be delivered safely and smoothly!

Enoch

Personal and Family:

• Thank God the virus situation in his hometown has basically been controlled.
• That he can complete procedures and tests to obtain a driver’s license
• and return soon to Tree City,
• also to make more progress in his English and music studies as he uses his time wisely while waiting for the time to return.

Sonya:

Sonya is a new medium-term coworker in Tree City. She is an English Teacher. Before she moved to Tree City she was teaching English in a public school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She loves to play football/soccer and to sing.

Personal and Family:

• Please pray for her brother. He needs to have surgery on his spine in March. He also needs the finances for it.

Mineral City, Africa

Duke & Sandy

Personal and Family:

• For their resident ID’s in Mineral City (they applied a few months ago and hope to receive resident status very soon).
• For the land they have applied for to be approved quickly (they submitted the application a few months ago and hope to see it approved very soon).
• For the health of their parents’ in their home country, that they will be especially protected.

Chili City, South Asia

Zane & Nancy

Personal and Family:

• Thank God for moving in Wuhan, that this epidemic situation seems to be under control now.
• Pray for their vehicle, which always has problems and has to be repaired often.

Ministry:

• Sister Ye’s husband beats her, even when he is out working most of the time. Pray for him to love his wife a bit more.

Banana City, South Asia  

Brother Tai & Xiao

Personal and Family:

• For their two children to grow in wisdom as well as physically, make progress in their studies, and for the health of both parents; also for the husband & wife’s ability to serve together with one heart.

Ministry:

• Lately they’ve been being watched closely, which has been giving them a lot more pressure and fatigue, so it’s very hard to develop their ministry; ask Father to open the way for them!

People:

• Continue to lift up the persecuted brothers and sisters of Banana City, that Father will protect them from every disaster and make their faith strong. Though their own family members forsake them, Father will love them forever. May they lack nothing in the new place to which they have been driven.

South Asia Lychee City

Brother Tai and Xiao Ling

Ministry:

• Lift up visitation in the refugee camp(s); and preparation and distribution of all kinds of goods, that things will go smoothly and that the goods will be an encouragement and comfort to the refugees.

People:

• Continue to ask for blessing on Lychee City’s refugee camps, the orphanage, for provision for those who lack, comfort for those who have been hurt, and help for everyone who is willing to seek Him.

South Africa

South Africa, INcontext International Ministries is our friends and buddy shares with us of their prayer request:

1. That the Lord will prevent the virus from spreading into informal/township/slumb areas.

2. That the Lord will give wisdom to the government as they are trying their best to stop the spread of the virus.

3. That the Lord will protect all medical personal against invection, and give them strength and energy to continue serving.

4. That the Church will be sensitive to their role in the current situation. We can’t do much physically, because we are forced to stay in our homes, but we can pray and we can encourage.

5. Pray that Christians will make the most of their time in lockdown to spend intimate time with the Lord and hear from Him what He wants to tell us during this season.