Dear Friends of Nexus,

The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that He may send out laborers into his harvest. Luke 10:2

Ava is the administrator of the House of Hope in Olive City. She told us, “Thank you so much for supporting me and praying for me. Life here is very difficult now, and there isn’t even enough bread. To buy bread you have to wait in a very long line; and even if you wait in line all day, sometimes you can’t buy any. If it weren’t for your support, I wouldn’t be able to continue what I’m doing here. Thank you so much for being part of my family — because of you, I don’t feel alone on this road of ministry.”

Dear Brothers and Sisters, when you pray, please remember those who are working for the Lord in different countries!

Levant – Tree City

Pastor Chadi

Peter & Sally

Personal & Family

• For their safety coming and going, that God will keep them far from disaster.
• Their daughter can’t go to school. They would like her to learn something during this time, and their son will learn to have an obedient and quiet heart.
• Sally would like more time for herself to study and needs someone to help her with her work.

Ministry

• Coworkers are doing Bible study online; pray for their maturity and that they can be used by the Lord.
• Pray for the Bible studies being conducted by our coworker for three new families.
• The ministry needs a lot of workers to feed the flock here; may the Lord give us suitable coworkers.

Brother Enoch

Personal & Family

• May the Lord lead him in the right direction.

Levant – Olive City

Samson & Ava

Ministry

• COVID-19 is continuing to spread in their area; may God protect the coworkers and the students from infection.
• May God give them wisdom and unity on their team.
• May God give them more ways to share the Good News with people.

South Asia – Friendship City

Giles & Joan family

Personal & Family

• Pray for the marriages of their disciple (Usman) and their youngest son (John), that God will help them to find suitable wives.

Ministry

• Pray they can smoothly obtain Giles’ and their disciple Usman’s documents to move to Q City.
• Pray for their ministry in a nearby orphanage, that God give wisdom and hearts in unity to join in their work.

South Asia- Water City

Lewis & Lucy

Personal & Family

• Pray for their whole family to have a good relationship with God, for their physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
• Pray for their elder daughter’s registration in kindergarten: may God give her the school and the teacher most suitable for her.
• Pray for Lewis’s parents to be healthy! And to be more obedient to God’s Word.

Ministry

• Pray God supplies all ministry expense needs.
• Pray God blesses their local coworkers to have more abundant lives.
• Pray the Lord will reign in their local pandemic situation and people will be humble and submit to Him.
• Pray for their changing work situation and visas; may God show them special favor and make everything go well.
• Pray for their trial shop operation, that God will rule and make everything go smoothly. Pray God will provide them with the right person to run their coffee shop.

Jeremy & Iris

Personal & Family

• Iris has found a temporary (two-month) job. Pray for her work, and that Jeremy will be able to take care of the two children.

Ministry

• Please continue to pray for their long-term visas, that they will be granted without difficulties.
• Pray the pandemic will be over quickly.

Africa – Mineral City

Duke & Sandy

Personal & Family

• God will keep their parents back in China healthy, at peace, and free of pressure and fatigue.
• Pray for Sandy’s uncle, who was just operated on for bleeding in the brain. His recovery has been going very slowly; may God heal him and let him recover more quickly, so His Name will be honored in their family through his testimony.

Ministry

• They have continued their meetings through the pandemic; may God keep them all safe in their meetings and not let the virus spread.
• Continue to pray God will bless the finances of the brothers and sisters, that they can experience faith in the Lord.

Southeast Asia – Chili City

Zane & Nancy

Personal & Family

• The swelling in Nancy’s gums is better now, thank God. Continue to pray for Nancy to get used to the local life and to learn the language.
• May God heal Bro Zane’s knees and stop the pain. Ask for his heart to return to normal and for him to be able to sleep well.
• On Sept 29 a mentally ill brother came and caused a lot of trouble at their home and destroyed some of their belongings, and Zane’s eyes and knee were injured. May God comfort and heal them and also heal the mentally ill brother.
• Zane’s mother broke her left wrist recently. Thank God she can pick up some light things already. May God restore her wrist’s function completely.

Ministry

• Pray for the home situations here: Many husbands hit or beat their wives. In many cases of divorce, the children are given to the husband, and our kindergarten has some children from such homes. Please pray for the safety and healthy growth of children who don’t have people taking care of them properly.
• Recently Zane has been going to the main town to minister to brothers and sisters suffering from uremia, pray for wisdom for them to help these people.
• May God raise up more coworkers who can minister with them in a spirit of unity.

Southeast Asia – Coconut City

Thai Sister Chaw Chaw and Hong Kong Sister Winnie

Personal & Family

• Continue to pray for Winnie’s health, especially that she will have strength to walk without too much difficulty.
• Pray for Chaw Chaw’s second daughter-in-law, for her to have enough faith.

Ministry

• Pray for their children from Lychee City. The pandemic there is severe, so in order to reduce their consumption of food they eat congee every day.
• Because the pandemic is severe in Lychee City, many jobless people are desperately trying to sneak across the border into Coconut City to find work. Chaw Chaw’s team has heard that due to fear of the virus, the Coconut City army has been given orders to shoot anyone trying to sneak across the border. Pray for the people living near the border, as they are the ones most affected.

Southeast Asia – Banana City & Lychee City

Brother Tai and Xiao Ling

Personal & Family

• Pray for Brother Tai’s three children, especially for them to have wisdom to teach their eldest, who is 11 years old and getting rebellious. And pray their children can grow up healthy in body, mind, and spirit.
• Pray for their church. Some Christians from outside their area whom they hosted for a few years have left recently and gone to start another church, taking some of the people with them. Brother Tai’s heart is not at peace about it. May God keep His church safe and help the church to grow spiritually as well as in numbers.

Banana City Ministry

• Despite the fact that recently Bro Tai hasn’t been able to go to Banana City, before the border was closed he had already delivered some goods there including materials for rebuilding/remodeling, so the brothers and sisters can do the remodeling by themselves.
• Those brothers and sisters in the mountains now have almost no contact with the outside world. Phone calls don’t get through, so pray for them, for God’s grace and provision for them.

Lychee City Ministry

• Because so many Lychee City residents were sneaking across the China border to get medical treatment for COVID-19, Chinese troops guarding the border have strengthened their patrols to stop people from coming in. So Brother Tai cannot go to deliver food and needed items to the refugee camps living in the mountains across the border. Please pray the Lord will take care of those refugees living in the mountains and help them get through the pandemic safely.

Brother Yuen

Ministry

• Due to the pandemic, Brother Yuen is unable to go to the field where he normally works, and he is working on a pig farm now and using it as a ministry platform. Pray he can soon return to Banana City to his ministry there.

Sincerely, Nexus Mission