Special Prayer Request: The container arrived in Olive City on April 28th. By May 6th it had cleared customs and the goods were stored in our warehouse. But transporting relief goods inside the country requires written government permission. Please pray that the goods can soon arrive safely in the hands of disaster victims.

Africa – Mineral City

Duke & Sandy

Personal & Family

• Pray for both of us, for our health.
• Pray for our parents back in China, that God will keep them safe, healthy, and joyful every day.

Ministry

• Pray that our church building and decorating project will be completed smoothly.

Levant – Olive City

Samson & Ava

Personal & Family

• Pray for our family, that we will be full of the love, joy, and peace of the Lord.
• Pray that this summer, our two daughters can enjoy different creative activities while learning at the same time.
• May the Lord give us more strength and wisdom; may He renew us in spirit so that we can keep serving Him with zeal!

Ministry: The House of Hope

• Pray the House of Hope’s summer activities bring the children joy and that they also learn team cooperation, sharing, and creativity.
• Pray for team unity, that we will serve together full of love and creativity.
• Pray our visitation team members will become good listeners, bringing peace, hope, comfort and the Good News to families that have become homeless in the earthquake.

Levant — Tree City / Olive City

Ministry: Tree City – Nexus Center

• Pray that during the summer, the students can all continue coming to Nexus Center for classes (as some of them have been scheduled to work in the fields by their parents).
• Pray that through various training meetings the team can apply what they have learned and that they will continue to grow in their inner, spiritual lives.
• Pray the visitation team can contact more families and expand God’s Kingdom.

Ministry: Olive City – Nexus Olive City Center

• Pray for Nexus Olive City Center coworkers, to minister with wisdom and zeal.
• Pray the women’s and young people’s ministries can bless more local people.

Southeast Asia – Coconut City

Thai Sister Chaw Chaw & Hong Kong Sister Winnie

Personal & Family

• May God heal my (Winnie’s) younger brother and let him go home.
• Ever since I heard my younger brother got cancer, my blood pressure has been a bit high; may God heal me!
• My eldest son is planning to change jobs; may the Lord open the way for him.

Ministry: Grace Center

• A student, a girl who grew up in Grace Center has just begun her first year of university. May God give her wisdom and help her stand on her own and get used to life on campus.
• Pray for twelve children who recently started school, that they can get used to it and focus on their studies.
• Pray that our foundation application will be approved and go smoothly.

Southeast Asia – Banana City, Lychee City

Brother Tai & Sister Ling

Personal & Family

• Thank God for healing me and my child; we are healthy and full of joy!
• Thank God for His protection! Recently I have not been harassed or questioned by ‘relevant’ government departments.
• Recently my cousin was taking my mother to a dinner by motorcycle and had an accident. The motorcycle fell and my cousin had ribs and hand bones broken, but my mother was not injured at all. Thank God for protecting my mother; and may He heal my cousin and move in his heart so that he receives the Good News.

Ministry

• May the Lord keep us safe, raise up the church and more coworkers.
• Lychee City: The war continues without a break. May the Lord keep his children safe, have mercy on people there, and help them!
• Lychee City: The orphanage in the mountains needs food and medicine; may the Lord provide help!
• Banana City: Brothers in the mountains have sent tea and honey that they harvested; may God bless us and help us sell it! Because during the July rains, life gets harder, and they can use their saved-up money to buy food during the rainy season.
• Banana City: May God keep the brothers and sisters safe from persecution and deliver them from evil so they can freely practice their faith in God.

Southeast Asia – Chili City

Zane & Nancy

Personal & Family

• My (Zane’s) knees hurt so much that I can’t sleep. May God heal me and give me faith!
• My second younger sister has been coughing up blood. May God heal her and cause her to trust in God!
• May God give us wisdom and power to preach His Good News!

Ministry: Youfu Center

• Pray for the health of one new believer, a brother who is very weak. He can breathe only with difficulty; may God have mercy on him and heal him!
• Pray for the health of brothers and sisters in the uremia patients’ fellowship; may God heal them and strengthen everyone’s faith.
• Three brothers and sisters are going to be baptized; may the Lord provide a suitable time.
• This area has not had rain for a long time; crops are dried up and seeds don’t sprout. May the Lord bless this land and send rain!

South Asia – Friendship Country / Middle East –Ruby City

Giles & Joan Family

Personal & Family

• We are still on the way back home; thank you everyone, for praying for our smooth journey, please pray for the remainder of it.
• Pray for our and our younger son’s studies of a Middle Eastern language.

Ministry: Ruby City

• Pray for the expansion of our hospitality ministry in this place.

Ministry: Friendship Country

• Pray for people in the villages we have visited, that their hearts will be drawn by God’s Word so they receive the Gospel!

South Asia – Water City

Lewis & Lucy

Personal & Family

• In June we plan to go back to China to visit our family; may God protect our journey and make everything go smoothly and safely.
• Pray our family can have stable family devotions all together and that God draws us to run quickly as we follow Him.
• Pray our elder daughter receives favor in school and that she will have wisdom to learn English and the language of Water City, and pray our children grow up healthy.

Ministry

• Pray God provides suitable brothers or sisters to help us run the shop here while we are back home in China visiting family.
• Pray for the chef, the barista, and all the affairs involved in running the shop to go smoothly.
• Pray for the health of Lewis and our workers, and that they can communicate well.
• Pray for our community visitation work, for the women’s and children’s small group studies. May God open the eyes of their hearts so they receive Christ as Most Precious.

Jeremy & Iris

Personal & Family

• Pray for my studies and for the health of our two children.
• Pray for my wife’s work. She is now working as a teacher in a school for the handicapped. May the Lord give her more strength.

Ministry

• In July or August (in summer vacation) I, Jeremy, plan to go on a mission trip to Water City. May the Lord open the way for me to bring more people along.

Norman & Linda

Personal & Family

• Pray for the speedy issue of our security permit. The department handling our application have been making it difficult for us all along — may God help us!
• Pray for our parents’ health.

Ministry

• May the Lord bless us and give us better connections with the local church to cooperate with them in ministry!

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