“You will summon nations you know not, and nations that do not know you will hasten to you.”

(Isaiah 55:5)

PRAYER REQUESTS for April 18, 2008:

1. Praise God for drawing people to Himself all over Indonesia.

Recent reports from three Jesus Film teams show that God is responding to the prayers of His people for neighbors. Please rejoice over this good news, and pray for a CPM amongst these new believers, and for the protection and provision for our ministry teams.

• TEAM A: “Every time we show the film there are people who accept Christ. Presently we are working with 7 new believers that we have formed into a cell group. We are discipling them and training them how to witness to others. They are using the JF as a bridge to win their M friends. Pray for them.”
• TEAM B: “Even though there has been lots of rain, our team has faithfully shown the JF. This month 6 people were won to the Lord. Three of them were former Christians who had backslidden and joined the M faith but now have come back to Christ. Praise God!”
• TEAM C: “In Showing the film this month, two young men, named A & N, received Christ as their Lord. Both are from M families. Pray for their growth and maturity as we are currently discipling them.”

2. Today’s unreached people prayer focus, from The Joshua Project, are the Tausug, Moro Joloano of the Philippines . The Tausug, numbering 1,265,000 are mostly located in Jolo, Tawi-Tawi, Sibutu and Pangutaran Islands, Mindanao. Less than 2% of them are Evangelical. There are some evangelical resources available, but no active church planting within past 2 years. Please pray that:

• The Holy Spirit to grant wisdom and favor to missions agencies reaching out to the Tausug of the Philippines.
• God will reveal Himself to the Tausug through dreams and visions.
• God will use the Tausug believers as bold witnesses to their own people.
• The Tausug will be freed from the spiritual principalities and powers that are keeping them bound.
• God will raise up prayer teams who will begin interceding for the Tausug.
• Christian radio broadcasts and the rest of the Bible will be made available to the Tausug.
• That the Lord will save key leaders in the Philippines who will boldly declare the Gospel.
• That Jesus, the Prince of Peace, will heal the wounded hearts of the Tausug of the Philippines.

3. Pray for our video production team as they work to complete the God Next Door video series, for mobilizing believers to love and reach their neighbors.

4. ADAPTED from this week’s Jumaa Prayer Fellowship requests. Please pray….

• for the families of ministry workers (pastors, priests, missionaries, charity) in Iraq, that they would remain strong in their faith, bold in their witness, and loving in their attitudes, in the midst of continued threats and pressure.
• for Morocco’s growing number of new believers. Pray for safety, strength, maturity and boldness for these new MBBs, in spite of their limited freedom.
• for an ease to tensions in Gaza. Radical political groups are gaining momentum. Pray that believers will be instruments of peace to both sides, and will work to relieve the poverty, unemployment and despair that fuels radicalism.

5. Pray for upcoming neighbor ministry strategy meetings from May 6-9 in the Middle East.

6. Macedonia Prayer request
The national coordinator for “30 Days of Prayer” in Macedonia is hosting a major prayer meeting TODAY ( April 18 ) with Albanian, Macedonian and Kosovo believers, which is not an easy task. This is an important time in history for the Church in Kosovo and for the future of all the people who call Kosovo their home.
Please pray:

• that the Church in Kosovo will hear this call to united prayer, and come with hungry hearts to seek the Lord as one Body.
• for the members of KPEK (alliance of protestant churches in Kosovo), who are hosting and leading this gathering, that God would give guidance
• for God to raise up pastors and intercessors to come from the Church in Albania
• for God to raise up pastors and intercessors to come from the Church in Macedonia
• for God to be glorified and Jesus to be lifted up and honored through this humble and united gathering of His people!
• for the Kingdom of God to come and be established in Kosovo!

7.  A partner ministry is in a pastor’s conference in Dumaguete (10 hour trip from
Davao by bus and plane) and have been notified that 3 Bajao babies
in Bajao Church’s congregation have died of measles in the past
24 hours. In addition, three kids died last week. Please pray that the
parents of any infected kids will be willing to take them to the hospital.
So far they only want to keep them at home and trust God without
medical assistance.

Please pray we can change the hearts of the decision makers in the
health department and get the kids immunized. We are leaving for Davao
this morning and will be back by 6 pm. Please pray that we will be able
to have an immunization clinic tomorrow, which is our Sat.