Pray for 150 Becomes Pray 9:38
Many of you have partnered with us in the Pray for 150 campaign, faithfully praying for 150 new missionaries by the end of 2015. Thank you! We want to share the results of those prayers with you and also invite you to keep praying with us.
Our new prayer campaign is called Pray 9:38, from Matthew 9:38, where we are to "pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers… .” We’ll be sending email updates under this new name for those interested in keeping up with us in this new prayer campaign. If you’ve been receiving Pray for 150 email updates, you’re already on the list. If you’d like to start receiving these updates, email [email protected] and we’ll add you to the list.
After making the final calculations, we have seen God’s faithfulness with the approval of 145 new missionaries, only five short of the goal! Although we were just shy of reaching 150, we are happy to report that during the last two years we’ve seen the number of those serving in career missions (four years or more) increase dramatically.
But it doesn’t end there. The interesting thing is, we’re now seeing further fruit from your prayers. In March, we had the largest new missionary training we have had since 2012. Thirty-two newly approved missionaries were at this training and orientation.
Join us in praising God and praying for them as they engage in the first phase of their ministry and look for a team of financial and prayer supporters.
We also want to ask you to be praying for another event coming up—Link. You may remember this is an event we started last year, where those considering missions are invited to come and meet with staff and missionaries, ask their questions, and discuss any obstacles to missions they are facing.
Our next Link will be Sept. 16-17, 2016, in San Diego, Ca., at New Life Escondido PCA. You can see more details about it at www.mtw.org/link.
Please pray for those considering attending this event:
• That any obstacles to their attendance would be removed.
• That God would use their time at Link to give them a clear vision for missions.
• That many will be called (or confirmed in their calling) to serve in cross cultural missions.
Thank you for continuing to lift up missions and MTW to “the Lord of the harvest.”
"...therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest field."
Matthew 9:38
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Give thanks for and pray for MTW's ministry in Krakow, Poland. Thank God for the opportunity to open a field there.
Pray that churches would care well for missionaries on home ministry assignment, and that missionaries would tangibly feel God's love.
Pray for a new parish-style church in Bangkok, Thailand, where the missionaries and church members are able to live in close proximity to one another and more easily minister to the community around them.
Pray for God's provision for missionaries raising support, and that they would remember that developing ministry partners is a ministry.
Pray for God to raise up missionaries to plant churches and teach theology in places where the gospel has been distorted.
Pray for the Wolof people in Senegal, identified as an unreached people group, as the gospel spreads through a new church plant.
Give thanks to God for the hundreds of thousands of Iranians who have come to faith over the last two decades. Pray for God to protect believers and draw more to Himself.
Pray that the global church, including the PCA in the U.S., would make evangelism a priority, and share the truth with those around them.
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