Missions

Take a moment to pray for our missionaries:

Bob & Joy

Al & Carol 

Steve & Debbie

For "Creative Access Warfare" contact Pastor Mike

Check out the Northwestern District International workers here.

How should you pray for Missionaries?

It has been stated that "the key to all missionary success is prayer." No one will deny the truth of this statement, but often we find ourselves working to obtain the things God intends to give in answer to prayer.

By making missionary success dependent primarily upon prayer, God has made it possible for all to have a part in this most vital phase of the work. Many cannot go; some cannot give; but all can pray. It is your prayers that the missionaries need most.

Realizing that only the Holy Spirit's leadership can make prayer effective, we suggest the following so that you may pray with understanding as He leads you.

1. Pray that the missionaries may be given wisdom to adjust themselves to the physical environment of the field - living conditions, food, climate, etc. for each one must learn to care for his body.

2. Pray that they may be given patience to continue studying the language of the people, especially when the task seems unending and hopeless.

3. Pray that they may learn to sense the feelings of the internationals, lest they unnecessarily offend people of another background and culture.

4. Pray that they may realize that the people of the field are to be discipled for Christ and not westernized.

5. Pray that the members of the missionary circle may be able to live in close proximity with understanding, patience, and good humor.

6. Pray that they may not presumptously run into danger but that they may be given courage to face it calmly in the line of duty.

7. Pray that younger missionaries may wait prayerfully when they sense the need for changes in mission practice and method.

8. Pray that older missionaries may know how to take suggestions from younger missionaries with humility.

9. Pray that single missionaries may be helped to face loneliness, when their closest family ties are in the homelands.

10. Pray that the children of missionaries may be kept in health and that their need for schooling on the fields be satisfactorily met.

11. Pray that missionary parents and children may be strengthened when the time for separation comes.

12. Pray that the missionaries, when pressed by many needs, may be able to distinguish the tasks of God's choosing for them.

13. Pray that they may not yield to the temptation of substituting feverish activity for the maintaining and building up of their own spiritual lives by prayer and meditation.

14. Pray that they may grow into oneness of spirit with national leaders and workers.

15. Pray that they may have the wisdom and insight neccessary to deal with problems requiring joint administration with the nationals.

16. Pray that they may be able to cooperate with God's Spirit in building national leaders needed to insure the continuity of the work.

17. Pray that they may be Spirit - led in their attempts to foster a truly indigenous work.

18. Pray that the fruit of the Spirit may be evident in all its beauty in the missionaries' contacts with each other, with national workers, with the people of the field, and with missionaries of other organizations.