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Pray for our Airmen and Guardians who are away from home.
We are requesting prayer that God will allow us to stay at Fort Bragg for the next three and one-half to five and one-half years so our two or three oldest children can graduate from a great Christian school in Fayetteville, North Carolina. We are also praying that we will receive confirmation about an excellent assignment this coming summer.
Pray for our family members who are lost. Pray for our grandson’s job situation. Pray for John’s and Sam’s health. Pray for our daughter, Melanie. She has quadriplegia and suffers from wound healing, strength, and balance. Pray for the Alabama Fellowship of Fire Chaplains. Pray God will grant our leadership and chaplains wisdom.
Thank you for your faithful prayers and partnership with our family and the ministry in Cartersville. We truly feel sustained by your support. As of February 1, we transitioned into a larger meeting space on the same church property. We are grateful for this visible growth and momentum. Pray for the development of deacons and faithful servant leaders and a strong follow-up and discipleship for new believers. Pray for the formation of healthy Life Groups and Discipleship Groups. Pray for continued unity in our multicultural congregation, which now includes people from more than 10 Latin nations, as well as English-speaking brothers and sisters serving alongside us. In January, we relaunched our English Practice (ESL) ministry. More than 90 students from more than 18 nations have registered. This has become a powerful bridge for evangelism and gospel-centered relationships in our community. Pray God will provide more teachers and volunteers, and that our students will have open hearts. Pray that the Lord of the Harvest will continue to bring people to us. On a personal note, February has been a special month for our family with three birthdays—Bethany, Berenice, and our son, Steven. Pray for harmony in our home, strength in our marriage, and continued spiritual growth for our children. We also ask for prayer regarding financial provision and sustainability as we continue serving bivocationally. We trust the Lord to guide and provide as we move forward. Thank you for standing with us as we seek to make Christ known in West Georgia. If you feel led to partner with us in prayer or support, we would be grateful.
A few weeks ago, I spoke to a couple hundred men in Peoria, Illinois, about being obedient to Jesus and stopping being passive. Passivity is failure, and we are called to “act like men.” Pray that men will be convicted by the Spirit of God, and may the city be changed with the gospel of Jesus Christ! Thank you for your prayers!
A team from our church recently returned from a mission trip to Colombia. We had the privilege of taking 21 pastors and leaders to minister in various settings. During our time there, we preached in jails, churches, government buildings, and schools. By God’s grace, hundreds of people confessed Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and were saved. We praise God for this! Pray with us for our church. Pray for our ongoing church planting efforts and for the new believers who have recently come to Christ. Pray for discipleship and the spiritual growth of all church participants. Pray that those who have accepted the faith will follow through with baptism. Pray for the development of new leaders within our church community. Pray for unity among the church family and that God’s provision will sustain our ministry. We ask for your prayers for financial provision to sustain our social services, especially our programs supporting single mothers. These include sewing and entrepreneurship classes designed to empower and equip them for a better future. Pray for the Bible Club at the middle school that God would use it to impact students’ lives. Pray also for provision to supply more Bibles and backpacks filled with supplies for our upcoming spring programs.
Pray for my ministry. I serve clients who have been detained due to immigration status issues. Many feel they have reached the end of the road. Pray they may know that our life is in Jesus Christ, that God loves them, and that He works all things together for good for those who trust Him. Pray for the detainees and for the Canada Border Services Agency staff. I also serve part-time as a Protestant chaplain at a women’s prison. Pray for wisdom, discernment, and compassion as I minister to the female inmates. Pray for my wife, Sung. She is working full-time as a registered psychiatric nurse at her hospital. Pray for her physical strength, protection, and peace of mind. Pray also for my children who are studying in college. Pray that they remain faithful in Jesus Christ and grow in maturity and wisdom.
Ames Boulevard Baptist Church was on the verge of closing, and our new church plant needed a building, so we combined our efforts and started a new work — Cross Community Church. We are now thriving, but we need your prayers. Pray that the members of Cross Community Church will embrace their changing church in humility and understanding. Pray the new believers we recently baptized will grow in their faith. Pray the gospel witness in our community will grow and that people will be drawn to it. Pray God will draw more unchurched families from the surrounding community to our church. Pray we will continue to faithfully represent Christ and His kingdom.
Casey and I started a residential recovery and discipleship program for those trapped in addiction and living on the streets of Richmond, Virginia. That grew into The Fix Chapel, a church plant that now ministers to those in recovery, their families, and the local community. Pray the students who are in The Fix’s recovery and discipleship program will grow and be steadfast as they walk with Christ. Pray that the members of The Fix Chapel will have more encounters on the streets of Richmond that lead to gospel conversations. Pray that we will have opportunities to start similar ministries and church plants in other cities.
Many of you remember that last year, Ashley was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. She underwent eight months of aggressive chemotherapy, which is now complete. Ashley is now going full speed, but we still need your prayers. Pray for us as we travel to Salt Lake City for quarterly and ongoing CT and MRI scans. Pray for our hearts as we prepare for these scans. Pray that Ashley’s body will return to normal after the chemo and radiation treatments. While Ashley has made a tremendous recovery, there are some lingering effects. Pray for our church, Outfitter Church; our elders are faithfully working and praying to develop new and more leaders. Would you ask God for His grace and provision as we continue to raise up leaders for His work and His glory?
Our plant is small, but our vision is big. Now, a foundation is being laid for what will one day be a new church in Loíza, with the help of God and Send Relief volunteer teams. Pray the people in the community of Loíza will be receptive to the gospel as they hear the good news of Jesus through Send Relief volunteer teams. Pray God will raise up leaders in the church plant who can help start and grow the new work in Loíza. Pray doors will open into other nearby communities that need a gospel presence.
We planted The Chapel in West Lafayette, the home of Purdue University, where 41,000 students attend. Thanks to God, our auditoriums are now overflowing, and students want to follow Jesus and be baptized. We need your prayers. Pray new believers will be discipled and become resilient disciples of Jesus. Pray that more families and community members will come. Pray that we would have wisdom on how to scale up our ministry to meet the needs of our growing church. Pray that the thousands of lost students at Purdue will meet Jesus. Pray God will send mature Christians to The Chapel who can disciple new believers. Pray God will equip and send graduating students to other communities where they can help plant more new churches.
Quebec is less than 1% evangelical and very ethnically diverse. So when people here meet a Christian, they’re actually very curious. They ask all kinds of questions. So we hit the streets to engage people in conversations. Because of that, our small church is growing faster than anyone ever imagined. We ask you to pray with us that we would have more fruit from our Friday night on-the-street gospel conversations. Pray that God will call and equip church-planting interns from our church who will help to plant more new works. Pray that more Christians will come and share Christ with the 99% of people in Quebec who are lost.
According to statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Joshua Project, there are 386 million people in North America. Among those, 291 million people are lost. North America is a mission field in need of hope, and that hope is Jesus. Pray that missionaries and churches will reach the 161 unreached people groups in North America with the hope of Jesus. Pray that North American missionaries will reach more lost people who need the hope and love of Christ. Pray that North American missionaries will have all the resources and encouragement they need to plant churches and to meet their needs. Pray that God will call and equip more missionaries to make Jesus known in North America.