English/sports camp in Poland

Pray for a ministry team from Fellowship Church in Knoxville, TN, that is leading an English/sports camp for middle-school students in Poland. Ask God to give clarity and understanding to the team as the youth from the Polish church in Szczecin help with translating and other activities. The camp’s purpose is to share Christ with Polish children while developing leadership in the youth from the Szczecin church.

Teaching English in Tanzania

Pray for Bill and Marilyn, short-term workers who are teaching English and assisting Steve and Carol, ReachGlobal personnel, with their ministry in Tanzania for six weeks. Pray that God will give them health, energy, and joy in their work.

OEC in Belgium

Pray for God’s grace and blessing on the Outreach English Camp (OEC) in Belgium April 2-10. Pray for ReachGlobal personnel leading this camp and for the team of six coming from Hastings, NE, who will be teaching English to 29 Flemish campers, 11 of whom are joining OEC for the first time. Pray for receptive hearts as many of the campers come from a non-church background.

Café COEN in Japan

Café COEN (Connect through English) in Sapporo, Japan is a place where Mark, Athlee and their team provide a setting to connect with people so that they can connect them to Christ. Recently, another local once-a-week staff member left so that has put a heavier workload on other café workers. Pray for wisdom for the café manager as she considers asking more people to work once-a-week in exchange for free English classes. Pray that God will send the right local workers to the café so that it will continue to be a place to develop healthy connections in the community.

Christmas outreach in Japan

Pray for Duane, ReachGlobal personnel in Japan, who is involved in hosting the Christmas outreach event on December 10. Pray that many English students and their families will attend this special evening and that the Lord would use it to speak truth and love into their lives this Christmas.

Discipling high school students

Pray for the Rajska Zahrada church plant’s need for a person to serve in the area of outreach English and discipleship among high school students. Pray for Caleb, ReachGlobal personnel in Czech Republic, as he completes his ministry at this church and transitions back to the U.S. Ask God to raise up another worker to minister to these high school students and continue Caleb's study of taking this group deeper in their understanding of Jesus.

Opportunity to Teach English

Pray for David, ReachGlobal personnel in Bulgaria, as he teaches English to a group of Turkish and Bulgarian men two evenings a week. Pray that these classes would serve as a platform for spiritual discussions, and that these men would hear the truth of the gospel and believe.

Learning English

Pray for Sheryll, ReachGlobal personnel in the Czech Republic, who teaches at the Horní Počernice English classes on Monday evenings. Pray for God’s wisdom, guidance and creativity to know how best to help the students learn English and to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Also, pray for God’s strength, energy and good health for Sheryll, the other teachers, and the students.

English Coffee and Chat outreach

Pray for effective ministry at the English Coffee and Chat outreach at Fukuoka EFC in Japan, on October 21. Ask God to bless the ReachGlobal personnel as they interact with those who come, encouraging them in their spiritual walk with the Lord. Pray for boldness when opportunities open to share the gospel with new comers.

Students in Tanzania Learning English

Pray for Betty, Carol and Steve, ReachGlobal personnel in Tanzania, that God will give them creativity in teaching English as a foreign language to the 50 students in each of their classes. Pray for the men and women who are being trained as disciplers of Jesus, to be ready to reach out and train others in the places where God leads them. Pray that God will bring revival to this school, with students and staff becoming followers of Jesus. 

Teacher Training in Tanzania

Pray for Steve, Carol and Betty, ReachGlobal personnel in Tanzania, who are teaching English, Community Health Education (CHE), and religion at a private teacher training college. Their goal is to find a team of students who desire to be trained in evangelism, discipleship and in CHE so that when the students go to the village to teach in the primary schools, they can have a ministry among the people, possibly an unreached people group, and begin a church. Pray that God would bring together a team of 10 to 12 committed Christian students who want  to learn how they can have an impact for Christ in the community where they will teach. Ask God to give Steve, Carol and Betty wisdom in teaching English so that the students may be encouraged with their progress. 

Outreach in Bosnia

Pray for God’s blessing on the various outreaches held in Bosnia. Pray for Tom and Kristie, ReachGlobal personnel, the house church members and short-term teams who are involved in planning and teaching these outreaches.
•    Women’s Night is a time for women to invite their friends to the Nova Nada Center for crafts, food, music, and devotions.
•    Scrapbooking draws women who are friends of the Bosnian laypeople and are introduced to the ministries at Nova Nada center.
•    Dad’s night is an event aimed at family health. It is also a cross-pollinating event where missionary dads bring their kids and also their Bosnian friends for games, food, and fellowship.
•    Children’s English class is conducted weekly by Kristie where she includes lessons on Bible stories and learning games.
•    English Camps are conducted in Bosnian homes outside the city and in the Nova Nada Center by Bosnian house church members or short-term teams.

Ask God to use these activities to deepen relationships with the Bosnian people and be avenues for sharing the gospel.

Summer Youth Team.

Pray for Mike, ReachGlobal Berlin City Team leader, who is following up an invitation he received to send a youth team next summer to work with kids in a community center in Berlin. The opportunity is for a day-camp and English lessons. It is in the neighborhood of one of the new church planting projects. Pray for favor from the director and great ideas as this has the potential for long-term impact in furthering the gospel in Berlin.

Short-term teams teaching English

Pray for Linda, EFCA CONNECT team member, who is in California July 31 to August 2, training a short-term team to teach English in Indonesia. Ask for the anointing of the Holy Spririt on her as she teaches on spiritual warfare this evening.

Pray for God's blessing on the team that begins English classes in Macau on August 2. Pray for Ron, Linda's husband, as he prepares presentations for his short-term ministry in Ukraine.

English Outreach Classes

Pray for the U.S. team leaving for Macau today to conduct English classes. Pray that the students will come with open hearts to hear the gospel. Pray for a spirit of unity and good will between the Chinese short-term missionaries from the Evangelical Free Church in Hong Kong who are joining the U.S. team as language assistants. Pray for Linda, ReachGlobal staff with EFCA CONNECT, as she develops a website of resources for ReachGlobal personnel who teach English as part of their ministry outreach.

English Outreach

May 21-23 is the Rajska Zahrada English Outreach weekend in Czech Republic. Pray for God to be working in the hearts of the high school students Ritch and Susan, ReachGlobal staff in Czech, will be ministering to. Ask God to bless the music ministry of the band, The Witness, as they lead the group in worship and share their testimonies.