June 8-14

 

FBA Faith Promise Missionaries Continue to Help in the Ukraine Crisis . . . with specific prayer requests

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Bela & Ildiko Dobos

Word of Life Hungary

Pray for Hungary. Forty-four of the staff members and their families from WOL Ukraine (located close to Kiev), arrived at WOL Hungary’s property in Toalmas. They are staying at WOL Hungary until it is safe to return. Pray for all these families who are far away from their home and separated from family. 

 

 

Worshipers in Europe. IMB photo

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Brian & Ariel Dicks

ABWE, Hungary 

Please pray for continued opportunities to serve and encourage students from Ukraine who are here in Budapest. They have many friends who are still in Ukraine. Pray for Kyiv Christian Academy as a school, for their staff and students, and for their facility to be unharmed. Pray for their ABWE Ukraine team as they determine next steps.  

Ukrainian refugees – mostly women and children – pour across the border near the Polish town of Chelms. Most families are separated as men aged 18–60 are not allowed to leave the war-torn country. In Feb. 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine causing a massive movement of refugees into bordering nations as well as Internally displaced peoples within. IMB Photo

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Andrew & Alecia Teeuwen

Pioneers, Inc., Greece

The war in Ukraine continues to require our prayers and attention. There are several Pioneers teams on the front lines helping to host and aid refugees. We are on a Crisis Management Team for Europe. Pray that the Church in Europe will respond appropriately and that many will come to faith during this crisis. We’re thankful that Covid restrictions are easing, allowing for some gatherings and travel.

  

 A dangerously overcrowded boat arrives on the shores of the Greek island of Lesvos. IMB Photo

  

After days of walking to reach a border crossing, an exhausted child sleeps just feet away from the barbed-wire fence that marks the Greece- Macedonian border. IMB Photo / Medical missions teams offering medical and spiritual help. IMB Photo

 

Larisa and Zhenya, both Ukrainian believers and translators, work at a table with reading glasses. In Oct. 2021, a medical missions team, including healthcare professionals from both Ukraine and the U.S, traveled to the war-torn areas of Eastern Ukraine to bring much needed medical and spiritual help to the Ukrainians suffering the results of war and instability. IMB Photo

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Andrew & Inna Ryzhkov

Byelorussian Mission, Inc., USA/Belarus/Israel

Pray for the churches in Belarus that are ministering to refugees from Ukraine. Pray for Christians there who are opening their homes to minister to the refugees. Praise the Lord that many people in Ukraine are turning to God. Praise the Lord that some Jewish refugees are trying to get to Israel.

Eritrean refugees hold a church service on the snow-capped peak of Israel’s Mount Hermon near the borders of Lebanon and Syria. IMB Photo

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 PRAYER & PRAISE ~ June 8-14, 2022

6/8 PAUL & LOIS JENKS 

AMG International, Asia 

Praise for celebrating Lois' 70th birthday today along with their kids before they return to Thailand on the 12th. Pray that the door will remain open for their travel to Asia; actually, arriving on June 13, due to the time zone changes and the long trip. Pray also for the setting up of an apartment for Laurie Betts (their new intern). Pray that she will adjust to her new surroundings quickly.

 

6/9 DOUG & LISA MITTS 

Greater Europe Mission, Frankfurt, Germany

Ask God to empower them to lead well GEM’s summer Ten2 participants who arrive in early June. Sixteen students from different Universities in the U.S. are coming for June and July.  They will be divided up to serve in different small church plants; trained in discipleship multiplication and learn to live in an interactive relationship with God. Tuesday through Friday they will be on different University campuses for outreach and evangelism for the expansion of His Kingdom.

 

6/10 Diane Harrington 

e3 Partners Ministry, USA

Please pray for Diane’s health as she has had a chronic cough since the first of the year. She’s been to several doctors and is going through a battery of tests. Praise God that over seventy people turned out for her Helping Hands information meeting in her community!  They offer such services as driving someone to a doctor's office, doing minor fixes inside and out, running small errands, sitting with those in need, offering to pray for them, etc. Of course, the goal of this is for those who are believers to be the hands and feet of Jesus!

 

6/11 Veral & Norma Blake 

Ambassadors for Christ International, West Indies 

Pastor Al and Veral, the marriage officers of their church, have a burden for the failing marriages in their country; the statistics of broken marriages is staggering. As a church, they want to continue to minister to the couples within their church and to others in ways that are meaningful. Pray for the opportunity they have in June to help couples invest in their marriages through a Couples Retreat. Please pray for Norma as she battles several health issues and there is nothing more that the doctors can do. Pray for God's healing over her.

 

6/12 Bennett & Idong Ekandem 

North American Mission Board, USA 

Please pray for Idong who has been experiencing chest pains and migraine headaches, for which no physical cause can be found from the blood work and EKGs. Pray for Bennett’s strength as he works on his doctorate in missions, and for wisdom from God for decisions he must make. Pray that the Lord will provide their ministry with a permanent or long-term space so they can assist more families consistently and with some stability. They are weary from moving place to place.

 

6/13 Bela & Ildiko Dobos 

Word of Life Hungary, Hungary

Please continue to pray for the Lord’s intervention that He will stop the war in Ukraine, and He will prevent the escalation of the war into other countries. So much suffering and so many lives have already been lost! Pray for wisdom for the leaders of Ukraine, Hungary, all European countries, the NATO, and the US. As you pray, please pray the Lord gives the Dobos wisdom as they make some important decisions.

 

6/14 PAUL & KARAN DAVIS 

TEAM, France 

Please pray for their travels and visits in the US, which continue through June 22nd. Pray they have productive meetings, renewed strength, and encouragement along the way. Pray for the evangelistic outreaches in the French Alps in June and for more workers with a heart to start new churches.

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.” I Corinthians 15:58 (NASB) 

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