1 ITALY Pray that many teenagers will attend the evangelistic English Soccer Camp in Faenza, finishing their week on July 2. There will also be English lessons and short Bible stories. Pray for the basketball camp with Push the Rock, which also ends on July 2nd in Mestre. Pray for good weather during the week as the events are all outdoors. Pray that the Gospel will be shared with boldness and be empowered by the Holy Spirit.

2 JAPAN Stella Cox would like prayer to find a publisher for the book she is writing about her and her late husband Ralph Cox's 50 plus years of ministry in Takamatsu Japan.

3 US REAP 2010, which is the conference for missionaries on home assignment, will be held July 24-30 at Wheaton College. Pray that all the details will come together. Ask the Lord for His words for those leading sessions and that the hearts of all participants will be prepared for a time of worship and renewal.

4 SPAIN Jay and Carolyn Sensenig write, “The lead pastor of Oasis Madrid church will be moving.  This means the newly formed elder board will take on more responsibilities.  Pray for the 5 of us who will need great stamina, wisdom, and insight to follow God’s leading.”

5 PAPUA Nathan and Harmony Jansen write, “Pray for the 3rd annual Merauke Papua Youth Camp which will be held from July 5-9th.  We are praying for 200 youth to attend.  Pray for funding, new believers, increased passion for the Lord, and a safe camp experience. 

6 SOUTH ASIA A worker writes, “Pray for needed staff (teachers, boarding parents) for Murree Christian School, which re-opens in August. Pray for a young woman, who is coming  July 26, to teach English at Abbottabad Christian Girls' HS for a month.  Pray for her parents' peace of mind, for a good relationship with teachers and students and protection as she travels daily to the school.”

7 US  phasetwo/four orientation, held July 7-13,  is an intensive training program for newly appointed missionaries.  The sending church of each appointee is invited to join us to learn more about TEAM. Pray that each church  partner would leave with a grasp of their role as senders and that each appointee would leave with the confidence that their ministry of deputation will be blessed by God. 

8 GLOBAL Many missionaries around the world are currently under-supported financially because of the changing economy.  Please pray for their needs to be met so they may stay where God has placed them to serve him.

9 SPAIN Carey and Sharon Owen write, “The Lord has supplied the funds for the deposit for the land for our Christian School Project! Praise the Lord! Tomorrow we will submit the project to the city hall. Lord willing, we will sign at the end of June or beginning of July! This is a miracle and answer to prayer! Thanks for standing with us!”

10 AUSTRALIA Bob Vajko, TEAM Church Planting Consultant, will be teaching a course from July 19 -23 at the Adelaide College of Ministries and conducting a church planting seminar at a church in Adelaide on July 24.  He will train Nigerian pastors at a Pastors Conference on July 29- 30 and  attend a large church convention on August 2.  Pray for wisdom, strength and fruit. 

11 APPOINTEES  Pray for Kirk and Sarah Maxwell who are relatively new parents to twin girls, thus, their pre-field ministry has been “on  hold”.  But now Kirk and Sarah are energized to press forward to getting to Brazil.  Pray for them as they share their vision with others.

12 NORTH ASIA Pray for a small, 3 year-old Christian bookstore operating in a city of 6 million people that has never made a profit.  It has been a blessing to many who have dropped in and to many pastors who have made use of  the lending library.  Pray for a younger person to help the ministry with internet promotion and marketing.

 

13 JAPAN  Please pray for replacements for one of the pastors of the Takamatsu Community Church who retires in March of 2011 and two short-term missionaries who leave in February and March of 2011, and a fill-in for Mike & Barbara Gray’s Home Assignment in June of 2011.

 

14 AFRICA Zimbabwe Pray for the class of 14 students at the Karanda Nursing School as they continue their studies. They are part of a Bible study on "Sacred Marriage." Pray for someone to take over their study after this study ends.

15 MIDDLE EAST Workers write, “Some women in our small ministry team, have a desire to work among orphans. Orphans here are often born out of wedlock to expatriate women with the father being a national. The mother is sent to her home country, and the man's family usually doesn’t want the child. There is little, if any, publicity about them or the location of the orphanages. Orphans are not integrated into society and are generally not up for adoption. Please pray for this possible new opportunity.”

 

16 NORTH ASIA The Evergreen team recently completed an organizational assessment. It is exciting to see our national staff step forward and give valuable input on the direction Evergreen should head. Pray that we can work well together, clearly communicate our dreams and vision and learn to give our national staff and leadership the responsibility they need.”

17 CANADA Please continue to pray for the TEAM of Canada office staff (Corrine, Margaret, Suzanne, Ruthann and TEAM of Canada Board of Trustees) as they divide up the responsibilities in the Calgary office after recent organizational changes. 

 

18 PHILIPPINES TEAM-Philippines exists to ignite church multiplication movements among the least reached peoples in Asia and beyond, fueled by equipped Filipino and Asians.  Keith McCune and the Leadership Team are working with Filipino churches to form a national sending agency.  Pray that the Holy Spirit will help establish an effective Filipino agency that serves churches and cares well for its missionaries. 

19 JAPAN Stephen and Satomi Sakamoto write, “In May we started a new children’s outreach in Mrs. Yoshimoto’s home.Two mothers and their three children (total) are completely new contacts. Please pray that our new contacts would come to Church and Children’s Sunday School, be saved, and start growing in Christ.”

 

20 SOUTH ASIA Workers write, “Please pray for peace in our part of South Asia.  In addition to sporadic attacks by the Taliban, there is a great amount of political instability due to non-availability of essential services, like electricity.  (The electricity is out 12 hours/day in much of the country.)”

21 SWEDEN The Websters write, “A key family in our support team will be leading a vision trip to Sweden on July 24, bringing three other families interested in church planting in Sweden.  Pray that God will speak to and through them as they participate in the ministry of New Life Church and offer a seminar about stewardship.”

22 THAILAND The Thailand Ministry Area has a new  vision statement:  We envision a raging river of the Holy Spirit raising up and equipping hundreds of family-centered fellowships among Thai nationals, led by local believers who are passionate about their faith in their communities. Please pray that God will raise up workers to help us fulfill this vision.

23 NORTH ASIA TEAM has a number of wonderful open doors to bring the gospel to people groups in North Asia, but we lack people to go.  Pray to the Lord to send out workers into his harvest.

24 US  Today, nearly 70 missionaries and 35 missionary mids on home assignment are attending REAP 2010 at Wheaton College. Church partners representing the sending church of each missionary are also invited to join them July 26-28, to prayerfully discuss together how TEAM can fulfill its purpose of “helping churches send missionaries.”  Pray for each participant and their children that they will be receptive to all the Lord has for them through this event.  

25 JAPAN Martha L. Regier  writes, “Please pray that I will be bold in sharing God's Word and his love with the nine people who do not know Christ and attend  the classes I teach in our home. Also pray their hearts will be prepared and open, especially Mrs. Ishida, who has expressed her desire to know more about Christianity.”

26 ITALY Andy and Linda Brucato have a literature stand in the open markets of Molinella and Imola on Thursdays, giving away Bibles and Christian literature as an evangelistic outreach.The Brucatos are developing a cell group in Molinella. Pray that they would meet true seekers of God.

27 APPOINTEES Pray for Anne Walker who recently lost her mother to cancer.  Anne is on staff at Push The Rock, a sports ministry that partners with TEAM, and she is searching for a good fit in one of TEAM’s ministry areas.  Pray that God will lead her and TEAM as they search for a good match.

28 PAPUA Gail Vinje writes, “Pray for the Indonesian speaking Bible class that had not been meeting for two years but is now up and running weekly. The Citak Women's Bible class has stopped but pray that it too will soon start again.  The Tamnim Women's Bible class has just a few women attending but it meets every week.” 

29 PERU Please pray for Brenda Matthews as she teaches a New Believers group which is going very well.  Pray for the participants to continue to grow and to continue to bring friends.  Also, pray that Brenda’s apartment construction would be finished so that she has a permanent place to live.  

30 US Please pray for TEAM’s International Director, Charlie Davis, who will be taking a four month sabbatical starting in August to strengthen TEAM’s vison and sharpen the focus for TEAM’s future ministries.

 

31 NORTH ASIA A recent TEAM Vision Trip participant writes,

“Eye-opening!” In a word, that’s how several described our recent two-week vision trip to explore two of TEAM’s new open doors among the minority people groups of East Asia.  Our eyes were opened to see the beauty of the physical landscape and the rich culture of these industrious, agrarian people.  More importantly, our spiritual eyes were opened to see the profound needs of the people, spiritually blinded by centuries of ancestor worship and animism, burning incense before shrines and gods of stone.  One of these musically gifted people groups, scattered throughout the mountainous region of East Asia, have a population of 2.9 million with less than 1000 known believers in Jesus Christ, and no known church.  We walked along the rice patties taking in the beauty.  One man was plowing the field with his water buffalo. Women and men alike were planting in the rice patties. Jesus’ words about spiritual sowing and reaping came to mind, “I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields: They are ripe for harvest.” (John 4:35) 

Thanks for praying for the vision trip.  Pray that the participants would have peace about next steps in investing their lives long-term in the spiritual harvest. Pray that more would be moved to participate in similar vision trips planned for the future.