1 BUSINESS AS MISSION Doug Witzig, TEAM’s BAM coordinator writes, “Pray for a student-led BAM conference for Midwest colleges, Feb 2-4. Pray that the year 2012 will see many more unreached people groups engaged with the Good News!”

2 ITALY Please pray for God to send many students to fill English classes that just started up at the Mestre church. These classes are a very important source of income to fund the church budget and serve as an excellent platform for forming friendships that almost always lead to opportunities to share Christ.

3 JAPAN Stella Cox writes, “Pray for Japan. Japan is still feeling fearful from the effects of the tsunami and radiation.  Thousands faced Christmas without their own homes and families.  Thousands of short-term volunteers have come to help but they need people for long-term service – especially those who can speak Japanese.  Christmas is seen and felt everywhere… every household had a Christmas cake on Christmas morning.  These dear people still walk in darkness and need more people to tell them whose birthday we celebrate.”

4 PAPUA Walter and Diane Kennedy write, “Please pray as the newly formed mission board evaluates surveys and selects ministry areas for our first 14 Papuan missionary families. The mission board is under the Bible Christian Fellowship Church of Indonesia. It is the national church that TEAM started 60 years ago.”

5 MIDDLE EAST A worker at a Christian hospital writes, “Please pray for a solution to the need for a national citizen to fill the role of Government Liaison for the hospital. In efforts to nationalize the workforce, each establishment is required to employ a national who is the only one able to work directly with the immigration department. This means we cannot get new employee visas and other documents processed until this position is filled.”

6 CZECH REPUBLIC Mark and Gretchen Potma write, “Please pray for our new brothers and sisters in Christ, that they would grow strong and deep in their faith and that their spouses, family members and friends would also desire the same new life.”

7 CHAD Scott and Suz Downing write, “It’s exciting to see God grow our team. Not only does this increase our numbers, it increases what we can offer communities and
lets us have time to fellowship... in English! We see the Body of Jesus as one; each of us representing a different body part. Pray that those watching us will see us working together in love and it points them to our Lord Jesus.”