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For Prayer Partners – Day 3

Family Relationships Pray for family relationships – husband/wife, parent/child.  Pray for the children, their salvation and spiritual growth, their health and education.  Pray too that their family life will provide an excellent model for local Christians and the unsaved.  And pray against the temptations that destroy families. If your missionary is single, pray that GodContinue reading “For Prayer Partners – Day 3”

For Prayer Partners – Day 4

Ability to Communicate In world evangelization communication is the name of the game.  Your missionary is in ministry to share the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Whether your missionary is communicating with their life or lips, they must be understood. Learning a new language and adapting to a new culture are frustrating, difficult and essential toContinue reading “For Prayer Partners – Day 4”

For Prayer Partners – Day 5

Effective Ministry Sometimes you can forget why your missionary is overseas, and why you are praying for them.  Remember to pray for what your missionary is actually “doing” witnessing, visiting, teaching, preaching, counseling, nursing – and pray for the people they are ministering to. Prayer letters will teach you how to specifically pray for thoseContinue reading “For Prayer Partners – Day 5”

For Prayer Partners – Day 6

Team Relationships Your missionary is probably not completely on their own.  Normally, missionaries team up with other missionaries, local believers, pastors and evangelists.  Unfortunately, this mix of personalities designed to strengthen the ministry can sometimes be used of Satan to weaken it.  Poor team relationships can spoil the work.  Pray for all the fellow workersContinue reading “For Prayer Partners – Day 6”

For Prayer Partners – Day 7

Country and People Group Expand your praying to include the entire country where you missionary is located.  The political situation, the government and its leaders, visas, freedom to preach the gospel – ll of these are important factors in world evangelism.  You can also pray that the whole country will open up in responsiveness toContinue reading “For Prayer Partners – Day 7”

10 Furlough Facts

We have reached the halfway point of our home assignment and thought that we would share with you some facts from our home assignment.  Several are praises, some are information, and others are prayer requests as we anticipate what God has in store these coming months. Speaking Engagements:  We are blessed to know many peopleContinue reading “10 Furlough Facts”

Seven Ways to Pray for the Dubbers

In three weeks we will have packed everything away in our house in Kenya, claim 5-7 bags as our worldly possessions, and board an airplane for our trip back to Canada.  It is not easy saying ‘good-bye’ to home and arriving back to our passport ‘home’.  Home is that relative term of ours that describesContinue reading “Seven Ways to Pray for the Dubbers”

What do you say when…

your seven year old daughter has developed a crazy fear of fruit bats. Recently Ella heard that fruit bats have been associated with the Ebola virus. Her older brother and sister came home the other night all excited because they had seen a whole bunch of bats. This was not good news for Ella andContinue reading “What do you say when…”

20 Thoughts: Field hockey, buses, interim, and volleyball among just a few things.

We have just finished the second term here at RVA.  A very busy and full term.  Those two words, busy and full, seem to get used a lot when we get to the end of terms.  It is hard to even qualify them into just how we feel  The best way to describe it isContinue reading “20 Thoughts: Field hockey, buses, interim, and volleyball among just a few things.”