Global Prayer Requests

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1 Global Prayer Requests WORLDWIDE DAY OF PRAYER 25 April 2017 MULTIPLYING DISCIPLES so that everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus! Always observed on the: Fourth Tuesday of April. First Tuesday of October. Each staff member, volunteer and disciple--as well as every team--has some needs in common: So, we pray for one another s faith, growth, fruitfulness, re-vitalized first love, walking in the Spirit, a heart that is God-attentive/God-dependent/God-responsive, refreshed vision, conviction of God s calling, unfailing love, team unity, additional laborers, full funding, health, protection in travels and protection of families, along with our global goal of 10 million Christ-centered, multiplying disciples and 5 million new churches by the end of the year Glossary 3G A God-attentive, God-dependent and God-responsive way of life 4G A God-attentive, God-dependent, God-responsive and God-expectant way of life 3M Mold-Multiply-Mobilize: The elements of Pray2020. ACTS Africa Centre for Theological Studies AE Agapé Europe (the Western Europe Area) AIA Athletes in Action (sometimes shown as AiA) ALT Area Leadership Team ATL Area Team Leader BPMT Building Powerful Ministry Teams training Cada Uno LAC all-area staff conference held after the Solo Uno 2015 student conference CAM Capacity-Accelerated Movements, i.e., Operations CCCI Campus Crusade for Christ International CCVN A new staff training program including elements of NLTC (El Salvador) CE Christian Embassy CFD Consolidated Fund Development CFM Campus Field Ministry of Cru Campus CLM Church-led Movements (more commonly known now as Global Church Movements) CLT Campus Leadership Team (local) CMD Christ-centered, Multiplying Disciples CNEF The New Staff Training Center (same as GCTC) in DRC CPMI Church Planting Movement Initiative CrossRoads Youth at the CrossRoads trains teachers in Biblically based ethics and life skills Cru The umbrella name for all US-based CCCI ministries and Cru Singapore Design The Design Movement: Cru Campus ministry to/through South Asian American students Destino Latino outreach of Cru Campus Domains Influential parts of society (usually seven), e.g. media or government DPMD Discipleship Ministry Partner Development training for missionary support DS Digital Strategies (formerly known as Virtually-led Movements; see GDS) EAOrt The East Asia Orient Area ELI Emerging (or Emergent) Leaders Initiative Epic The Epic Movement is the Asian American outreach of Cru Campus.

2 Multiplying Churches and Communities (a GCM training program) (also used as MC 2) FAT Faithful, Available, Teachable FLT FamilyLife Today radio program GAC The group of committed disciples on any campus in Francophone Africa GACX Global Alliance for Church Multiplication GAiN Global Aid Network expresses the love of Jesus Christ in the toughest places on earth by relieving suffering and restoring dignity GCM Global Church Movements, one of our five Mission Critical Components (MCCs) GCM Great Commission Movement: Campus Crusade for Christ in the West Africa Area GCML Great Commission Movement Leaders (students in West Africa) GCMT Great Commission Ministry Training (for church leaders in parts of Africa) GCTC Great Commission Training Center (usually a new staff training program) GFD Global Fund Development GDS Global Digital Strategies (DS); one of our five MCCs GMA Global Measurement Application HomeBuilders Small groups meeting in informal surroundings, usually as follow-up to larger FamilyLife conferences and events IBS Institute of Biblical Studies IGSL International Graduate School of Leadership (formerly ISOT-Asia) located in the Philippines ILF International Leadership Foundation primarily in Africa and recently Latin America Indigitous The public face of GDS IR International Representative, i.e. an expat missionary IR-ROS International Representative Representative Office in Singapore IMPACT The IMPACT Movement: Cru Campus outreach partner to African-American students KCCC Dual usage: A part of Cru Campus aka Korean Cru, or CCCI in South Korea L21 A LAC short-term mission project designed to launch a spiritual movement in 21 days LAC Latin America and the Caribbean Area LD Leadership Development LDHR Leadership Development Human Resources (sometimes seen as LD/HR or LD-HR) LeaderImpact One of our five Mission Critical Components (MCCs), focused on reaching leaders in seven domains of society LTI Leadership Training Institute MC2 MCC Mission Critical Component, a major strategy such as SLM, GCM, etc. MD Multiplying disciple MDE Spanish for SLM: Movimientos Dirigido por Estudiantes MIT Missions Impact Taiwan MPD Ministry Partner Development (raising and maintaining of prayer and financial support) MTL Movement Team Leader (Ministry Team Leader in some places) (Missional Team Leader in the Cru Campus Field Ministries) ND National Director NLT National Leadership Team NLTC New Life Training Center NTL National Team Leader PCS Prayer Care Share groups, as in South Asia PIRT Pacific Islands Regional Team SI Student Impact in East Asia SLM Student-led Movements, one of our five Mission Critical Components (MCCs) Só1o Uno LAC all-area student conference, July 29 - August 3, 2015 SOFT Shaping Our Future Together, comprising five elements of CCCI culture change SPC Student Population Center - may be a school or place of dense student housing

3 SPP Strategic Planning Process STINT Division of Cru Campus that sends missionaries on one to two-year assignments (Short Term INTernational originally); sometimes seen as Stint StoryRunners takes the gospel to oral people, with story groups becoming new churches. Student Venture is the name for middle school and/or high school ministry in some nations. TLGS The ILF s Transforming Leadership and Governance Seminar TSW The Significant Woman training resource to minister to and mobilize for the Kingdom USCM United States Campus Ministry now known as Cru Campus VEM90 A LAC 90-day missions team to support national leaders and launch new movements VP Vice President and/or the team they lead WBS Cru overall mission: Win, build, and send Christ-centered multiplying disciples who launch spiritual movements W-B-S Sometimes used as W/B/S. See WBS WSN Worldwide Student Network, the international sending division of Cru Campus WTR FamilyLife s Weekend to Remember event XChange Cross-cultural training in East Asia (* Indicates a Stage 3 Country, with self-sustaining resources for a movement of win, build and send.)

4 GLOBAL LEADERSHIP OFFICE VP Team Global Church Movements Praise the Lord for enabling GCM to plant 58,324 churches and faith communities over the past seven years. Thank God for allowing us the joy of seeing His Holy Spirit at work in 127 countries that are actively planting multiplying churches. We give thanks for the Holy Spirit raising up 1,420 GCM staff members and 13,694 volunteers that are helping to plant churches. We celebrate an alliance of 52 GACX partnering members in North America working together to multiply the number of healthy churches. Please ask God to strengthen the wonderful new regional alliances forming in Latin America and Europe for church multiplication. Pray for all churches planted in the past seven years to grow as vital, self-sustaining churches. Pray for the funding of newly planted churches. Praise God! More than 1 million churches have been planted by the North American GACX alliance during the past seven years. The Spirit is motivating believers to plant multiplying churches and faith communities. Pray for development of digital tools to help them. Pray that pastors and volunteers will experience the daily presence of the Lord as their first love and highest priority in life and ministry. Pray for the strength and perseverance of God-responsive pastors and volunteers who are obediently leading churches by priorities. Ask God to raise up leaders to fill the gap and lead new churches and faith communities, so there will be one church for every 1,000 people. Come alongside pastors and volunteer leaders by praying often and fervently for their families, health, finances, and spiritual well-being. Pray for current and future trainers of trainers. These Spirit-filled trainers are vital to help coach and lead multiple generations of church planters. VP Team - Global Digital Strategies Please pray against spiritual warfare. We did a quick assessment recently and noted that nearly every one of our key linchpins in DS is experiencing significant family stress, physical sickness requiring inordinate care, MPD drop-offs (while raising support), and discouragement. We have ramped up to fight a real battle, and the enemy of our souls is not taking it lightly. Pray for clear progress toward key objectives. By June 30, 2017, this means the Global DS team worldwide delivering: o 1M people known and moving through our digital pathways (names, contact info, and a contextual point of entry). o 420 DS emerging leaders aligned and equipped via Digital Schools of Leadership o distributed through the Areas. We are about 1/2 way to that goal. 10,000 volunteers engaged in digital mission via Indigitous. Last count we were somewhere between a conservative 3,100 (known, created accounts on Indigitous.org), probably more in the 5K range. Ask the Lord for money to fuel the work. Digital maturity is expensive. We need new funding (praise God for a single boost of $100k last week), and we need to sunset outdated programs, and the talent managing those programs or products, into new opportunities. This is some of the most difficult work in leading change. We need favor from God, insight and courage. Pray for a new crop of emerging talent - coders, designers, and mainly experienced ministry leaders who understand our DNA and can lead in the digital space.

5 Pray about our re-messaging of Cru.org to inspire new audiences, and ability to deliver help on 10M multiplying disciples' phones, in their hand, every single day. Pray for the fulfillment of God's promise in Hab. 2:14 - that the earth will be covered with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea - every tribe, tongue, people and nation. VP Team - Global LDHR Pray that all staff and volunteers will be ministering from fully rested hearts, deeply abiding in Jesus, and full of the Holy Spirit. Praises that involvement in the Staff Development Cycle (team leaders having meaningful conversation and feedback with team members leading to greater mission fruitfulness) is increasing. Pray that 90% of staff worldwide will enjoy meaningful involvement in SDC by this June. Praises that 1,236 local team leaders have been trained in the past two years. Pray these local team leaders grow in grace as servant leaders that inspire their teams to build movements. VP Team - Global SLM Give thanks to the Lord for what He has done through Global Student-led Movements this year: o Multiplying Disciples globally have increased 16%. o Campus locations globally increased 23%. o 7 new Nations have a Student-led ministry presence. Only 25 nations remain. Pray we have surrendered hearts and lives before the Lord, hearing together where He says to, put out into the deep and let down the nets for a catch. Responding with bold expectant faith that will accelerate growth toward our 2020 goals of: 2 Million multiplying disciples, a ministry presence on 50% of campuses worldwide in 100% of nations (Luke 5:4). God is at work! Pray for eyes to see, ears to hear and perceive where He is at work and inviting us into new things; new breakthroughs or change needed to help bring about our vision of: the gospel for every student, a movement on every campus and leaders for every nation (John 5:17,19/Isaiah 43:19). VP Team LeaderImpact Pray for the planning of our May global team meeting in London, England. Pray for the LeaderImpact global team as we discuss next steps in our strategic plan, moving towards Please pray as we continue to develop relevant materials for LeaderImpact. There are several products in various stages of completion; pray that we would finish them by the end of Pray for the development of digital strategies as we seek to identify pilot cities. Pray specifically about development of Leaderhub (our website for professionals), which is being translated into several languages. Women s Resources Thank the Lord for bringing people to us to help build our website. Pray for us as we curate content and make the site known to more Cru staff women. Ask God to show us how we can meet the needs of our staff sisters. Prayerforprodigals.com is an online community designed to support anyone whose loved ones are making destructive choices. Pray for our prodigals to come home to their heavenly Father and to their families here on earth. Our annual day of prayer is June 2nd. Ask God to

6 meet the needs of our members and the prodigals they love as we spend concentrated time praying for our prodigals and for each other. The Significance Project - Please pray for the completion of editing and design of the men's evangelistic and discipleship life-coaching resources by May 15th. Also pray for the funds to enable several more countries to print their translated version of The Significant Woman resource. Global Prayer Ask God to raise up additional qualified liaisons to facilitate communications with and support for each Area Prayer Champion. Pray for the Area Prayer Champions as they seek to identify National Prayer Champions who will accelerate their national plans by developing a culture of prayer. May Pray2020 develop as an encouragement for the body of Christ to unite in strategic, persistent intercession.

7 EAST ASIA ORIENT AREA Area Team Leaders: Sung-Min Park (South Korea* NTL) Kok Hiang Lam (Singapore* NTL) Stephen Wang (Taiwan* NTL) ALT: Mold Thank God that staff in EAOrt countries are more mindful on seeking God. Please ask God to give us a sensitive heart in areas He is molding us, so we can be more like Jesus. Multiply Thank God for raising up more disciples to be involved in our Movement. Pray that our staff and disciples will be Christ-Centered and proactively multiply their lives. Mobilize Thank God for expanding our capacity to find more volunteers. Please ask God to give us creativity to mobilize more Christians for God s harvest field. East Asia School of Theology (EAST): Mold Thank God for the students, staff and leadership at EAST. Pray that we will always have attentive hearts to listen to God. Multiply Please pray that as EAST continues to be a disciple-building instrument of God, our students and staff will also continue to multiply Christ-Centered leaders wherever they are. Mobilize Please pray that our alumni and staff will continue to have fruitful ministries of mobilizing laborers for the building and expansion of God s kingdom. XChange: Mold Our team of 5 missionaries is trying to create a local teaching format for regional cross-cultural training for our projects (under 6 months), STINT (2 years overseas) and long-term overseas missionaries. Pray for the 5 "creators" of this training as we seek God for creativity on what is the best approach to train different nationalities. XCHANGE trainers need wisdom and timely feedback from the field. Multiply Pray for the successful launch of this new type of training. The Project and STINT leaders are given a new tool for training all our participants. Long-term training is still in the beginning planning stages. Mobilize Pray for relevant feedback from CCC leaders as we move our long-term training to the internet and on-field mentors. Leaders from countries sending missionaries as well as those receiving missionaries need to give their inputs. JAPAN

8 Mold Praise: God used the 40-days of prayer (from March 1- April 9) to mold our hearts. Prayer: Pray that God will mold the 4 new leaders (Leadership) so that we will have unity in Christ. Multiply Praise: God used the Campus Forum (from March 1-3) to build and consolidate disciples. Prayer: Pray that more disciples will be raised up even with serious lack of manpower and oppositions we experience from school. Mobilize Prayer: Pray that God will mobilize more people to be full-time staff and volunteers for the campus and other ministries. KOREA* Thank God for giving us many opportunities to share the gospel in campuses. Thank God for letting our disciples to share the gospel and make other disciples. Thank God for giving us 68 trainees in GCTC. The training started from January and will be finished in August. Pray that our disciples and staff will be strong by God s grace because the situation in sharing the gospel in campuses is not easy. Pray for 68 trainees and 19 trainers to experience growth through GCTC, and for them to have sound mind and body. Trainees start the field ministry in campuses from March. Pray they will experience Win/Build/ Send during their field ministry. Pray they will also learn about discipleship and leadership effectively. Pray they will do well by God s grace. The Student Summer Conference will be from June Pray that God will lead all the details of the conference. Pray for all students and staff who will attend this conference to experience God s grace and revival. Pray for new friends who have not received Jesus Christ. Please let them know God s love of the cross and grace during the conference and receive Jesus as their savior. Pray for STINTers to experience God s grace. Pray they will build God s people in the unreached campuses in every mission field. Pray for every STINTers we send each semester. Pray that God will give us disciples who have a heart for mission Prayer Movement is started by Dr. Kim Jun Gon. It is prayer for nation and world mission in one day, one o clock, and one minute. It aims to establish praying with power through one heart. We are preparing an APP for Prayer Movement now. It would help to gather many Christians in this movement. Please pray for the process of making, promoting and managing this APP. MONGOLIA Mold Thank God for the Global 360 Review for each ministry in MCCC. It is doing well. Through this review, God is working in the heart and ministry attitude of our staff. Please pray for our hearts to be one with God's heart. Multiply Thank God that our ministries are extending and widening continuously. This year we have started GCM, Family Life Ministry, and some projects. DS ministry is also planning and working on their strategy and team building. Please pray for our disciples to multiply Christ-Centered lives through others. Mobilize

9 We thank God for new 10 associate staff in Leader Impact. We also thank Him for the new staff application in process. There are 14 people applying in almost every ministry. Please pray for our support raising and that we maintain to live a Godly-balanced life. PAKISTAN Mold Praise God for the Prayer Seminar in March. We learned to be more humble before God. Multiply Praise God that our staff are focusing on key disciples to be Multiplying Disciples in their areas. God is preparing great ways for us. Mobilize Praise God that although the country situation is not good still more disciples and associates are joining us for the Kingdom of God. SINGAPORE* (Cru) Mold May Cru Singapore leaders and staff cultivate an ongoing and continuous lifestyle of brokenness. True brokenness is a lifestyle of agreeing with God about the true condition of our hearts and our lives as He alone can see it. It is a lifestyle of an unconditional, absolute surrender of our will to God. ~ Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth Multiply Brokenness Brings Increased Fruitfulness. The fruit of brokenness is to be seen in revival. That for which we have longed and prayed is really nothing more than the release of God s Spirit through broken lives. In Isaiah 57:15, God says, I dwell in the high and holy place, [but I also dwell] with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. Pray that through our broken lives, God will revive our hearts and multiply our lives. Trusting God to raise Christ-Centered Multiplying Disciples through our various ministry platforms. (Student-led Movement, Leader Impact, Missions Mobilization, Media Ministry as supported by our Operations & LDHR teams) Mobilize In humility, we acknowledge that we need God and partnership of many others to help fulfill the Great Commission. Pray for strong mobilization of students, volunteers, ministry partners, and churches to collaborate well and be good partners with each other. Pray for Cru Singapore as we anchor, champion & mobilize prayer for youth/campus students every 4th Saturday of the month in partnership with LoveSingapore Morning Prayer Movement that goes on am daily. TAIWAN* Mold Thank God for the given opportunity to share a clear knowledge of 3G Prayer Lifestyle during staff development conference last Feb. Pray all staff could really live out these prayer lifestyle and lead out with these attitudes. (Psalm 46:10) Multiply Praise the Lord! Many ministries have started to build up their prayer movements. Please ask the Holy Spirit to strengthen our foundation to have Christ's prayer lifestyle so we could truly multiply our hearts and lives not just copy these methods. (John 15:5) Mobilize May God give us wisdom and opportunities to reach out, develop, train and mobilize more volunteers to serve alongside us together. (Ephesians 4:12)

10 EASTERN EUROPE AREA Area Team Leader: Marek and Ala Wyrzykowski ALBANIA and KOSOVO Praise God for "The Fellowship of the Rings" national plan to reach our 2020 vision. The beginning of a Catalytic movement, as part of this plan, has been one of the most exciting things. The local churches have welcomed it, and want to partner. Pray that this movement will take us to 15 new cities by There has been an ongoing boom of events with high school and college students, teachers, young professionals, businessmen, and government leaders, in partnership with church groups from the US, Switzerland and other countries. We have connected well with an extraordinary number of people. Please pray for a good and fruitful follow up with them. Pray for about 20 summer camps that are planned for this summer. Praise God for 12 people who have applied to join staff this year! Please pray for the Lord s wisdom to accept the right ones, and for the finances we need to raise in order to provide their needed subsidy in their first few years on staff. BOSNIA We are thankful for the development that's happened so far with the High School ministry in Sarajevo! You can pray for a full time team for this branch of our ministry. The EQ seminars (both in Sarajevo and Mostar) have had great attendance and have given our organisation a good image in the eyes of students. Pray that we will be wise to use this platform in order to reach these students with the gospel. Please pray that God will provide more long-term workers to join the ministry in Bosnia and Herzegovina! BULGARIA Last year it started DMPD training with part of Bulgarian staff and this year is going to continue with the others on June. It is important for Bulgarian staff to have good financial stability and trust in God in this area so we to move to financial independence. Also to be well prepared to teach future staff and volunteers. Pray that God would use this training for His purposes. For fresh new beginning this year on GCM as it was shut down at the end of the last year. Pray that GCM would be built on the values and principles of Cru, for new faithful workers. For more dedicated workers - staff, volunteers, stinters, in SLM - Sofia, Student Venture - Sofia (it is only one couple), AIA (also only one couple). CROATIA Praise for a wonderful turnout at our SLM CSI event in Split. Our team got close to 50 students who are either interested in joining our movement, Bible studies or to have a "Spiritual conversation"; praise the Lord for 40 student leaders and mentors in our Educational project in Zagreb. FamilyLife has identified 18 different volunteer couples in various stages of growth - that's truly an answer to prayer. Pray for God to move in and through our volunteers - we rely on His

11 power to change them, and to stir in them desire for growth, change and multiplication; pray for our sensitivity and patience in the process. Zagreb SLM is relaunching "Everystudent.com" type of website, which is going to become something like a portal. We are developing new ways of advertisement, and follow up strategies, as well as strategy for student leader involvement in this. Please pray for the process to get going before June and get ready for a big launch in September. CZECH REPUBLIC That the Czech government would be understanding and helpful as we continue to try and sell our current offices, and as we are also in the process of trying to buy new offices, that things would move quickly and smoothly. Wisdom for how to effectively get visas for future STINTers, after 2 years of difficulties obtaining visas. That the government would be understanding and efficient in the future. For wisdom and effectiveness as we are seeking to be more collaborative with all of the areas of ministry in the Czech Republic. That we would see fruitfulness as we try to join together and help to mutually build-up all of the ministries here. HUNGARY Launching Jesus.net in Hungary. Two requests within that: o Learn to work together with partners on launching this Digital Ministry o Figuring out how to do discipleship through digital means Evangelism fruits - While we are doing lots of sowing, the fruitfulness of our evangelism efforts is down. Please pray that the Lord would have us change our strategies if needed but also that He would change the hearts of those who hear. This would influence so many other things, discipleship and multiplication, for example. Leadership Development - Currently we have many new leaders transitioning into new roles. Huge blessing, great people - this is a thanksgiving!!! Please pray that they would be spiritually fresh, aligned in our ministry understanding, and trusting and humble when seeking ways to collaborate. MACEDONIA Speak Out Project in Macedonia. Please pray that we will have the right number of tutors and campers for the two camper weeks. Pray for all the preparations and that during this time a lot of high school and college students will come to faith in Jesus and that all the student volunteers will grow to the next phase of growth, coming closer to the Lord, and being better equipped for launching and leading movements. That the Speak Out will be great momentum builder for the next school year. GCM and LeaderImpact. Please pray for the start of these two new ministries in Macedonia. Pray that we will soon figure out what and how to do the ministries in an effective way. Pray for many volunteers in these ministries. Pray for great synergy among the Student ministry, GCM, and LeaderImpact. That the Lord will work in such a way in the hearts of our Macedonian staff and students that they will start reaching the Albanian students with the gospel motivated by the love of our Father. Better synergy between the Albanian team and the Campus team in Macedonia - love among us that will be a witness and visible sign of the power of the gospel in us. One more couple to come and serve on the Albanian team. MOLDOVA For the evangelistic projects for Easter. So that many people will hear the gospel and turn to God. For a good follow-up work.

12 Many of our missionaries are on Sabbath. Pray for that this time to be a special time of intimacy with God, rest, understanding of oneself and relationships with other people. For many changes in SLM next year, a new national leader, a new leader of the local team, the formation of a catalytic team. That these changes would not be difficult and God will lead everyone in this. MONTENEGRO We're praying that God would raise up a community of believers who are excited about God's Kingdom and His work here in Montenegro. We're praying that they would want to grow together in faith, prayer, vulnerability, and seeing God's love spread! We're praying that as a whole, Montenegro would be a nation that would praise and hope in Jesus. Montenegro has been described as a place of hopelessness and apathy, but through Jesus, that it would be a place filled with light and hope. The vision that has been set for Montenegro is that the light of Christ would fill these black mountains (Montenegro means black mountain ). The other thing that we are praying specifically for is that hearts would be open to hear the gospel. Often people here are skeptical to even talk about spirituality, and are often resistant to talking about God. We're praying that hearts would be open and that people would be eager to talk about their creator in the hopes that they would come to know Him! ROMANIA Praise the Lord for the New National Team Leader For the Lord to raise up laborers for the harvest (wisdom in recruitment and selection of new staff) For the New Staff Training program, that both the trainers and the trainees will grow spiritually and will acquire the desired competencies as Cru staff. RUSSIA This February student leaders gathered in St. Petersburg from 17 cities spread across 9 time zones. It was a great time of vision and equipping. Please continue to pray for these student leaders as they return to their cities and continue to take steps of faith to build movements on their campuses. Pray that they would put the lessons they learned into practice, and that God would be pleased to use their faith to impact the lives of others. Our vision is to have studentled teams in 50 cities in the next couple of years. Please pray for God to continue to work in the hearts of Russian people to soften the soil. We are thankful for opportunities like our joint project with Russian Orthodox Church - distribution of 140,000 New Testaments with Jesus Film DVDs around Lent and Easter time. We are also excited about the Russian Baptist Union adopting the training materials our GCM staff are using as the official tool for building movements of multiplication through small home groups strategy. Please pray that this sowing the seeds of the Gospel and working with churches of various denominations will result in more volunteers out in the harvest and more fruit and would cause movements to grow and spread across Russia. Please pray for our National Leadership Team as we have 2 new members who've been recently appointed to join - National SLM Leader and National LDHR leader. Both of them need to raise additional support and move with their families to St. Petersburg (for them it would be moving across the distance of 4 and 5 times zones). Pray also for successful leadership transitions and for our NLT to serve our staff well and to be a highly effective team. SERBIA

13 Please pray for wisdom in process of "Winning" people in Mirijevo, for resources, ideas, and mostly that Holy Spirit is working in hearts of this people. Pray that we can welcome new people to our Bible study group. Please pray for staff who are in deficit. Pray for their going to the US and new contacts for support. Pray for perseverance of volunteers, and the inclusion of new ones. SLOVAKIA Pray for 30 American and 30 Slovak volunteers to join our English camps 'Speak Out' that will take place at two different locations this summer. Pray for new key volunteers to join our SLM and GCM ministries. Pray for passion, commitment and dependence on the Holy Spirit of all our staff and volunteers in different ministries around the country. SLOVENIA Pray for our student leaders to be aligned together and have a sense of team amongst themselves. That they would meet together regularly each week, have a common vision and a sense of trust and friendship amongst them. Pray for the high school Speak Out event we are hosting in Ljubljana this summer. Pray that many high school students will attend this week of english conversation and activities. Pray that each student would have the opportunity to clearly hear and respond to the gospel. Pray that the Christian Slovene students we are discipling would take steps of faith to share the gospel with five of their friends this semester. UKRAINE Family Life started using their new material Art of Marriage and it created a boom in raising the number of volunteers willing to use it. They have clubs of leadership of 100 people in big cities in Ukraine (Kyiv, Lutsk). They lead family groups for blind people and a radio program in Kyiv that covers even a bigger audience. Volunteers and staff are constantly trying new horizons: this week they are leaving to the front line city of Popasnaya, where shellings are regular, to help a church plant start family groups. 22 new people decided to join staff this year, and we ask the Lord for wisdom as we process their files and make decisions regarding acceptance. God blessed the student ministry with our first student center in a great location close to one of the biggest universities of Ukraine, Kyiv National University. Please pray God would give us wisdom how to finish this facility and provide all the necessary funding for it, as well as it would serve as a great platform for the student movements in Kyiv and Ukraine. The English Club strategy is working great in all university centers: the smallest number of young adults there is 50, biggest is 300 ( Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Nikolaev). Please pray for all the follow-ups that are going on right now and will continue until the end of the semester. As part of this strategy we are planning to have a big 2 weeks camp, Speak Out, this summer.

14 FRANCOPHONE AFRICA AREA Area Team Leader: Djasrabe and Cosette Siangar ANGOLA We thank God for the official launch of the JESUS film version children in Luanda. The body of Christ has received it well and there are currently projections all over the city of Luanda. Let us pray for the launching of movements throughout the Huila province. The local population is not really evangelized. Pray for the recording of the JESUS film in the Nyaneka language to reach these natives. Let us pray for the SLM in the province of Uige. May God help us to have all the required authorizations. We want to have an effective movement in the Kimpa Vita University and in the ESCED school in Uige. BENIN We bless the Lord for the peace in our country and the openings we have to do ministry. Pray that each team member would be at least at 50% of personal support by June As a team and we have the help of our partners, we want to develop 1,754 disciple s trainers by June 2017 (GCM 1,200; SLM 536; LI 18). BURKINA Pray for stability and social peace in our country because we are facing an ever-increasing terrorist threat that is especially growing in the northern part of the country where teachers are threatened by terrorists. Because of that, many teachers have deserted the schools in the north. A teacher has already been killed by terrorists. This area borders with Mali and Niger. Pray for the objectives at the GCM and SLM. There are opportunities. May we seize them and make disciples and communities that are able to multiply. Pray also for the objectives in MPD and Fund Development - that our efforts would bear fruit. Pray for the recruitment of staffs and volunteers. BURUNDI We praise the Lord for a special meeting with the students that took place March 18, All 30 invited who were not CCC disciples prayed to receive Jesus Christ into their lives. Pray with us for good monitoring in SLM in general and of the students in particular. We want to increase the number of students who participate in spiritual multiplication in SLM. Pray with us about the financial support for the staff and for ministry projects to achieve what is planned. For staff support, we want to reach 50% of support for all staff members by June 2017.

15 CAMEROON Pray for our country going through a time of unrest and insecurity due to terrorism and the problems in the English-speaking part of the country. May God grant wisdom to our authorities so that they can manage this. Pray for the 25th anniversary to be held, God willing, from 3-15 August For finances to cope with all the challenges of organizing this event. For wisdom and direction from God. For the human resources needed to accomplish this event. Pray for the mobilization of 10,000 intercessors of all denominations and from all regions of the country CHAD Praise God for the health, safety, protection and multiform support that He grants staff members, disciples, volunteers, associates, ministry partners and intercessors who are behind the dynamism and motivation observed in the national ministry. Pray that each staff member and associate disciple would develop godly character and a great intimacy with God for efficient replication and a greater impact in society so that the national target to train 65,000 MDs by 2020 would be reached; may He help us to raise enough local resources, so that each staff member in Chad would reach 100% of personal support and 75% for the ministry and operations by June We want to set up the necessary logistics to ensure that new staff members get a good training and onboarding in the context of movements. May God grant wisdom to the trainers to replicate their life in their trainees who are under their responsibility. CONGO BRAZZAVILLE Pray that the Lord of the harvest would send us new full time workers, part time staff and volunteers to expand our field of activity and strengthen existing evangelism departments. Pray the Lord for the total payment of compensation for expropriation (64,000,000 CFA francs or about $120,000 US) that our ministry is awaiting from the Congolese authorities who built a university on a plot of land belonging to our ministry. These funds will enable us to acquire new land and build our headquarters. Pray for good performance in carrying out our 2017 plan to clear our deficit. May God help us to carry out the conferences and trainings planned to reach the number of MD's planned and that each team member would at least get to 50% of his/her support by June COTE D'IVOIRE We thank the Lord who gave us the resources for the completion of the 1st phase of the construction of our Guest Center in time. Pray that the Lord would make it easier for AIA staff members to approach all the athletes at the Francophone Games to be held in Abidjan in July 2017 so that they can introduce them to the gospel, that many athletes would agree to follow Jesus Christ. Pray that God would give us many multiplying disciples in the SLM, GCM, and other components. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO We praise God for the changes in our national leadership team at the national level and the appointment of provincial coordinators for the new provinces. Our 2020 targets of training 110,000 MDs and planting new churches, as well as the effective implementation of the 5 Every's of FD to achieve financial autonomy and go to stage 3 as a country.

16 The understanding of the paradigm of staff status. May God guide our team in the process of selecting the right staff status so that everyone will thrive and that our God may be glorified GABON Pray to God He would grant us His favor with Gabonese and protect us everywhere we go for outreach, discipleship and planting new churches according to the objectives of our National Strategic Plan, to build Spiritual Movements across all social strata and across the country. May He grant us human, financial and material resources, as well as the spiritual strength we need to accomplish our national strategic plan. We seek 100% financial support for each family and 100% for December 2017 for Operations. Pray that our Summer Project Shekina due for August 2017 in Franceville would get all the funding and be successful. May He grant us a permanent abundant harvest with Christocentric multiplying disciples of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th generations with the possibility of recruiting new full time staff members, part time staffs, volunteers and LIFE Partners. GUINEA CONAKRY Praise God for the commitment of 14 students to be trained with us at The University Gamal and Koffi Annan. 5 are already growing. Pray for the planned retreat on May 25 with students: that there would be a strong mobilization and the objectives would be reached. Pray that the multiple JESUS film projections with the use of JESUS film products in Kindia over a period of ten days to help in church planting and triggering movements of prayer and evangelization. MALI Praise God for the things we do as part of our plan GREEN TATA FOR CHRIST. Pray that God would protect the staff members and their families in a context of increasing concern for safety. Pray for the 10 missionaries trained so that God himself would maintain their zeal and guide in planting 100 new churches in the districts of San and N'Torosso. NIGER We thank God for evangelistic efforts in a difficult environment like ours. Praying for authentic conversions and a change in the spiritual face of the country. Pray for the recruitment of new staff members, associates and volunteers for a mobilization in line with movements everywhere. RCA Praise God Almighty for the health and protection staff members and their families. That staff members and multipliers would be protected in their movement and that all the objectives of the plan would also be reached. May our partnership with all churches and organizations be consolidated. SENEGAL Let us pray for locally supported movements. Movements that are multiplying in every major University and College by Ask God for 50 churches that are multiplying and the sending of 25 missionaries by TOGO

17 We bless God for the life of the entire national team and for BPMT training that allows us to be more effective as a team. The team members are motivated and are working diligently to make disciples and get new partners. Let us pray for a good follow-up of the activities organized: School of Storytellers at Tchamba in the Akasselem language. May the groups lead to new churches. May disciples proceed from the momentum activities in Kpalime and Kévé. May the students disciples and key volunteers multiply their faith. Let us entrust to God the arrival of the Jesus Film team for their project in Kpalime, (April 17-23, 2017) and Dapaong (April 24-30). There will be a 3-day seminar for pastors and church leaders, door to door evangelism and the JESUS film screenings for expansion or planting of churches. LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN AREA Area Team Leader: Layo and Luchy Leiva Fund Development: Please, join us to ask the Lord for wisdom and grace to create transferable models for funding projects all over Latin America and the Caribbean with local donors who can share their L.I.F.E. (Leadership, Influence, Finances and Expertise). Let s ask God for each leader to be an effective fundraiser, each staff at 100% salary, each team totally funded, each office with financial systems, each sity with L.I.F.E. donors network, each missional community with generous disciples. Praise the Lord for the progress we are seeing in the process of building capacity to raise funds at the local level. God has been so faithful in connecting the Ecuador National Team with key leaders from the community who are sharing their Leadership, Influence, Finances and Expertise. LDHR: Praise God for the successful LDHR training and coaching meeting that we had with our LDHR Representatives from Latin America in Panama. We are thankful to God for the work of our National LDHR Representatives in each of our national ministries in LAC, and their heart to serve their staff. Please pray that we can have all of our staff throughout LAC engaged in the staff development cycle. Pray for our leaders as they take the initiative to have 3 conversations each year with their staff concerning their personal development plan and position focus. Pray for our LDHR area team s policy revision project, and especially that we can have all the policy pieces in place and translated by June Operations: Thanks to God for the time we had in Ghana, Africa. We had the opportunity to create a strategic plan for LAC Ops. We believe it will serve LAC well. Please pray for our training and release of the new tool MPDx which will help with supportraising. Please pray for laborers in Operations. We need more to support the Area well. SLM: Please pray for the Caribbean student and professional conference in the Dominican Republic, June Pray 500 will attend from all over the Caribbean. Pray the Lord will provide the visas and all the resources so that the Haitian students will be able to attend.

18 Please pray for the 17 lac missions projects this year. Pray God would provide 4 people for each project, for hearts to be prepared in the new locations and that He would raise up key volunteers to launch movements. We thank the Lord for His help in making developmental coaching for all our SLM leaders a priority as a team, please pray this will help each leader to grow personally and in leading spiritually. ARGENTINA GCM: For the plantation of 120 churches for 2018 and 500 for 2020 in the northern region of the country. Family life: For the strengthening of the ministry and the evangelization and restoration of many families. For the volunteers who are serving with us after the National Student Congress in January, in the areas of Operations, Digital Strategies and in the team of evangelism and discipleship in the different universities where we have movement. BARBADOS Please pray for students, staff, volunteers and professionals from Barbados who are raising funds to attend the Overflow Caribbean Students & Professionals Conference, that all the finances would be provided and preparations would go smoothly. Please pray that our 6 full-time staff and National ministry will be fully funded. We are thankful that this year we have seen more student-led initiatives. We thank God for connecting us with faithful, available and teachable students who are excited about the movement. BOLIVIA We praise the Lord for the carnival retreat and the strong motivation from God for us that this year is time of "abundant fruit" We praise the Lord for the beginning of L21 La Paz and for the opportunities he is giving us to help build the movement in that city For the Lord to allows us to find in each component disciples that represent "the good land" For the Lord to maintain the conviction in us that this year is time of "abundant fruit" in Bolivia BRAZIL Pray for a great action of God on our country through the strengthening and expansion of the Movements of the Cru Brazil with Universitaries, Churches, Sports, Digital Strategies, Leaders, and Operations. Pray for the blessing and direction of God in the preparations for the Cru Campus National Student Conference, which hopes to gather 700 students in the city of Fortaleza from June 15 to 18. May we overcome the barriers and may the event produce great fruits in this generation of students. We thank God for the expansion of the Movements of Cru Brazil: this year Cru Campus reached the mark of 40 cities with Movement, and Athletes in Action received 16 new missionaries. CHILE May God provide; experienced full time missionaries aligned with God s heart to properly care and disciple the student leaders, and faithful people to join the administrative area of the ministry. May every member of the missional communities remain filled with the Holy Spirit, passionate to study and share the Word of God in a relevant way and willing to love and serve sacrificially to those around them.

19 We thank God for our Summer School of campus mission. Student leaders were trained and challenged to seek growth in different areas of their lives, in order to faithfully continue working on the Great Commission. COLOMBIA So that we can have a culture of spiritual multiplication in our movement here in Colombia, and we can have multiplying disciples. For our role as spiritual leaders in the post conflict that we're facing after the peace treaty with the FARC's guerrilla. We thank God for the new team of administrative team and all of the improvement we're having. CURAÇAO Please pray for our government. This 28th April we are having another election just after 6 months of the last one. For them to turn to God, and for God to put the people He wants to, to govern our island properly. For God to keep working in Cru, by sending more workers, commitment of the students, and provision for our next Caribbean conference in June We thanks God for always providing for us with people coming to our weekly meetings to hear the gospel and also for finances for our training activities. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC For the Congress Overflow that are celebrated from June 22 to 27 in punta cana, with all the islands of the Caribbean, so that the Lord will provide all that we need and that will be a time of growth, joy and union of all the Caribbean. For the process of transition in which we are at this moment and for more workers in MDE, workers faithful and committed to the work of the Lord and for wisdom for local leadership. For faithfulness, love and mercy of God and for the growth of our ministry and the new campus that we have opened. ECUADOR For the process of the ISP Project in Ecuador, which will allow us to unify the efforts of each Priority in each city. For Wisdom and Spiritual Growth as a Team in Ecuador By the missionary communities as a result of the direct ministry of each Staff in the city, in each University, and by the procession of Mc2 with the city team in the city of Guayaquil For the faithfulness of God in each Staff and their Families EL SALVADOR Pray for staff team, for God to shape our hearts every day. Pray for MDE, from April 9th to 12th will have their summer camp. Pray for the different components: Women Today, Professionals, MGI, Digital Strategies, Jesus Film Project, develop multiplies discipleship. For every opportunity that God is allowing in MDE, Women Today, Professionals, MGI, Digital Strategies to share the gospel to be performed in every event. GUATEMALA Thank God that in this process of transition through which we have been passing as National Ministry, God has shown his faithfulness and provision and the body of coordinators has remained dependent on God.