Global Prayer Requests

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1 Global Prayer Requests WORLDWIDE DAY OF PRAYER 6 October 2015 Observed on the: Fourth Tuesday of April. First Tuesday of October. Each staff member, volunteer and disciple--as well as every team--has common needs: Let s pray for one another about faith, growth, fruitfulness, re-vitalized first love, walking in the Spirit, refreshed vision, conviction of God s calling, unfailing love, team unity, dependence upon God alone, additional laborers, full funding, hearts that take time to be with Him, health, protection in travels and protection of families, as well as our global goal of 10 million Christ-centered, multiplying disciples 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 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 seeks to train teachers in Biblically based ethics and life skills Cru The umbrella name for all US-based CCCI ministries; also part of the name adopted by CCCI in a few other nations, e.g. 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. FAT Faithful, Available, Teachable FLT FamilyLife Today radio program

2 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) 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 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) LLM Leader-led Movements, one of our five Mission Critical Components (MCCs), focused on reaching leaders in seven domains of society LTI Leadership Training Institute MC2 Multiplying Churches and Communities (a GCM training program) (also used as MC 2) MCC Mission Critical Component, a major strategy such as SLM, GCM, etc. 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 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 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. TSW The Significant Woman training resource to minister to and mobilize for the Kingdom USCM United States Campus Ministry now known as Cru Campus

3 VEM90 VLM VP WBS W-B-S WSN WTR A LAC 90-day missions team to support national leaders and launch new movements Virtually-led Movements, the MCC usually known as Global Digital Strategies (DS); see Indigitous Vice President and/or team they lead Cru overall mission: Win, build, and send Christ-centered multiplying disciples who launch spiritual movements See WBS Worldwide Student Network, the international sending division of Cru Campus FamilyLife s Weekend to Remember event (Stage 3 Country *) GLOBAL LEADERSHIP OFFICE Global Church Movements Thank God for the global vision to help plant additional 5 million churches and faith communities, one for every neighborhood and village. Thank God that through GCM over 47,000 churches and faith communities have been started in 132 countries in the past four years. Praise God that we have seen from 2nd to 5th generation of churches and faith communities in 48 countries in the past four years. Praise God that, through GACX, 40 organizations are working together to be a catalyst for planting 5 million churches and faith communities. Thank God that about 430,000 churches and faith communities have been started through GACX in the past four years. Pray for the annual Global Alliance Forum, October 21-23, 2015 in Minneapolis. Ask God to revive our hearts, strengthen our unity and multiply our fruitfulness. Thank God that GCM and the Jesus Film Project are developing a global partnership to reach everyone so that there is a church or faith community for every 1,000 people. Pray that God will guide us as we develop an online GCM training process to be able to train and coach hundreds of thousands of church planters online. Pray for God's wisdom as we develop and launch a new mobile-based reporting and mapping system to track our global progress. Pray for European GCM consultation in Wittenburg, Germany, November 2-6, Ask God for clear vision, unity and energy among our staff. VP Team - Global Digital Strategies Pray that God would use digital tools and social networks to bring Jesus to the last, the lost, and the least among every tribe, tongue, people and nation. Of the 7.3 billion people on earth, roughly 5 billion do not claim to follow Jesus. Of those, 2.5 billion do not know a true follower of Christ. May He mold our hearts as we reorganize several teams into a new Global Digital Strategies entity at Lake Hart. Our desired outcome is for talent and money invested in digital assets to be prioritized, optimized, and available to 10 million multiplying disciples worldwide. Pray for increased fruit from updates in progress to GodTools, EveryStudent.com, Indigitous.org and several other outward-facing products.

4 VP Team Global LLM Praise God for the excellent work done at our London Materials Workshop, where representatives from major cultural groups addressed organizing and/or upgrading discipleship materials to be used with leaders. Pray that the good work started there would continue with the outcome of assisting LLM movements in developing multiplying disciples. Leader-led Movements is in the process of changing its name. Pray that this process would be completed shortly. Pray for the LLM Toronto Lab to be held in late February This will be a unique training workshop designed to bring together non-staff LLM leaders from around the world to discover and share ways to launch local LLM movements where they live. Global Prayer Ask God to raise up a prayer champion for each Area and each country. May He provide the Global Prayer Team with a qualified liaison to each Area. Pray about development of digital maturity throughout Global Prayer. EASTERN EUROPE AREA Area Team Leader: Marek and Ala Wyrzykowski ALBANIA Mold - Please pray for all our staff according to 1 Kings 8:61 "Let your heart be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day." Pray that all our hearts will be fully open, true and devoted to God. Multiply - We are trusting God to have churches in all campuses where we have a campus team. We have one; please pray for another one that we will start this year. Please pray for the beginning of this year, that God will bring much fruit and life change in all our MCC s. Motivate - Praise God for our team in Macedonia, the couple in Bosnia and two couples that went this September to Turkey. Please pray that many more Albanian staff will be joining them next year. CZECH REPUBLIC Labourers Pray that the partnership would produce student leaders and new staff members. Increased fruitfulness Pray about open hearts for the gospel. Talk with the Lord of the Harvest about engaged volunteers becoming multiplying disciples.

5 SERBIA SLM: The new semester is in front of us, and we are excited for all the new things the Lord has prepared for us. We will have different programs and activities for youth, and we are praying that they can be places of connection between God and students. We have a bigger group of students and volunteers; some have been with us a couple years now and they have heard the gospel a couple times. Please pray that this seed of faith can grow in their hearts. Also we need prayers for new students which the Lord will send in our path. GCM: Please pray that Lord will open the door for expansion of the gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit in five places where we can start Bible study groups with new converts: Medvedja, Ždeglovo, Negotin, Pozarevac, and Novi Sad. LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN AREA Area Team Leader: Layo and Luchy Leiva Area Team: Praise the Lord for each of the 1,800 persons from 38 countries that He brought to So1o, for 850 students who made a pledge to do God s will in their lives and for all those who are already signing up for L21 and VEM90 missions projects. Also, for how He ministered to our staff during Cada Uno. In light of the challenge of 45 days of Radical Faith from Cada Uno, pray for each of our staff, leaders and volunteers in LAC to walk with the Lord TODAY and do ministry with Him with radical faith. As a result of So1o there is a renewed LAC identity and commitment to trust God together for Pray for those first couple of key faith steps that each student needs to make in order to walk closely with Jesus and also to launch a new movement. ARGENTINA Thank God for the nine new staff members who will begin their training in October. Pray for evangelism and discipleship in the campuses where we are working throughout the country. For our National Retreat in January We are expecting 250 students and professionals. BARBADOS Ask that God would continue to grant us strong, fruitful partnerships with people, so that all staff members would be at full support by the end of this year. Pray about having an impact on our campus and others like never before. May we witness the transformation of students through life-changing discipleship. Agree in prayer with our professional ministry, concerning connections with former members of Campus Crusade for Christ and professionals previously impacted by the movement.

6 BOLIVIA We praise the Lord for His provision and protection--realizing the dream of many students and coordinators--allowing us to bring 67 participants to Só1o. We enjoyed praise and learning together as a Cru family in the staff conference Cada Uno. May God give us a hunger and thirst for Him--more of His Holy Spirit--for us to love and serve more. May God help us to build movements. God, lead us to seek Your guidance, depending on You and keep us aligned with Your will in everything that You have called us and sent us to do. BRAZIL Churches and Families Movement (GCM): Please pray that we can develop the integration of all our national movements in wisdom and unity. Athletes in Action: Ask God to give us wisdom on contacting the churches with which we are sharing sports ministry. May the coordinators that we have recruited and that we are training, will desire to continue with us as Campus Crusade s full-time missionaries. SLM: Pray for God s guidance and wisdom when deciding on 2016 s mission projects. We pray that spiritual multiplication become a reality in our movements around the country. CHILE We are thankful for the calling and desire that He has placed in several of our students to get involved in His mission. May God soon provide full-time experienced missionaries, aligned with the heart of God, to disciple and care for missional community leaders. Ask too for faithful people to help in the administrative area of the ministry. May every missionary and missional community leader continue to be filled with the Holy Spirit, passionate about studying God s Word and sharing it in a relevant way, willing to sacrificially love and serve those around them. COLOMBIA Que wow! We are thankful to the Lord for the VEM90 team of seven Colombians that took the challenge of going to Nicaragua after Sólo1. God has shown us His grace and support, and we have initiated eight groups in four universities. Pray that God may help us to have endurance and be diligent in guiding to spiritual maturity in Christ every student and leader that is part of our movements. May God give us wisdom to maintain the follow-up of roles and responsibilities, to strengthen the present movements. CURACOA Praise God how Solo Uno enabled us to start moving to a student-led movement at the university. Pray for new student leaders to be able to manage their time serving in the movement and able to excel in their studies. Lift up the students who have made a pledge for missions, to go through with it and not get distracted by other things. Pray for the new movements that have been started at the high schools. Pray for the staff to reach full financial support by end of this year. Pray also about the financial and legal system set-up of the movement.

7 ECUADOR Praise the Lord how So1o and Cada 1 helped students and new staff members commit to serve God with confidence to face challenges. May they have good follow-up and help. Pray for the finances of every staff member and movement leader - for God s provision for their ministries and personal needs. Pray for every new strategy in the ministries and for spiritual multiplication in every area that Cru develops in Ecuador. EL SALVADOR Praise the Lord for the enthusiasm that So1o and Cada 1 generated in the lives of the participants. Pray for CCVN training and the Cadaestudiante.com campaign. Thank God for Indigitous building a team for digital strategies and developing the needed tools. Pray for development of student leadership at the University of Matias Delgado and Evangelica. GUATEMALA Pray that the Lord would excite the staff to live our lives continually filled with His Holy Spirit and share Christ with others every day of our lives. Let us all respond positively and be helped to grow to know Christ more and more intimately. Ask God for wisdom for the Guatemalan people to vote wisely to elect the nation s next president. GUYANA Praise God for a greater level of commitment to the movement, by students and professionals who attended the So1o Uno and Cada Uno conferences. Pray for full support for our staff. At least four of them have been struggling to develop their full level of financial support. Pray we will be able to sustain momentum gained during the So1o and Cada Uno conferences through ongoing evangelism, discipleship and multiplication. HAITI For years we have been praying for new staff. In recent months two persons have indicated wanting to join full-time staff and are already working towards DMPD training locally. Although it is hurricane season, we are experiencing a period of drought, causing price inflation. May rain come in all its glory to help those in agriculture and beyond. Pray about our presidential elections scheduled for October 25. It is common to see crime increase during this period. Pray the election would be fair, non-violent and that the Lord will handpick His man. HONDURAS Pray for wisdom and a strategic plan to recreate 4G prayer through The Prayer Tour, which we have scheduled for 28 November 2015 in each major university of the town with the UPNFM students. So1o Uno conference was a platform that God used to challenge students to greater participation and grow into greater leadership on campus, where we have been seeing their initiative with prayer, evangelism and discipleship. Praise God for non-christian professors opening their classrooms so we can share the gospel with their students.

8 JAMAICA Praise God for the successful orientation activities. We were able to share with all the first-year students on two of the university campuses. Just over 100 received Christ during orientation activities. Pray for faithfulness in following up these new believers. Pray also for the nearly 200 who want to join or help lead Bible Study. Pray for new staff and that all staff will raise their full support. Pray for the successful translation of the JESUS film to JAMAICAN PATOIS as a tool to reach out to inner city communities in Jamaica and over 3 million overseas Jamaicans. MEXICO Thank God that we now have a new National Leadership Team in place, which is working very well together. Pray for the six new staff members who are raising support. May they reach their goal soon, even though they are having some struggles at this time. Pray that God will produce a 4G prayer movement within each mission critical component (MCC), in the cities where we are working. PANAMA Pray as we launch six student-led movements. Pray for our alliance with St. Marteen to launch student-led movements in the island s three campuses. Pray for national office re-location and a Cru Panamá church plant. Pray that MC2 training, 8-10 October, will repeat all over Panama City and for FamilyLife s late Oct. training. Please join us in prayer for the new digital equipment we need for digital strategies (two professional cameras and two computers.) PARAGUAY Praise God for the 22 Paraguayans who were at So1o Uno; as a result congress leaders were challenged and new groups are emerging in Paraguay. Cry out to God for the Congress of Women that will be held in October, for the presence of God to touch, heal, liberate and challenge each of the women who will be participating. Pray for the Noche de Paz (Silent Night), an evangelistic event which closes the year and aims to bring together all the work done in discipleship, with 100 direct disciples, ministerial partners and investors are involved. SAINT VINCENT and THE GRENADINES We praise the Lord that He made it possible for six of our student to go with us to So1o, and three have decided to join the staff. May He make it possible for those three, with financial support and courage. The new school has started in September in St. Vincent - pray for life-changing experiences among the students, for student leaders to be raised up, and for the registration of Cru in St. Vincent. Pray for at least one adult staff member to lead the ministry here in St. Vincent after the short-term mission staff leave in December.

9 SURINAME God increased faith of students and staff through So1o Uno. Student leaders took charge during our recent orientation week. May student ownership continue to grow in a truly student-led movement. Ask that LLM under alumni will grow significantly this year. Pray for vision, ownership and leadership of the core team. May the staff continue to trust God for His provision during a time of rising costs of living in Suriname - 300% for electricity and water and 10% for gasoline. TRINIDAD & TOBAGO Thank God for the success of the FamilyLife Weekend to Remember conference, with 110 couples in attendance. We have many testimonies of restoration of marriages. Three HomeBuilders groups have started. We keep meeting personally with couples who participated and still have some issues, but thank God they are choosing to get help and see FamilyLife as a resource to turn to. Ask our Heavenly Father for more human resources that can be dedicated to FamilyLife and more SLM staff members for local and regional expansion. Pray for effective follow-up of all students who signed up during Orientation Week on three campuses. We are trusting God that many will become true followers of Jesus Christ. Also, please pray for the implementation and multiplication of missional communities on all the campuses. URUGUAY Pray for evangelism beginning this new semester among faculty, especially in Medicine and the Catholic University, where we are focused on building movements this semester. Please lift up in prayer the GCM and JESUS Film projects we are carrying on. Intercede for a team of five Americans, who will serve full-time here for 10 months. Pray for their adaptation to the ministry, culture and language. VENEZUELA After So1o Uno and Cada Uno, we have been touched by the Holy Spirit to have Him keep changing our lives in the physical, spiritual, relational and other areas. God is encouraging us in serving Him - more prepared and with a sincere heart. Pray for the political and economic situation of our country. Working more to get basic items they need, they quit coming to our meetings and sometimes to church also. It affects their walk with God. Pray for our staff finances. The inflation never stops, so they find themselves having to raise more support every two months or so. Also, you never know what's going to happens when staff members or students are in the university or in the street, with so little security.

10 NORTH AMERICA & OCEANIA Area Team Leader: Steve and Christy Sellers AUSTRALIA* National Director s Office: Pray for good communication with the different strategies and departments as we work together to roll out Power to Change amongst our missionaries and teams. Two big tasks that we are currently trusting God for are our new website and the announcement to our supporters in November. (We couldn t go with the name Cru for legal reasons.) Student Life: Praise God for the 40% growth in evangelism that people in Student Life have seen on campus this year. Pray that God would use our Summer Missions to reach out to Schoolies, holiday-makers and international students at nine different locations around Australia, such that many would respond to the gospel and our participants would grow more in their faith and ministry skills. Pray for the leaders of each Summer Missions team, that God would direct them and help them to shepherd their teams well. Family Life: Praise God that He is beginning to form marriage movements throughout the country that have moved beyond the walls of the church into the community. We have seen some great initial response to our new strategy and are excited with how God will lead us forward! Pray for us as we continue to align those associated with us to the new vision and for new resources that are in production - an evangelistic marriage conference and a comprehensive follow-up Bible study which teaches the basics of Christianity from a marriage perspective. YMA (Youth Ministries Australia): Praise God! We have so far seen over 300 high school students receive Christ this year. They have been fed into our lunch and after school groups - five new groups have started this year. Pray for these groups to grow and multiply. Pray for the new Chaplaincy Funding Scheme to be announced by the government. A number of our team receive this grant; some will lose it. So pray for our team in new appointments and opportunities to raise the support needed to be on staff and run their family and ministry. Pray for protection over our team, especially this year, with audits over our groups in schools, being compared to other religions, and for all the pressures of families and youth in schools. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA* (Cru) Cru Campus Bridges International: May God mold the 325 Bridges staff members to be more like Jesus in reaching out to the 1.3 million international students who have come to America. Pray that God will allow us to multiply our lives such that hundreds of internationals will place their faith in Jesus this school year and many of them will attend Vision 2015, our year-end conference in Austin. Pray for God to mobilize many more Bridges staff members and volunteers, especially men, to help staff our 10 priority locations.

11 Cru High School: Pray that our staff, volunteers, and students would experience Jesus and reach out to others as an overflow of their relationship with Him. Pray that God would raise up 50 new full-time laborers this school year to bring the gospel to high school students and middle school students. Pray that God would allow us to recruit and grow healthy teams so that each of our teams would launch a new team in the next five years. Christian Embassy, D.C. Fall Welcome Coffee, 14 October, 9:30a.m. - Diplomat and ambassador wives have been invited, including many ladies new to Washington. Please be in prayer about this event: Pray that God would draw those who are hurting, lonely, frustrated, and have hearts prepared to hear. Pray that Susan Alexander Yates would speak from God s heart to their needs. Pray for the hostessing in a private home and for a sunny day too! Pray about similar events being planned. GAiN Pray that as we will continue to grow in the Spirit-filled life, molding ourselves to His likeness. May the overflow of His love in us draw those we interact with in our personal and ministry lives to Him. Pray that we will intentionally seek ways to encourage and bless our local partners as we work together for the Kingdom. Pray that as we move forward with our new year we will mobilize our partners with strategic resources to show Christ's compassion for those who love Him or soften hearts for those in the darkness. Currently GAiN is working in about 30 countries around the world. Cru Inner City May ethnic male and female interns, part-time/full-time staff and urban pastor partners join with us in serving the poor and marginalized through the urban church. Our Creating Options Together 2016 Conference in St. Paul, Minn., August 2-5, 2016: See for details of how you might pray. Pray for all the funding that will be required to fulfill the mission, vision and strategy God has entrusted to Cru Inner City and our partners. The JESUS Film Project The Peoples Connection Pray for worldwide media ministries as they seek to reach the hearts and minds of people from nations where Christianity is forbidden: Pray for the production of excellent programming including use of the JESUS film in many languages. Pray for protection of those broadcasting, as well as those receiving the programming. Ask God for thousands of people to become followers of Jesus as a result of hearing and seeing God s Word. Pray for the use of multi-language JESUS DVDs to assist the wanting more information and follow-up.

12 Josh McDowell Ministry Set Free Global Summit, 4-7 April 2016 in North Carolina: Pray for God's blessing on this summit to provide solutions for the pervasive problem of Internet pornography. Pray for the planning, the speakers, the sponsors and the attendees. Pray that what is learned at this summit will have an impact on many being set free from the addiction of porn. Josh's Bible Lands Tour, October and his trip to Romania and Poland in early December: Pray that in each setting with each group of individuals that Jesus Christ will be glorified through what Josh says and that people will be drawn to a closer walk with the Lord. Pray for the recipients of the thousands of Josh's books in the native languages of the countries where they are distributed. Pray that these "little missionaries" will convict, strengthen, share truth and give hope to all who read them and share them with others. Pray also for the donors whose funds made these books possible. Cru Military We are offering a praise for God's Spirit moving mightily though Cru Military National Team's outreach initiatives... at our Gateways, U.S. Naval and Air Force Academies, operational locations... and within our two connecting strategies... for Family/Community Mobilization and Combat Trauma/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder... producing changed lives for Christ and multiplying disciples that are transforming the military landscape of our nation for His glory. Pray that the Holy Spirit would incline many believers who are leaving the military to join the Military Ministry of Cru. Pray that God would fill our ranks in the United States and internationally with Spirit-filled missionaries who have a zeal for taking the gospel to the world through movements in the Global Military Community. Pray for our 30 International Military Ministry Directors to be able to help facilitate spiritual movements among those who wear their nation's uniforms for their military, security police, immigration, customs, and fire services. Pray for peace to flow through the areas of unrest that continue to be present in nearly every region of the world. New Life Resources MOLD - Pray that NLR, the publishing and materials distribution ministry of Cru, can effectively serve and support the ministries and individual staff members, as well as encourage churches and individual Christian believers, to grow toward their maximum level of ministry involvement through use of the tools, strategies and resources needed to help build spiritual movements. MULTIPLY - Pray for NLR marketing strategies to be successful in identifying quality Christian prospects with a heart for ministry, so we can cultivate long-term relationships. As we serve thousands of churches and individual believers, we desire for them to grow looking to Cru as the best place to find materials they need to accomplish whatever form of ministry God has placed on their hearts. MOBILIZE - Praise God for successful launch of the new website for both public and Cru staff members, with many new and improved features ( May NLR continue to refine the CruStore site, where 70% of requests for materials are received, making it easier to discover and acquire ministry tools that will enhance effective ministry and advance the Great Commission.

13 SOUTHEAST ASIA AREA (ASEA) Area Team Leader: Chris and Marlyn Uy ASEA Team Leader s Office: Ask God for supernatural wisdom and guidance as we make decisions day after day affecting lives of people whom Christ died for - continued refreshing from the Word of God, wisdom and sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. Pray for safety for our leaders as we travel and for the family members being left behind. Pray for ASEA Staff New Ministry Partners and Discipleship Group members to grow. ASEA Digital Strategy: Pray about engagement with Digital strategists/practitioners around Southeast Asia and developing personas each country needs. Pray for our leadership development capacity: mobilizing and participating intentionally to use smart phones, social media and digital tools for WBS. Pray about our developing an ASEA Digital strategist learning community in a close partnership with PCCC. ASEA GCM: GCM staff and partners: Pray for an intimate walk with God, spiritual growth and good health of each of their family members and they will take up the full Armor of Faith to fulfill their ministry responsibilities. Lift up GCM staff and volunteer partners to be blessed with anointing from God and favor from communities to be able to plant healthy churches that will take on the reaching of their local people. May the churches in particularly difficult areas live out their calling as Salt and Light to their nations. Pray for the spiritual harvest from different evangelistic efforts to remain and produce much fruit. ASEA LDHR: Pray for all new staff members going through NST and for NST trainers/leaders to be faithful in Win Build and Send and for God to grant them faithful disciples so they will all experience success in movement building during NST. Pray for effective collaboration between LDHR and MCC leaders in developing and coaching staff members at all levels using Position Focus and other development tools, and in training all local team leaders. Pray for local teams to be faithful in applying the BPMT principles to see healthy and highly effective teams. ASEA L.I.F.E.: Pray for contacts with big capacity. Pray for fruitful meetings with potential CMPs in the U.S. Pray that people to be followed-up will make a decision to partner with CCC. ASEA LLM: Pray for the forming and training of city teams in key cities to launch LLM movements. Pray for vision casting and recruitment of potential multiplying leaders in each key city. Pray for clear vision and direction in intentional targeting of the top level leaders in key cities for evangelistic outreach.

14 ASEA Operations: Pray for ongoing DMPD for new staff in four countries especially. Pray for the external audit being conducted in the ASEA Office and PCCC. Pray for GMA implementors and country LT s as they seek to increase GMA compliance. Pray for completion of all fiscal year end reports from the countries. Pray for ASEA to be given a donee status that will allow donations to be tax deductible for the donors. Pray that we will be able to secure all properties in the name of the organization. Pray too for legal entity in all our countries. ASEA SLM: Thank God for sustaining our staff and volunteers. Pray for a growing passion for God and compassion for the lost among our staff and student leaders. Pray for increasing vision as we take part in His call of helping to fulfill the Great Commission. May we continue to envision movements of Christ-centered multiplying disciples in the campuses in our Area. Pray for the ongoing trainings for the staff, team leaders and student leaders to help address the needs of different countries in developing ministries to movements and sustaining the existing movements to expand to different locations. May we see more changed lives impacting the lives of many students, to see His Kingdom come in ASEA and the rest of the world. Pray for 100,000 Christ-centered multiplying disciples to rise up by year ASEA Prayer: May CCC staff, ministry partners, disciples, and partner organizations continually grow in the God-attentive, God-dependent and God-responsive way of life and ministry. Pray that the nations (through the 7 Pillars of Culture) will know that God invites, hears and answers in prayer. Pray for the raising up of intercessors and development of prayer leaders who will disciple new generations of prayer leaders. May prayer mobilization across the Area result in Christcentered multiplying disciples. PHILIPPINES Pray for each staff member of PCCC to be grounded in the Word of GOD and be deep-rooted in CHRIST. Pray that GOD, the author of change, will be the central focus of the PCCC 50th Anniversary. Pray for the PCCC Vision 2020 Goal: To see a movement of 70,000 Christ-Centered Multiplying Disciples (CCMDs) in 700 key campuses, in 7000 planted churches, in the seven domains of influence in seven key urban centers, with 700 missionaries blessing the body of Christ and other nations by December 2020.

15 WEST AFRICA AREA (Great Commission Movement) Area Team Leader: Austin and Zchat Okomohwo Africa Centre for Theological Studies (ACTS): Pray that God will direct us to prospective pastors in Nigeria that will be interested in the PTL M Learning programme. (Life-changing Biblical Training Delivered on a Mobile Phone - One of CCCI s contributions to Global Church Movements). Also, pray that God will send more laborers to the online harvest as we create awareness and organize digital strategy training (use of digital tools and resources for evangelism and discipleship) in churches and fellowships. Pray that God will empower, encourage the present online missionaries/mentors in Nigeria, and help us to recruit more. May God help us complete the last lap of the computerization of ACTS Library with perfect functioning, better performance and productivity. Pray for the process of recruitment of more students for ACTS. Pray for the few that joined to continue with us. Pray also, for a stable faculty and provision for us to sponsor faculty from outside the country. Ask God to bless us with funds to purchase our property in Lagos and move out of rented property. Also, ask God to preserve the ten acres of land donated to us in Ogun State. GHANA Mold: Pray that staff will love the Lord with all our heart, that our walk with the Him will remain deeply intimate and growing daily in His likeness. Pray that as we stay fresh individually may we be united in heart and in love with one purpose. May the fruit of the Spirit show in our Christian character and maturity. (Psalm 1:3; Colossians 2:2) Multiply: Pray that our goal to multiply Christ-centered disciples will be rewarded: Through GCM we want to expose 100,000 people to the gospel, win 20,000, deeply build 5,000, and send 1,000 and plant 40 churches. From Campus that 5,000 students will hear the gospel and trust God for 500 new professing believers. We will also follow up about 1,000 of the people exposed to the gospel, present the ministry of the Holy Spirit to them and see about 100 become engaged disciples. (2 Timothy 2:2) Mobilize: Pray for the Lord s favour as we mobilize 900 students and professionals for Harvest II Conference from 27 December January Pray for a workable plan for preparation, fund development, mobilization and post conference follow up so we are able to raise up more labourers of different staff categories for both the field and operations. (Matthew 9:37-38) GUINEA BISSAU Pray that the ten people chosen for church planting will remain firm in the Lord and be protected from evil and temptation. Pray that the Spirit of God will lead us we select more than 120 church planters for the MC2 training in November Pray that God will grant them divine wisdom and understanding. Pray also for the training team and also that the political situation right now will not hinder the training in November, in Jesus name. LIBERIA Pray that we raise 4,000 US dollars monthly for administrative operations. Pray that we raise an initial amount of 250,000 USD to begin construction work on our multipurpose building during the project launch in March Pray that GCM Liberia fully recovers from the Ebola setbacks: a) Many of our local investors to regain employment. b) Ministry partners to become active again. c) Our children to recover from being out of school eight or more months.

16 NIGERIA Thanks for praying! The leadership transition in Nigeria went well. We enjoyed participation from staff and the Christian community, especially in Jos city and its environs. Pray that God s work through the Great Commission Movement of Nigeria will move forward and upward. Harvest II W/Africa (all-west African students and professional s conference), 27 Dec - 2 Jan 2016: Our theme is One LORD, One Gospel, Everyone-Everywhere. Please pray for provision for all who will attend, e.g. cost of registration, safety in travels and good health on the conference ground. Pray that the conference objectives for Leadership, Expansion and Discipleship will be accomplished. Pray that the speakers will do justice to their topics and will speak and teach with the unction of the Holy Spirit. Pray that at least 2,000 students and professionals will attend. Please continue to pray against the activities of the insurgents in Nigeria. Thank God for containing them thus far. WESTERN EUROPE AREA (Agapé Europe) Area Team Leader: Javier and Gema Garcia Area Leadership Team: A big objective in Europe is to mobilize for cities. Pray that we, as Agape Europe strategies, would be very clear on what we do and what we offer the Body of Christ. We want to model mobilization to the Body of Christ and serve as a mobilizing agent to the Body of Christ to reach the cities of Europe. Rejoice with us about the faithfulness of 45 senior and 11 new staff from 13 countries who participate this year in the MPD Shared Responsibility Program. They all have a clear financial goal of new monthly committed personal support that they have to raise every month. Dependent on their success we help them have enough for their family needs. After seven months, senior staff are at 55% of their annual target and new staff at 58%. We rejoice for all these new partners who have already committed per year. God willing, we will have in another six months the total new support raised of Please pray for all needed registrations for the Fund Development Leader s Forum plus the MPD Network Forum 16 to which all Agape Europe National Leadership Team Members have been invited. We need their registrations now, because we want to help them catch the vision and gain their goal-ownership of self-sustaining local movements. Additionally we want to give them clear action points how they can get there step by step.

17 AUSTRIA AiA Austria has begun visiting Austria s largest refugee camp. May many young people from Afghanistan and Syria hear about Jesus and His good news. We praise God for these possibilities and pray for protection and changed lives. Please also keep in your prayers all the ten thousands of refugees flooding into Europe currently, their safety and health but also that they may be met by someone sharing the gospel with them. GAiN-Austria s average age is around 56 there is an urgent need to find, to train and to raise young staff to take over in a few years time. There is no shortage of good projects but we need to find financial and business partners to tackle them. May the Lord show us creative and effective ways to find the right persons in both cases. CAMPUS-Live in Austria have found three students who are willing to be the core of an attempt to start in Vienna again. With an all-foreign crew we reach foreign exchange students well, but please pray that we also would reach native Austrians and that they catch the fire of the good news and begin to share amongst them. Austria s youth ministry has finally found some open doors into public schools to invite students to outreach events. Pray that even more possibilities arise. We appreciate the 4-Points wristbands value for evangelism more and more. Please pray for creativity and success as we work on a 4-Points webpage with video, testimonies and training. CYPRUS Praise God for the good relationships being built with pastors and leaders of churches and pray for further fruitful cooperation for the spreading of the gospel on the island of Cyprus. Agape is playing a vital role in this new relationship/cooperation. Pray for the Family Life Conference, October. Pray that people who need this will be able to come despite the financial situation and that people will be touched and blessed through it. Thank Jesus for the new coaching group that took place with Sri Lankan women in Nicosia, encouraging them with The Significant Woman coaching tool. We pray for the development of more such groups. ESTONIA Pray that every student who starts their studies in any university in Estonia this year would have the opportunity to hear the gospel and respond to it. Praise God for the man who joined our Media team; pray for him as he raises his support. Pray that Christian students would be courageous in reaching out to their peers.

18 FINLAND* Top priority is always that we would know from the Lord, be led by Him and be flexible and creative in our work. So very easily things fall into a routine - this is how we have always done it thinking. Mold: May students have strong roots in Jesus and their identity in Christ would become stronger. Our youth workers are grateful for many young people coming to the Lord during summer camps. Pray for the follow-up, as in the weekly youth evenings that have just started in Helsinki. Multiply: Pray for new students to join the leadership teams in Jyväskylä, Turku, Helsinki and in Joensuu, where we don t have anybody now. Pray for renewed vision for Christians and churches for personal evangelism. We have new training material for this - praise God for good reception and pray for more open doors in local churches. The next trainers training will be 8-10 October, and there are also several training days in local churches. Mobilize: Pray for courage enough to talk about Jesus to our friends, friendship with non- Christians, Alfa-course in Helsinki in the autumn, and coffee actions in Jyväskylä. Praise God for new initiatives in our city ministries. Pray for more people to join the local teams. FRANCE Please pray for the Global Climate Conference 2015, in Paris, in December. With the reality of the impact of climate change and its impact on some of the poorest regions of our world, the Christians in France are more and more conscious of the role they play as followers of the Creator. The French Protestant Federation, of which Agape France is a member, has been very active in calling Christians to consider what it means to follow Jesus and live lives of justice and peace when it comes to the climate. Please pray for us as we announce the beauty of the Good News of Jesus! Please pray for Agape in Paris as we announce the Good News of Jesus among students and youth through the Arts (Agape Art), through humanitarian work (Agape Street), among musicians (Crescendo) and among international students (Agape Chinese). Please pray for protection, inspiration, and financial capacities for all the staff and the ministries in France, as we have a plan for expansion and strengthening for Agape France. GERMANY Thank God for the successful tour with Indian author and social reformer Vishal Mangalwadi: "The Book that Made Your World" (a disciple of Francis Schaefer) in June. Pray that Mangalwadi s film project on "The Search for the Soul of Europe" will materialize to get on German national TV for the 500th anniversary of Luther s Reformation in Pray for new staff to join our team and for new volunteers in the professors core group. Pray that we would come in contact with many non-christians through the website Gottkennen.de. GREECE Pray for wisdom in leading and guiding the new youth work and community projects (Youthcafe weekly sessions, tutoring and street work) that started in September in Kipseli, Athens. Pray for His providence with all the paperwork for the legal permissions for the Coffee Shop of the Community Center in Athens. We pray that the procedure will be finished by November. Pray that the right people will watch our promoting video ( and will help us with the work and that God will be on the move through it.

19 IRELAND Pray for a pre-evangelistic leadership breakfast on October 6 in Dublin, addressed by Professor Prabhu Guptara, economics expert, a Hindu who came to Christ. Leaders in Irish society will be introduced to the gospel through his talk and chatting with their table hosts. Give thanks for the new team in Belfast, Northern Ireland, who are contacting many new students. Pray that they will see fruit in this first semester. Finding spiritually qualified new Irish staff is a priority for the Irish ministry this year. Pray the God will open new doors for recruiting. ITALY Please pray for the Agape Italia Capacity team. There have been a number of difficult issues and situations over the past 12 months, involving IT systems and processes. In addition there have been some staff suffering with health problems and difficult personal circumstances. The team is understaffed and is struggling to cope with the workload expected of them. We have an urgent need for staff to work in finance and IT in particular. Students: Pray we would see momentum with the believers we've met recently - that the Lord would give them His vision to reach their friends and family and that they'd want to lead in Agape. Praise God for over 2,300 people were exposed to the gospel through Agape Italy Summer Project to Malawi, in collaboration with LIFE Ministry Malawi. About 1,000 people indicated to have made decisions of accepting Christ into their lives. Praise God for the eight different churches who partnered for the success of this project. Agape Italia Global Contribution: The number of refugees seeking asylum in Italy is increasing. Please pray that the Lord will prepare the hearts of many of them to seek their refuge in Him. LATVIA Pray for the development of "MyStory" in Latvia. Pray that local Christians would adopt it as a personal evangelism strategy and that it would produce new, quality partnerships with local churches. Pray that the key students in the campus ministry would make evangelism a way of life and mobilize others to join them to reach their universities. Pray for the Crescendo Staff Conference in Riga, January 21-24, 2016: for logistics and organizational needs to be met and for all who attend to be refreshed in the vision and inspired as they return to their countries. Pray that it would also surface new volunteers for Crescendo Latvia. LITHUANIA Pray for perseverance and encouragement for all Lithuanian staff members who are looking for new ministry partners. Praise and give thanks for everyone who has joined up with their staff team already! Pray that this school year God would do much more than we expect. Pray for the new student leaders, spiritually open students in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipeda. Pray that 20 e-coaches would be well trained and prepared to ministry to seekers through the WhyJesus course.