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 2020. 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 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 VEM90 VLM VP WBS W-B-S WSN WTR United States Campus Ministry now known as Cru Campus 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 VP Team - Area Team Leaders (See North America & Oceania Area) Global Advancement (Fund Development) We are partnering with Area Teams and countries to provide resources and coaching to grow sustainable, locally resourced movements. Pray for specific models of locally resourced movements to grow and multiply in at least 25 countries over the next two years. Pray for wisdom and creativity as we co-design with Indonesia History Handful and the Southeast Asia Leadership Team to multiply the number of local financial partners across Southeast Asia and beyond. Dates: August 4-7, 2016 Name: istart L.I.F.E. Forum. National leaders will bring their key financial partners and they will be challenged to start local donor movements in their countries. We are praying local donors will become L.I.F.E. partners who use their L=Leadership I= Influence F= Finance E= Expertise to help fulfill the Great Commission. Pray for strong relationships to be built with financial partners who attended the Global Briefing in July in Colorado Springs. Pray for them to be encouraged and want to be more involved with Cru and global opportunities. 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, 2015. 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. Global LDHR Global Conference, Sept. 28 - Oct 2, 2015: Pray that we would multiply our lives and that the abundant life we share in Christ would overflow to others. Pray that we would band together in love to encourage one another, learn from one another and serve one another. Pray for the mobilization of laborers through prayer and ministry efforts. Pray for God s power to be seen in answered prayers, life-changing discipleship and more workers sent out. Pray for 10 million multiplying disciples by the year 2020. 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 2016. 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. International Leadership Foundation (ILF) Pray for changed lives and communities as a result of this year's Transforming Leadership and Governance Seminars (TLGS) and Transformational Projects for business, church, and government leaders in Africa (Benin, Cameroon, Chad, DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe). Pray for peace and open doors for the TLGS in Burundi, Central Africa Republic, Nigeria, and South Sudan. Praise the Lord for ILF's recent expansion in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Pray for wisdom and fruitful opportunities for reaching leaders throughout the world. Pray for more godly facilitators of integrity and for the TLGS facilitator's training in April 2016, to help increase our capacity. Pray for the Transformers Network (TRANET) as a way of follow-up for spiritual and societal transformation in the marketplace. Praise the Lord for TRANET in Ghana and the core group of 12 marketplace leaders who will be spreading the gospel in the Accra marketplace. Pray for TRANET in Francophone Africa.
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. VP Team - Global SLM 1. Ask the Lord to mold our hearts on the Global Student-Led Movement Team to be like His own, that He would multiply our lives and movements worldwide, and that through catalytic and other initiatives we would mobilize many laborers and leaders for the Kingdom. \ 2. Ask the Lord of the Harvest for His Kingdom to come and His will to be done worldwide as we trust Him for: The gospel for every student. A movement for every campus. Leaders for every nation. 3. Pray for these two global strategies we believe will help us reach our 2020 goal of 10 million Multiplying Disciples: 1. Catalytic Expansion (Apostolic expansion) Strategy we are focusing a lot of effort on, which will help reach our scope of the gospel for every student and a movement for every campus. Pray the Holy Spirit will set aside many of our best men and women leaders for efforts of planting new movements to the ends of the earth (Acts 13:1-4, 47-52). Ask the Lord to move in students hearts so they will go make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:18-20). 2. Clear Multiplication Pathway in each area for discipleship that will help us reach and raise up the next generation of Multiplying Disciples and Leaders. Ask the Lord to make His plans clear what digital and student-focused tools will facilitate the growth of disciples who will multiply for a lifetime (2 Timothy 2:1, 2). President s Staff Executive Team Meetings, Oct. 27-29 - Pray for God's wisdom and encouragement in their deliberations and decisions. Global Crisis Managers Conference, Nov. 2-6 - Pray that everyone coming will get their visas and for refreshment for each one as they are regularly dealing with difficult situations. Ask for wisdom in planning the Global Leadership Conference for June 2016. Women s Resources European Women's Seminar in Paris, Oct. 11-15: Fifty women from western and eastern Europe will gather to share about the ministry happening in each of their countries, as a way to help each other gain new ideas and resources. Judy Douglass will provide a global perspective, sharing what women are doing in ministry around the world. Pray for Judy as she prepares her talks and that God will work through her as she speaks. Praise God for the 98 women leaders (80 staff and 18 community partners) who attended the Significance Project Global Champions Summit in September 2015 in Orlando. Representing 35 nations, these women are engaged in multiplication through the various MCC's. They are using The Significant Woman life-coaching discipleship resource and SOARING life-coaching evangelistic resource as some of their key tools. During the Summit they set God-sized goals for bringing about spiritual movements. Pray that God will equip them for greater opportunities to build multiplying disciples, and help them stand strong against any spiritual warfare. Pray for men's life-coaching resources that are being field tested around the world and for the Task Force of men leading this effort.
Our communications team is revamping our website to better serve our staff women. Pray that God will use our content to allow our staff women to multiply their influence in the lives of people around them. EAST ASIA ORIENT AREA Area Team Co-Leaders: Sung-MinPark (South Korea* NTL) Kok Hiang Lam (Singapore* NTL) Stephen Wang (Taiwan* NTL) East Asia School of Theology (EAST): Thank God for the expansion at EAST Singapore campus with the increased number of students (89) enrolled. Ask God to lead as we explore fund raising machinery, additional space and facilities to match the growth. Thank God that Cru Staff are benefiting from EAST programs and IBS. Ask God to help EAST to remain focused on His call and vision to equip Christ-like servant leaders who are scholarly practitioners, ministry practicing scholars. Thank God for the EAST Extension Centers, which are running and the opportunity to establish three more. Ask God for His presence and favor as we trust Him for further growth and effectiveness, recruitment of quality program students locally and overseas, additional faculty and staff for Singapore Campus and EAST Extension Centers. JAPAN We are thankful that our campus ministries are reaching out to non-christians with the help of many mission teams from around the world during the summer. Our various campus ministries in different cities held summer camps. Praise God that brothers and sisters are strengthen in their faith and knowledge of God s word, and desire to grow as disciples of Jesus. One of Japan s faith goals for 2020 is to raise up 50 multiplying disciples. Pray that God will raise up many more disciples in Japan far beyond our goal. Pray for our National Operations Team which just relocated their office and seriously is in need of additional manpower or volunteers to help with a variety of administrative/clerical/accounting work. Pray that our National Staff Retreat will be a good time to rest in the Lord and have good interaction among the staff family. Also pray that God will provide for the financial needs of each staff member so that all can join the retreat. Praise God that we are going to have our all staff retreat (conference) at the end of December, after we last met as a staff family six years ago. KOREA* Nationwide: Thank God for giving us wisdom on how we could turn a national catastrophe of the MERS virus into doing good for society through a blood donation drive and pray with fasting in turn. All 40 cities joined with students and all staff in this fasting prayer chain to pray together. Thank God for protecting us and giving us good health and that none was infected with the virus. SLM: Thank God that even with the change in dates (due to virus), 7,000 participated in the Student Conference. Thank God for precious lessons learnt by our student leaders (about 1,500) and staff during their stint as volunteers at the Gwangju Universiade event. Thank God for giving them favor
among delegates and the organizing committee. Pray for A6 team: Pray for 24 members' good health and safety. The different teams are in Mexico & Zambiafor 3 months (Sep-Nov) and Russia for 5 months (Sep-Jan 2016). Pray for the teams to be bold and courageous in sharing the gospel on the campuses. Pray that God will use them to help build spiritual movements on the new campuses, for good teamwork and also to be an encouragement to the staffs and students there. Prayer Ministry: SPR (staff prayer retreat) will be held on Nov 9-11. Ask for God to prepare our hearts as we come together for this prayer retreat. Pray that God will use each part of the program to speak to our hearts. Ask God to bless the prayer meetings at Jinju CCC, Jeonju CCC, Andong CCC, Samcheok CCC etc. in Oct, Nov, and Dec. May we raise and strengthen the prayer movements in KCCC. MONGOLIA Thank God for the seven new trainees going through GCTC this year. Thank God He keeps adding more laborers for the harvest field. One challenge is the fund raising of our full-time staff. Many are not able to raise their full support, especially the new staff; pray for God to provide for many ministry partners. Pray for the team to maximize September-November to actively share the gospel. Pray the staff will be disciplined in engaging the campus students and be able to contact many Christian. Pray for God to raise up disciples who love Him and willing to be a multiplying disciple. Military Ministry has become more and more challenging. Pray for the hearts of those in charge of the camps and platoons, that God will melt them and convict them of the need for God. PAKISTAN Praise God that Pak CCC has started work in four new areas. Thank God for the New Associate Staff members who joined us in these areas and for the passion for doing God s work for His glory. Praise God that 12 GCM trainees have completed their training and their graduation ceremony was held in August. Pray for the faith target of our GCM ministry to produce 150 Multipliers by the end of 2015; may God send us Christians who are ready to be spiritual multipliers. Praise God for the mission trip to Islamabad. Sstaff members went there and shared the good news. They managed to share with 200 people. Pray for the new staff training that tentatively will start in November. Pray that God will provide the finances to start the GCTC training. We have received 15 applications for GCTC training. Pray for wisdom and discernment in our selection process. Pray too for the new building PLDC - we need funds to furnish it and need furniture for our offices. SINGAPORE* Pray for God to multiply the use of these resources to build-up the body of Christ and mobilize Christians to share their faith: o Praise God for good partnerships with churches through our "Bursting Your Bubble" evangelism training for the marketplace. o "The Significant Women/Soaring" women discipleship and evangelism resources o "Art of Marriage" resources for Christian and non-christian couples. o "Tale of Two Esthers" produced by our Media Ministry has been a good evangelism resource for outreach.
Thank God for the revamp of the Leadership Training Institute to train and raise up multiplying disciples among the Polytechnics and Universities ministries. Pray for God to mold the hearts of the students who will be willing to multiply their lives into others and be mobilized for the global harvest. Thank God that we have sent out two staff stinters to serve for one year. Praise God for 10 new staff, stinters and volunteers who have joined us in the past few months. We are still trusting God to mobilize more short and long-term laborers to be sent out into the global harvest field. The newly formed Pioneering Team is trusting God to break new ground on private and new universities. Pray for God's empowerment on the team of four to have the courage and boldness to build strong spiritual movements on these new campus grounds. Praise God for our newly formed team the Creative Strategies Team. It is comprised of artists, musicians, filmmakers and designers serving in full-time vocational ministry with Cru Singapore. Their field ministry includes engaging those involve in the arts and cultural segment and seek to build a spiritual movement among artists, artistes, musicians and media professionals. Pray for them as they pursue their God-given Mission: Bringing the Unchanging Gospel to a Changing Generation by Discipling and Partnering Creatives + Creating Content that Engages Culture. We are still trusting the Lord to provide for our manpower needs in IT Engineer(s), Human Resource Executive etc. Pray for God to raise up suitable people who have the heart and skills to serve in Cru Singapore. TAIWAN* Through the City Transformation seminars conducted by the Leadership Development Institute in January and the Multiplying Church Seminar in June, the staff and some church leaders have deepened the idea that building a community of multiplying disciples is the success key to see a city transformed by God and the gospel. Praise the Lord for an increasing prayer focus among the staff community. In the past 6 months, staff of ISP conducted prayer walks among the elementary and junior high schools in Hsinchu county, SLM staff started a LINE group to share praise and prayer needs with one another, GCTC together with the Missions and Prayer Movement consecrate a Great Commission prayer time, and our NLT members gather twice a month for prayer. Thank God for blessing and expanding our women ministry to all over the world. Through the Internet, sisters from different countries can receive training, participate online for our evangelistic meetings and bring their family for summer projects to strengthen family ties and grow in their spiritual lives. Pray for our staffs to let God look deep into their personal lives and be willing to allow God to purify our motives and motivation in serving Him. Pray for staff to seek God first, to glorify Him in all that we do and not let strategies or results determine our service. Pray for empowerment of the Holy Spirit in all that we do. With the advancement of the internet and SNS, we realized that Taiwanese are more familiar with emojis and stickers. Their vocabulary has deteriorated. It has been challenging using the printed word to share the gospel and also in discipling them. Pray for us to have wisdom as to how we can make the discipleship materials more lively to connect better with our disciples, and also ways to start meaningful spiritual conversations with seekers and collaborating with others to reach the lost. One of the strongholds is a lack of unity among churches and Christian organizations. Pray that God will break down barriers so that we can advance the Kingdom of God as one Body. Pray for opportunities to collaborate with churches and Christian organizations on their areas of strength so that the Holy Spirit can use us mightily to reach the lost in our land.
EASTERN EUROPE AREA Area Team Leader: Marek and Ala Wyrzykowski Expedition Teams: Using Ephesians 3:14-21, pray over the group going on the Impact Tour, 4-13 October. Trip background can be found on the project page: http://prayeurope.com/prayer-projects/momentum-europe-presents-impact-tour-2015/. Pray that the Lord be glorified as both participants and hosts "kneel before the Father" in daily study and prayer. Many things can arise to distract or discourage those going. Ask God to be shield and provider. Area GCM: We are introducing a new measurement system on October 1, starting with Albania, Moldova and Romania. It includes a mobile app and mapping. It is intended to replace GMA worldwide. Pray for q design that will be future-proof and easy to use. Area FamilyLife: Pray for a fruitful starting of FamilyLife in Moldova this fall; pray for the needed training and coaching that is needed; Romania FamilyLife is helping with this kick-off event with pastors. Pray for the volunteer FamilyLife strategy in Hungary. Pray for growth in synergy between countries resourcing other countries as more national ministries are asking for help in beginning FamilyLife; pray for funds needed for a possible Area FamilyLife consultation next year, which our staff are asking for. 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. BELARUS SLM: Pray for older to teach the younger ones disciples, a spirit of repentance, team workers that wish to reach students with the gospel, even on a voluntary or part-time basis. Family Life: Pray about conferences for this ministry year, for starting of groups where there have been conferences and for wisdom and guidance of God in dealing with couples. GCM: Pray for God s protection and wisdom in working with churches, pastors and bishops, asking for new house churches that have strong, faithful leaders and numerical and spiritual growth. Pray for women's ministry in working with new leaders and wisdom in ministering to women and girls. BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA Pray for a good start to the year as our new leaders launch new teams and a new city. We now have campus teams in two cities with the launch of Mostar this fall. Pray for wisdom and energy as we build a digital strategy for BiH. Pray for the spiritual health of our staff as they labor in an environment that is sometimes hostile and often spiritually oppressive. BULGARIA
Praise God: We have formed a new National Leadership Team; pray as we begin this ministry year that we can function well together, find unity in the Spirit and understand God s wisdom for the ministry of Agape Bulgaria. GCM: Pray that God would clarify the direction the team should go in adjusting from a JESUS film/coverage paradigm to a new way of doing church, and that the team will be unified around this direction. SLM: Pray we will get permission to start an English club at one of universities in Varna, Bulgaria and receive permission to organize a seminar How To Study Successfully at University of Medicine in Varna. CROATIA Pray for a fruitful ministry year in partnership with the first STINT team in the city of Split after 12 years of ministering there. Lift up in prayer the Family Life Volunteers' Day in Zagreb - for good attendance and successful vision casting. Pray for Study Skills Academy - that God would raise 50-70 college student mentors, and for good cooperation with the project partners. CZECH REPUBLIC SLM: Praise God for the great team of six STINTers that arrived in September. Pray as we prepare for our first Speak Out (English camp) in July 2016. PrimeNet (ministry to business professionals): Pray for our Real Estate Seminar on Oct. 22, a special outreach meeting for real estate developers. Pray also for organization of the Jan Hus evangelism strategy at BB Centrum in November, a plan to use the 600 th anniversary of Jan Hus death as a tool to reach business people for Christ. DS: Pray for many students to sign up for "Journey to God" evangelistic e-mail series; we had about 140 in March June; pray also for the development and launch of a follow-up e-mail series. Lift up the development of a training web for sharing the gospel and other online tools that could help our field ministry. GEORGIA Praise God: Cru Georgia is now a legal entity in the country. This will make it much easier to do many things, but adding staff is one of the big advantages. Praise God for students met during the European Olympic Youth Festival this summer; pray for SLM as they call up contacts and meet with them, especially four students who will be challenged to be Key Volunteers. Pray for the Expedition Team who will travel to Batumi, Georgia. Pray for them to walk by faith and for God to lead them to potential key volunteers; pray for a new church, comprised chiefly of students, that we hope to launch this fall. HUNGARY Refugee crisis: Thousands of refugees from Syria, Libya and Afghanistan flooded into Hungary. They are without food, housing, etc. We are trying to reach out to them with physical help as well with sharing the gospel, showing the JESUS film at the railway station. These are mainly those from a religious background from countries we could never go to but now in our country so we could share the love of God with them. Transitional process to select the new National Team Leader. Our current NTL is turning over his responsibility at the end of 2016. Pray for a smooth transition and a great selection process which God would use to find the new person. We want to see our nation to come to repentance. We are announcing a National Repentance Day - where we would stand before the Lord and just confess our nation s sins.
KOSOVO Pray that God will keep us all united as a team while we serve together in a hard soil as is Kosovo. Pray for student believers that are involved with us to mature and grow in their level of commitment Pray that God will lead us to the students who are open-hearted for the Lord and that we will see fruit as we reach out to them! MACEDONIA Pray about reaching the freshmen in Skopje and all other university cities in Macedonia. Pray that our Albanian team and all of us to be able to reach the Albanian students in Skopje and Tetovo, especially now as we are trying to connect and build relationships with the freshmen; may this be the year we see the first Albanian student come to the Lord! Pray that our student volunteers and student leaders will be involved in evangelism and that they may be motivated to love the freshmen, connect with them, share the gospel, start Bible study groups in the student dorms and other places, and start mentoring (discipling) the new believers. Pray for our Catalytic team to find and raise up new Key Volunteers in the cities of Macedonia and encourage the ones who are already KVs to start working in teams in effective ways. Pray for the High School team to find new and creative teams to connect with the spiritually open high school students. Pray as they are trying to follow up all the campers who came to Speak Out. The challenge is how to follow up all the students who came from many different cities in Macedonia. Pray that the High School Team can partner somehow with the Catalytic Team in this effort. MOLDOVA SLM: We thank God for 15 volunteers that continue to build movements in the places where they study and they also enlarge their territories in other cities, other universities. The team in Chisinau took responsibility for the whole country, for every university. Pray that we persevere in sharing the gospel with students, discipling them and sending them to enlarge God s Kingdom. The team in Chisinau is trusting God to have four generations of disciples during this year, not in three-four years. LLM: Big pre-evangelistic event, Nov. 18 with Os Guinness, a well-known Christian philosopher for 200 young profesionals and business people in Chisinau. Pray for the follow-up with interested people. We want to help young profesionals and business people to know the relevance of faith in Jesus in their professional and personal life. Pray for more fruit in our lives and ministries. POLAND Pray that we may be able to see our vision realized: 70000 new believers, 7000 leaders, and 7000 fellowships; pray that God will work in us so we will find new and effective ways of evangelism and discipleship. Pray that big events like Connect in October; Josh McDowell in December and World Youth Days in July will be great opportunity to build movements! Pray for our Parliament election on October 25, that many good people who have respect for God will be chosen. ROMANIA NLT: Pray for preparations for our 25 Year Celebration (28-29 Nov.) and the Josh McDowell campaign (Nov. 30 Dec. 2). Pray about our raising about $32,000 for both these events. Pray
for momentum, for many people to turn to God (we pray for 3,000 non-believers to attend the events) and pray for at least 500 new volunteers to join the ministry through them. Pray for SLM Bucharest evangelistic event, October 17: 250 students to attend, the Christian speakers as they share the gospel, at least 100 students to apply for our mentoring program and new Christian volunteers to result. Media: Pray for new staff to join the digital strategies team; thank God for decisions made online and for people who contacted us and are in follow-up. We continue to pray for resources to advertise the website and share the good news online. We need wisdom to finalize the Why Jesus online course intended to be a new resource for follow-up. RUSSIA NTL/NLT: Pray about our leadership development and succession planning on all levels of our organization. Pray for effective use of common movement progress measurements by all MCCs this year. May we see further involvement of Key Volunteers into the New Life staff family (in the spirit of how our Staff Conference went). National Operations Team: Pray about necessary renovations at Moscow Office in connection with fire instruction requirements. We have started the process. Pray for a partnership relationship. National SLM: Please pray for the team in Vladivostok as they launch their A6 project this week. A6 is an intensive, movement-launching project similar in some ways to Expedition. The project will be in Vladivostok for the next five months, and hopes to raise up a significant number of key volunteers as a result of their time. Moscow: May God deepen our prayer life and lead us as we fast. Pray He would give us the opportunity to meet more spiritually interested students (especially girls), with repeated opportunities to meet with them, and God removing any feelings of distrust or suspicion. St. Petersburg: Several believing students from different churches want to join with us to share the gospel to their fellow students by building student movements; pray for wisdom and sensitivity to God s leading as we work with believing students - at this point, we don t have a clear understanding how to do this, for clarity by all of our role as staff and their role as students. National SLM Leadership Team: Pray safety and wisdom for our non-russian staff in the current political climate. National SLM Catalytic Team: Praise God that we have volunteer teams in Volgograd, Ufa, Elista and Vladimir and are forming teams in Ulan Ude, Vladikavkaz, Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk. Praise Him that we have an Expedition Team coming to Yaroslavl and Ivanovo. Ask for wisdom from God how to enlarge our window of influence to include upper classmen. GCM (Siberia) In the course of the past summer s projects, with participation of our key volunteers, more than 100 discipleship groups and 10 new churches have been opened! Pray for the reaching of remote territories: Yakutia, Norilsk, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, so that we could organize GCM trainings there for leaders and key volunteers. Athletes in Action Praise the Lord for volunteers for the sport ministry and for new sport clubs and leagues (soccer) in Siberia. Pray for Extreme Sport Camp, November 7-8.
Lift up in prayer the vision for the sport ministry of Saint Petersburg. 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. SLOVAKIA Speakout English Camp details next year: We are changing locations and will try to double our amount of students, which mean we need to double the American students coming and double the Slovak volunteers that help us. We will start "My Life" outreach program in different communities this fall. Pray for prayer, wisdom, courage, logistics, but mainly for God to bring fruit. Pray about the work of the Operations Team on some new administative and financial tools for field staff that should make their admin. work much less demanding. SLOVENIA FamilyLife: Pray that we can get an Art of Marriage study group started quickly. We did an initial showing last Spring to see if there would be much interest. Interest was high but language was a factor as it is only in English at this point. Pray that those who have good enough English skills would attend. Pray that we could get two more parenting seminars set up in Slovene churches by the end of November. Pray that they would be well attended and that young parents would have the courage to raise their children by biblical principles. Pray that the couples we are working with would be able to get their small groups started soon and that they would be well attended. Pray that those who come to the small groups would be challenged with trusting Christ as their savior and, as a result, many would come to faith in Christ. Pray for the follow-up of our fall retreat. Pray that the decisions that people make at the retreat will continue once they are back in their normal routines of daily life. Pray for the Discipline Them Love Them bible study. Pray that out of this group will come some disciples who will determine to be true followers of Christ. This is a much more in-depth Bible study than some of the other gathering studies. UKRAINE GCM: Praise God for multiple GCM church plants around Lutsk, including 2nd generation. SLM: God has brought about a spiritual boom; every city has well-developed strategies but not enough staff members or teachers for every student. One team registered more than 400 students who wanted to study in English clubs, and they seem to be very open to the gospel. Pray about the re-registration of CrossRoads by the Ministry of Education. Many new students have come to various outreaches across the country during the first month.
Please pray for God to bear fruit among us and for students to be saved as they follow up all the contacts. Praise God that FamilyLife started off with more HomeBuilders groups than expected. There is good cooperation with the local Baptist Union and other churches, and even churches are taking part in the national strategy planning - something really new. FRANCOPHONE AFRICA AREA Area Team Leader: Djasrabe and Cosette Siangar ANGOLA May God provide the financial means to purchase land belonging to Campus Crusade for Christ Angola. So far we are still tenants, and this situation does not allow our movement to be stable. May God help us to develop Christ-centered disciples and encourage the calling in the life of a few who can accept to join full-time in the movement in Angola. May our partnership with local churches lead to the multiplication of spiritual communities and churches. BENIN Pray about the recruitment of six staff couples by June 2016. Pray about the consolidation of ministry departments in our country. Ask the Lord with us for adequate financial resources for our 2020 plan. BURKINA FASO Pray for the presidential and legislative elections of October 11, 2015 to run smoothly. Praise the Lord for the peace and stability of our country. Pray for the conclusions of the meeting with professionals to be applied, for a movement of professionals to be strengthened and the staff support they promised. Pray for recruitment of new staff members. CAMEROON We thank God for the physical health that God has given to the team this year and the work done on the field. Pray for the spiritual health of the team, which has experienced many trials in previous years. May God create abundant resources for sending and training of new volunteers in the new cities we are targeting and on new campuses; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR) Pray that God would give peace and stability throughout the country. May the presidential and legislative elections succeed for His sole glory. Praise God for the safety of the team during various crises. May God give the funds to rebuild the National Office which was devastated during a crisis. Pray for the full financial support of the team members in relation to the area objective for 2020 and also for the total commitment of the body of Christ with us. CHAD We give thanks to God for the 11th edition of the student summer project called Camp Sinai, July 19-26, 2015 at the University of Doba in southern Chad. Over 350 students and
young professionals took part. Students and professionals have raised locally about 9,000,000 FCFA for this camp. Thank you to the Lord for the results: o 04 final year students took a commitment to become full-time staff members. o 07 students decided to give at least one year as volunteers. o More than 1,500 souls were won to Christ in Doba. o Ten people committed to give 100,000 FCFA each ($ 200) for the purchase of a plot of land for CCC Chad in Doba. We thank God for the effective evangelization and discipleship on campuses, among executives and within the churches in Chad. Pray for greater involvement of associate staff members, volunteers and intercessors to life-changing evangelism and discipleship with a great impact on the nation. We implore the Lord for peace and stability in Chad. We pray to the Lord for the proposed acquisition of a building that will rightly belong to CCC Chad; the estimated cost is about 500 million FCFA (about $ 850,000). CONGO BRAZZAVILLE Pray that the movement started at the Congo National University would develop further with a perennial student involvement in the multiplication of disciples and expansion in academic institutions. May the Lord help unblock all situations that impede the re-launch of GCM particularly but also the development of local resources (human, material and financial). Pray for a consensual solution in our country concerning the current debate: Whether to change the current constitution, which prohibits the current president to apply for a third term in 2016. May the Lord prevent the outbreak of violence that already threatens at this stage of verbal confrontations. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC) We praise God for His protection for all our National Team in general and particularly those of eastern DRC. Pray for the insecure political situation, as it goes to the point of disrupting the work on the field in various areas in the country and on many of the university campuses. Thank God, however, for the success of our plan up to date. Pray for the effectiveness of the recruitment and training of the new generation of leaders throughout DRC. Pray for the establishment of 26 provincial coordinations in CPC to match the 26 administrative provinces of the DRC. This involves the recruitment, training and the development of 15 new additional staff. GABON SLM: Pray for stable academic years on our universities. Pray for an explosion of multiplying disciple students who integrate the five elements of CCC culture change. Continue to pray that we will obtain a CCC Gabon Office in the neighborhood of the Omar Bongo Ondimba University, to facilitate the activities geared at building and training disciples. LLM: Let us pray for a movement led by volunteer leader disciples according to CCC standards with a production of multiplying disciples in Family Life Strategies (Family Life), Women Today (Value of Women) and FLAG (Faith and Law through the world). GUINEA Pray for the Lord to give peace throughout the whole of Guinea by: o Eradicating the Ebola virus that has caused a lot of damage and disruption. o The organization of presidential elections on Oct. 11, 2015. May they be free, transparent and without conflict.
May the Lord raise the level of financial support for the staff team of Guinea as a result of quality ministry to partners and efficient support raising. Pray that God will help us to put much emphasis on discipleship, to initiate movements of Christ-centered disciples everywhere. IVORY COAST (CÔTE d IVOIRE) Thank God for the success of the celebration of the 40-year anniversary of Campus Crusade for Christ of Ivory Coast, August 8, 2015. Pray for the ability to maximize the gains of 40 years in order to achieve our strategic objectives in 2020. Thank God for churches planted with different JESUS Film partnerships. Let us pray for the strengthening of relations between Campus Crusade for Christ and churches and missions in Ivory Coast. Thank God for the positive impact of the gifts distributed to the medical center as part of the partnership with GAiN. MALI Praise God for the signature of the peace agreement and for the relative security in Mali. Thank God for His protection and assistance to the staff and their families, despite the growing insecurity in the country. Let us pray for true peace that only the Prince of Peace, Jesus, may grant in Mali. Thank God for the evangelization we have been able to carry on around Bamako and for the few JESUS film teams that are still functional, despite the issues with faulty equipment and insecurity. We are also grateful to God for the help of more than 22 student-disciples in the work of GCM. Pray that each team staff member will be motivated to transform these challenges into opportunities of the moment for the advancement of God's Kingdom in Mali. May God grant the staff members all resources the in their MPD and may He also give CCC Mali all that is required to advance the fulfillment of our strategic plan dubbed "GREEN TATA FOR CHRIST."(Growing a green belt of believers against the advancement of integrism) NIGER Pray for the preparation of two new staff members who will indicate their agreement to commit to full-time service. Pray for the reconstruction of our local office that was ransacked during the Charlie Hebdo protests in Niger. May God provide all the material, financial, human and spiritual resources needed to build a spiritual movement in Niger. SENEGAL We thank God for the students who take the initiative in the movement. We pray that the students would be called by God to commit to full-time service. We thank God for the 2015 mission conference and the participation of Niger. We pray for the realization of our 2015-2016 objectives. We pray that God would grant us an office; we not had one since 2010. TOGO Praise God for the life of the team members (full-time, partners, volunteers and employees) and the role that each of them has played in our work this year: o 67 students were trained for spiritual multiplication at all levels. o 217 trained leaders across all strategies (business executives, HomeBuilders, Athletes in Action).
o 95 people were trained in GCM training programs (Bible storytelling and MC2 strategy). Pray to the Lord that the disciples trained will prove their ability on the field and that they would of souls. Pray for the spiritual movement on our universities to gain visibility on campus and also in the other components. Pray that the team members would make a significant effort in the development of partners and raise funds for their departments. Pray that God would give us someone who will commit to fund development. 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 2020. 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 2016. 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. 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.