Prayer Requests
Please pray for this specific needs from scholars, graduated scholars, staff, board members, and supporters of John Stott Ministries and Langham Partnership International.
August 2010
Greetings from Carlisle! Here are prayer requests from Langham Literature:
Creative
• Please pray for those involved with the SABC, especially Jessica Richard, our Project Editor. The articles and short books need to be finished within the next few months and there is still a significant amount of work to be done.
• Please pray that the books produced under the HippoBooks imprint will change lives in Africa. Pray for the publishers, authors, editors and translators involved in producing HippoBooks and that wise decisions will be made about which books to publish and which publishers to invite to join the consortium.
Distribution
• We are sending out a large order to Indonesia which is being sent from donations received through Langham New Zealand. Due to government sensitivity this is having to be sent in many small boxes and specially marked. Prayer is needed for its safe arrival.
Publisher Development
• Pray for authors in situations where those they work with have little concept of privacy and the need to give time to study. Pray for wisdom and discipline as they struggle to get space to write the books and commentaries that are so sorely needed.
• MONGOLIA: Give thanks for the launch of two Stott titles this month: "Issues Facing Christians Today" (first of 2 volumes), and "Why I am A Christian". Although not yet funded by LL, we have been building a relationship with Abundant Words Publishing which has helped these and other book projects to get underway.
• UKRAINE: We have just had an excellent week's visit from Alexander Bukovietski of Colloquium Publishing. They are tackling a number of major works on Biblical studies and trying to develop a nucleus of thinkers and writers in the Russian and Ukrainian languages. Pray for a much needed breakthrough in sales and distribution in Russia and other Russian speaking republics, as well as continued market development in Ukraine. Alexander asks for particular prayer surrounding a recent order from a Ukrainian political party for a large volume of copies of JESUS AND POLITICS (Alan Storkey). The party representative said "This book is the best expression of our political agenda we can find!"
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Thank you for your prayers for the work of Langham Preaching around the world. Here are a few items for this week of August 2 – a little busier than usual!
Democratic Republic of Congo: this week August 2-5 there is a local training programme in Bunia for 40 preachers from North Kivu. Please pray for Muhindo Isesomo and Mike McGowan as they lead the event, and for the pastors who will be taking part. Give thanks that, at the very last moment, Mike received his visa in Paris, and pray he and pastor Isesomo will have the Lord’s strength for the demands of the training work this week and next.
Bolivia: a Level 1 seminar runs from August 2-5 in the city of Trinidad, and some 50 pastors are expected from the city and from neighbouring towns. Pray for Igor Amestegui and pastor Fernando Fernandez who will be the facilitators, and for Rosendo Vaca and Eval Soliz on the organising committee. Igor asks us to pray for the follow-up through the preachers clubs. He writes: ‘Trinidad is the capital of the department of Beni, in the east of Bolivia, an area which is quite remote from the main axis of La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. Very few Christian institutions travel to these distant locations, so there is a lot of expectation and a great need for training for pastors and lay preachers.’
Myanmar: please pray for the training of 12 local facilitators, August 2-6, led by Paul Barker and Neil, specially for the Anglican church in Myanmar. Pray that the local trainers will be able to strengthen the training of preachers in their towns as a result.
Kenya: the next national training event begins on August 6, with training for local facilitators running before the main seminar next week. Please pray for Mercy Ireri who coordinates the work, and for the facilitators and trainers who will be travelling to Limuru later this week. Mercy was encouraged when she received news that one of the preachers clubs had set aside last Tuesday as a day of prayer and fasting for the seminar.
Zimbabwe: please pray for the next day seminar, to be held on Saturday August 7 in Harare, and for the local team led by John Bell and Gary Cross.
Sierra Leone: Paul, Matthew and Chris have completed their tour of the groups in the rural areas, and have visited 11 preachers clubs out of the 12. The mini-training went well, and ‘it leaves us with hope for the future of bible preaching in Sierra Leone’. Matthew visits the preachers club in the peninsular this week and Chris hopes to conduct a mini-training for the two groups in Freetown soon.
Solomon Islands: a short additional prayer request - 18 regional groups were established at the recent seminar, so please pray they will start meeting and will sustain the preaching movement across the islands.
Thank you for your prayers.
