Prayer Request

Below are a list of prayer request that we have received from our missionaries and organizations we support, along with letters and information that we would like for you to please lift up in prayer up along with the silent and unknown prayer request of missionaries around the world.

Pray for the upcoming church plant in the Bismarck/Mandan area of North Dakota.
Myanma Bible Institute as they are requesting to give back the old land that the government took away from them in 2000, they now have a civilian government and are going to try to get it back.

Dear Prayer Partners,

The tsunami waves of December 26, 2004 were an immediate tragedy that completely turned upside down the world of the fishing communities along a part of the Andhra Pradesh and all of the Tamil Nadu coast. To this day, no one exactly knows how many lives were snuffed out in the 20 minutes or so when the first and then the second massive, 40 ft waves generated by an earthquake near Indonesia crashed into the eastern coastline of southern India.

That was seven years ago. This December 26th, 2012 was marked by funeral processions and prayers for the dead as well as for the survivors. And then on the night of December 29-20, Cyclone Thane, with its 125 mph winds, struck these same shores...and for up to 10 miles inland. Because the area covered was so much more than the tsunami waves covered, the number of homeless and those without shelter right now is far more than in 2004. But, and we thank our Merciful and All-Powerful God, the loss of life was very small.

The biggest problem right now is drinking water, as it will take weeks and perhaps even months to get the electricity restored. Wires, transformers, electric poles and all the other parts of the electrical system were blown away and are not easy to replace.

In trying to respond to the needs of their Christian brothers and sisters from the survivor groups who now attend churches planted in 2005 and 2006, the church members of the congregations have decided that this Sunday will be a Sunday of prayer for more rain and a rapid restoration of electricity. Until then, each church in Tamil Nadu is taking up a special collection to be sent down to the Tsunami survivor group churches to buy water and storage tanks. This is on Sunday, January 8, 2012.

The Sunday afterwards, January 15, 2012, all Mission-planted churches in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala and Karnataka that can be reached are planning a similar Mission-wide prayer service and special offering.

The leadership of the Christian churches here planted by the Mission have asked me to ask you to pray for the Tsunami survivor church members and their neighbors who do not know Jesus that they might find water while also giving witness and example to the love of Jesus for all who suffer, yet have the opportunity to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. If you like, it would be heart-warming for the churches here in India to know that your church prayed. Could you please send a message to prayformeIndia@gmail.com or to Jodi Seevers at siccm15@gmail.com?

David