December 1987
GLOBAL
Your monthly prayer request list is taking on a new look.
This new format coincides with the launching of the Na¬
tional Missions Prayer Plan during the Week of Prayer for
Foreign Missions, November 28 through December 6.
This plan calls for Southern Baptists of all ages and in all
the churches to commit or recommit themselves, which¬
ever the case may be, to pray daily for missions. To en¬
courage increased prayer involvement with world need,
Global PrayerGram includes more requests than were in
our previous publication.
PRAISE
WORLD. Praise God that He is able to use ordinary people to
do His extraordinary work through volunteer projects. Volun¬
teers are committed Christians and active church members
who love missions and want to be involved on the mission field
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the point that they sacrifice vacation time and invest per¬
sonal funds to go.
TOGO. Praise God for the response to the gospel that came to
the Moretan area as a result of the successful North Carolina-
Togo Partnership.
PERU. Praise God for journeymen George and Terri Husk,
who will serve respectively as agricultural evangelist and
elementary MK teacher in Cajamarca.
BOTSWANA. Give thanks for the new church at Mogodit-
shane and pray that it will grow in numbers and in Christian
witness.
ANGOLA. Thank God for the first graduates of the Angola
Baptist Institute, who will receive their certificates sometime
this year and will be seeking God’s will for places of service.
TOGO. Missionary Larry Baker writes of a young woman
who, unable to walk, crawled three miles with her baby on her
back and a young child by her side to express her desire to
become a Christian. Praise God for the convicting power of the
Holy Spirit and pray for this believer to mature in her faith.
PERU. Praise God for 12 recent converts in the town of Jayan-
ca and ask God’s continued blessings on the outreach of
Manuel Cavero, a young national discipled by missionary Bob
Williford.
MALL Give thanks for the energy and enthusiasm of journey¬
man Dan Ruble, who quickly settled into teaching English as a
second language at the Baptist Center in Bamako and also
began an English Bible study with several Ghanaians living in
Bamako.
HONDURAS. Praise God for a recent team of medical vol¬
unteers who spent a week in a village near Tela. They attended
2,022 patients in general medicine, extracted 863 teeth, per¬
formed 431 eye examinations and distributed 6,067 prescrip¬
tions. Professions of faith totaled 367, and a new congregation
formed in a village, Limpira, Yoro.
NAMIBIA. Missionaries David and Beth Whitson praise the
Lord for spiritual and numerical growth in the churches. Pray
that God will raise up national leaders for the churches.
MALAWI. From no church in Southern Mzimba in December
1986, over 50 baptized believers now form a church that is
growing each week. Give thanks to God for Bambo Shawa,
who was led to the Lord through Bible Way Correspondence
School and returned to his home village to start this work.
MOROCCO. Praise God for the reopening of the book store
in Fez, where, after three years of being sealed, only 10 or 12
books were unusable. Thank God for what this store can and
will do.
VOLUNTEERS. Praise God for volunteers who have the vi¬
sion of reaching a lost world through the use of God-given
talents and learned skills.
PRAYER REQUESTS
INDONESIA. Pray for visa renewals for missionaries in In¬
donesia, the world’s fifth most populated nation of 168 million
that is about 90 percent Muslim. Unless the government
changes its course, nearly two-thirds of the Southern Baptist
missionary force— about 50— will have to leave by early 1989.
TOGO. Pray that God will call a volunteer couple for six
months to two years to fill urgent needs resulting from the suc¬
cessful North Carolina-Togo Partnership in the Moretan region.
The husband will help missionaries Mike and Marsha Key
train 56 church leaders in 42 congregations and disciple many
new Christians waiting to be baptized. The wife will teach the
Key children.
PARAGUAY. Missionary Pam Donaldson has made an ex¬
cellent start in learning the Guarani Indian language. She
thanks you for your prayer support and reports she is teaching
a children’s Sunday School class. Pray that she will continue to
grow in language fluency without discouragement.
JAPAN. Don and Joyce Heiss request prayer for a regular
meeting place for a new mission, Tokyo Kita Mission, in
Akabane. They are renting week by week, and sometimes are
unable to locate a place for worship.
MEXICO. Pray for a way to be found to get wells dug in
Pueblo. Government projects with fish, goats, greenhouses,
