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PRAISES:
Jesus at the Hospital Ministry
Praise God for the giving hearts and hands of a youth group at the Dusbuliga Church of the Nazarene in Ghana who have started a ministry called “Jesus at the Hospital.” The ministry helps women who have just given birth to leave the hospital with their bills paid in full. Often, if the mother was not able to pay her bill when it comes time to take her baby home, the hospital will retain the infant until the bill is paid. Click here to read the whole story in Out of Africa.
Ecuador Retreat
We give praise to the Lord for a wonderful National Pastor’s Retreat in Ecuador last weekend. Around 200 pastors gathered for a two-day retreat. It was the first time in many years where all Ecuadorian district pastors met together. The time was a blessing to those who attended.
Nancy Miller
Thank you for praying for missionary Nancy Miller. She has been released from the hospital in the Philippines. Nancy says, “I am feeling much better, but I could be on oxygen therapy for a long time, especially living in the mountains. I want to thank everyone for their prayers. I know it has made a difference. Please continue to pray. George and I are trying to adjust our thinking to a possible new way of life… living attached to an oxygen bottle.”
PRAY FOR:
GLOBAL MINISTRY REQUESTS
Tell THE Story
A “Tell THE Story” training is taking place in Papua New Guinea (PNG) this week. Missionaries Ray and Becki Neu share ways to pray as PNG men and women deeply learn God’s word and how to effectively share it in their communities.
Pray for continued movement in the growth towards national revival. Pray for sensitivity to God's Spirit and leading. Pray for the visit to Parliament House.
Pray for the Bible Story Training to continue to spread and for Thursday’straining to be well understood (translated) and embraced.
Pray for the event leaders who are working so very hard. Pray for favorable weather to continue, as threatening weather could really hinder what God is doing.
To learn more about “Tell THE Story”, click here to got to their website.
PML Field Focus – South East Asia
This month we will look at the work God is doing in the South East Asia Field (SE Asia). The SE Asia Field is the countries of Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand and it is home to South East Asia Nazarene Bible College. The Church of the Nazarene officially began work on this field in the country Myanmar (formerly Burma) in 1984. Today we will focus our prayers on Myanmar. For interesting facts about the SE Asia Field and the Church of the Nazarene’s work there, click here to go to PML’s printable version.
Ways to Rejoice With Myanmar
Praise for 150 youth who attended a youth rally in Myanmar in May.
Praise for the first Myanmar District pastors/Bible College students conference in May.
Praise for successful summer children's camps serving more than 1,300 children across Myanmar.
Ways to Pray for Myanmar
Pray for the Myanmar District’s goal of planting more than 60 churches by the year 2020.
Myanmar is currently dealing with heavy flooding after unusually heavy monsoonal rains. According to the UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs, the floods have affected more than 156,000 people but the total could be “significantly higher.” Read more in this article from the Asia-Pacific Region.
BLOG, FEATURE, NEWS, SOUTHEAST ASIA, URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
MONSOONAL RAINS LEAVING FLOODING AND DEVASTATION IN WESTERN MYANMAR ** UPDATE! PLEASE PRAY!
Tahan – Kalaymyo, Myanmar: The rainy season has arrived in full force throughout SE Asia, bringing along monsoonal rains that have completely inundated entire regions of Myanmar, India and Northern Vietnam.
According to BBC World News, these rains that began in July, have left at least 27 people dead in 4 western regions of Myanmar that have been declared disaster areas. There are reports that entire villages have been buried under landslides, so the casualty numbers are sure to rise.
A landslide in Manipur state hit a remote village in Chandel district, bordering Myanmar, early on Saturday. Rescue teams were not expected to get there until Sunday because of heavy rains and landslides. Continuous rain in recent days has washed away bridges and roads and left thousands homeless, according to local officials.
Report from our Nazarenes (*** Update Below)
One of our leaders in the area sent in the following report:
Please pray for Tahan-Kalaymyo where most of our church members are living. Tahan-Kalaymyo is home to over 400,000. It has 80,000 acres of rice fields, 40,000 acres of peas, 40,000 acres for cooking oil crops. Most cultivation areas were full of flooded water with a strong force of rivers.
Report from our Nazarenes (*** Update Below)
One of our leaders in the area sent in the following report:
Please pray for Tahan-Kalaymyo where most of our church members are living. Tahan-Kalaymyo is home to over 400,000. It has 80,000 acres of rice fields, 40,000 acres of peas, 40,000 acres for cooking oil crops. Most cultivation areas were full of flooded water with a strong force of rivers.
(Credit: Channel News Asia)
The flood destroyed almost all of the district of Kalaymyo areas. Schools are closed, prisons are evacuated, hospitals are flooded and patients are being removed to safe places.
The flood destroyed almost all of the district of Kalaymyo areas. Schools are closed, prisons are evacuated, hospitals are flooded and patients are being removed to safe places.
Many of the bridges have been destroyed. Thousands from the flooding areas are homeless and have moved to the Tahan schools for shelter. Some villages were completely submerged and destroyed in the flood. Many lives have been lost. According to the latest weather forecasts, the heavy rains are expected to continue in the Saggain, Kachin, Chin, Magwe, and Rakhine Regions.
We have several local churches throughout the region, and most of our churches members live in these flooded areas. We have not yet received reports about the number of Nazarenes who have lost their homes or even worse, their lives. They are in the midst of some very difficult times.
Please pray for our local, field, and regional leadership as they look at the needs and assess how the church can best respond to this monumental crisis.
*** August 3, 2015 Update ***
In one of the villages on the road to India, where many of our Nazarene’s live, more than 100 homes were swept away and at least 750 acres of rice were completely destroyed.
Please pray for our local, field, and regional leadership as they look at the needs and assess how the church can best respond to this monumental crisis.
*** August 3, 2015 Update ***
In one of the villages on the road to India, where many of our Nazarene’s live, more than 100 homes were swept away and at least 750 acres of rice were completely destroyed.
Nazarene Widow’s Home
One of our Nazarene widows, was one whose home was swept away. The local Nazarene pastor and church members responded to rescue her.
One of our Nazarene widows, was one whose home was swept away. The local Nazarene pastor and church members responded to rescue her.
Flood waters diminish and now the process of removing the mud begins.
One of our Nazarene Churches in Tahan was full of thick mud.
Reports at this time are that the majority of our Nazarenes are safe. Work is still ongoing to establish contact with the isolated areas.
The rains have subsided a bit and the water is starting to dissipate.
Thank you for your ongoing prayers!
Please commit to bring this prayer need before your local churches this week!
One of our Nazarene Churches in Tahan was full of thick mud.
Reports at this time are that the majority of our Nazarenes are safe. Work is still ongoing to establish contact with the isolated areas.
The rains have subsided a bit and the water is starting to dissipate.
Thank you for your ongoing prayers!
Please commit to bring this prayer need before your local churches this week!
August Prayer Focus
Please pray for the requests of these missionaries who are part of the August Prayer Focus:
Don and Evie Gardner, serving in Kenya
Join us in praying for the upcoming Africa Regional and District Superintendent Conferences. Our prayer is that God would use these events to bring a revival like none of us have ever seen. With men and women coming from 20 or so countries, if we catch fire, it should spread through the whole continent.
Pray for our middle daughter, Erin, and her family. They are contemplating a move from Oklahoma City to Colorado. Pray for the Holy Spirit’s guidance in their decision.
Pray for pastors and churches in refugee camps in East Africa, that the Lord will continue to meet their needs and enable them to share His love with those around them
General Superintendents
Please pray for the ministry and safety of the General Superintendents who are traveling this month:
Jerry D. Porter
J. K. Warrick
Eugénio Duarte
David W. Graves
David A. Busic
Gustavo A. Crocker
HEALTH-RELATED REQUESTS
David Phillips—UPDATE
David Phillips is recovering well from recent cancer surgery and will now have chemotherapy treatments. David and his wife, Naomi, are consulting with physicians about the type of chemo, length of treatment, and where to get them. The Phillips say, “Thank you so much for your incredible prayers and encouragement, and for your continued prayers. We feel so loved and supported.” David and Naomi serve on the South Asia Field.
BEREAVEMENT
Family of Frances Vine
Retired missionary Frances Vine passed away on August 2. Service arrangements are pending. Please be in prayer for Frances’s family and friends. She served for 23 years in the Philippines.
Family of Lillian Couse
Lillian Couse passed away on July 27. A funeral service was held in New Port Richey, Florida, on August 1. Lillian was the mother of missionary Sandy Cunningham. Please pray for the family during this time. Sandy, and her husband, John, served in Africa for many years and now minister through JESUS Film Harvest Partners (JFHP). Memorial gifts in Lillian’s honor can be made through JFHP by writing info@jfhp.org.
Family of Mervis Hendrix
Pastor Sawahenga Hendrix's wife, Mervis, died on July 27 after a being bitten by a puff adder snake. She was fetching firewood on her farm when she stepped on the snake. She was taken to the hospital, where she passed away two days later. Mervis was 36-years-old and mother to seven children. She was a chairwoman for women's fellowship at the zone level and was an active Sunday school teacher at Chun'U Church of the Nazarene in Zambia. Please lift her grieving family and church in prayer.
Thank you for praying.
"It takes courage to listen with our whole heart to the tick of God’s timing, rather than march to the loud beat of our fears."[Ann Voskamp, A Holy Experience - for all us hope-ers: when things aren’t working out as we’d hoped]
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Don and Evie Gardner, serving in Kenya
Join us in praying for the upcoming Africa Regional and District Superintendent Conferences. Our prayer is that God would use these events to bring a revival like none of us have ever seen. With men and women coming from 20 or so countries, if we catch fire, it should spread through the whole continent.
Pray for our middle daughter, Erin, and her family. They are contemplating a move from Oklahoma City to Colorado. Pray for the Holy Spirit’s guidance in their decision.
Pray for pastors and churches in refugee camps in East Africa, that the Lord will continue to meet their needs and enable them to share His love with those around them
General Superintendents
Please pray for the ministry and safety of the General Superintendents who are traveling this month:
Jerry D. Porter
J. K. Warrick
Eugénio Duarte
David W. Graves
David A. Busic
Gustavo A. Crocker
HEALTH-RELATED REQUESTS
David Phillips—UPDATE
David Phillips is recovering well from recent cancer surgery and will now have chemotherapy treatments. David and his wife, Naomi, are consulting with physicians about the type of chemo, length of treatment, and where to get them. The Phillips say, “Thank you so much for your incredible prayers and encouragement, and for your continued prayers. We feel so loved and supported.” David and Naomi serve on the South Asia Field.
BEREAVEMENT
Family of Frances Vine
Retired missionary Frances Vine passed away on August 2. Service arrangements are pending. Please be in prayer for Frances’s family and friends. She served for 23 years in the Philippines.
Family of Lillian Couse
Lillian Couse passed away on July 27. A funeral service was held in New Port Richey, Florida, on August 1. Lillian was the mother of missionary Sandy Cunningham. Please pray for the family during this time. Sandy, and her husband, John, served in Africa for many years and now minister through JESUS Film Harvest Partners (JFHP). Memorial gifts in Lillian’s honor can be made through JFHP by writing info@jfhp.org.
Family of Mervis Hendrix
Pastor Sawahenga Hendrix's wife, Mervis, died on July 27 after a being bitten by a puff adder snake. She was fetching firewood on her farm when she stepped on the snake. She was taken to the hospital, where she passed away two days later. Mervis was 36-years-old and mother to seven children. She was a chairwoman for women's fellowship at the zone level and was an active Sunday school teacher at Chun'U Church of the Nazarene in Zambia. Please lift her grieving family and church in prayer.
Thank you for praying.
"It takes courage to listen with our whole heart to the tick of God’s timing, rather than march to the loud beat of our fears."[Ann Voskamp, A Holy Experience - for all us hope-ers: when things aren’t working out as we’d hoped]
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NMI Prayer Mobilization Line for Wednesday, 5 August 2015 “I wait quietly before God, for my victory comes from him.”[Psalm 62:1 NLT]
PRAISE
Jesus at the Hospital Ministry
In some Ghana hospitals, pregnant women can have their babies and receive necessary medical care, even if they arrive at the hospital without cash. However, if the mother isn’t able to pay her bill when it's time to go home, the hospitals will retain their babies until all expenses are paid. When the youth at Ghana’s Dusbuliga Church of the Nazarene learned of the ordeal some new mothers face, they mobilized a fundraising effort. Within 10-hours, they raised $120USD.
The funds allowed for the release of 5 mothers and their newborns. But, that’s not all to the story, the youth group has continued raising money by planting, harvesting, and selling rice. In the past
three months, the teens have paid the debt of 45 mothers, paid tuition fees for two school dropouts and supplied pens and pencils to nearby village school children.
“Praise God for the giving hearts and hands of the youth at the Dusbuliga Church.
Ecuador Retreat
We give praise to the Lord for a wonderful National Pastor’s Retreat in Ecuador last weekend.
Around 200 pastors gathered for a two-day retreat. It was the first time in many years where all Ecuadorian district pastors met together. The time was a blessing to those who attended.
Nancy Miller
Thank you for praying for missionary, Nancy Miller. She has been released from the hospital in the Philippines and is home recovering. Nancy says, “I am on oxygen to relieve pressure on my
heart caused by the pressure in my lungs from excess fluid. The outward signs that sent me to the hospital were very swollen legs, which have greatly improved. I am feeling much better, but I
could be on oxygen therapy for a long time, especially living in the mountains. I want to thank everyone for their prayers. I know it has made a difference. Please continue to pray. George and I are trying to adjust our thinking to a possible new way of life… living attached to an oxygen bottle.”
PRAY FOR
Tell THE Story
A “Tell THE Story”* training is taking place in Papua New Guinea (PNG) this week. Missionaries Ray and Becki Neu share ways to pray as PNG men and women deeply learn God’s word and how to effectively share it in their communities.
• Pray for continued movement in the growth towards national revival. Pray for sensitivity to God's Spirit and leading. Pray for the visit to Parliament House.
• Pray for the Bible Story Training to continue to spread and for Thursday’s training to be well understood (translated) and embraced.
• Pray for the event leaders who are working so very hard. Pray for favorable weather to continue, as threatening weather could really hinder what God is doing.
*Tell THE Story" is an inductive Bible Study method that allows the listeners to hear the stories in their full context, and then discover the truths in that story through a Socratic approach. It is
useful for discipleship, evangelism, small groups, Sunday School, missions, and preaching.
PML Field Focus – South East Asia
This month we will take a deeper look into the work God is doing in the South East Asia Field (SE Asia) and share ways to rejoice and pray. The SE Asia Field is the countries of Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand and it is home to South East Asia Nazarene Bible College. The Church of the Nazarene officially began work on this field in the country Myanmar (formerly Burma) in 1984 and today we will focus learning about and praying for Myanmar:
Bordered by Bangladesh, India, China, Laos, and Thailand, one-third of Myanmar’s total perimeter of 1,200 miles forms an uninterrupted coastline along the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. It is famous for its rice (once known as the rice capital of the world), teakwood, jade, and opium. It has also been called “The Land of the Pagodas,” high-lighting the fact that 80 percent of the population is Buddhist.
• Majority language: Burmese and multiple tribal languages
• Population: 55-60 million depending on reporting source
• Cities: Naipidaw (the country’s capital) Mandalay, Bagan, and Yangon are major cities
• Provinces: 14 provinces
• Number of Christians: 3% of population
• Number of Nazarene districts: 2 - Myanmar District, Northern Myanmar District
• Number of Nazarene churches: Myanmar District has 22 churches with 2,750 members; Northern Myanmar District has nine churches with approximately 500 members.
Ways to Rejoice for Myanmar:
• Praise for 150 youth who attended a youth rally in Myanmar in May.
• Praise for the first Myanmar District pastors/Bible College students conference in May.
• Praise for successful summer children's camps serving more than 1,300 children across Myanmar.
Ways to Pray for Myanmar
• Pray for the Myanmar District’s goal of planting more than 60 churches by the year 2020.
• Myanmar is currently dealing with heavy flooding after unusually heavy monsoonal rains.
According to the UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs, the floods have affected more than 156,000 people but the total could be “significantly higher.”
August Prayer Focus
Please pray for the requests of these missionaries who are part of the August Prayer Focus:
Don and Evie Gardner, serving in Kenya
• Join us in praying for the upcoming Regional and District Superintendent Conferences.
Pray for a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit on His people. Our prayer is that God would use these events to bring a revival like none of us have ever seen. With men and women coming from 20 or so countries, if we catch fire, it should spread through the whole
continent.
• Please pray for Evie, since she is the main coordinator.
• Pray for our middle daughter, Erin, and her family. They are contemplating a move from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Colorado. Pray for the Holy Spirit’s guidance in their decision.
• Pray for pastors and churches in refugee camps in East Africa, that the Lord will continue to meet their needs and enable them to share His love with those around them.
• Pray for God’s peace and love to cover the land and people of South Sudan.
• We continue to pray for the countries in North Africa, that God would open the way.
General Superintendents
Please pray for the ministry and safety of the General Superintendents who are traveling this
month:
Jerry D. Porter
J. K. Warrick
Eugénio Duarte
David W. Graves
David A. Busic
Gustavo A. Crocker
HEALTH-RELATED REQUESTS
David Phillips—UPDATE
David Phillips is recovering well from recent cancer surgery. Doctors have now prescribed chemotherapy treatments. David and his wife, Naomi, are consulting with physicians about the type of chemo, length of treatment, and where to get them. The Phillips say, “Thank you so muchfor your incredible prayers and encouragement to-date, and for your continued prayers. We feel so loved and supported. David and Naomi serve on the South Asia Field.
BEREAVEMENT
Family of Frances Vine
Retired missionary Frances Vine passed away on August 2. Service arrangements are pending.
Please be in prayer for Frances’s family and friends. She served for 23 years in the Philippines.
Family of Lillian Couse
Lillian Couse passed away on July 27. A funeral service was held in New Port Richey, Florida, on August 1. Lillian was the mother of missionary Sandy Cunningham. Please pray for the family during this time. Sandy, and her husband, John, served in Africa for many years and now minister through JESUS Film Harvest Partners (JFHP).
Family of Mervis Hendrix
Pastor Sawahenga Hendrix's wife, Mervis, died on July 27 after a being bitten by a puff adder snake. She was fetching firewood on her farm when she stepped on the snake. She was taken to the hospital, where she passed away two days later. Mervis was 36-years-old and mother to seven children. She was a chairwoman for women's fellowship at the zone level and was an active Sunday school teacher at Chun'U Church of the Nazarene in Zambia. Please lift her
grieving family and church in prayer.
Thanks for praying.
“It takes courage to listen with our whole heart to the tick of God’s timing, rather than march to the loud beat of our fears.”[Ann Voskamp, A Holy Experience - for all us hope-ers: when things aren’t working out as we’d hoped ]
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