Please pray for U.S. volunteers that labor alongside IMB missionaries in Brazil, Costa Rica, and Panama to serve well while on the field and return home ready to share the gospel wherever they go. May many be called to full-time missions or ministry!
Work among the many Indigenous people groups is greatly affected when IMB missionaries must leave the area. Please pray for well-trained, strong local partners and pastors to hold the ropes and carry on the work.
Please pray for the three families currently working in Guatemala. They have varied roles, but all desire to see people in the cities and in the mountains come to salvation through Christ. Pray for them to have strength and for their travels to difficult places.
Global cities across the Americas have decades of history of violence, drugs, and kidnappings. This reality makes it even more urgent to reach as many as possible with the gospel. Pray for God’s Word to be shared widely and effectively.
Pray for all levels of government in the Americas from presidents down to municipal mayors, police, and security guards to hear and obey the call of God to rule justly. Pray that they will carry out His will and not their own.
Traffic, crowds, noises, and distrust of strangers are all sources of apprehension for people in global cities. Please pray for healthy, Baptist churches to be refuges across the Americas, where frightened souls can find God’s peace.
Santiago, Chile has an extreme income disparity between the wealthy who claim cultural Catholicism and the working poor who are more focused on survival rather than spirituality. Pray for more people in this global city to know and worship the God who created them.
Glittering lights and flashing ads call people to buy new and better things. Pray for people in global cities who are trapped by materialism and vanity, seeking to fill their emptiness with possessions. Pray that they will seek God who can fill them with His peace.
Pray for local partners and pastors who are working with displaced peoples on the northern and southern borders of Mexico. Most of the pastors serve in their churches as well as start migrant churches. They are tired and weary, but they continue the work.
In global cities, one Baptist church may be present in an area of 25,000 people. Pray for church planting efforts in these massive cities. Ask God to provide local partners to come alongside IMB missionaries in this enormous task.
Three church members in Lima, Peru said that they had never shared the gospel with anyone and believed that their lifestyle was enough to draw people to Christ. Please ask God to give these believers the boldness to verbally share the gospel with others.
“Ask God to provide good local partners and wisdom for us as we create online ads for digital engagement in our global cities. Pray that people who are seeking the Lord will see our ads at the right time and come to know Him. Pray for us to stay within God’s will.”
Missionaries and local partners are hard at work in Oaxaca, Mexico to reach several people groups and plant new churches where there is little gospel presence. Pray that their labor would not be in vain, and the Lord would be glorified in them and through them.
Populations in global cities are experiencing soaring rates of depression and suicide. Pray that hurting people will find healing and salvation in Jesus. Pray for people to turn to Him and find hope and abundant life.
Immigration can be extremely difficult in the Americas as governments, rules, and requirements change frequently, often without warning. Pray for missionaries to have favor with immigration officials for visa and residency matters. Pray for patience and peace.
