Category: Africa

Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Webuye.

1. Pray for the children who have come to live at Encouragement Children’s Home to meet the Father Who longs to welcome each one into His family.

2. Pray for God’s blessings in all areas to be on the director of ECH.

3. Pray for the monthly community outreach events that ECH holds to produce much fruit for eternity.

Revelation 4:11

This post was originally published on February 20, 2023.

Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Janjanbureh.

1. Pray for people relaxing on this veranda of the Sitaba Lodge to meet someone exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit, and want that for their own lives.
2. Pray for any couples in Janjanbureh celebrating their anniversary today to know the Lord Who created marriage.
3. The Wassu stone circles are 14 miles from Janjanbureh. Pray for a historian researching those to also find the Biblical answer for the meaning of life here and beyond the grave.

1 Peter 5:7

This post was originally published on January 18, 2022.

Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Dire Dawa.

1. Pray for the people who design and build gates used in Dire Dawa, that they themselves would enter through the straight gate that leads to everlasting life (Matthew 7:13-14).

2. Pray for anyone in Dire Dawa who has lost / will lose a tooth today to hear the good news about salvation this year.

3. Pray for someone selling produce at the Kafira Market to become a Christian, and then be instrumental in leading his family to Christ.

Psalm 96:3

This post was originally published on May 4, 2023.

Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Niamey.

1. The Great Mosque of Niamey (pictured above) can accommodate 15,000 worshippers (https://www.kidventuresai.com/Location/niamey_niger/Activity/visit-the-grand-mosque-of-niamey). It has a minaret with 171 steps. Wikipedia describes a minaret as “a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques. Minarets are generally used to project the Islam call to prayer, but they also serve as landmarks and symbols of Islam’s presence.” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minaret). Pray that 171 people who frequently come to worship here will truly understand and believe that “there is one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.” (1 Tim. 2:5)

2. Niamey is the capital city of Niger. Pray for governmental leaders to make policy decisions and laws that facilitate freedom of religion.

3. Pray for a dozen homeless people in Niamey to find both a physical home now, and a guaranteed promise of future residency in the city with foundations, whose builder and maker is God (Heb. 11:10).

Psalm 96:11

This post was originally published on June 28, 2023.

Lake Victoria is:

1. Africa’s largest lake

2. Earth’s largest tropical lake

3. Earth’s second largest freshwater lake by surface area

Forty million people (and growing quickly every year) live in the drainage basin of Lake Victoria, from the countries of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda. The lake is the source of the Nile River. David Livingston was one of several British explorers in the 1800’s who worked to confirm or deny this fact when it was still in question.

1.   This picture is from a park along the coastline of Mwanza, a Tanzanian town famous for its granite rock. Pray for the next person who steps on the pictured rocks to find a sure footing for life by placing faith in Christ alone.

2.   Just as the Nile’s source was a topic of debate and much exploration, the source of true happiness and significant meaning in life is also. Pray for a Ugandan worker at one of Lake Victoria’s many resorts to personally find the answer to this vital quest.

3.  Harvesting 2,000,000,000 pounds of fish annually, the lake provides the world’s biggest freshwater fish supply. * Pray for Christians among the 200,000 workers in that industry to walk in the Spirit today.

Revelation 22:1,17

*https://www.africangreatlakesinform.org/article/lake-victoria#:~:text=Lake%20Victoria%20is%20the%20world’s,livelihoods%20of%204%20million%20people

Psalm 122:1

“I was glad when they said unto me,

Let us go into the house of the LORD.”

1. The continent of Africa contains 54 nations, 1,000 official languages, and 15% of the world’s population (https://moafrikatours.com/how-many-countries-are-in-africa). Pray for today’s African deacons to be “of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom,” as were the first deacons, described in Acts 6:3.

2.   According to https://www.opendoorsus.org/en-US/persecution/countries/, 19 of those 54 countries have very high or extreme levels of religious persecution. Pray for deacons in those countries to have the hand of God on their lives as they serve His church.

3.   Pray for African deacons to have opportunities to further grow in their understanding of God’s word, and be successful in the discipleship of their children.

Thank you for praying!

Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Bir Anzerane.

1. Western Sahara is a territory on Africa’s Atlantic coast whose occupation and control is disputed by Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. The population is close to 600,000, which is a density of about 6 people per square mile. Nowhere in Western Sahara gets more than 2 inches of rain a year. Pray for people whose souls are as parched as the dry ground to have an opportunity to receive the Living Water, that their spiritual thirst may be quenched.

2. Pray for the gospel to transform the lives of the people at the pictured complex.

3. Pray that if a Christian has been seeking to do a work for God in Western Sahara, that the Father would open doors to make that a reality.

Revelation 3:8

Pray for the Lord to send out workers to Kamina.

1.   Kamina is an important railroad hub for the DRC, having three major connecting lines through the town. Pray for a train engineer to meet a Christian who can / will explain the gospel to him.

2.   Pray for teachers at both the School Mahidio and the University of Kamina to come across books about Biblical Christianity, and be challenged to find out more from the very Word of God.

3.   Pray for an adult who never learned to read to have the opportunity to come to Christ.

Psalm 107:15

This post was originally published on April 10, 2023.

Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Andavadoaka.

1. This road runs for quite a long stretch through Andavadoaka, even connecting it to the town Befandefa. Pray that a person walking on the road today will also get on the narrow road that leads to life (Matthew 7:13-14).
2. Andavadoaka is a fishing village on the west coast of Madagascar. Pray for the oldest fisherman in the village who has always managed to “get away” to be caught by the great Fisher of Men this week.
3. Pray that a child will remember his Creator in the days of his youth (Ecc. 12:1), and that the Creator will give that child an opportunity to know Him personally.

John 14:6

This post was originally published on May 24, 2022.