In Our Prayers — 5/12

MSC

Members of CMF’s Board of Directors will meet in Indianapolis May 6-8. Please pray for safe travels for all the meeting participants and for productive board discussions.

Two couples, Preston and Kristin Coursey and Caleb and Christy Phillips, will be commissioned for service by the board members on Sunday evening. Both couples will be working with the Urban Poor in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Please pray for 220 individuals to respond to the learning opportunity of three classes of the missions course, “Perspectives on the World Christian Movement,” that will take place in the fall in the Indianapolis area. Classes will be held at Outlook Christian Church (East), Traders Point Christian Church (NW) and OMS Chapel (South).

Turkana, Kenya

CMF missionary Gene Morden and his water team have stepped out on faith to publicly announce their goal of drilling 48 wells in 2012. Ten of these have been completed so far. Please pray that the resources — $2500 for each hand-dug well and hand pump – will be available to complete the additional 38 wells this year. Church Catalyst Director David Giles reports that the 13 new churches and more than 1,000 baptisms in Turkana in 2011 were directly linked with the water project outreach.

Southeast Asia

Some national Christians who are well-known to our long-time missionaries in this country have been suffering dire persecution for their faith and evangelism efforts and had to evacuate from their homeland this past week. Please pray for guidance in their next steps.

Tanzania

Scott and Annelle Price continue to forge ahead with the task of launching the BUV (Basic Utility Vehicle) business as mission project in Arusha. Five of the BUVs have been purchased and are awaiting shipment. Right now the Prices are waiting for the release of their business visas (hopefully by May 20) and looking for a site to complete the BUV assembly in Arusha. Please pray that God will bless their faith and hard work on this project.

Spain

The Globalscope EnVivo team, led by Jesse and Sophie Bentley, held another successful spring retreat recently. The team took a busload of 40 students and staff to a site outside of Madrid for a weekend of fun, learning and community-building, built around the topic of God’s view of love, romance and sex. The students were visibly impacted by the weekend, report the Bentleys. They ask for your prayers for these young people who are just beginning to learn more about the abundant life available through Jesus Christ.