2023-2024 Missions and Community Outreach Prayer Guide

TABLE OF CONTENTS GLOBAL WORKERS

GLOBAL PARTNERS

Our Missions Family

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Missionaries by Region

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Missionaries by Ministry Focus

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LOCAL PARTNERS

Missionary Bios

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Evangelist Bios

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WATCH Workers

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Partner Organizations

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Training National Leaders

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WE BELIEVE GOD WORKS THROUGH PRAYER In this guide, you will learn about College Church’s supported ministry partners and become better equipped to pray for them. We believe that God works through prayer, and we invite you to participate in his mighty plan for the world in this way.

The prayer guide is arranged into three sections: 1) Global Workers, 2) Global Partners and 3) Local Partners. Please join us in asking the Lord for strength, wisdom, endurance, faithfulness and fruitfulness for both the individuals and institutions in this prayer guide.

We invite you to read through this guide in its entirety, as you pray for a ministry partner each day. Also, you might consider receiving the newsletter of a particular individual, personally connecting with them or supporting them. If you would like to get in touch with any of our ministry partners, our staff is more than happy to connect you. Please email missions@college-church.org or call (630) 668-0878.

May the Lord bless you as you seek him in prayer.

I PRAY that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that

you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. EPHESIANS 1:18-19 (NIV)

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Our Missions Family 87 career missionary units 2 midterm missionary units (3 months to 3 years) 5 missions associates Serving in 37 different countries

JESUS came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. MATTHEW 28:18-20

NORTH AMERICA 30 CAREER

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LATIN AMERICA 10 CAREER

EUROPE 17 CAREER 1 MIDTERM

AFTER THIS I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” REVELATION 7:9-10

AFRICA 6 CAREER 1 MIDTERM

MIDDLE EAST/ NORTH AFRICA (MENA) 9 CAREER

ASIA 15 CAREER

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Missionaries by Region †Missions Associate (prayer support only)

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NORTH AMERICA Adams, Paul & Mary Albright, Dick Baur, Phil & Ann Beasley, Norm & Cathy Blackburn, Brian & Warrie Janet Bradley, Karen Cole, Curt & Karen Deyneka, Anita† Duttweiler, Rod & Kathy Greeson, Joe & Holly Haley, Jon & Kathy Hansen, Jim & Kathy Hawkins, Scott & Jenny† Kelly, Todd & Sue Krogh, Steve & Lois L, Dan & Beth Maust, John & Elsa McAuley, Thad & Joy McKinley, Rick & Janice Miller, Terri Pelz, Jeff & Jane Perlman, Susan Romero, Marcos & Mariana Sattler, Tim & Judy Smith, Phil & Jessica Smith, Tim & Deanna† Tahear, Emmanuel & Adugna Wickberg, John & Vivi† WATCH (5)

LATIN AMERICA

ASIA

Becker, Robbie & Lauren Befus, Matt & Lisa Bradley, Kyle & Dariana Blumhofer, Judy Cox, Steve & Mirian Dresselhaus, Steve & Lois Hurst, Greg & Faith Simons, Jon & Teresa Trautwein, Victor & Leslie VanDerMolen, Jeff & Ann

Cole, Joan† Finn, Jake & Honah Hershberger, Jeff & Tamara Jeff & Irene Pardue, Steve & Teri Pehrson, Ben & Mandy Waldrop, John & Esther Warner, Melissa WATCH (10)

EUROPE Beck, Nathan & Vera Davis, Giles & Debbie Dunckel, Joshua & Kara Faber, Bob & Becky Harris, Jonathan & Amy Hatcher, Jim & Lynette Klopfenstein, Sara & Manu Lundell, Mihai & Tamara Miller, Kristiana & Cory Nichols, Greg & Debby Okoro, Stanley & Marjorie Otten, Jeremy & Christy Sánchez, José Pablo & Jane Stough, Isaac & Jennifer Warner, Charley & Cheryl Wiebe, Chad & Leanna WATCH (1)

MIDDLE EAST/ NORTH AFRICA (MENA) WATCH (8)

AFRICA Avery, Tim & Carol Duttweiler, Caleb & Marisa Rigby, Stephen & Karis Stough, Bill & Laurie Viands, Jamie & Kim WATCH (3)

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Missionaries by Ministry Focus †Missions Associate (prayer support only)

ADMINISTRATION & ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP Baur, Phil & Ann Beasley, Norm & Cathy Blackburn, Brian & Warrie Cole, Curt & Karen Deyneka, Anita† Duttweiler, Rod & Kathy Faber, Bob & Becky Maust, John & Elsa McAuley, Thad & Joy Miller, Terri Perlman, Susan Romero, Marcos & Mariana Smith, Phil & Jessica Wickberg, John & Vivi† 3 WATCH

CHURCH PLANTING & LEADERSHIP Dresselhaus, Steve & Lois Haley, Jon & Kathy Hershberger, Jeff & Tamara Hurst, Greg & Faith Okoro, Stanley & Marjorie 2 WATCH

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Blumhofer, Judy Klopfenstein, Sara & Manu Stough, Bill & Laurie Trautwein, Victor & Leslie VanDerMolen, Jeff & Ann 2 WATCH

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EDUCATION

MOBILIZATION

Becker, Robbie & Lauren Befus, Matt & Lisa Janet Tebbe, Dan & Michelle 3 WATCH

Hansen, Jim & Kathy Wiebe, Chad & Leanna

EVANGELISM, DISCIPLESHIP & TRAINING Avery, Tim & Carol Beck, Nathan & Vera Bradley, Kyle & Dariana Cole, Joan† Cox, Steve & Mirian Davis, Giles & Debbie Dunckel, Joshua & Kara Duttweiler, Caleb & Marisa Harris, Jonathan & Amy Hatcher, Jim & Lynette Hawkins, Scott & Jenny† McKinley, Rick & Janice Nichols, Greg & Debby Pelz, Jeff & Jane Rigby, Stephen & Karis Sánchez, José Pablo & Jane Stough, Isaac & Jennifer Tahear, Emmanuel & Adugna 9 WATCH

TRAINING NATIONAL LEADERS (GLOBAL) Otten, Jeremy & Christy Pardue, Steve & Teri Simons, Jon & Teresa Viands, Jamie & Kim Waldrop, John & Esther 1 WATCH

TRAINING NATIONAL LEADERS (U.S. BASED) Adams, Paul & Mary Albright, Dick & Roslyn Kelly, Todd & Sue Krogh, Steve & Lois

Sattler, Tim & Judy

TRANSLATION Bradley, Karen Mellema, Jeff & Irene Pehrson, Ben & Mandy Wickberg, John & Vivi† 1 WATCH

MEMBER CARE Finn, Jake & Honah Greeson, Joe & Holly L, Dan & Beth Lundell, Mihai & Tammy Miller, Kristiana & Cory Smith, Tim & Deanna† Warner, Charley & Cheryl Warner, Melissa 3 WATCH 7

PAUL & MARY ADAMS serve with WordPartners in the work of equipping pastors to train pastors to preach God’s Word with God’s heart. Paul coordinates the effort to communicate what God is doing to transform the lives and ministries of pastors all around the world through his life-giving Word.

• Pray that the Lord will draw Paul and Mary ever closer to Him so they may walk with Him faithfully.

• Pray that the Lord gives wisdom to the WordPartners team so they may be faithful to him and the work he gives them to do.

DICK & ROSLYN ALBRIGHT serve with Training Leaders International (TLI). Dick is an international trainer, mentoring and leading teams of other theological trainers, pastors and seminary students. These groups bring theological education and training in biblical interpretation and expository preaching to pastors and church leaders around the world, most of whom lack the means to attend Bible school or seminary.

• Pray for TLI to wisely use the resources God has entrusted to them.

• Pray for the TLI teaching teams to communicate clearly so that pastors and church leaders around the world are strengthened and encouraged in their ability to handle God’s Word faithfully.

TIM & CAROL AVERY work with Pioneers International in Nairobi, Kenya.

Tim serves as publishing director for Ekklesia Afrika, a local ministry that exists to supply the African church with sound theological resources. As part of that role, Tim helps African pastors write books to distribute in East Africa and beyond. In addition, Tim teaches part-time in a local seminary. Tim and Carol are part of a local church, along with their three young daughters.

• Pray for the Averys to form deep friendships in their church and community, for Tim to teach well and lead the publishing work wisely, and for Carol to begin well in the adventure of homeschooling.

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PHIL & ANN BAUR have been actively involved in ministry for more than 35 years. Presently they both serve at the head­quarters of Pioneers International/USA in Orlando, Florida. Pioneers’ mission is the relentless pursuit of God’s glory among the unreached through church planting. Together Phil and Ann work alongside the president of Pioneers, assisting with international collaboration gatherings, board meetings, advancement events, crisis manage­ment and providing executive support wherever needed. Ann also serves on the board of directors of CAMP-of-the-WOODS in upstate New York.

• Pray for wisdom for the Baurs as they model Christ to their children and grandchildren.

• Pray for Phil and Ann as they each take on more responsibilities within their roles at Pioneers.

NORM & CATHY BEASLEY work with Wycliffe Bible Translators (SIL International) in Waxhaw, North Carolina. Norm is the director of global crisis management services. He trains missionaries to assess and avoid risk, planning for contingencies and ensuring that members are cared for during and after a crisis. He is also an investigator on the team that works to protect missionary children. Norm networks with many missions organizations and interacts with multiple government agencies, building relationships to partner with them in the event of a crisis for global missionaries.

• Pray for wisdom and strength as Norm resumes a heavy workload while incorporating a healthier lifestyle.

• Pray for Cathy as she supports Norm in his role, as well as their adult children.

NATHAN & VERA BECK serve with Greater Europe Mission in Opava, Czech Republic. They are involved in various teaching, training and preaching ministries. Their passion and focus is making disciples, and Nathan regularly coaches missionaries across the continent in the discipleship multiplication process. Together with local Christians, they use Discovery Bible Studies to reach non-believers in their community and around the country.

Nathan and Vera are both passionate about equipping missionaries, pastors and lay believers around Europe to be disciples of Jesus.

• Pray for Czech believers to grow in discipleship and gain a vision to reach all people with the gospel.

• Pray for joy for Nathan and Vera in this season of parenting.

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ROBBIE & LAUREN BECKER are beginning their 11th year at El Camino Academy (ECA) in Bogotá, Colombia. ECA is an international Christian school, which is part of the Association of Christian Schools International. Robbie is the high school Bible teacher and chaplain. Lauren takes care of their four children at home, seeks to build relationships with their neighbors, leads a young mom’s Bible study and is president of the ECA board. A major focus of their ministry is to disciple and send out Colombians as missionaries to the unreached peoples of Colombia and the world.

• Pray for wisdom as Robbie and Lauren lead in a variety of ways and seek to spread a passion for missions to the unreached among Colombians. Pray for strategic ideas and partnerships with solid local churches to help send out missionaries.

• Pray for softened hearts and open eyes for Robbie’s students as he shares the gospel and needs of the world with them.

MATT & LISA BEFUS serve through Christian education in Costa Rica at La Palabra de Vida, a Christian school serving 330 national students from daycare through high school. Lisa and Matt continue to serve at LPDV, but are widening their focus to assist churches and individuals throughout Costa Rica who are seeking to improve education in their communities with higher standards within a Christ-centered worldview.

• Pray for LPDV administrators and teachers to lead and mentor well.

• Praise the Lord for opportunities to impact communities beyond LPDV. Pray for discernment in how best to support them.

• Pray for daughter Natalia’s transition from online classes to a local international high school for her junior year.

BRIAN & WARRIE BLACKBURN have served with Mercy Ships since 1994, both on board the ships and at the mission headquarters.

Mercy Ships aspires to follow the model of Jesus to bring hope and healing to the world’s forgotten poor, specifically targeting those in need on the continent of Africa. Brian and Warrie are currently serving at the Mercy Ships headquarters in Texas.

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Warrie serves in the chaplaincy department, and Brian provides administrative oversight for the Academy (educational program for school-aged children of volunteer crew members living on board the vessels).

• Pray that Brian and Warrie would know the leading of the Lord in their work and in this unique season of parenting.

JANET works with Services in Asia for Family Education (SAFE) as an education consultant for families living overseas. Janet assists these families with educational and transitional challenges they face, allowing them to remain where God has called them to serve.

• Pray for Janet to be a means of God’s grace and help to third-culture kids and their families.

• Pray for these families as they face significant challenges parenting and educating their children internationally and transitioning between cultures.

JUDY BLUMHOFER provides medical care, training and administrative support for the families served through Give Hope 2 Kids (GH2K) in Honduras, a ministry focused on family-based foster care. She provides full-time foster care in her home for children with special needs. Judy also collaborates with Adventures in Mission (AIM), serving as a pediatrician at Project Hope Clinic in Cacoa, Honduras.

• Pray for wisdom for Judy as she manages her various responsibilities and the decisions they necessitate.

• Pray for an ever-deepening walk with the Lord, and that the children she cares for would come to know the Lord as their personal Savior.

KAREN BRADLEY helps lead the SIL English team with Wycliffe Bible Translators. This team serves international colleagues by helping them reach the level of English they need for their role in the Bible translation movement.

• Pray for Karen and the SIL English team to be a blessing to those they teach and for the Bible storytelling/ESL project to bear fruit for God’s kingdom.

• Please pray for the Lord to continue gently shepherding Karen and her family.

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KYLE & DARIANA BRADLEY serve with GO Ministries in the Dominican Republic.

Their focus is sports outreach where they help develop full-time Dominican and Haitian coaches.

GO Sports’ mission is to empower local leaders to make disciples through sports. They seek to provide positive role models and individual mentorship that creates opportunities for discipleship. Kyle is the lead director of GO Sports, where he helps to guide the culture, vision and mission for the ministry. Dariana is in charge of the girls basketball academy. The Bradleys’ mentorship of local leaders serves as the fuel for coaches to have a Christ-centered impact on more than 1,100 athletes that participate in daily sports academies.

• Pray for the kids who are connected with GO to be drawn to the love of Jesus and come to saving faith in him.

• Pray for Kyle and Dariana as they serve and bring up their children in the love of the Lord.

CURT & KAREN COLE are based in Kansas City, Missouri. Curt serves as the COO/VP of Personnel for Avant Ministries, overseeing the ministry health of 450 global missionaries. His primary task is to build churchplanting teams that are deployed to least-reached areas. He does this through actively engaging, mentoring and coaching people who are pursuing missionary service with Avant, including an increasing number of candidates from Latin America. Karen is an encourager and MK educational coach, especially with young missionary mothers.

• Pray for them as together they serve Avant missionaries and support them in caring for the needs of their children.

• Pray for these missionaries to continue to boldly proclaim the gospel throughout the world.

STEVE & MIRIAN COX serve at Word of Life Bible Seminary in Brazil.

Steve and Mirian head up the married program and work closely with 30 families through discipleship, teaching, hosting and administrative work. Their goal is to show these couples how they can involve their whole family in their ministry without hurting the family relationship. Together they are involved in a local church, where they serve as spiritual leaders.

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• Pray that the Lord would strengthen Steve and Mirian daily with joy to interact with the couples in their ministry.

• Pray for more couples for next year, as ten couples are graduating and only five coming in.

GILES & DEBBIE DAVIS serve with SEND International in Spain. Debbie is the national youth coordinator for the federation of national evangelical churches and director of Misión Posible, a national youth conference that is held every two years. Giles has published three books in Spanish and teaches a youth ministry course for a seminary in Barcelona. Together they travel around Spain to help Spanish churches reach youth, disciple them and train their leaders. They also run a discipleship house where up to four youth at a time come for several months for discipleship, ministry and life training. Giles and Debbie serve at their local church on the youth, worship and missions teams as well as with the English club.

• Pray for wisdom and strength as they serve in many roles.

• Pray for times of spiritual rest that would equip them from any attacks from the devil.

ANITA DEYNEKA

(Missions Associate)

works with Mission Eurasia, serving primarily with A Family for Every Orphan (AFFEO). AFFEO helps to place orphans and vulnerable children in Chris­tian families, rather than institutional care, when­ever possible, by finding caring homes within their birth countries. AFFEO helps to further alliances between churches and organizations.

The church is the center of this ministry; however, for children to receive the best care possible, it is essential to con­nect with government, social and judicial workers. She also travels to countries where the movement for a World Without Orphans has spread since it originated in Ukraine.

• Pray for wisdom to know how to best support and love the increased number of Ukrainian orphans at this time of war in that nation.

• Pray that Anita would rejoice in the Lord for the work he has given her to do.

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STEVE & LOIS DRESSELHAUS serve with TEAM in La Paz, Mexico. They desire to see the people of their city transformed by Jesus. Bible studies, leading a neighborhood Patio church, participation in community events and investing lots of time with people are the methods used to build up a network of Patio churches which are easily accessible by their neighbors.

Part of their ministry is directing the nonprofit they started called Reconciliamar, which “uses adventures at sea to transform lives.”

Spending time kayaking, SCUBA diving and engaging in environmental care projects creates large blocks of time to invest with people and allows for the creation of long-term friendships based on shared experiences.

• Pray for their neighborhood, a traditional fishing community plagued with animosity and mistrust spanning generations. This creates a difficult barrier to cross if people are to be united as one in the church.

• Pray also that the network of Patio churches will grow and expand like the little mustard seed.

JOSHUA & KARA DUNCKEL live in Budapest, Hungary. Joshua leads the strategic collaboration team of ReachGlobal’s Europe division. His team works in the “white spaces” of Europe where their organization does not have teams on the ground, but where opportunities exist for them to support and work alongside European ministry leaders. His three main areas of focus are Ukraine refugee response, missions mobilization and building unity between churches and organizations.

Their goal is always to see healthy churches multiplying across Europe and beyond. While Joshua serves across Europe, Kara works at home assisting Joshua, teaching and serving their community.

• Pray for wisdom and discernment for Joshua as he makes connections between ministry workers. Pray for Kara as she serves their family and community.

CALEB & MARISA DUTTWEILER serve with East Mountain, a Christian leadership development program in Cape Town, South Africa, that provides holistic training for young believers in theology, identity and mission, preparing them to be light in their communities.

It does this through inviting people to participate in a variety of relationally driven, communitycentric, multicultural learning environments and

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connecting and supporting existing ministry partnerships. Caleb also leads discipleship programs for young boys.

• Pray for them as they transition back to South Africa and begin slightly different roles, and pray for their two-year-old daughter Zoey to transition well.

• Pray for God-honoring connections and conversations.

• Pray for wisdom as they discern how the Lord is leading them in different ministry opportunities while having healthy family rhythms.

ROD & KATHY DUTTWEILER co-founded the East Mountain leadership development (EM) initiative in South Africa but have moved their home base to Tennessee.

Rod has invitations to train and develop leaders in partnership with other Christ-centered ministries in Africa. They come alongside pastors, missionaries and Christian leaders to serve them in areas of consulting, dis­cipleship, encouragement and bringing resources to those in need. Rod continues to give oversight to the overall vision and direction of the EM global network. Both Rod and Kathy also disciple and mentor young leaders and missionary couples.

• Pray for guidance as they consider what trips to take internationally.

• Pray for wisdom in how best to partner with other groups to serve and encourage God’s servants around the world.

• Pray that they would abide in Christ and out of their relationship with Christ, love and serve others well.

BOB & BECKY FABER serve with Salt Ventures in Sofia, Bulgaria. Bob is the president of Salt Ventures NFP, and Becky leads member care for the mission worldwide. The Fabers are involved in teaching, church planting, evangelism, leadership development and commu­ nity service. This year, the Pink Foundation, their ministry to children at risk, is launching Innovaid, a first-of-its-kind hospital volunteer program for Bulgarian youth. The Fabers are hopeful that this will yield community, medical and spiritual fruit in Bulgarian society.

• Praise God for the faithful prayer partners around the world who daily lift up the Fabers and their team.

• Pray for wisdom as Bob and Becky navigate their commitments and seek to do each ministry well.

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JAKE & HONAH FINN serve fellow missionaries and their families throughout Asia at Cornerstone Counseling Foundation, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Jake is director of partnerships and serves as a counselor at Cornerstone, which provides confidential and professional counseling, consultation and training from a Christian perspective for individuals, couples, families, teams and organizations. In 2022, they provided more than 5,000 hours of mental health services to 500 clients. Jake and Honah both grew up in missionary families and have hearts for serving the international community overseas.

• Pray for grace as Jake and Honah balance ministry, parenting and other demands of life.

• Pray for the Lord’s blessing on the continued work at Cornerstone for his glory.

JOE & HOLLY GREESON work in member care with SEND International in Alaska and northwest Canada. Based in Anchorage, Joe and Holly travel by road and plane to 21 different villages in the Far North.

They encourage, connect, equip and pray for SEND workers and their families who are called

by Jesus to live and make disciples in this region.

They also have a special heart for missionary kids isolated in remote villages, who face many of the same issues as third-culture kids around the world.

• Pray for guidance as Joe and Holly navigate member care, leading the urban team and involvement in diaspora/ESL classes in Anchorage.

• Pray for them as they begin to consider retirement.

JON & KATHY HALEY have been serving in Spain with WorldVenture since 1996 in the areas of leadership development and mobilization. They have a deep burden for the authority of the Scriptures and the purity of the gospel message in local congregations around Spain (and the Spanish-speaking world).

Their pri­mary focus is to resource church leaders and support them in the ministry of expository preaching. They develop resources and provide training on their website (exegetica.net), online with the Escuela Evangélica de Teología and at the IBSTE seminary. They also translate theological and academic resources.

Currently, they are in the midst of a twelve-year project to translate the

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twenty-volume Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament into Spanish.

• Pray that the truth of the gospel will be proclaimed with authority and purity throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

• Pray also that the Holy Spirit will work mightily in the lives of their son and daughter-in-law, that they might love God with all their heart, soul, mind and strength.

JIM & KATHY HANSEN serve with SIM at Ethnos360 Bible Institute (EBI) in Waukesha, Wisconsin, preparing prospective missionaries for service overseas. EBI provides Bible training with an emphasis on application in overseas ministry. Jim also travels regularly to Bolivia and other places around the world to teach modular courses. Kathy serves in their local church and is a special needs aide.

• Pray that Jim’s teaching at EBI will draw students into a deeper knowledge of God’s Word and a closer walk with Christ.

• Pray that the Lord will guide Jim in discerning which invitations he can accept to do Bible teaching outside of the US.

• Pray that the Lord will guide Kathy to special needs children who will be helped by her teaching and guidance.

JONATHAN & AMY HARRIS have worked with Operation Mobilization (OM) for 40 years. They first served with the OM ship ministry, but for the last 28 years have been based in Wales, UK, focusing on evangelistic outreach alongside local churches. This has involved outreach activities such as widespread school, sports and special needs ministry.

Currently, a major focus is helping a new church in Grangetown, a multicultural area in the city of Cardiff. Other ongoing aspects of the work include regular street evangelism and mentoring young local evangelists.

• Pray for the Lord to continue to bless Grace Church in Grangetown so that the gospel would be furthered.

• Pray for their weekly street evangelism to cause more to come to know Jesus.

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JIM & LYNETTE HATCHER have lived and served in Vienna, Austria, since 1986. Jim stepped down from regional leadership this year, after serving for more than 30 years in various leadership roles in Greater Europe Mission (GEM), in order to focus on local ministry in Austria, especially in their local Austrian church in preaching, leading Bible studies and discipling, as well as teaching and equipping Austrian believers and church leaders through BAO, an Austrian ministry training program, which was also the subject of his doctoral research. Lynette serves on a GEM team called Connecting Hearts, encouraging and connecting GEM women Europe-wide. She is also working alongside Jim in local ministry, discipling believers in their Austrian church and leading Bible Studies.

• Pray for close family members in the US who are dealing with cancer, and for Lynette’s only sister, whose husband just passed away at the age of 65.

• Pray for Jim to make good decisions in regard to his local church involvement.

He has been asked to consider taking on new responsibilities.

• Pray also for the ministry training program as Jim increases his teaching and leadership involvement this year. Pray especially for new people to join the team before the current leaders retire.

SCOTT & JENNY HAWKINS

(Missions Associates)

serve with International Students, Inc. (ISI) in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. As one of ten ISI campus staff, Scott invests energy among nearly 4,000 international students and visiting scholars at Duke University. The team’s vision is for each student to encounter Christ, bringing glory to the living God and the transformation of nations. In addition to personal mentoring and discipleship, facilitating group activities/events, and supporting an “International Crossroads” fellowship, Scott works to integrate local volunteers in meaningful outreach.

• Praise for continued open doors for service and witness in the universities.

• Pray for a tidal wave of curiosity in the gospel, especially among unreached Chinese, Indian and Muslim-background students.

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JEFF & TAMARA HERSHBERGER have been with SEND International in Tokyo, Japan, since 2012. After serving in a Japanese-led church-planting effort for the last six years, they are serving in a church established by SEND. Jeff is part of the preaching team and speaks at other churches as the need arises. Together, they use English clubs as a means to serve and introduce the community to the church and, ultimately, to Jesus. Tamara, in addition to church-planting support, teaches seventh grade part-time at the Christian Academy in Japan.

They have two sons.

• Pray for the churches in Japan, as they are finally able to resume normal ministry in person and community outreach after COVID.

• Pray for the Hershberger family to continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Pet 3:18) and to faithfully finish this term.

GREG & FAITH HURST work with SIM in Bolivia, focusing on discipleship through family ministry and church planting. In the church they helped to plant, Greg serves as an elder and helps to train the ministry team while Faith shepherds the leaders of the women’s and children’s ministries. The Hursts’ vision is to mobilize their congregation and other Bolivian churches to plant gospel-focused, disciple-making, missional churches that glorify God in their city, country and world (Acts 1:8). To this end, Greg is training a group of potential church planters with a goal to send out teams in the coming year. Faith is receiving specialized training to better equip and encourage the wives of these Bolivian church planters.

• Pray for the gospel to continue to sink deeper roots into the hearts and minds of those to whom they are ministering.

• Pray for clarity and energy to balance their ministry in Bolivia while staying connected with family in the States.

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TODD & SUE KELLY What can we do to be a light and bring life to a dark and dying world? Todd serves globally, nurturing pastors who clearly and compellingly proclaim God’s word in Christ to transform the heart of the listener and grow a movement of those who see the beauty of Christ and follow him.

• Pray for God to remove the remaining sin from their own hearts and replace it with the beauty of his Son.

• Pray that God will strengthen them by his grace and grant them much wisdom for the many opportunities that are before them to train and mentor pastors.

SARA & MANU KLOPFENSTEIN minister in Nancy, France, with Youth For Christ, predominantly in the musical realm. Sara directs gospel choirs that are open to anyone wanting to sing that repertoire, including the unchurched, and also directs inter-church musical projects.

Additionally, she helps with an inner-city ministry that offers a tutoring program. Sara’s husband, Emmanuel, manages a governmentfunded program for underage non-accompanied refugees. They are involved in a local Baptist church which allows for another opportunity for ministry with believers from around the world, including a young mother who recently converted from Islam.

• Pray for Sara to be a joyful encouragement to the youth she teaches through her gospel choirs and in their church.

• Pray for the Lord to grant Sara and Emmanuel wisdom as they continue to come alongside their kids (Olivia 23, Nathan 21 and Audrey 19). May the Lord give them discernment in their relationships with the churched and unchurched. And may He grant peace to Emmanuel in his stressful job situation.

STEVE & LOIS KROGH serve with Training Leaders International (TLI), where Steve is an international trainer on TLI’s formal side, working with national partners who have asked for assistance in starting a theological school. Their mission is to equip pastors and church leaders to be faithful expositors of God’s word, skillfully shepherding God’s people in their own culture.

Steve has been asked to assume TLI co-director responsibilities at a South Asian church-based seminary that draws students from two countries. Upon

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completion of their studies and multi-year internship, graduates are sent as church planters in challenging settings. Steve has taught two courses here previously and finds the students to be extremely bright, eager and fearless.

• Pray that God will watch over these students as they prepare, that their mentors will disciple them well and that the gospel will spread and triumph over opposition.

• Pray for Steve and Lois as they continue to serve at Christ Church in South Metro-Atlanta, that they would be wise mentors and encouragers.

DAN & BETH L. serve with SIM. Dan is global chaplain, traveling to support missionary teams around the world.

Chaplaincy is a ministry of presence and confiden­tiality with the purpose of helping keep workers on the field and serving effectively. Beth cares for her mother, retired missionary Muriel Stilwell, and provides hospitality to missionaries visiting SIM’s home office in Charlotte, NC. Dan and Beth have three adult children, two of whom are married.

• Pray for Dan and the SIM teams he visits as he travels around the world.

• Pray that Beth and Dan would be an encouragement to their families.

TAMARA & MIHAI LUNDELL live in Italy and are part of the Europe area leadership team with One Challenge International.

Their primary ministry responsibilities are member care, coordi­nating sports ministry and guiding a new generation of leaders in spiritual formation.

Mihai serves on the executive committee of the European Member Care (EMC) board, debriefing mission workers who live throughout Europe and the Middle East. Tamara offers one-on-one and small group spiritual direction to more than 20 European leaders and produces biblically centered spiritual exercises that are available online. They are also active in their local church.

• Pray for boldness in sharing their faith with others.

• Pray for strength and energy as visitors come again, and for space to rest as their schedule becomes busier.

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JOHN & ELSA MAUST are based in Wheaton and serve with Media Associates International (MAI), a global ministry that equips and encourages Christian publishing staff and writers to create locally authored content that extends the gospel and nurtures the church in hard places of the world. John is the president of MAI, and Elsa provides Spanish interpretation and translation for both the ministry and a local school district. Since MAI’s founding 38 years ago, some 10,000 men and women from 85 countries have been helped to create lifetransforming Christian content for their readers.

• Pray for God’s leading in the preparations for LittWorld 2024 in Mexico and that the expected 200 publishers and writers from 50 countries will gain fresh vision and skills to create excellent Christian content for readers in hard places of the world.

THAD & JOY MCAULEY serve across Europe with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). Thad is responsible for GEM’s operations and culture across 23 countries, focused on equipping and enabling 700 workers. The teams are focused on discipleship and church planting through local evangelism and church partnerships, refugee work, connections through the arts, youth and family and camps and more. Joy serves as a spiritual director and coach, helping missionaries strengthen their relationships with Jesus so their ministry flows out from an ever-deepening relationship with him.

• Pray for wisdom, humility and spiritual sensitivity to respond to the gospel opportunities God puts before them and their mission.

• Pray for energy, wisdom and opportunity to share the gospel as their teams continue to minister and love Ukrainian refugees in places like Romania, Czech Republic and other countries where they seek refuge across Europe.

RICK & JANICE MCKINLEY began serving with Missionary Athletes International (MAI) in 1987. MAI is a gospelcentered ministry that introduces people to Jesus Christ, teaches them to follow him and empowers them as leaders through the global environment of soccer. As a gospel ministry that operates in the area of sport, they exist to see people come to know Jesus, grow up in him and become leaders, both within and outside of sport. Along with international training of

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coaches and working with collegiate coaches here in the US, as director of international tours, Rick oversees MAI’s tour leaders and leads three or four sports ministry mission trips each year.

• Pray for Rick as he trains the next generation of leaders in sports ministry.

• Pray for MAI as they continue to expand and provide more opportunities for ministry service.

• Pray for continued support through prayer and finances as Rick and Janice seek to further God’s kingdom through MAI.

JEFF & IRENE Jeff and Irene serve in Thailand with their two children, Hudson and Jade.

Jeff has finished his Thai language study and preliminary training for Bible translation work and is now working toward translating the Bible for the Eastern Lawa (an unreached, Bible-less language group), starting with the study of the E. Lawa language (unrelated to Thai). This people group is predominantly Buddhist in name, though spiritism is prevalent. They are resistant to the gospel, but a small church is slowly growing despite persecution.

• Pray for their language learning to progress steadily and efficiently.

• Pray for many E. Lawa people to come to know the Lord and be released from the pressures of their beliefs and of demons.

• Pray for wisdom as Jeff and Irene love and support their young children.

KRISTIANA & CORY MILLER Kristiana serves missionary kids across Europe with Greater Europe Mission (GEM) as the director of GEM-K. Kristiana is a missionary kid from Austria, where her parents, College Church missionaries Jim and Lynette Hatcher, have served for more than 35 years. Her family (husband, Cory, and daughters Rylynn and Melody) was most recently based out of Ireland, but after two years of waiting Stateside for the Lord’s direction, the Lord guided them back to Austria, strategically located in central Europe. The Lord has placed on them a very clear burden and call for missionary kids and has gifted them to connect with the young people with whom they minister.

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• Pray for thriving and joy in the Millers’ ministry with missionary kid teens, and that God would work powerfully in the lives of those teens to love him and experience his grace.

• Pray for continued integration into Austrian culture, language development, and God’s favor over their visa renewals and other hurdles.

TERRI MILLER Terri serves on ReachGlobal’s Europe leadership team, engaging in strategy, oversight and care for staff serving in more than 20 urban locations. She also serves as the global church representative of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), representing the NAE at events and meetings related to the global church as well as advocating for the global church to the NAE and its members with a desire for mutual learning, encouragement and support.

• Pray for wisdom, clarity and creativity for Terri in her various roles and responsibilities.

• Pray for daughters, Amelia and Claire, as they launch into careers, service and church following their graduation from Wheaton.

• Pray for Amelia and Ethan as they begin their married lives.

GREG & DEBBY NICHOLS serve in Czech Republic with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). Debby has been ministering to refugees in Prague since 2017. As a result of the war in Ukraine, Debby and Greg have pivoted to focus specifically on displaced Ukrainians. They are housing and caring for Ukrainian women and children from eight families and have developed a team around themselves to facilitate Jesus’ healing to the bodies, minds and souls of Ukrainians in Prague. Greg also trains and coaches leaders, nationals and expats, as a member of GEM’s leader development team. Additionally, he coaches the Prague Lions, a semi-pro American football team, which provides an excellent opportunity to be involved in the lives of his players.

• Pray for the Holy Spirit to go before them and prepare people’s hearts to hear the gospel.

• Pray for Greg and Debby to confidently share the gospel with the Ukrainian refugees in their country.

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STANLEY & MARJORIE OKORO live in Lille, France, where Stanley has served for more than ten years with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). They serve as leaders of a small church-planting team with a vision to see a movement of disciples who are continually being transformed by Christ, living out their faith in the church and sharing their faith in their natural environments. Lille is an extremely diverse city with large populations of Muslims as well as North and West Africans. Many have gone through harrowing experiences and often have questions about God. The team spends considerable time cultivating a presence through prayer walking, sharing the gospel with French natives and immigrants alike, giving away coffee and tea and leading Discovery Bible Studies.

• Pray for God’s leading as they decide how and where to invest their time in the new school year.

• Pray for Marjorie as she “rejoins” the team on a part-time basis after a year of cancer treatments and giving birth.

• Pray for new birth for the people with whom they are currently ministering.

JEREMY & CHRISTY OTTEN serve with WorldVenture to provide theological education and counseling in Europe. They are in their fifth year serving in Leuven, Belgium.

Jeremy teaches full-time in the New Testament department at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit (ETF). He enjoys the opportunity to work with and mentor students from across Europe and all over the world as they prepare for lives of ministry and discipleship. He is also serving as an elder at their local church. Christy is busy providing counseling support for WorldVenture missionaries as well as ETF students. They have three boys—Kai (8), Caleb (6), and Sam (5)—who are busy with school and soccer.

• Pray for both energy and rest for Jeremy and Christy and their family as they have a full schedule with their respective ministries and caring for their young children.

• Pray for their relationship with their church as they navigate some heavy and divisive challenges within the congregation.

• Pray for wisdom in knowing what further ministry opportunities to pursue.

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STEVE & TERI PARDUE serve with TeachBeyond in the Philippines. Steve is on the theology faculty at the International Graduate School of Leadership and directs a doctoral program for the Asia Graduate School of Theology. Graduates of these schools serve in more than 20 nations as pastors, church leaders, missionaries and seminary faculty, providing crucial leadership to the rapidly growing Asian church. Steve also partners with a regional publisher to create theological textbooks for Asian Christians. Teri directs a preschool for local and missionary families, providing a safe and stimulating environment for young learners. In connection with the preschool, she also partners with a local Bible college to train and equip students preparing for teaching vocations.

• Pray for Steve and Teri to prioritize what is really important in their work, and to glorify the Lord through balancing work and rest.

• Pray for the Lord to provide the right people to come alongside and join them in their ministry.

BEN & MANDY PEHRSON live in Papua New Guinea (PNG), training Papua New Guineans in the joint ministry of Bible transla­tion, literacy and Scripture engagement. Their goal is to see Papua New Guineans knowing and living God’s Word, leading to changed lives and trans­formed communities. Ben and Mandy are the team leaders for the Aitape West Translation Program, which includes 14 missionaries and about 65 PNG volunteers. Their team serves 11 different language groups from four language families in the most linguistically diverse area of the world. They are also beginning to train local people in the art of oral Bible storytelling. Ben regularly teaches introduc­tory linguistics classes for PNG translators and has begun a PhD in linguistics. Mandy assists with admin for the translation project and will teach cooking at the international school for missionary kids.

• Pray for Ben and Mandy as they support their daughter who started college in the fall of 2022. Pray for joy as they serve in their ministry roles.

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JEFF & JANE PELZ work with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Jeff is the staff worker of a multinational chapter at College of DuPage (COD), where he reaches out to domestic and international students, refugees and immigrants. His role as Bible study leader, mentor and evangelist includes training up the next generation of students to love Jesus and share him winsomely. Jane is the Link Staff coordinator for Asia, which entails responding to invitations from more than 20 sister movements in the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) across Asia to mobilize, provide pastoral care, resource and supervise US InterVarsity staff sent to this region. Additionally, Jane is providing global leadership regarding international student ministry to the IFES. Jeff and Jane host activities in their home for internationals, partnering with Christian students in outreach.

• Pray for Jane as she develops partnerships, that laborers will be found to go and ministry placements will benefit national movements within the IFES. Correct placements are key.

• Pray for Jeff and his team of students to be salt and light at COD.

SUSAN PERLMAN is a first-generation Jewish believer from Brooklyn, New York, and has served with Jews for Jesus since 1973. Susan is the chief partnership officer, globally engaging with other missions, organizations and theological schools to do kingdom work together. She is also a member of the executive leadership team, having helped found Jews for Jesus. She also serves with various other organizations, but her greatest passion is sharing the gospel.

• Pray for opportunities to invest in younger staff and for the Holy Spirit to guide her ministry, as she navigates the continued balance between in-person and remote communication.

STEPHEN & KARIS RIGBY serve in Nairobi, Kenya, as team leaders with Serge. They help their team navigate crosscultural living while engaging in meaningful gospel ministry. Karis directs the apprenticeship and internship program, built on the pillars of prayer, curriculum, mentoring and ministry placement.

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soccer to communicate the gospel across Africa. The Rigbys are passionate about gospel renewal, discipleship and cross-cultural ministry.

• Pray for the Lord to strengthen Stephen, Karis and their children by his grace during this time of adjusting back to Kenya amid new roles, a new school, and a new house in a different part of town.

• Pray that their leadership would reflect Christ well.

MARCOS & MARIANA ROMERO have served as radio broadcasters since 1981 with Reach Beyond. For 26 years, they have been in charge of KNOG Manantial, an FM radio station in Nogales, Arizona, bordering Mexico. The station’s signal reaches into Mexico and the surrounding region. They seek to use all radio and digital means to share the gospel in a relevant way while ensuring listeners receive biblically based content.

• Praise the Lord for the way He provided to solve the technical difficulties at the station this past year.

• Pray for wisdom, so KNOG can continue to share a message that challenges the listener to repent and trust Jesus for forgiveness and a new life.

JOSE PABLO & JANE SANCHEZ serve the Lord with the goal to see an evangelical church in every unreached town of Spain (92% of the towns in Spain do not have an evangelical church), sharing the gospel in order to reach a country where Christianity is cultural but Jesus’ pardon is unknown to more than 98% of the population. Personally active in radio and TV, José Pablo focuses on reaching nonbelievers; mentoring, training and preparing leadership; speaking for conferences and promoting events.

Both Jane and José Pablo serve with the Evangelistic Association Decisión Spain and are developing Decisión Academy with courses on evangelism, leadership and communications, as well as “Exploring the Good News” and discipleship courses. Jane is active in their church, serving on the evangelism committee and sharing with gospel-needy people, both face to face and online.

• Pray for God’s help in the development of the Decisión Academy, for opportunities to share the vision of the unreached towns of Spain and to mobilize Spaniards to proclaim the gospel with cultural relevance.

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TIM & JUDY SATTLER Tim serves as the founding partner at Fellowship of the Word (FoW), a ministry that equips pastors to preach God’s word for the change Christ’s gospel brings and to nurture movements of his word throughout the world. FoW is currently working with partners in the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and the United States.

• Praise God for the addition of new partners this year.

• Pray for national pastors who are leading exposition workshops in their countries and beyond their borders.

• Pray for God to provide additional financial partners for the provision of personal and ministry needs.

JONATÁN & TERESA SIMONS serve with SIM in Medellín, Colombia. Jon is professor of Historical Theology, Greek, and Church History at Seminario Bíblico de Colombia (The Biblical Seminary of Colombia), where they live in community with students, faculty and staff. The seminary’s vision is to train the next generation of leaders and teachers for the Latin American church. Jon and Teresa mentor students through Jon leading the weekly Bible study and Teresa meeting with the single girls and wives of students. Jon is working on several translation projects from Latin and Greek into Spanish as well as assisting with a translation into an indigenous language.

Teresa is homeschooling their three children, who make new friends every day through the outreach for kids in their community.

• Praise God for his financial provision for the seminary this past year.

• Pray for God’s wisdom and the Holy Spirit’s guidance as the seminary makes crucial decisions about its future. Pray for the leadership and students at the seminary, for affections, habits, gospel passion and opportunity.

• Pray for Jonatán, Teresa, Norah, Caedmon and Lina to love God more every day, to seek his face in all things and to honor him.

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PHIL & JESSICA SMITH live locally and serve with First Love International (FLI). Phil was invited to take leadership of FLI as president/CEO in March 2023. FLI seeks to mobilize local churches to holistically love vulnerable populations around the world, such as orphans, trafficked people and individuals with disabilities. Currently, FLI missionaries serve in more than a dozen countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Phil and Jessica have four children.

• Pray for much grace for their family, especially during times when Phil is traveling internationally.

• Pray for much wisdom and humility for Phil as he interacts with people from many different cultures and back­grounds on a daily basis.

• Pray for FLI as they bring on new staff in these days.

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serve the Lord with Greater Europe Mission (GEM).

Tim works as the vice president of people and culture for GEM, and his mission is to help people create an environment for growth so that they can thrive as they multiply disciples and grow Christ’s church in Europe. In 2007, God called them to Austria to use their skills to counsel and care for missionaries in Eastern Europe. They moved back to Colorado to serve at GEM’s U.S. headquarters in 2010 to continue their counseling ministry with missionaries. They assess missionary candidates, visit missionaries, participate in retreats, respond to crisis situations and help with training.

• Praise God for his provision of new missionaries accepting the call to go to Europe.

• Pray for God’s provision for these families as they raise funds and prepare for transition.

BILL & LAURIE STOUGH have a passion for the farming families across Africa to come to life in Jesus and to see their farms flourish. They serve with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and are working to extend a resource called Farming God’s Way into six countries of central Africa. Biblical, technological and management principles are interwoven, and all lead someone into the heart of Farming God’s

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Way, which is coming into right relationship with our Creator God. Those whose lives depend on what their small farms produce represent a significant majority of the population and are eager to improve their productivity.

Learning to faithfully steward what God has made provides a context ripe with opportunity for outreach and discipleship.

• Pray for wisdom in their relationships, for spiritual bonds to be broken and that people come into life according to the intentions and promises of God.

• Please pray Ephesians 3:14-19 for Bill and Laurie.

• They have begun the journey of integrating FGW into the life of a daughter church of AIM in the DRC.

ISAAC & JENNIFER STOUGH work with Youth for Christ (YFC) in Barcelona, Spain. Isaac teaches English at the Youth For Christ Center. He recently finished his master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. He will assist YFC Spain in that capacity, offering mental and spiritual help to teens and families. Jennifer leads the middle school ministry at YFC Spain and directs retreats and camps in the summer. They have a young son, Marc Loyal, who comes to all the events and has become the team mascot.

• Pray for joy and strength for each day as they work and care for their young son while balancing ministry work.

• Pray for the transition to different roles in ministry: for Isaac as he transitions to his role in mental health and for Jennifer as she cares for Marc Loyal and works part-time with the middle school ministry.

• Pray for the English Academy to continue to thrive as they transition out of main roles there.

• Pray for the Lord to bless the work of the teams who come from the States, and for Isaac and Jenn as they host and lead those teams.

EMMANUEL & ADUGNA TAHEAR are missionaries with SIM Culture ConneXions.

They are involved in worldwide evangelism, mobilization, church planting and compassion mission opportunities overseas. Adugna is a career missionary dentist and strives to relieve pain, eliminate infections and give people back their smiles. Emmanuel networks with and encourages church leaders from different evangelical associations with a focus on reaching Muslims and Muslimcontinued on next page

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background believers. He also serves actively with local Burmese and Vietnamese churches and coordinates a multi-nations fellowship.

• Pray for the Lord to grant Emmanuel and Adugna wisdom and strength in their ministry work.

• Pray for the hearts of those whom they connect with to be open to hearing the gospel.

DAN & MICHELLE TEBBE Dan and Michelle have been serving in Indonesia at a Christian school for almost a decade. Dan teaches English and science, and spearheads the English department at the school. Michelle maintains their home with four daughters, and helps with some local ministries.

• Pray for God to provide new mission­aries in his timing to come to their country of service, and specifically for the schools there that help educate children of Christian workers in this country.

• Pray for the time that Dan, Michelle, and their girls will spend in the States over the next year to be fruitful and rejuvenating.

VICTOR & LESLIE TRAUTWEIN have lived in the Dominican Republic (DR), working with Kids Alive since 2002. Vic co-directs the operations of the seven Kids Alive schools, three residential programs and an independence program that offers university scholarships. Leslie oversees preventive medical care, emergency care and chronic care as well as the nutrition and dental health programs. The need in the DR is great, and they work hard to break cycles of spiritual and material poverty that have existed in some families for generations. Kids Alive serves more than 2,300 very vulnerable children and youth, and the staff has grown to more than 330 nationals, including 75 former at-risk youth in professional roles such as classroom teachers.

• Pray for continued passion and perseverance in the daily battles to help vulnerable children.

• Pray that the Lord continues to grow the expertise of their national staff and that he sends new missionaries for communication, teaching and hosting roles.

• Pray for additional child sponsors and general financial resources to fuel their life-changing ministries.

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JEFF & ANN VANDERMOLEN serve in the Dominican Republic. They minister through Christian education to children who come from vulnerable and impoverished situations. Ann serves with Kids Alive as the director of the ANIJA school in Jarabacoa, with 420 students and 70+ staff. Jeff is involved in consulting with various ministries, in areas of facility and ministry development. Jeff and Ann are also involved in mentoring/fostering a number of young adults who have grown up in the Kids Alive ministry, as these young adults transition toward independence and adulthood.

• Pray for the Lord to work through Jeff and Ann as they play the role of “dad” and “mom” for several young adults.

• Pray for wisdom as they support and encourage national staff.

JAMIE & KIM VIANDS live in Nairobi, Kenya, and serve with Africa Inland Mission (AIM). Jamie is a lecturer in the Biblical Studies department at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (a school of Africa International University). He trains African pastors, missionaries and theological educators. Jamie primarily teaches courses in biblical theology, Old Testament and Hebrew, enabling Africans to be more faithful teachers and preachers of Scripture. He also engages in writing, supervising doctoral students, preaching locally and is currently the theological education consultant for AIM. Kim homeschools five of their six young children, participates in homeschool groups in Nairobi and hosts a Bible club for children on campus.

• Pray for fruitful ministry as Jamie continues to teach and build relationships with students.

• Pray for wisdom and grace for Kim as she tends the homefront.

• Pray that their children would continue to grow in their love for Christ.

JOHN & ESTHER WALDROP have been living in a large city in Eurasia where the gospel is not welcome. John has been serving as the pastor of an international church, and Esther as teacher and principal in an international school.

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work in a seminary that trains national Christian leaders from some of the most unreached places in the world.

• Praise God for the opportunity he has given them to be Stateside for a season so that John can complete this written project about the transforming power of the gospel.

• Pray that the Lord would guide and provide for them as they prepare to transition to a new city to train leaders for the global church.

CHARLEY & CHERYL WARNER serve with Barnabas International in Ukraine. They train and care for new cross-cultural missionaries from Ukraine, where young people are increasingly excited about missions and are breaking new ground on the field. They also teach missions and spiritual life classes at seminaries in Ukraine and Armenia and stay in touch with former students.

Charley serves on the missions committee of the Baptist Union of Ukraine and is on the board of Odesa Theological Seminary, where he was a professor from 1991–1999. Cheryl mentors and provides soul care for global workers and leads an evangelistic Bible study for local women. She also edits English translations of publications for church leaders. Together they mentor leaders in missionary care.

• Pray for the Warners as they develop member care resources in Ukrainian and provide training for the missionary care team.

• Pray for hurting people in a nation battered by war, and for many to come to Christ.

MELISSA WARNER will be working as a child counselor at Cornerstone Counseling Foundation in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

She is sent to serve missionary families and partner with Thai counselors so they can share the good news of Jesus with Asia’s peoples.

• Pray for continued perseverance in learning the Thai language, which is the focus of the first year of ministry.

• Pray for the physical, mental and spiritual health of missionaries and their children so they can thrive on the mission field.

• Pray for strong partnerships between missionary and Thai counselors in Jesus’ name to build God’s kingdom in Asia.

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JOHN & VIVI WICKBERG (Missions Associates)

serve with Wycliffe Bible Translators. John is a full-time computer programmer and works mainly on Paratext, a program for Bible translation that is used by many organizations. They estimate there are 10,000 active users. Vivi continues to teach weekly English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. Each class includes 15 minutes of Bible time. Vivi also disciples a couple of women whose husbands are not believers and meets with women who recently arrived in the US.

• Pray for the Paratext team as they continue to support Paratext and develop a new Bible translation program. Pray for John’s team as they continue to support Paratext users.

• Pray that those working on the new program will make good decisions as they work through technical details and that more Bible translation organizations will commit to helping with this project.

• Pray for Vivi and the other teachers as they restart in-person ESL classes using a new curriculum.

CHAD & LEANNA WIEBE minister in Ukraine with SEND. Chad is the director of SEND’s missions mobilization ministry in Ukraine. He coordinates and leads ministry efforts to help Ukrainian churches send missionaries to unreached regions of Eurasia and Central Asia, where there are more than 900 unreached people groups. Leanna coaches young women preparing to leave for service outside of Ukraine and is involved in children’s ministries.

• Pray for God’s provision for Chad and Leanna as they wait for the opportunity to be able to return to Ukraine.

• Pray for the safety of Leanna’s family who has stayed in Ukraine throughout the war.

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school to excel. Pray for Jamie and Kim to be faithful every day in what God has called them to do, both in ministry and in parenting.

Charley & Cheryl Warner serve with Barnabas International in Ukraine. They train and care for new cross-cultural missionaries from Ukraine, where young people are increasingly excited about missions and are breaking new ground on the field. They also teach missions and spiritual life classes at seminaries in Ukraine and Armenia and stay in touch with former students.

Charley serves on the missions committee of the Baptist Union of Ukraine and is on the board of Odesa Theological Seminary, where he was a professor from 1991-1999. Cheryl mentors and provides soul care for global workers and leads an evangelistic Bible study for local women. She also edits English translations of publications for church leaders. Together they mentor leaders in missionary care.

Pray for the Warners to be an encouragement and to strengthen Ukrainian missionaries and church leaders. Pray for wisdom to know when they can safely return to their home in Ukraine.

John & Vivi Wickberg (Missions Associates)

serve with Wycliffe at the JAARS center near Waxhaw, North Carolina. John is a full-time computer programmer and works mainly on Paratext, a program for Bible translation that is used by many organizations. They estimate there are 6,000 active users. Vivi continues to teach weekly English as a Second Language (ESL) classes by Zoom. Each class includes fifteen minutes of Bible time. Vivi also disciples a couple women whose husbands are not believers and meets with women who recently arrived in the U.S. Pray for wisdom for John as he develops Bible translation software and for Vivi as she meets with women.

Chad & Leanna Wiebe minister in Ukraine with SEND. Chad is the director of SEND’s missions mobilization ministry in Ukraine.

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WATCH Workers Some of our missionaries work in places where Christianity is not welcome. Governments, societies and cultures suppress religious freedoms and can sometimes endanger our missionaries and the people with whom they work. We protect these workers by guarding their identities so they can continue their ministry in places that need the light of Christ.

TWO WORKERS serve in the Middle East in an area of more than two million people, the majority of which have no access to the gospel. However, there are incredible movements taking place among refugees and displaced persons in the country. It is this group of individuals they hope to serve during their two years of language learning. They work closely with local leaders, pastors and volunteers to meet the needs of national and immigrant populations in the country.

• Pray that the door to this effective

• Pray for these workers as they

TWO WORKERS serve in church

immerse themselves in a new language and culture.

• Pray for positive team building experiences as they reach out to the lost.

TWO WORKERS are on a team that uses digital tools to distribute God’s Word among a least-reached people group in one of the most inaccessible places in the world. After doing faceto-face ministry overseas for nearly a decade, they left their host country when the door closed for effective ministry five years ago. Their team formed shortly after they returned to the States. Since that time, the team has been able to share the Scriptures with thousands of individuals who lack access to the Word of God and Christian witness.

dig­ital ministry would remain open.

• Pray for wisdom as they seek to continue to share the gospel as new restrictions make it riskier.

JOAN (MISSIONS ASSOCIATE) disciples and shares Christ through the vehicle of English Bible studies and language learning.

• Pray that her light will shine brightly to her students and friends who need Jesus. planting, evangelism and discipleship ministry in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region. They plan to strengthen, support and equip churches with doctrinally sound publications and provide basic theological training and discipleship for local leaders.

• Pray for continued growth in learning to use spiritual vocabulary in the language of the host country, which would enable them to more effectively teach the Word.

• Pray for their children to continue to thrive spiritually and grow as disciples of Jesus.

• Pray that they would have boldness to proclaim Christ crucified.

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TWO WORKERS in Asia are

ONE WORKER is based in the

primarily focused on serving the church in its strategies to help people engage with Scripture and Bible stories, often through audio players or facilitating Scripturebased trauma healing groups, and through coordinating funding for translation projects.

States and supports global workers in the Middle East.

• Pray for protection and wisdom as these workers press ahead to support the church in getting believers into God’s Word daily, sharing Scripture with their neighbors and supporting development of new Scripture re­sources.

• Pray also for Christian workers to be equipped to lead Scripture-based healing groups for those whose life hurts hobble wholeness in Christ.

TWO WORKERS come alongside middle-class families in South Asia, bearing witness to Christ through community. They are dedicated to introducing families to Christ, teaching them what it means to follow Him and supporting holistic growth in faith, love, hope and truth.

Working together in their maternal/ child health community-based business, they support the local and national lactation profession by providing education to a growing number of lactation professionals and support families during this crucial time of life. They are a part of a local fellowship where they mutually participate in the body of Christ.

• Praise God for the 10 years of ministry that he has given these global partners.

• Pray for wisdom for these global partners as they seek to faithfully serve the Lord in each season of ministry.

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• Pray for perseverance and joy as this worker supports an increasing number of workers.

• Pray for times of rest and recovery amidst the many international trips this worker takes.

ONE WORKER interacts with Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists and atheists in an unreached place that is spiritually and politically oppressive.

She builds relationships with students, teachers and neighbors, seeking to be a light for Christ in this dark place.

• Pray for open doors as she returns to her country of ministry.

• Pray for her city that remains in turmoil from the effects of COVID.

ONE WORKER serves in a Middle Eastern country. She is on a team that exists to create a system of ministries to bring life to oppressed migrants and refugees, walking alongside them to help them develop sustainable solutions to holistically better their lives in all aspects. The team willingly steps into the dark places of the city to bring God’s light. They hold oneon-one and group discipleship circles where they study the Bible and talk about how to carry out what they read in daily life. The team also grows, trains and disciples multiple refugee churches.

• Praise God for her recent marriage.

• Pray that the Lord would bless her marriage and that it would be a light in the midst of a place with multitudes of unhealthy, abusive marriages.

DANIEL works at Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan, where he teaches theology and the Hebrew language. The college’s Christian studies faculty serves a Christian minority in Pakistan with a Master’s program that is well-equipped for training in biblical studies. Daniel feels privileged to have students in his courses who are eager to study the Bible carefully while constantly considering its significance for the church. It is his hope and vision that the next generation of Pakistani Bible teachers will teach exegesis and biblical theology with humility, maturity and academic thoroughness. Daniel and his colleagues are seeing more and more gifted Pakistani theologians replace the expats who trained them, and he is excited and grateful to be a part of that story.

Christ in the local language. She seeks to develop relationships with local women and families in order to introduce them to and deepen their relationships with Jesus.

• Praise God for the ways this worker has seen the Lord at work through some of her friends this year.

• Pray for wisdom, grace and love as this worker and her colleagues disciple those in their ministry.

• Pray that, as a team, they would “put on the whole armor of God, that [they] may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil” (Eph. 6:11).

TWO WORKERS serve in Southeast

• Pray for the students to study well

Asia, building technology tools to further evangelism in challenging contexts. Their current projects serve church planting efforts in the Himalayas, war-torn Myanmar and multiple refugee communities. Search “Noble Escape Route Myanmar” or “Excellent Stories” on the Play Store or Apple Store to see examples of their ongoing work.

and to use their degrees to go out and make more disciples.

• Pray with them that God would use

• Pray for wisdom and productivity as Daniel teaches and writes several textbooks, seeking to optimize his courses.

TWO WORKERS are church planting in Asia. They live and work among unreached communities. Currently, they are engaging migrants in an urban context alongside local churches.

• Praise God for the doors he opened for these workers to serve in this region.

• Pray for relationships with neighbors, churches and migrants and for opportunities to share the gospel with Buddhists.

ONE WORKER serves in the Middle East, working in language learning consultancy. Her work helps to equip other kingdom workers to share

their ministry to make Scripture and Scriptural content accessible in the Himalayas, Myanmar and beyond.

• Pray that God would guide them as they seek to use their gifts in design and software development to aid church planting efforts among unreached language groups.

TWO WORKERS are university professors in Africa. They seek to develop relationships with students and point them to Christ.

• Pray for patience and wisdom for these two workers as they learn the local language and train with their organization.

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• Pray for good relationships to develop between these workers and their students.

ONE WORKER serves as Christar’s regional member care person for the South and Central Asia region. She will be working in collaboration with regional leadership. As this is a new role, she is in the process of learning the ropes while preparing to support those who work internationally.

• Pray for her to grow in her ability to serve missionaries serving in South and Central Asia.

• Pray for the Lord to restore and renew those to whom she will provide care and counsel.

ROBERT & LAURIE serve in campus ministry to international students in Chicago, home to 20,000 international students. Most of these students come from countries in Asia, and the vast majority of the students have never heard the gospel before. Many have never seen a Bible before. Rob and Laurie lead evangelistic Bible studies and disciple believers with a vision that as these new believers move on from Chicago and likely return to their home country, they will be fruitful disciples who lead others to Christ.

• Pray for God to open the eyes of international students and grant them saving faith. Pray that new believers would learn to effectively share the gospel with other international students, and that when they return to their home country, they would thrive as believers in Jesus and draw others to Christ.

• Pray for Rob and Laurie to encourage the spiritual, emotional and intellectual growth of their kids (ranging in age from kindergarten to college).

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DAVID & MAJKA are in their second year serving with Greater Europe Mission (GEM) in Vienna, Austria.

They serve alongside Austrian leaders in an international student ministry and help a community development ministry in nearby Bratislava, Slovakia, to provide spiritual leadership to young believers in the ministry.

• Praise the Lord for a good transition back to ministry in Central Europe, where they have served in previous years.

• Pray for their three daughters as the two youngest continue to adjust to another culture and language and their oldest begins her first year of college at Grand Canyon University.

JOHN & PAM live in Africa, where they host a place of rest and renewal for global workers. The retreat opened four years ago and has ten fully equipped apartments, a prayer chapel and a newly completed swimming pool and splash pad. Teams come for times away to seek God together and to discover the next steps forward in their ministries. They also provide logistical support for Africa Inland Mission’s local unit. This includes remodeling houses for new workers, setting up solar systems on houses and helping keep vehicles on the road.

• Pray that Christian workers would find rest and rejuvenation in their time at the retreat.

• Pray that the retreat staff would grow in the knowledge of the Lord, and that there would be a strong replacement for John and Pam when they retire in two years.

DANIEL & CHARIS serve worldwide with the leadership team of their organization. They help to make crucial decisions as they care for the missionaries and teams of people

serving in the areas of member care, human resources, retirees, onboarding and supporting.

• Pray for wisdom as Daniel and Julie

• Thank the Lord that meetings have

taken to places and people who have never heard the gospel.

resumed in person and that workers are overcoming the challenges presented by COVID, slowly making their way back overseas.

• Pray for continued wisdom as

support and love their sons.

• Pray for the translated Bibles to be

Due to the sensitive locations in which these global workers serve, full names and photos are not disclosed.

they build a larger team on the “home side” to support their crosscultural workers.

TWO WORKERS serve in Asia, where they have been for ten years.

Their primary ministry is pastoral care for their organization’s regional missionaries. They are additionally involved in biblical counseling, encouragement and support within their local community.

• Pray for wisdom and grace as these workers encourage the kingdom workers around them.

• Pray that they would be able to love and support their children even as they are apart.

ONE WORKER is a teacher in Central Asia. She seeks to develop relationships with students in order to introduce them to Jesus and deepen their relationships with him.

• Pray for God’s provision and protection for this worker. Pray for the Lord to work in the hearts of this worker’s students.

DANIEL & JULIE support the work of Bible translation through administration, supporting a team of over 200 Bible translation and language development team members. Their organization’s goal is to make the Word available in every person’s heart language. The team currently has 77 active projects.

They have two sons.

WATCH IN PRACTICE We assume that all mail and email correspondence could be read by someone else before it reaches our workers, and “that someone” is probably a government employee concerned about the political and religious stability of their country.

For their protection, we refrain from using religious language or references using the names of God. Receiving emails is just as (if not more) encouraging for these Christians, and we would happily facilitate communication between you and our global workers serving in these places. We do ask that communication is sent through the missions office so that we can take an extra measure of safety and can have an extra set of eyes on what is passed along.

If you would like for us to email one of our WATCH workers on your behalf, please reach out to our office at missions@collegechurch.org.

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Training National Leaders College Church partners with 12 schools to train national leaders.

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BOLIVIAN BIBLE SEMINARY BOLIVIA

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WORD OF LIFE SEMINARY BRAZIL

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BANGUI EVANGELICAL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

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AFRICA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY KENYA

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ARAB BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY LEBANON

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TRIVELIUS INSTITUTE BULGARIA

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FORMAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE PAKISTAN

ODESSA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY UKRAINE

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NEW THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE INDIA

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HANOI BIBLE COLLEGE VIETNAM

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College Church partners with national seminaries and schools to train Christian leaders for gospel work among their own people, some of whom are the least-reached peoples of the world. We aid these institutions through the provision of scholarships, committed career missionaries and short-term teachers.

AFRICA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (AIU), KENYA Africa International University is committed to training Christcentered leaders who will be agents of transformation for the world’s countries, societies and communities.

They offer courses in theology, information technology, counseling psychology, business management, education, development studies, and accountancy and financial management.

ARAB BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (ABTS), LEBANON Arab Baptist Theological Seminary equips servant leaders for the ministry challenges arising in the Middle East and North Africa – be it theology, apologetics, communication, pastoral care, ethics, society or culture. ABTS was founded in 1960, built on hills overlooking Beirut.

ASIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (ATS), PHILIPPINES The mission of Asian Theological Seminary is to glorify God by providing quality theological education to prepare leaders who will affect biblical transformation in the church and societies in Asia and beyond. The seminary aims to become the leading evangelical seminary in Asia that produces outstanding

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servant leaders through both online and in-person courses.

BOLIVIAN BIBLE SEMINARY (BBS), BOLIVIA The primary goal of the Bolivian Bible Seminary (BBS) is to train pastors for the Evangelical Christian Union, the SIM-affiliated national church, in both undergraduate and graduate programs in Bible and Theology. BBS is vital to the spiritual health of the Bolivian church, since churches without good Bible teaching and mature leaders are in danger of losing their spiritual and biblical foundations.

BANGUI EVANGELICAL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY (BEST), CENTRAL AFRICA REPUBLIC Bangui Evangelical School of Theology was founded in 1977. BEST had 49 new students on three campuses in the 2021-2022 school year, and provides schooling for over 3,000 kindergarten, primary- and secondary-aged children.

They now provide an online practical theology program, offering learning opportunities to students and church leaders throughout the region who cannot come for in-person training.

FORMAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE (FCC), PAKISTAN Forman Christian College was founded in 1864 by a Presbyterian missionary

from the USA. With over 8,000 students and 200 faculty, the university offers a wide variety of programs.

They seek to impart, create and disseminate knowledge and to develop informed, ethical and responsible citizens who are prepared and committed to learn, lead and serve.

HANOI BIBLE COLLEGE (HBC), VIETNAM Founded in 2013, Hanoi Bible College exists to glorify God through serving the church and proclaiming the gospel to the communities around them.

Many graduates have returned to their villages in the mountains to serve growing churches, while others are planting churches in various parts of the country.

NEW THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE (NTC), INDIA New Theological College is a university in Northern India whose programs are designed so that students will gain spiritual and theological training as well as practical ministry experience integrated with academic learning.

They began in 1989 with just 22 students, and now have grown to become the largest fully accredited, Bible-believing theological training center in northern India.

ODESA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (OTS), UKRAINE

TYRANNUS BIBLE SEMINARY (TBS), INDONESIA Tyrannus Bible Seminary, founded in 1966, is one of the oldest interdenominational evangelical schools in the country. TBS is in a predominantly Muslim community and a region of low socio-economic status.

They also work with partner schools all throughout Asia to further the gospel.

TRIVELIUS INSTITUTE, BULGARIA Trivelius is an interdenominational school that seeks to train people to serve God through practical, Biblebased teaching. It is the only fully operating school of its kind left in the country. Students from different churches and denominations are trained and serve together as an expression of the unity of the church through both Bachelor’s and Master’s programs.

WORD OF LIFE SEMINARY (WOL), BRAZIL Word of Life Seminary has seen God’s gracious hand clearly at work as over the years it has grown even during the country’s financial crisis.

The seminary has reached into five different countries where they offer a similar experience that prepares students for the future, whether in a career or full-time ministry.

Odesa Theological Seminary is a Baptist theological institution of higher learning that helps local churches prepare Christians for church, missionary and educational ministry both in the church and in the world, in order to accomplish the Great Commission. Throughout the last 30 years, they have had more than 2,500 graduates, 96% of whom have gone into ministry afterward.

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College Church Evangelists In addition to our missionary family serving cross-culturally, we also seek to make God’s name known locally through supporting evangelists. These individuals serve in full-time ministry and bring the light of Christ to our state and community. Pray for God to use them mightily in their different spheres of work.

NATE & LAURA AMODIO work regionally with InterVarsity. Nate is a donor engagement partner, mentoring and coaching staff during their fundraising process. Laura is a field operations director, working to improve the systems and events that support regional staff and students.

• Pray for students to know and be known by God as they get connected to a witnessing community.

DANIEL (& FAITH) BAIR Daniel serves as the executive director of Englewood Family Outreach (EFO), a strategically small non-profit organization on the south side of Chicago. EFO’s vision for the Englewood neighborhood is to restore and redeem the community through intentional relationships, proclaiming Christ, training in godliness and empowering the vulnerable. This is accomplished through regular outreach, Bible studies, discipleship, mentorship, teaching trades and other programs.

• Pray that EFO would have a godly presence in the midst of its community.

• Pray for volunteer staffing, child sponsors and funding to resource the community center.

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MIKE HERNBERG Serving with Reformed University Fellowship International, Mike’s focus group is international students and visiting scholars on the campus of Northwestern University (IL). His ministry to these students is to welcome them from around the world, share the message of the gospel with them, and for those who come to faith, to help them grow into mature disciples. Students’ window here in the States is short, so Mike is intentional in efforts to reach them through social events, English language conversation, Bible studies and small groups.

• Pray that the Lord would draw students to the activities that would expose them to the gospel.

KALLI HILL serves with Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) at Elmhurst College and College of DuPage. She engages students as they explore who they are, what they believe and who they want to be. This happens through sharing the gospel, discipling women, leading Bible studies and coaching the overall ministry. Cru is an interdenominational Christian organization that meets on college campuses all over the world.

Cru seeks to turn the lost into Christ-centered laborers, building students up in their faith and sending them out to reach others.

• Pray for students to be encouraged by their interactions with Kalli and to grow ever closer to Jesus.

MANNY & BARBARA MILL serve with Koinonia House Ministries (KHM). Manny is the CEO, and Barbara works as the operations director. KHM seeks the salvation of their neighbors in prison and their continued discipleship out of prison, thus reducing the recidivism rate and bridging the gap between the Christian inmate and the local church, all to the glory of God. They also lead Radical Time Out, a weekly gathering where all are welcome to experience the love of Jesus Christ regardless of their color, class, culture, crisis or crime.

• Pray for continued favor and access into prisons.

• Praise God for the ways Manny and Barbara have seen the Lord transforming lives over the past year.

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Partner Organizations College Church partners with local organizations to support various types of ministry in our area. We provide help through financial and volunteer support.

DECISION POINT Decision Point exists to proclaim the gospel to the next generations by equipping students to share the gospel with their peers and equipping pastors with the strategies necessary to bridge the gap between the local church and their local schools.

Decision Point is committed to raising up lifelong gospel proclamation leaders and movers.

MISSIONARY FURLOUGH HOMES Missionary Furlough Homes, located in Wheaton, is a not-for-profit Christian organization that provides comfortable, affordable housing and community for families on home assignment. Its 22 units come fully furnished with basic nonconsumable necessities.

OUTREACH COMMUNITY CENTER Outreach Community Center serves the most vulnerable children, teens and families in DuPage County in order to restore hope and provide opportunities for these people to become all that God intends them to be. They partner with local churches to provide different developmental activities that reach each age group.

WORLD RELIEF DUPAGE World Relief in DuPage County has offered integration for over 400,000 immigrants in vulnerable situations to communities locally and nationally. One way they do this is through offering weekly English classes for immigrants speaking many languages.

RE:NEW PROJECT Re:new Project serves refugee women who have resettled in and around DuPage County.

This ministry exists to meet two of the needs of these women: providing a safe community and employment. They do this through offering

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free sewing and ESL classes and hiring many students upon graduation from those classes to make handcrafted products. Since their start in 2009, 125 women have been employed by Re:new and over 225 women have been served by the programs of Re:new.

SOUTH ASIAN FRIENDSHIP CENTER Located in the heart of Chicago’s Little India, South Asian Friendship Center has provided a place of refuge for people from all around the world, including Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs for 25 years. They offer tutoring and kids’ activities, as well as ESL classes and weekly worship services.

NAOMI’S HOUSE There are over 24,000 women trafficked in Chicagoland every year. Naomi’s House seeks to provide a new start for these women by providing safe housing and counseling from therapists. The goal of Naomi’s House is for all the women who enter their doors to leave understanding the love that the Lord has for them and to be freed from the chains of trafficking as a result. In 2021, they served 50 women across their multiple programs.

CARING NETWORK Caring Network is the first step for women to take when facing an unplanned pregnancy.

They offer unconditional love, counsel and resources that remind the women of the truth about God. Nearly 1,500 abortions take place annually in DuPage County, but the Lord is using Caring Network to be a safe place where women choose life for their unborn children.

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NOTES AND PRAYER REQUESTS