Thank you for praying for our latest prayer needs and requests.
The prayer points below have been shared by our mission partners and project partners. These are updated regularly to enable you and your church to pray for God’s global church.
We have partners working in sensitive parts of Asia, including North India where opposition to Christians from local Hindu authorities is increasing. There are many details we can’t share, but please don’t let that stop you praying for our Indian brothers and sisters who are contending for the gospel and known by name to the Lord of the nations.
- India has more unreached individuals than any other nation. The south and northeast have a higher proportion of Christians than the more populated north and west. Pray that the church worldwide might rise to this task.
- The states through which the Ganges flows (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal) account for close to 500 million people. None of these states is more than 0.8% Christian according to government data. However, the church now grows here faster than ever (it is estimated that 2-3% of Uttar Pradesh’s population are now Christian). Praise God for the growth of his church.
- Training for Christian workers is an urgent need. Many new believers come to faith through large rallies but have few opportunities for Christian discipleship. Most leaders and pastors receive very little training. Pray for local Christians running training ministries on the ground to continue to reach and train church leaders faithfully.
- The current government has been operating on a Hindu nationalist platform. This has brought about an intensifying persecution of other religions, an increase in re-Hinduisation and the introduction of many barriers of foreign Christian mission in India. The government’s aggressive stance to defend Hinduism – and persecute other faiths – has emboldened religious violence by radical Hindu groups. Pray for Christians to be wise in the way they act and to bear up under unjust suffering.
We’d also love you to read more about our mission partners and project partners and pray for specific needs illustrated in their articles.