Calling On All Those With A Heart For Eastern Asia

The current prayer focus is Eastern Asia. We are calling on all those with a heart for Eastern Asia. There is a team leaving for Eastern Asia soon and they deeply need your prayers. The team will be gone for approximately three weeks with a great task ahead of them.

The plans are for them to meet and tour while coming together as a team with prayer and training time in the evenings. They will be preparing for the character training camp they will be teaching during the last week of the trip.

The character training camp will be to teach true character qualities to many children from the ages of 5 to 15. The specific character qualities that will be taught are Love, Compassion, Gratefulness, Obedience and Humility. The team will be doing this in cooperation with a private school in Eastern Asia. Already several students have signed up to participate for that week. Saturday will focus on an all day seminar for the parents dealing with effective parenting skills.

We know this is a great opportunity the Lord has opened at this time. We believe this team will be the lead team of many more; including even opening doors to establish a permanent presence in Eastern Asia.

Here are some specific prayer requests:

• The health and safety of each team member
• That there will be no one sick on the plane for flight over to Eastern Asia. This would cause delays for the team if there is anyone sick on the plane. (This is due to the problems the Swine Flu has caused worldwide.)
• For each team member to grow in the grace and mercy of the Lord and that their personal relationship with Him will grow exponentially on this trip.
• Finances for each team member
• Prayer support for each team member
• The Lord will prepare the way and make the paths level and straight for the team
• The Lord will prepare the hearts of the youth and adults that the team will be working with.
• The Lord will give an abundance of Wisdom and Favor to the leaders with God and man.

Bhutan - A Closed Country

This week I want to introduce you to Bhutan, a nation that is closed to the gospel and a young man with whom I have been in contact.  For his safety I will call him Joe.

Joe contacted me regarding mission trips and ministry some time ago while he was away from home and his country getting an education.  He had many questions and wanted prayer support and encouragement.  After graduation, he returned home keeping in communication with me for a while.  Suddenly he dropped out of contact for quite some time until this last week.

Bhutan is a closed nation in many ways even beyond religion and evangelism.  Another man that I have also been in contact with even longer than Joe, told me that an outsider can only visit Bhutan as a tourist with one of the Bhutan owned tour guide companies and you are limited to their agendas and locations.  In further conversations, I was told something that really struck a cord in me.  You know how many young people, and I was one of them, would go camping or back packing to get away to do what you wanted in peace and not be caught by the law or authorities?  Well this pastor told me that that is what they have do to have prayer meetings and worship services.  They all back pack into the mountains and meet together for prayer and worship.  The thought came to me how we used to do this to do ungodly things and they have to do this to pursue God and pray together. 

I have included Joe’s message to you in this post, which I have edited, so that you will be able to pray for Joe, the House Churches and Christians in Bhutan.  Please also remember they are in need of Bibles as well. 
John, I am sorry for not being able to keep in touch with you.  I had been to a very remote part of our nation, Bhutan, where there is no motor roads.  We have to walk and carry our things on horse back to get to these very remote villages where there is not electricity or internet facilities and etc.  Despite difficulties, we have begun a house cell church with 15 members. This is the first fellowship in this area of Bhutan.  Previously to our arrival no one had heard what and who Jesus is, but now more people are coming to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Please keep praying for these new believers. 

Pray for the Needs of India

India is this week’s Prayer Focus, but first I wanted to share something with you.   When Becky and I were praying together in the morning last week, the Lord gave us both a vision about a strategic prayer focus plan.  We both saw a map and certain countries highlighted which we know we are to specifically focus our prayers on at this time.  These countries were India, China, Myanmar, Pakistan and Kenya.  I don’t know what the Lord is doing, but we want to be obedient.  I do know we have received many prayer requests and requests for help from these countries.  Please keep us, these countries and the pastors and missionaries there in your prayers. 

 

Following are specific prayer requests I have received from India.

 Dear Friends, Missionaries and Believers in Jesus Christ,

We started an orphanage by the vision and call of our savior and LORD Jesus Christ, James 1:27, " Pure and undefiled religion before God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble and to keep oneself unspotted from the world". To provide food, accommodations and education, medical needs clothes and books for the orphans, semi-orphans, poor children and rag-pickers. These children used to spend their childhood by picking rags near dust bins in the streets and habituated to all kinds of bad activities which spoil their lives. Some are orphans, and others are very poor, their parents are unable to take care of them. Along with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they are very active in church, praying, singing to the LORD and regularly attending Sunday school.  With much effort and burden we are going forward with the great Mission to the Glory of the LORD. We invite all our friends in Christ to share our Vision and Mission.  Can you spend your time with our children in the homes, support and pray for us?

Sincerely,

Rev. J M

 

Greetings from India,

I am not a stranger but I am one of your brothers in Christ carrying out His last Commission and also showing the love of Jesus to the orphans, street children, poor and needy deserving children. 

I am a young man who finished my high school graduation, studied junior college and then studied three years in an Indian university and received my Bachelor of Arts Degree.  After I finished this schooling I went to USA and studied three years bachelor of Divinity at West Lenoir, School of Ministries, Lenoir, NC, USA. After finishing my studies I promptly returned to India and started my ministry independently.  God laid the burden in my heart to win my own Indian nationals and specially to evangelize children.  Now I am in India. I am sending this email from India.

When I started going round the villages to preach I happened to see so many orphan children sleeping under the trees and begging.  Some village elders requested me to feed these children.  As a trial and with compassion I brought home some children and started feeding them with a single meal per day.  I have good accommodation so I am providing free house, electricity with water.  I have very spacious buildings, which were given to me by my father.  These buildings can accommodate even hundred children.  But I have no means to feed them.  Most of these orphan children are five years to twelve years of age both boys and girls.  I started the orphanage and now there are about fifty children in my home.  Just I am providing single meal for them.  With that they are contented. 

After knowing the news that I am running an orphanage every day many orphan children from different villages are coming and requesting me to find out when they will be admitted.  I don’t have money to admit them.  Even for these children I am facing many difficulties I am trying all my level best to help as many orphans as I can.  But in India it is highly impossible for a Christian preacher to run the orphanage.  The local people are in an impression that I will change these children to Christianity.  So they don’t like to come forward to help them.  I spent several days in fasting prayer and finally I decided to request people like you for help.

I am very much interested in evangelizing to children.  Kindly help me and encourage me to win the children to Christ. 

Thanking you,

Sincerely, 

Kalyan

 

For more information regarding these prayer requests or to find our more about our vision please check out our Short Term Missions Programs

Myanmar - 2

This week please pray for Paul W and the ministry in Myanmar.  Here is a letter from him.

I would like to introduce by myself. I am Paul W; a senior pastor of a mission I founded this since 31st of May, 2004 and now the mission will be 5 years in operation soon. We are especially doing church planting in the new areas in where there are no churches yet established and we focus the fisher community, the uneducated and unreached groups who are living along the seaside and riverside of southern Myanmar, where the cyclone, Nargis, devastated the communities..

We have a focus of five mission field:

(1) Rakhine State
(2) Ayeyawaddy Division
(3) Yangon Division
(4) Mon State
(5) Taninthayi Division  

We set up our vision to penetrate till the whole islands of Myanmar. Now there are 14 churches we have been able to plant and 250 members increased within five years of the ministries beginning. There are a lot of rural fishermen communities who never heard the gospel in the islands and coastline. They only think about to catching fish and selling it, but their heart and living style are very simple and honest. When we reached to their places they accept us with good hospitality, listened to our witnessing about Christ and they wanted to hear more about Christ. Actually they are as Buddhist, but their life is like paganism. Therefore, we do need more to penetrate them with the gospel till village to village because this has been an effective outreach and ministering style to these communities.

According my research if we can find a home or a place for a house of worship and do ministry with the Jesus film, they will easily come and change their life.  After that we will follow up them all who are converted, baptized them and following with biblical teaching of the bible story, recitation and Burmese translations so that they all may learn and read themselves. An after that we plan to train those who are sharp and have potential out of the converters as a disciples or church planters so that they might work church planting among their own peoples.

That is all about our mission plans and strategies we are continually processing toward.  Therefore we do need your involving with us in prayers in this.

Today in our church we celebrated the one year anniversary memorial service of Nargis cyclone victims in Myanmar. As soon as we started praise and worship and we sang "THE SONGS, AMAZING GRACE AND IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL" and we prayed and kept silence for a minute and when I spoke on behalf of all the members regarding how we are sad and remember the many terrible victims of this cyclone, all church members cried and I asked them all who will submit life for them who are the remained to preach the gospel,  All the members both small and great shouted together loudly, yes we will go to the places to share the gospel. 

We pray to go soon to the area in where the cyclone has victimized badly to take the gospel and crusade. Please pray for that program.

Yours in His service

Myanmar Prayer Requests

We have been in communication with Pastor BT from Myanmar for roughly a year and a half. This is his most recent update for their ministry: He, along with members of his church, have been taking missions trips to villages over a days journey away by bus, not including the hours of trekking by foot, where they are evangelizing with the vision of planting churches and organizing training sessions with the new converts. They spent two days ministering through personal evangelism and then traveled to another village where there is a leprosy church. He also visited and fellowshiped with two other church planters while traveling about during those five days. He is requesting prayer for finances to provide food for up to seventy people during their traning seminar that will last anywhere from three to five days. Let us also been in prayer for strength and wisdom for this pastor and his team while minstering in these villages. God is moving in Myanmar with compassion and intercession is needed for these minsters of the Gospel. Please support our brothers and sisters in Christ! "Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." Philippians 4:6 (KJV)

If you would like more information on Pastor BT or his ministry or would like donate toward this financial request, please contact us at Youth Quests. To be more involved and in direct communication with our ministry's network, please join our Christian Social Network with a missions focus.

Kenya Prayer Focus

Prayer Request From Kenya: 

Dear brothers and sisters, Our nation, Kenya, is going through many difficulties right now, there is famine in Kenya. Many people are going without food for many days. We have not had rains and every thing is worsening. I am excited again to be in touch with you through this Christian Social Network. I believe you are praying with us about the needs we sent to you last few weeks. Our nation needs Gods intervention , there is mass suffering all over. People are eating fruits and things that are not edible due to the great famine that has attacked our nation. There is drought all over and animals are dying leading people into poverty and starvation. To help with this project please go to left side of the Missions Social Network page to donate for this cause. Our pastors believe this is because last year people raised against one another killing innocent people all over Kenya. We believe its the judgment of God on our nation.
We are also believing God that you will make a Missions Trip to our nation this year. Pastors Lucas and Jane Please read the Youth Quests International website about the Short Term Missions Trips currently available to you.