Current Top Ten Prayer Requests - updated December, 2008

1. We need three “community developers/strategy leaders” for our largest unreached people groups – Jur Modo, Nuer, and Dinka. Pray for a Ugandan man who will hopefully be coming to assist us with our Jur work soon. We have to work out many details but God seems to be leading us in this partnership.

2. Pray for Shannon and Carrie (and their three boys) as they take over the Taposa community development/strategy leader assignment. They were appointed on November 11th and will be out on the field early next year. We are over-the-top excited about this development.

3. We have three young leaders (Abraham, Isaac, Chaddrack) who have been studying in two different Bible schools. Pray for their spiritual development and their ability to reach the majority of the population who are illiterate. One of the schools had recently closed but has reopened this fall.

4. We now, again, have six young journeymen and women living in Rumbek with us. Four are working with the thousands of youth who have nothing to do during the day and two are developing an HIV/AIDS ministry. Pray that eternal relationships will be made and many will see Christ lived out in them. Pray that they will meet the key Dinka gatekeepers who will give them success in their efforts.

5. Pray for some strategic partnerships that are developing amongst interested churches and organizations that want to help in Kingdom work in southern Sudan. Ask that we each come in with humility and grace in order to give glory to the Master we work for.

6. Pray for a young couple that will come and work with the youth in Rumbek. This can be for two years up to a lifetime. Our journeymen have done a great job of groundbreaking and we really need someone to come and oversee the whole youth program.

7. Pray for our children, Laura and Joshua. Laura has just graduated college and is in Kazakhstan with the Peace Corps. Joshua is working and going to college in Florida.

8. Pray for the new Bible school we are building and starting in Akot in 2009. We will be training young church leaders in a predominantly oral program that will give them a strong Biblical foundation on which to build and stand firm.

9. Be praying for Truitt and Cindy, our new logistics coordinators. This has been a many-year request that we have finally seen filled and we are excitedly looking forward to their arrival on the field early in 2009. Pray for a great transition period for them as they learn culture and language this coming year.

10. Pray for Wycliffe our Kenyan co-worker, who is laboring along side of us in Rumbek. This is a very difficult assignment for a Kenyan with his family so far away. Pray that Wycliffe will regain his focus and be an encouragement to everyone he works with.