Prayer

None of Mission Africa’s personnel working in Nigeria, Chad, Burkina Faso and Kenya could do so without the prayers of committed supporters back home.

We have many groups of people in Mission Africa across the UK who are committed to praying faithfully for our missionaries. Our prayer partners are a vital part of the team, enabling each missionary to do what God has called them to do in the place that he has called them to.

Each month we send out a comprehensive prayer update with news from our missionaries and ministries, by post and email. We also organise special prayer days throughout the year.

Prayer Monthly April 2021

• 1st April

  Ana asks for prayer that she would wisely balance online teaching as she seeks to vary her experience of teaching with different teaching sites, her work at her sending church and her continuing development of French children’s material for Burkina Faso. She gives thanks that she has been able to find students and is enjoying the experience.

• 2nd April

  Ana also asks for prayer for the Bible school in Gaoua as they are taking their exams. Pray that the exams will go well. Pray too for the final completion the new library building. She asks for prayer for the Director of the Bible school — that he will enjoy good health, as well as wisdom in developing the school. She gives thanks for the progress that has been made at the Bible school so far.

• 3rd April

  Jeremy asks for prayer for the committees that have now received the materials needed for their end of course Award Ceremonies, that they would organise well and work effectively. Pray the children would enjoy receiving their certificate and prizes and will read the literature that they receive. Pray many would come to faith and join the local church Sunday school.

• 4th April

  Jeremy asks for prayer that the ministry of our After Schools Clubs is well received by the teaching staff and that the Education Authority and the door to working with schools in this secular nation remain open or open up in areas where we have previously been denied permission.

• 5th April

  The Morrisons ask for prayer for their colleague Janet, who recently suffered a heart attack and will therefore be out of action for a while as she continues treatment and recovers. We praise God for a number of ordained circumstances that meant she was in the right place at the right time to get the necessary care.

• 6th April

  The Rahab programme, a discipleship counselling programme for vulnerable women, is tentatively set to begin the first week of April. Please cover Lucy especially in your prayers as she shoulders much of the planning and teaching and pray that the women invited might find true freedom in Christ.

• 7th April

  Please continue to pray for Chad in this month of elections – for peace, free and fair elections and for the church to show the difference having an eternal hope makes.

• 8th April

  Pray for our ongoing projects with partners in Kenya – especially the “Wee School” and Old Folks Home in Thogoto, Kikuyu. Give thanks that a new dormitory, funded by Mission Africa, will soon be completed at the Old Folks Home.

• 9th April

  Rebecca Dodds asks for prayer that she would continue to fit in well with the team at the Casualty Department of the hospital. The doctors now all know her well and she gets on with all of them. But the nurses are often still quite frosty and can make life a bit difficult.

• 10th April

  Pray for the opportunity for Rebecca to share more of her faith with two friends from the hospital (Kevin and Michael) who were brought up in a Christian family but no longer attend church or have a Christian faith.

• 11th April

  ACTS continues to work towards upgrading and replacing all the computer systems used at the HQ as well as the 16 ACTS branches throughout Nigeria. Please pray for the supplying of these computers this month and for all the logistics involved. Pray operations will not be hindered and for everything to go smoothly. Remember the work being put into revamping the ACTS website by Pamela and her Management colleagues. 

• 12th April

  Pray as Gracie resumes attending school Monday-Thursday (Friday will be a home-learning day) from 6th April. This is her last term in Elementary School and God has been faithful. Musa's students will be having exams this month so pray for them, as well as Musa, especially with all the extra work involved. Musa's Directorship at the University's Office of Research and Development has been renewed so pray for wisdom, good health and strength. 

• 13th April

  Sid Garland is thanking God for opportunities to encourage and mentor an estimated 2,000 former students now serving as local pastors, church leaders, seminary teachers, RE teachers and missionaries. He asks for prayer that none of us will lose our zeal for the Lord and desire to go on learning as well as also looking out for the next generation: “O may all who come behind us find us faithful.”

• 16th April

  Samantha also asks for prayer for third term planning, which will begin in mid-April. Pray that this term might have real impact on all the students that we are able to reach and that the planning will be God centred.

• 17th April

  Katie asks for you to keep praying for the need of additional doctors at Holley Memorial Hospital. Two doctors were employed and a week later they were offered government hospitals. Pray that Godly and compassionate doctors would be willing to stay for a period of time and that the hospital would be able to accommodate the requirements. 

• 18th April

  The Ekanems ask that we praise God for the success of UEC's maiden International Convention, which took place recently in Lagos. We thank God for UEC TV which made it possible for the proceedings to be broadcast far and wide. 

• 19th April

  Pray for Peter Achimugu College of Theology as they are expecting a visit by NUC early this month. Pray for the Ekanems as they assist in this exercise. 

• 20th April

  Continue to pray for Patton as he offers ongoing (remote) support to the Colleges as Visiting Professor and for his online mentoring of students, former students, and other young people in Nigeria.

• 21st April

  Brian Wilson asks that you would pray that God will undertake practically in relation to what needs to be done in this remaining period and that He will bless both in Brian’s preparation for going to Nigeria and his witness and preaching at home.

• 22nd April

  Brian is thankful to God that the Nigerian Embassy is expected to reopen soon and that the arrangements seem to be falling into place for his Covid-19 vaccination.  Both things have needed to happen to enable his going to PACT in Nigeria. 

• 23rd April

  Give thanks with Robbie Toop that they had a successful Scottish Zoom chat & prayer time on 15th March and due to the encouraging response. Rebecca Dodds joined us from Kenya armed with photos so praise the Lord for good internet connections.

• 24th April

  Pray for the planning and preparation of our two ‘home summer teams.’ They will be a training team in Castlewellan Castle and a London team working with the PCEA. Pray for the current Covid-19 restrictions and that alternative plans can easily be made if needed.

• 25th April

  Pray that God will continue to raise up suitable people to join Mission Africa. Give thanks to God for some recent applications and indications of interest in service. Pray that those who approach us — often very tentatively — would receive from God a truly clear sense of His will for their lives. Give thanks that miss Rebecca Dada from London has been accepted for a year of Short Term service with Mission Africa. She plans to go to Kenya in September 2021.

• 26th April

  Pray for Council, as they seek the will of God for Mission Africa in these troubled days. Pray that God will bless them with the special wisdom that He promises in His word.

• 27th April

  Pray that God would use our increased social media posting as a tool to bring new missionaries (short-term and long-term) to the Mission, and that it would continue to increase people’s awareness of the life and work of Mission Africa.

• 28th April

  Give thanks that an England Prayer Group has started. This group will meet via zoom at 3:30PM on the first Thursday of each month. Pray that this time will be a time of blessing and numbers will grow over the months to come. If you are interested, please contact us or Jeremy Nash for details.

• 29th April

  Many African nations are reporting increased COVID19 infection and death rates. We ask that you also continue in prayer for Africa, as it responds to COVID-19. Pray for access to vaccinations; give thanks to God for those pharmaceutical companies and governments that are supplying vaccines for free . Pray for good leadership, and wisdom managing the latest, more contagious, strains of the virus. Pray for those in charge of vaccination logistics in countries that are vast in size and population but have only very few medical workers. Pray for medical staff and other key workers — that God would provide them with strength, as they continue to battle the virus in 2021.