SEPTEMBER
PRAYER CALENDAR 2003
Nampula/Cabo
Del Gado Ministry Team
Shout
for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Worship
the Lord with gladness;
come
before him with joyful songs.
Psalm
100:1-2
Monday
September 1: Praise
God for the women’s training and Sunday School workshops that Jayme,
Dianne, Katie, and Sue McGukin
led at the end of August in Murrapula.
Please
continue to pray for Jayme's
visa.
She still does not have the proper work permit and documents and will have to
make two more trips out of the country.
Tuesday
September 2: Pray
for the construction work being done on the Nampula
Bible Institute.
Pray that God will provide the volunteer labor needed at the site for the next
two weeks.
Wednesday
September 3: Pray
for Phil
McGukin,
volunteer from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Carrolton, Georgia as he leads the
construction team. Praise the Lord for the witness he is giving daily and
for the remaining time he has in Nampula.
Pray for Mike,
Pastor Caetano, Katie and Sue
as they leave for Malema
this morning. Mike
and Pastor Caetano
will be evangelizing and surveying the areas of Malema and Ribaue. Katie
and Sue
will be teaching True Love Waits.
Thursday
September 4: Pray for Dianne
and Jayme
as they participate and take 10 ladies to Nainhota
for a Makhuwa Initiation Ceremony for
Ancha, Pedro’s sister. Praise the Lord that this will be a Christian ceremony
instead of a traditional one. Pray that the ladies will know and understand the
difference in the life of a Christian Makhuwa woman and a non-Christian.
This is a very big event!!! The ceremony lasts 3 nights.
Friday September 5: Please pray as Sue
and Katie
teach True Love Waits to the church in Malema. Pray that the people would hear
and understand the words that are being taught and God’s special plan for
their lives.
Saturday September 6: Pray for Jayme
and Dianne
as tonight is Ancha’s ceremony. This will be a very culturally eye opening
experience.
Sunday September 7: Pray for the English
service at Nampula Church.
Pray for Larry
as he preaches this Sunday. Pray that the congregation would hear God’s word
and apply it to their lives.
Monday September 8: Pray for Rise’
Uttley
our new career missionary as she leaves for Portugal today. She has her visa and
will begin language school as soon as she arrives!
Tuesday
September 9: Praise God for Dianne’s
continued
recovery from her ear surgery. Her hearing has improved especially when she
wears the hearing aid. Thank you for praying for her over the past few
months. Also continue praying as she decides whether she will repeat the surgery
on the other ear.
Wednesday September 10: Pray for Larry
has he finishes up the housing relief project. Also please pray that Larry would
have wisdom, in the area of hunger relief. The area of Murrapula is
especially in need at this point.
Pray for Phil
and Sue McGukin
as they leave Nampula and begin their travels home to Georgia. Praise God for
the positive impact they made on Nampula!
Thursday September 11: Continue to pray for safe
travel for Phil
and Sue
as they travel from Johannasburg to Atlanta! Pray that God would grant them
sleep on this long, 17 hour flight home!
Friday September 12: Pray for Daniel
Smith
as he prepares to arrive in Mozambique. Give him strength as he says goodbye to
family and friends!
Saturday September 13: Pray for Dianne
and Jayme
as they prepare to teach on spiritual gifts to a group of ladies at Cossore
Baptist Mission
in Nampula city.
Sunday September 14: Pray for Mike
and Pastor Caetano
as they travel home from Malema.
Monday
September 15: Pray for Rise’
today, pray that she will be able to make a good Portuguese friend that she can
practice her language with.
Tuesday September 16: Pray for Jayme
as she is in the process of moving houses. Pray that she will be able to develop
a good relationship with her new landlord and that she will have the opportunity
to share Christ with her.
Wednesday September 17: Pray for Mike
and Pastor Manuel
as they do evangelistic and survey work over the next three days in the Napome
area.
Thursday September 18: Pray for Dianne
as she prayerfully seeks to prioritize
our personnel requests
for career and ISC/Journeyman. We will only be able to choose three and
the rest will be on hold! Pray for wisdom!
Friday September 19: Pray for Larry
as he continues teaching TEE
to the church leaders in and around Nampula.
Saturday September 20: Pray for the planning of the women’s
congress
that is scheduled for this month. Pray for the Mozambican ladies who
should be planning this training.
Sunday
September 21: Pray for Jayme
as she prints the 12
leaflets that Pr. Caetano, Anselmo and she produced in July at the Literature
Conference.
Jayme did a great job of getting them into print ready form. Pray for Dianne and
Jayme as they prepare to distribute these leaflets in Nampula Province.
Pray for the ability of many new readers but also that they will be touched by
the message in the booklets.
Monday September 22: Pray for Mike
and Pastor Manuel
as they do evangelistic and survey work in the areas of Namaita
and Sena
over the next two days. Pray that they will effectively communicate the saving
message of Jesus Christ.
Tuesday
September 23: Pray for
Katie
as she packs up the rest of her things and says her final goodbyes to her
friends in Nampula.
Wednesday
September 24: Please pray for
Mike and Pastor Manuel
as they return from Sena and Nameita. Pray
for Dianne as she flies to Beira!
Thursday
September 25: Pray
for Katie today as she leaves Nampula and flies to Malawi on her way home to the
States. We praise God for the AWESOME impact she has made in Nampula over the
last 2 years.
Pray
for Daniel
Smith today
as he arrives in Beira! Pray also as he introduced to missionaries and church
leaders that strong relationships will be built.
Friday
September 26: Pray for Mike
today as he and Pastor Manuel
continue their evangelistic work in Namaita and Sena.
Saturday
September 27: Pray for Dianne
as she begins Daniel’s
Portuguese intensive study.
Pray for Daniel as he studies and for his Portuguese teachers- Fernando,
Manuel and Anselmo.
Sunday September 28: Pray for Katie
as she leaves Lilongwe flying home to Georgia. Pray that the Lord will grant her
safe travel and rest!
Monday September 29: Please pray for Mike
and Pastor Manuel
as they do evangelistic and survey work in the areas surrounding Sena
and Rapale.
Tuesday
September 30: Please continue to pray for Daniel
as
he adjusts to Mozambican life! And Portuguese study each and every day!
JULY
PRAYER CALENDAR 2003
Nampula/Cabo
Del Gado Ministry Team
Tuesday July 1: Pray for Larry as he goes to Namapa to do TEE. Pray for our new English worship service that will begin August 10. Pray our new Christians will attend this service and grow in their faith.
Wednesday July 2: Pray for Larry as he does TEE (Theological training) in Namapa.
Pray for Dianne and Mike as they meet with local pastors to begin planning future work together.
Praise God for the 4 summer missionaries who labored in and around Nampula for the last month. They were a blessing to many and many have come into the kingdom as a result of their sharing.
Thursday July 3: Pray for Larry as he returns to Nampula. Pray that he would get some much needed rest.
Friday July 4: Pray for the 21 English students and their friends who have accepted Christ in the last few months. Pray that they would plug into Bible believing churches.
Pray
for Rise,
our newest career missionary on the team as she prepares to go to
Saturday July 5: Pray for Mike, Brian and Joel as they travel from Nampula to Zambia beginning today.
Pray
for Dianne as she writes new personnel requests. Pray God will bring someone to
be the team
leader for the Makhuwa Ministry Team
and to do evangelism and plant churches among the Makhuwa-Maca e Nivarone
peoples on the coast of
Monday July 7: Pray
for Kyengye a Congolese refugee here in Nampula. He is part of a cult
based out of the
Pray for Jayme as she flying to Lilongwe Malawi to begin obtain the correct visa for becoming a resident in Mozambique.
Tuesday July 8: Pray for Joel, Brian and Jayme as they continue to adjust to a very new culture, also pray that they would learn to communicate quickly in Portuguese.
Wednesday July 9: Please pray that God would continue to lead us to the people that He has prepared to hear the gospel.
Thursday
July 10: Pray
for Rise’ to adjust to life in
Friday July 11: Please pray that all of us would abide in Christ. Pray that our time with the the Lord each day will be refreshing and sweet. Pray that God would reveal Himself to us in a new way each day.
Pray
God will send a couple to serve as a career church planting catalyst and also
two journeyman or an ISC couple to serve among the
Makhuwa- Shirima
in Niassa Province.
.
Saturday July 12: Pray for all those traveling to AMT and the program that begins this afternoon. Pray for Mike, Joel and Brian as they travel from Zambia to Lilongwe today.
Monday July 14: Pray for our meetings as we begin our Annual Mission Training.
Pray
for God to send a career couple and also a journeyman or an ISC couple to serve
among the Makhuwa
– Emetto in Cabo Del Gado Province.
Tuesday July 15: Please pray that the plans of Satan would be thwarted, and God would continue to reveal Himself and save the Makhuwa people.
Wednesday July 16: Pray
for our Portuguese and Makhuwa language teachers, Anselmo,
Fernando and Manuel. Pray also for
all those who are teaching ESL (English)
each week.
Thursday
July 17: Continue
to pray for
Pastor Saraiva and Idalena
as they serve at
Friday July 18: Pray
that the English students would be interested in
hearing more about what we discuss in class. Pray
they would come to Christ.
Saturday July 19: Please pray for us as our annual meeting ends today in Malawi.
Sunday July 20: Pray safety in travel for us as we return to Nampula from Malawi
Monday July 21: Pray for the Annual Pastor's conference in Maputo. Pray for all the Baptists Pastors, Christians and missionaries who will be traveling to Maputo this year.
Please pray for Jayme as begins to help with a translation workshop at the SIL (Wycliffe) training facility.
Tuesday July 22: Pray
the Nampula/Cabo Del Gado Team (Makhuwa) will realize the importance of
discipleship and work to train, equip and encourage those in our churches.
Pray the Team will also seek God’s perfect timing.
Wednesday July 23: Pray for the annual WMU meeting in Maputo. Pray for the discussion with the women and the Youth concerning the problem of HIV/AIDS. Pray for the proposal that needs to be written and adopted for a national campaign.
Pray the marriages of the pastors will be examples of what
the scriptures say a marriage should be. Pray
for the single evangelists to find the right mates.
Thursday July 24: SPECIAL PRAYER FOCUS: Pray for the Annual National Baptist Convention in Maputo. Pray for cooperation between all the Baptist mission groups and convention. Pray for a united vision for a church planting movement among all the people groups in Mozambique.
Friday July 25: Pray
that in all things we would bring God glory, honor and worship.
Saturday July 26: Please continue to pray that God would convict Mozambique Christians to live a life of purity and holiness before God.
Sunday July 27: Ask God to guide the hands of the surgeon who will work on Dianne's ear in Johannesburg tomorrow morning.
Monday July 28: Pray for Dianne's recovery from surgery.
Pray
for unity of the members of the Nampula/Cabo Del Gado Ministry Team. Pray
also the Team will constantly seek the Lord’s guidance in every area of their
lives.
Tuesday July 29: Pray for Dianne on her birthday today.
Wednesday July 30:
Pray for Pastor David and wife,
Sheila and daughter Sarah as he becomes the
interim pastor for
Thursday July
31:
Pray that the local pastors would train and equip the members of the churches to
know how to share their faith in an evangelistic way and be able to disciple new
believers.
"A mans heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his path." Porverbs 16:9
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