Friends of Mission

Friends of mission: A group that meets monthly to enjoy a meeting of fellowship and food.  We liaise with missionaries and support them both in prayer and with finance. Sometimes we have a guest speaker. Funds are raised to support various missionaries.

Due to the current situation regarding Covid-19, FoM is not meeting.  Marian Quinn will advise when meetings resume.

In the mean time, here is an extensive list of some of our current Missionaries we are supporting, along with their prayer requests and praise points:

Carpenter Family

Please pray for:

  • Protection during covid-19 for elderly parents and Catharine’s mother who is immuno-suppressed.
  • Pray also for the many Yolngu people who have serious underlying medical conditions

Praise also that the Christians from the Yolngu people are continuing to seek opportunities to be discipled and disciple others. 

Kim Jaeger

Until recently, patrol work was like any other year; on the road in the four-wheel drive.  Now patrol work is operated from my desk at home, over the phone or using on line resources.  At PIM, we believe it is vital to stay connected to those in rural and isolated places throughout the Coronavirus Pandemic.  We are able to offer support and encouragement to Christian believers who may not have a strong church support network.  It is also important to stay in contact with the nonbelievers we normally visit, offering a listening ear, genuine care, and the opportunity to discuss the Gospel in these uncertain times.  Occasionally I conduct ‘mercy trips’ to deliver groceries to families who are unable to leave their home due to illness.  For example, Paul is recovering at home after recent illness but is unable to drive and no one else in the household has a driver’s licence.  

Please pray :

  • That the patrol workers might be able to continue their connections with the people they have established friendships with.
  • And also that the work may continue to expand through building online contacts.
  • That the challenges remote people are facing at this time may open their hearts to the God who cares for them.

Focus: Luke H

Hello prayer partner,

Lets pray:

  • For Yi’s living situation: the Chinese man in his sharehouse is terrified of C19 and so Yi had to move out.  Now, Yi has learned that, upon Yi’s return, the share mate wants one of them to move out permanently.  Please pray for wisdom, resolution, and provision for this complicated situation. 
  • For online Bible studies, training … and soon… Friday Night FOCUS.  I don’t really like this online experience.  Let’s pray that, though it’s yucky for us, it brings Jesus glory.  We still have lots of non-Christians connected to our FOCUS community.  This is awesome. 
  • We are all still trying to work out what online ministry needs to look like for our team.  We are all evangelists and thrive on the passionate face to face interactions.  Currently, we are all busy trying things out and trying to learn to do things like Zoom meetings.

Motor Yat

Patmos Presbyterian Church in Nguany-yiel refugee camps have managed to rebuild a new Church, replacing the old thatched roofing with iron sheet. It was a considerable achievement for the congregation who have been depending on the rations from UNHCR.  Each household contributed some maize or oil from their rations and brought to the church compound as a part of their contribution for the new roofing.  The building committee converted the material to Ethiopian Birr by selling off the materials to locals and used the money to buy iron sheets.  Their youth collected the wood from the forest and brought it to the base.

Please pray :

  • for their safety as they access the refugee camps in Ethiopia.
  • Messages for Motor as he teaches pastors and church members,
  • for peace and reconciliation between Nuer and Anuak Sth Sudanese in the Ethiopian camps.
  • Pray for 9 students in theological college in Addis Ababa.

Mikey Lynch

Update on coronavirus challenges – As you are aware the progress of the coronavirus pandemic and the necessary response from a federal level and organistional level is changing rapidly. It is overwhemling and exhausitng on many levels.  We are all feeling pretty drained!

Please pray for wisdom in these areas:
 1. At the moment, we are making decisions to adjust to this new missionary situation, both figuring out how best to use various kinds of online tools (faculty-specific Facebook Groups, videoconferencing, online courses provided by theological colleges etc).

2. How to adjust our ministry model to focus much more strongly on small groups and informal ministry.  The Uni Fellowship of Christians already operated in quite a distributed network-ministry structure, so we are fairly resilient and flexible as a leadership team and organisation to adjust. 

Naomi Warwick (SIM)

As the weather heats up in Niger, pray for grace and patience during this time.  With school exams starting soon, pray the internet will be stable to enable the downloading of the exams on time.

Wes and Esther Dale

Wes and Esther, along with many other missionaries, were having trouble getting their visas’s excepted.  The latest information is that they are at the moment with their daughter in Darwin.  Pray that they will be able to continue their work there as the virus reduces.  Or, if not, that God would make the next step clear to them.

K and Q and their family are iving in a large city, bustling with people, traffic, air pollution, and a majority who know not the Lord.

Pray for:

  • faithfulness and safety.
  • wisdom and provision within their work situations.

Sil Ruddle

Despite her prayers, Sil is still the only member of her organisation there because of travel restrictions.  This places a lot of responsibility in her hands.  Covid -19 has reached Togo and Benin.  However, two long-term workers were able to join them before the lockdowns.

PRAISE & PRAYER

 Pray that the Lord will intervene and stop the spread of the coronavirus and for those waking up each day to the fallout.  Pray that SIM Benin Togo will be ready if able, to support our local communities in practical and sacrificial ways.

 Pray for all those who live and die without the knowledge of Jesus, that this crisis may lead many to the gift of salvation.

 Give thanks that God has been at work through our radio ministry in the region of Savalou and Tchetti.  Pray that local Christians will continue to grow in their love and understanding of God’s word and boldly proclaim his salvation.

 Give thanks for God’s faithfulness and the support of people around me. Pray for his strength and wisdom as we continue to make decisions and run ministries within the current environment. Pray that I might lead well and rest in God’s peace and steadfastness.

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