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TABLE OF CONTENTS Our Missions Family

Missionaries by Region

Missionaries by Ministry Focus

Missionary Bios

WATCH Workers

Training National Leaders

Seminaries and Schools

WE BELIEVE GOD WORKS THROUGH PRAYER In this guide, you will learn about College Church’s supported ministry partners and become better equipped to pray for them. We believe that God works through prayer, and we invite you to participate in his mighty plan for the world in this way. The prayer guide is arranged into two sections: 1) Global Workers and 2) Global Partners. Please join us in asking the Lord for strength, wisdom, endurance, faithfulness and fruitfulness for both the individuals and institutions in this prayer guide. We invite you to read through this guide in its entirety, as you pray for a ministry partner each day. Also, you might consider receiving the newsletter of a particular individual, personally connecting with them or supporting them. If you would like to get in touch with any of our ministry partners, our staff is more than happy to connect you. Please email missions@college-church.org or call (630) 668-0878. May the Lord bless you as you seek him in prayer.

I PRAY that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that

you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. EPHESIANS 1:18-19 (NIV)

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Our Missions Family 83 career missionary units 2 midterm missionary units (3 months to 3 years) 5 missions associates Serving in 41 different countries

JESUS came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. MATTHEW 28:18-20

NORTH AMERICA 25 CAREER 3 MA

LATIN AMERICA 10 CAREER

EUROPE 15 CAREER

AFRICA 8 CAREER 1 MIDTERM

AFTER THIS I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” REVELATION 7:9-10

MENA (MIDDLE EAST/ NORTH AFRICA) 9 CAREER

EURASIA 4 CAREER

ASIA 16 CAREER 1 MA

Missionaries by Region *Missions Associate (prayer support only)

NORTH AMERICA Albright, Dick Baur, Phil & Ann Beasley, Norm & Cathy Blackburn, Brian & Warrie Bradley, Karen Cole, Curt & Karen Deyneka, Anita* Duttweiler, Rod & Kathy Haley, Jon & Kathy Hansen, Jim & Kathy Hawkins, Scott & Jenny* Kelly, Todd & Sue Krogh, Steve & Lois Long, Dan & Beth McAuley, Thad & Joy McKinley, Rick & Janice Miller, Terri Pelz, Jeff & Jane Perlman, Susan Sattler, Tim & Judy Smith, Tim & Deanna* Sprenger, Mike & Carol Beth Tahear, Emmanuel & Adugna Wickberg, John & Vivi* WATCH (4)

LATIN AMERICA

AFRICA

Becker, Robbie & Lauren Befus, Matt & Lisa Blumhofer, Judy Bradley, Kyle (Dariana) Cox, Steve & Mirian Dresselhaus, Steve & Lois Hurst, Greg & Faith Simons, Jon & Teresa Trautwein, Victor & Leslie VanDerMolen, Jeff & Ann

Avery, Tim & Carol Duttweiler, Caleb & Marisa Gieser, Jim & Julianna Rigby, Stephen & Karis Stough, Bill & Laurie Viands, Jamie & Kim Yin, Elena WATCH (1)

EUROPE

WATCH (7)

Beck, Nathan & Vera Davis, Giles & Debbie Dunckel, Joshua & Kara Faber, Bob & Becky Harris, Jonathan & Amy Hatcher, Jim & Lynette Klopfenstein, Sara (Manu) Lundell, Mihai & Tamara Miller, Kristiana (Cory) Nichols, Greg & Debby Okoro, Stanley (Marjorie) Otten, Jeremy & Christy Phillips, David & Majka Sánchez, José Pablo & Jane Stough, Isaac & Jennifer

MENA (MIDDLE EAST/ NORTH AFRICA)

EURASIA Warner, Charley & Cheryl Wiebe, Chad and Leanna WATCH (2)

ASIA C., Joan* Finn, Jake & Honah Hershberger, Jeff & Tamara Pardue, Steve & Teri Pehrson, Ben & Mandy Waldrop, John & Esther Warner, Melissa WATCH (8)

Missionaries by Ministry Focus *Missions Associate (prayer support only)

ADMINISTRATION & ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP Baur, Phil & Ann Beasley, Norm & Cathy Cole, Curt & Karen McAuley, Thad & Joy Miller, Terri (Matt) Perlman, Susan Yin, Elena WATCH (3)

CHURCH PLANTING & LEADERSHIP Dresselhaus, Steve & Lois Hershberger, Jeff & Tamara Hurst, Greg & Faith Okoro, Stanley (Marjorie) WATCH (2)

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Blumhofer, Judy Deyneka, Anita* Faber, Bob & Becky Klopfenstein, Sara (Manu) Stough, Bill & Laurie Trautwein, Victor & Leslie VanDerMolen, Jeff & Ann WATCH (3)

EDUCATION Becker, Robbie & Lauren Befus, Matt & Lisa Blackburn, Brian & Warrie (MK) WATCH (2)

EVANGELISM, DISCIPLESHIP & TRAINING Beck, Nathan & Vera Bradley, Kyle (Dariana) Cox, Steve & Mirian Davis, Giles & Debbie Dunckel, Joshua & Kara Duttweiler, Caleb & Marisa Duttweiler, Rod & Kathy Harris, Jonathan & Amy Hatcher, Jim & Lynette Hawkins, Scott & Jenny* McKinley, Rick & Janice Nichols, Greg & Debby Pelz, Jeff & Jane Phillips, David & Majka Rigby, Stephen & Karis Sánchez, José Pablo & Jane Stough, Isaac & Jennifer Tahear, Emmanuel & Adugna WATCH (10)

MEMBER CARE Blackburn, Brian & Warrie Finn, Jake & Honah Long, Dan & Beth Lundell, Mihai & Tammy Miller, Kristiana (Cory) Sprenger, Mike & Carol Beth Warner, Charley & Cheryl Warner, Melissa WATCH (1)

MOBILIZATION Hansen, Jim & Kathy Wiebe, Chad & Leanna

TRAINING NATIONAL LEADERS (GLOBAL) Avery, Tim & Carol Otten, Jeremy & Christy Pardue, Steve & Teri Simons, Jon & Teresa Viands, Jamie & Kim Waldrop, John & Esther WATCH (1)

TRAINING NATIONAL LEADERS (US BASED) Albright, Dick Haley, Jon & Kathy Kelly, Todd & Sue Krogh, Steve & Lois Sattler, Tim (Judy) WATCH (1)

TRANSLATION Bradley, Karen Jeff & Irene Pehrson, Ben & Mandy Wickberg, John & Vivi* WATCH (1)

Dick Albright serves with Training Leaders International as an international trainer. Dick leads and mentors teams of trainers, pastors and seminary students to bring theological education and training in biblical interpretation and expository preaching to pastors and church leaders around the world, most of whom lack the means to attend Bible school or seminary.

• Pray for Dick to grow closer to the Lord as he prepares for training workshops in various countries.

• Pray for pastors to be strengthened and encouraged in their ability to handle God’s Word faithfully.

Tim & Carol Avery work with Pioneers International in Nairobi, Kenya. Tim serves as publishing director for Ekklesia Afrika, a local ministry that supplies the African church with sound theological resources. As part of his role, Tim helps African pastors write books for East Africa and beyond. He also teaches part-time in a local seminary.

• Pray for the Lord’s grace in marriage, parenting and homeschooling. • Pray for the Avery family to bless and be blessed in the life of their local church. • Pray for the publishing and seminary work to support the church in East Africa.

Phil & Ann Baur serve on the executive team of Pioneers International (PI) USA, whose vision is to see churches planted among unreached people groups around the globe. Phil and Ann provide administrative and project support to the president and board of directors of PI, freeing leadership to focus on responsibilities where they are most needed. While most of their time is spent at the home office in Orlando, their work takes them around the U.S. and the world to provide administrative support for the global PI family.

• Pioneers is asking God for 250 more unreached people groups to engage within the next ten years.

• Pray for sensitivity to God’s timing and direction as they near retirement. 8

Norm & Cathy Beasley are with Wycliffe Bible Translators/Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). Norm leads SIL’s Global Security Risk Management Services and serves as an advisor, consultant and trainer. He assists SIL leaders in areas of risk assessment, contingency planning, training, crisis resolution and mitigating accepted risks. Through SIL’s Child Safety Response Team, Norm also works to provide a coordinated, timely, thorough and compassionate response to child abuse reports, as well as workplace inquiries.

• Pray for Norm as he assists leadership in making risk-aware and risk-wise staffing decisions.

• Pray for wisdom as Norm seeks to maintain healthy relationships at home while traveling and training.

• Pray for Cathy as she supports Norm in his role as well as their adult children.

Nathan & Vera Beck are involved in a ministry of God’s Word through small group Bible studies, teaching, training, ministry coaching and preaching. They love to help people fall in love with Jesus through his Word as they learn to carefully respond to him in obedience. It is their great joy to see disciples equipped and released to ministry. God has given them open doors for ministry both nearby and across Europe.

• Pray that God would open Czech hearts to know Jesus as the way, the truth and the life.

• Pray that God would raise up and send out many workers into his harvest field.

• Pray for their children—for protection, spiritual growth, strong faith and discernment.

Robbie & Lauren Becker dream to see Colombia transformed from a missions field to a missions force. They want to see Colombians raised up, trained and sent out to the unreached peoples of the world. They have been working at a Christian school in Bogota, teaching Bible and discipling high school students for over a decade. After a year of intense training in Western Asia, they returned to Colombia in July better equipped to train Colombians to be missionaries to the unreached.

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• Pray that God would use them to raise up Colombian laborers for the harvest (Luke 10:2).

• Pray that God would give them wisdom for all the decisions that will be made for future ministry.

• Pray that God would keep their family strong and growing in their walks with Jesus.

Matt & Lisa Befus advance the kingdom of God through Christian education in Costa Rica and mission leadership in the Central America Caribbean region. For the past 27 years, they have worked to mature La Palabra de Vida, a national Christian school serving Latin American families. A year ago, they became Mesa Global regional leaders for Central America and the Caribbean, serving in national ministry partner development and missionary equipping.

• Praise that Matt and Lisa are learning about what it means to be regional leaders.

• Pray that they would be attentive to God’s leading as they seek to equip servant leaders and promote a flourishing church in their region.

Brian & Warrie Blackburn serve in medical missions with Mercy Ships. Mercy Ships’ goal is to follow Jesus’ model of bringing hope and healing to the world’s forgotten poor by using hospital ships to transform lives and serve nations. Warrie serves in the chaplaincy department and Brian with the Mercy Ships Academy, an accredited international Christian K-12 school for children of volunteer crew members.

• Pray that Brian and Warrie would have wisdom in ministry and parenting. • Pray for effective ministry for the Africa Mercy and the Global Mercy in Africa. • Pray for an increasing number of volunteers to serve with Mercy Ships.

Judy Blumhofer works with vulnerable children and families to share the love, hope and healing found in Jesus Christ. Her primary avenues of ministry are through providing pediatric care in a community clinic, partnering with a local bilingual school and working within the foster care community. She serves through Christian Health Service Corps. Judy has lived in Honduras for 13 years.

• Pray for opportunities to share the love of Christ with her neighbors and wider community.

• Pray for open doors within the Honduran medical community to partner with it and strengthen it.

• Pray for wisdom, joy and rest as a mama to four active boys.

Karen Bradley serves on the Summer Institute of Linguistics English team with Wycliffe Bible Translators. This team comes alongside international staff, helping them reach competency in English needed for their tasks in Bible translation.

• Pray for her to teach and lead the team well in joyful dependence on the Lord.

• Pray for her as she teaches at the SIL training course in Nairobi for African translators.

• Pray for the Good Shepherd to continue gently guiding Karen and her family as they follow him.

Kyle Bradley (Dariana) Kyle is the lead director of GO Sports in the Dominican Republic for GO Ministries. GO’s mission is to empower local leaders to make disciples through sports. It is Kyle’s responsibility to guide the health, vision and culture of the sports ministry. Dariana oversees the girls’ basketball academy.

• Pray for the kids connected with GO to be drawn

to the love of Jesus and come to saving faith in him.

• Pray for Kyle and Dariana as they serve and bring up their children in the love of the Lord.

Curt & Karen Cole are based in Kansas City, Missouri. Curt is the chief operating officer/vice president of personnel for Avant Ministries. His passion is the health of Avant’s 450 global missionaries. He also serves on the international leadership team which strategically places church planting teams in unreached places. Karen serves as an educational consultant coach with Avant, whose goal is to see parents prepared and equipped for the unique challenges of their children’s education in whatever country they are serving.

• Pray for growing Avant mobilization efforts in East Africa, Europe and Latin America.

• Pray as Curt & Karen come alongside and coach those mobilizing and those being mobilized.

• Pray for Karen as she helps new missionary families navigate the challenges of their children’s educational options.

Steve & Mirian Cox serve at Word of Life Bible Seminary in Brazil. They lead programs for married students, working closely with couples through discipleship and administrative work. Together they are involved in a local church where they serve as spiritual leaders.

• Pray that the Lord would strengthen Steve and Mirian daily with joy to interact with the couples in their ministry.

• Pray for more couples to enroll in the program.

Giles & Debbie Davis serve with SEND and partner with the Spanish church to reach youth, disciple them and train their leaders. Debbie is the national youth coordinator for the FIEIDE (Evangelical Free Church in Spain). She oversees regional leaders and plans regional and national events for the youth and their leaders that belong to the 100+ churches of FIEIDE. Giles is a published author, a discipler of twelve young men, a youth leader trainer and a conference speaker invited to speak all over the nation. 12

• Pray that God would open young people’s eyes to the lies their society is telling them.

• Pray as the Davises mentor and model how to multiply churches by making disciples.

Anita Deyneka (MISSIONS ASSOCIATE) works with Mission Eurasia, serving primarily with A Family for Every Orphan (AFFEO) and Second Mothers. Both organizations work to place orphans and vulnerable children into caring Christian families within their birth countries. AFFEO helps to further alliances between churches and many global organizations. She also travels to countries where the movement for A World Without Orphans has spread since it originated in Ukraine.

• Pray for wisdom to know how to best support the many Ukrainian children abducted from Ukraine by Russia since 2023.

• Pray that she would rejoice in the Lord and know his guidance for the work he has given her to do.

Steve & Lois Dresselhaus serve with TEAM in La Paz, Mexico. Their two main ministries are Reconciliamar, which uses adventures at sea to transform lives, and leading the Patio Church, an informal house church which meets on their patio. As they take locals kayaking and scuba diving, Steve and Lois make opportunities to share the gospel with them; and many are now a part of the Patio. They long to see more patio churches established around La Paz before their expected retirement in two years.

• Pray that God will break through powerfully in their neighborhood of Esterito to save many.

• Pray that God will raise up a consistent core group of believers in the Patio Church. • Pray for God to bring eternal fruit from the MANY seeds of the gospel sown over the years.

Joshua & Kara Dunckel Joshua leads the strategic collaboration team of ReachGlobal’s Europe division, working in areas of Europe where opportunities exist for them to support and work alongside European ministry leaders. Their three focus areas are: supporting church planters, missions mobilization and building unity between churches and organizations. Kara also provides administrative support for leaders in their organization.

• Pray for wisdom and discernment for Joshua as he builds collaboration among ministry workers.

• Pray for wisdom for Joshua and Kara to know which ministry opportunities to pursue.

Caleb & Marisa Duttweiler work with East Mountain South Africa to disciple young Christian leaders in theology, identity and mission. They long to see leaders transformed by the gospel and living in authentic community who impact churches and organizations to join God in his mission.

• Pray for growth and unity in the European church. • Pray for the residency program—that the

participants would be well-equipped in godly leadership.

• Pray for their family and healthy and sanctifying life rhythms.

Rod & Kathy Duttweiler encourage, mentor, train and disciple Christian leaders in Africa. East Mountain trains workers in theology, Christian identity and mission in South Africa. Rod works to establish church-based discipleship in French speaking West African countries.

• Pray for wisdom and insight in encouraging pastors and Christian workers in various cultural contexts.

• Pray for Rod’s and Kathy’s relationships with the Lord to thrive as they serve in their local church as well as across the world.

• Pray for guidance, protection and health with their numerous trips to Africa each year.

Bob & Becky Faber serve with Salt Ventures (SV) in Sofia, Bulgaria. Bob is the president of Salt Ventures NFP, and Becky leads member care for Asia and Africa workers of SV. The Fabers are involved in teaching, church planting, evangelism, leadership development and community service. The Pink Foundation, their ministry to children at risk, launched Innovaid, a first-ofits-kind hospital volunteer program for Bulgarian youth with the goal of yielding community, medical and spiritual fruit in Bulgarian society.

• Glory to God they recruited five new missionaries to serve overseas, and

if God wills, it looks like there are two more for 2026. Only the Holy Spirit mobilizes like that!

• Pray for wisdom as they navigate their commitments and seek to do each thing well.

Jake & Honah Finn work with Cornerstone Counseling Foundation (CCF) in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Jake serves as the director of partnerships and provides professional counseling from a Christ-based perspective for missionaries and their families throughout Asia. He provides confidential and professional counseling, consultation and training from a Christian perspective for individuals, couples, families, teams and organizations.

• Pray for roughly 600 missionaries and families coming to Cornerstone for support and encouragement.

• Pray for staff and clinicians at CCF and for new clinicians to join the team as the demand is great.

• Pray for encouragement, protection, provision and life-giving community for their family.

Jim & Julianna Gieser serve at the YMCA Christian Study Center at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Jim oversees the spiritual training and care of students and staff, directs the residence life program, develops partnerships with faculty and churches in the area and assists the executive director with fundraising tasks. continued on next page

Jim and Julianna’s deepest joy is in discipling students toward a deepening commitment to follow Jesus.

• Pray for wisdom and energy as Jim juggles his various roles. • Pray that Jim will abide in Christ and minister to others from a place of safety and rest.

• Pray for guidance as Jim and Julianna raise four growing kids and for deepened love for each other.

Jon & Kathy Haley resource Spanish-speaking church leaders in support of expository preaching through their exegetica.net website and the translation of theological works into Spanish. Currently, they are translating the twenty-volume Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Jon also teaches online courses with the Escuela Evangélica de Teología.

• Pray that their son, daughter-in-law and grandson will seek the Lord with all their heart.

• Pray that they will edit with precision and that their translator will come to faith. • Pray that God’s Word will be proclaimed with authority and integrity in the Spanish-speaking world.

Jim & Kathy Hansen Jim teaches Bible at the Ethnos360 Bible Institute (Waukesha, WI), preparing prospective missionaries for service overseas and mobilizing for missionary service in churches here in the U.S. He also travels to South America and Africa to teach and disciple church leaders and promote missions mobilization. Kathy is a special needs aide in a local school.

• Pray that the hearts of Jim’s students will be open to learn from God’s Word. • Pray for guidance in discerning which ministry invitations to accept. • Pray for God’s blessing on Kathy as she ministers to very needy children.

Jonathan & Amy Harris have worked as missionaries with Operation Mobilization for over 40 years. They are based in Wales in the UK, and their main ministry is evangelism. For the last six years, a major focus of their work has been gospel outreach in a very multicultural district in the city of Cardiff. Other ongoing work includes regular street evangelism and encouraging young local evangelists.

• Pray for the work in Grangetown, that disciples will be made among the nations. • Pray for the street evangelism ministry to be fruitful in bringing people to salvation.

• Pray for the ministry of encouraging and mentoring younger gospel workers.

Jim & Lynette Hatcher Jim focuses on local ministry as senior teaching elder in the Evangelikale Gemeinde Kagran (an Austrian church). He preaches, leads Bible studies along with Lynette, disciples young believers and trains and mentors emerging leaders.

• Pray for the Kagran church to raise new leaders over the coming year.

• Pray for the Kagran church as they seek a long-term location. • Pray for Jim and Lynette as they focus on discipling young believers.

Scott & Jenny Hawkins (MISSIONS ASSOCIATES) serve with International Students, Inc. (ISI) in North Carolina. As a senior campus minister, Scott supports ISI’s seven local staff member’s aim in blessing all international students by personally reconnecting selected returning alumni, facilitating discovery Bible discussions and assisting in outreaches, e.g. supper clubs, Conversations of Consequence or study break activities.

• May the Spirit of God work a tidal wave of hunger for the gospel among 5000 Duke internationals.

• May God bring additional Spirit-filled staff to the ISI team. • Praise for continued open doors for service and gospel witness in the universities.

Jeff & Tamara Hershberger Jeff is part of the preaching team in a church established by SEND International in Tokyo, Japan and serves in various leadership roles within SEND. Tamara serves in Christian missionary education in addition to offering church planting support.

• Pray for the Hershbergers to proclaim the gospel, strengthen disciples and assist the church.

• Pray for the Hershberger family to faithfully assist the church in these ministries.

Greg & Faith Hurst work with SIM in Bolivia, focusing on discipleship through family ministry and church planting. In the church they planted, Greg serves as an elder and trains the ministry team. Faith shepherds the leaders of the women’s and children’s ministries. The Hursts’ vision is to mobilize their congregation and other Bolivian churches to plant gospel-focused, disciple-making, missional churches that glorify God in their city, country and world (Acts 1:8). To this end, Greg is training a group of potential church-planters with a goal to send out teams in the coming year. Faith is receiving specialized training to better equip and encourage the wives of these Bolivian church planters.

• Pray for the gospel to continue to sink deeper roots into the hearts and minds of those to whom they are ministering.

• Pray for clarity and energy to balance their ministry in Bolivia while staying connected with family in the States.

Todd & Sue Kelly Todd serves as a founding partner of Fellowship of the Word Global, discipling pastors to clearly and compellingly exposit the Bible for the transformation God intends and to nurture movements of God’s Word in their countries and beyond.

• Pray God will continually fill them with his Spirit and wisdom as they seek to serve him.

• Pray they will depend on God as he grows this ministry for the strengthening of pastors and churches around the world.

Sara Klopfenstein (Manu) has enjoyed sharing the gospel through music for the past three decades in France. It’s challenging to remain relevant in an everchanging youth culture, but investing in the lives of young people never goes out of style. She is thankful to be able to minister in many different venues, including an inner-city complex, a school for kids with disabilities, a private elementary school and local churches. Manu manages a governmentfunded program for underage non-accompanied refugees.

• Pray for her to be a joyful encouragement to those who participate in her gospel choirs.

• Pray for wisdom for Manu in his role of managing the care program for young refugees.

Steve & Lois Krogh serve with Training Leaders International (TLI). Steve serves Christ’s global church by providing theological training, primarily in formal school settings, for pastors who have little or no access to such training. Steve focuses on training pastors to be faithful expositors of God’s Word and mentors volunteer teachers as they prepare to teach alongside him.

• Pray for pastors who are being trained to become faithful expositors of God’s Word. • Pray for Steve and Lois as they continue to serve at Christ Church in South Metro-Atlanta, that they would be wise mentors and encouragers.

Dan & Beth Long Dan serves with SIM International as a global chaplain, providing a ministry of presence and confidentiality for SIM workers worldwide and helping to keep missionaries on the field serving effectively. Beth’s primary role is caretaker to her 95-year-old mother, Muriel Stilwell, who is a retired SIM and College Church missionary.

• Pray for Dan and the SIM teams he visits as he travels around the world. • Pray that Beth and Dan would be an encouragement to their families.

Mihai & Tamara Lundell are part of One Challenge International (OCI) serving in Genoa, Italy, as leaders in Europe developing new strategies for discipleship, leadership development, care and spiritual formation. Mihai uses sport and member care with a specialty in trauma counseling. He also serves on the pastoral team of their local church. Tammy serves as the OCI Europe area director and as a spiritual director/retreat facilitator for ministry leaders around the world.

• Pray for local churches to grow by inviting others to follow Jesus and grow spiritually in community.

• Pray for more kingdom workers to serve in Europe and for governments to be open to church growth.

• Pray for Europeans to have renewed hope that the world is not post-Christian, but pre-revival.

Thad & Joy McAuley are focused on sharing Jesus with the peoples of Europe, enabling them to grow in relationship with Jesus, so they can help others know Christ; making disciples who make disciples and growing the Church across Europe. Thad serves as chief operating officer for Greater Europe Mission, whose staff are working on diverse projects that contribute toward discipleship and church planting in 23 countries across Europe. Joy serves with the spiritual formation team and teaches French at a local Christian school, which allows her to connect students with the mission in Europe.

• Pray Luke 10:2: Lord, send workers for the harvest from Europe and from around the world.

• Pray for wisdom to know what ministry opportunities to pursue, individually and as a mission.

• Pray for summer 2026 interns—humble, Christ-centered students God will use to transform lives across Europe.

Rick & Janice McKinley Missionary Athletes International (MAI) is a gospel-centered ministry that uses the global platform of soccer to introduce people to Jesus Christ, disciple them in their faith and develop them as leaders. Since 1987, Rick and Janice have faithfully served MAI in a variety of leadership roles. Today, they focus on mentoring coaches and directing international tours. They are also committed to equipping players to use the game of soccer as a powerful tool to share their faith and impact lives for Christ.

• Pray for Rick as he dedicates himself to training and mentoring the next generation of leaders in sports ministry. Praise God for MAI’s continued growth and opportunities for ministry service around the world.

• Pray for wisdom as they continue to invest spiritually in the lives of their four adult kids and ten grandchildren.

• Join them in praying for sustained spiritual and financial support as Rick and Janice remain committed to advancing God’s kingdom through their work with MAI.

Kristiana Miller (Cory) works with the teenage children of Greater Europe Mission’s missionaries GEM-Ks offering care, resources and special MK events for missionary kid teens and their families in Europe. Her calling is to support and encourage missionary kid teenagers and their families in Europe through long term relational ministry. By knowing them, listening to them and creating spaces for them to face their struggles in community, Kristiana hopes to show them Christ’s love and point them toward Jesus.

• Pray for the holistic wellness of the missionary kids within their care. • Pray that God would provide a male staff member to expand the capacity of their team.

• Pray for physical and spiritual protection during their major events.

Terri Miller (Matt) is a member of ReachGlobal’s Europe leadership team which helps provide vision, strategy, oversight and training for 120+ staff working on multiplying transformational churches in the cities of Europe. She spends significant time coaching team leaders and architecting events and training for staff and partners. Terri also serves as the global church representative of the National Association of Evangelicals.

• Pray for a growing vision, deeper faith, and stronger connections and community for the ReachGlobal staff.

• Pray for stamina, focus and wellbeing as Terri travels and spends many hours in conversation in person and online.

• Pray for meaningful, Christ-centered relationships for each member of Terri’s family.

Greg & Debby Nichols serve in Czech Republic with Greater Europe Mission. Greg mentors others through his ministries of coaching leaders and integrating new workers. Debby focuses her gifts of hospitality, the arts and mentoring toward those who express an interest in growing in their faith both in Czech Republic and Austria. Together, they are closely involved with a Ukrainianspeaking church plant in Prague.

• Pray for the expansion of Christ’s kingdom in Europe to the world. • Pray for the Ukrainian Bible Church in Prague.

Stanley Okoro (Marjorie) and his family live in Lille, France, where they have served for more than ten years with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). As leaders of a small church-planting team, their vision is to see disciples who are continually being transformed by Christ, living out their faith in the church and sharing their faith in their natural environments. Lille is an extremely diverse city where the team spends considerable time cultivating a presence through prayer walking, 22

sharing the gospel with French natives and immigrants alike, giving away coffee and tea and leading Bible studies.

• Pray that Bible story time for kids in the Okoro’s neighborhood would take off. • Pray for God’s wisdom in establishing healthy rhythms and relationships in their ministry and family.

Jeremy & Christy Otten provide theological education and counseling serving with WorldVenture in Europe. Jeremy teaches New Testament at Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (ETF) in Belgium. In addition to a full course load and various research projects, he enjoys mentoring students and helping prepare them for diverse ministries. Christy provides counseling support for missionaries throughout Europe and the Middle East, as well as students and others in their network.

• Please pray for health for their three boys, who are frequently sick for long stretches.

• Pray for healthy rhythms in their family as Jeremy travels regularly to teach. • Pray for wisdom for Christy in helping people who face a variety of challenges, and for the time and energy to develop her skillset.

Steve & Teri Pardue serve with TeachBeyond in the Philippines. Steve teaches theology at the International Graduate School of Leadership and directs a doctoral program for the Asia Graduate School of Theology. Graduates of these schools serve in more than 20 nations as pastors, church leaders, missionaries and seminary faculty, providing crucial leadership to the rapidly growing Asian church. Teri runs a preschool for local and missionary families and trains and mentors young teachers.

• Pray for wisdom and energy as they balance many obligations in ministry. • Pray for a spirit of unity as they work with their multi-cultural team to teach and mentor students.

• Pray for provision of the resources they need, especially the right people and adequate funding.

Ben & Mandy Pehrson Ben is the team leader for a multilanguage Bible translation program in Papua New Guinea that involves 12 expat staff and over 100 national co-workers doing holistic Bible translation ministry in 13 language groups. Ben teaches and mentors in a Greek, exegesis, linguistics or translation course each year, and meets with translation teams for linguistics consulting. He trains translators and checks accuracy and use of these translations. Mandy co-leads with Ben, conducts performance appraisals, teaches high school cooking and does crisis debriefing and mentoring with other missionaries.

• Pray for the typesetting and printing Scripture portions, 70% of the NT in most groups.

• Pray for printing, distribution and facilitating the use of newly translated Bible books.

• Pray for wisdom in parenting their children in the U.S. as well as their children in PNG.

Jeff & Jane Pelz work with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Jane serves as Link staff coordinator to Asia. She mobilizes, trains and provides member care to U.S. staff who serve their sister movements in Asia. Jeff is the staff worker of a multinational chapter at College of DuPage (COD). His role as Bible study leader, mentor and evangelist includes training up the next generation of students to love Jesus and share him winsomely. Jeff and Jane partner with Christian students in outreach to host activities in their home for internationals.

• Pray for Jane as she develops partnerships—that laborers will be found to

go, and ministry placements will benefit national movements within the IFES. Correct placements are key.

• Pray for Jeff and his team of students to be salt and light at COD and Waubonsee Community College.

Susan Perlman is one of the founders of Jews for Jesus (JFJ); an organization founded in 1973 with the mission statement of “We relentlessly pursue God’s plan for the salvation of the Jewish people.” As the chief partnership officer and member of the executive leadership team, Susan has developed strategic partnerships with missions agencies, churches and theological institutions resulting in the sending out of more workers to advance the gospel around the globe.

• Pray for the work in Jerusalem, as JFJ begins renovations on the new outreach center in the city center.

• Pray for JFJ missionaries in Israel and Ukraine as they reach out while in war zones.

David & Majka Phillips serve the Lord in the nearby cities of Vienna, Austria and Bratislava, Slovakia. The ministry focus in Vienna is international student outreach and service in their local church, The International Chapel of Vienna. David is an elder and leads the men’s ministry. Majka is on the music team and offers hospitality in their home. In Bratislava, they are in the early stages of church planting. Their main areas of focus during these months are discipleship and community sports ministry.

• Pray their first love would remain Jesus and that their love for him would overflow into all areas.

• Pray for multiplying discipleship to take place in Vienna and Bratislava. • Pray that their daughters Lily, Kika and Noël will grow in their faith and see God at work in their lives.

Stephen & Karis Rigby are regional supervisors with Serge in East Africa, leading a team in Nairobi and supervising a medical missions team in Chogoria. The Rigbys help their teams navigate cross-cultural living while engaging in meaningful gospel work. They seek to see a continued on next page

missionary movement of grace on their mission team and desire to empower coaches and churches to transform lives throughout Kenya and beyond.

• Pray for their marriage and parenting in this season of small children balanced with their full workloads.

• Pray for wisdom and grace in leadership as they navigate transitions in their team and ministry roles.

• Pray for God to keep revealing their role in the Kenyan church to encourage, bless and serve.

José Pablo & Jane Sánchez serve the Lord with the goal to see an evangelical church in every unreached town of Spain. José Pablo is focusing on proclaiming the gospel, mentoring, teaching and preparing leadership. He is also the president of the United Platform of Evangelization of Spain of the Federation of Churches (FEREDE). Both Jane and José Pablo serve with the Evangelistic Association Decisión Spain and are developing Decision Academy with courses on evangelism and communication.

• Pray for God’s help in the development of the Decisión Academy. • Pray for opportunities to share the vision of the unreached towns of Spain. • Pray for wisdom to mobilize the Spaniards to proclaim the gospel with cultural relevance.

Tim Sattler (Judy) serves as the founding partner at Fellowship of the Word Global. He mentors pastors to proclaim God’s Word for the transformation Christ gives, and to nurture and lead a movement of his word in their context and beyond. Tim and Judy desire to see pastors around the world gain confidence in teaching God’s Word, providing them with tools that help them discover and understand the author’s intention of each book and teaching it with God’s heart.

• Praise God for the addition of new partners this year. • Pray for national pastors who are leading exposition workshops in their countries and beyond their borders.

• Pray for God to provide additional financial partners for the provision of personal and ministry needs.

Jonatán & Teresa Simons teach in Colombia, South America, at the Bible Seminary of Colombia (FUSBC), an accredited seminary that provides training to church leaders and pastors in South America. FUSBC desires to provide affordable, scripturally grounded theological education to facilitate the growth and maturity of the church of Colombia and be a blessing to the nations.

• Pray that the students of FUSBC will grow in godliness, love of God and knowledge of him and his word.

• Pray for continued safety now that government has shifted, and violence of armed groups has increased.

• Pray that they will persevere in good works, be faithful and grow in their love of Jesus and his wisdom.

Tim & Deanna Smith (MISSIONS ASSOCIATES) work out of Greater Europe Mission’s (GEM) U.S. headquarters in Colorado. Tim serves as GEM’s human resources director, and his mission is to facilitate environments for growth as they multiply disciples and grow Christ’s church in Europe. Together, Tim and Deanna assess missionary candidates, visit missionaries, participate in retreats, respond to crisis situations and help with training.

• Praise God for his provision of new missionaries accepting the call to go to Europe. • Pray for God’s provision for these families as they raise funds and prepare for transition.

• Pray that God will continue to draw their children and grandchildren to Jesus.

Mike & Carol Beth Sprenger provide pastoral care for ReachGlobal missionaries by encouraging, equipping and exhorting the global mission community toward full health and effectiveness. Their focus is to provide preventative and responsive care for ReachGlobal workers in Asia and respond as requested or needed in other ways. This is done through continued on next page

correspondence, virtual meetings, travel to visit families on location or in the context of conferences, debriefings and trainings.

• Ask the Father to give them wisdom to encourage and support the families

under their care throughout Asia, and for their added stateside member care responsibilities.

• Pray for their adult children and grandchildren to grow deeper and stronger in their walks with Jesus.

• Pray that Mike and Carol Beth will abide in Christ moment by moment and that their lives would bear fruit for his kingdom and glory.

Bill & Laurie Stough have a passion for the farming families across Africa to come to life in Jesus and to see their farms flourish. The Stoughs are extending a resource called Farming God’s Way into six central African countries. Biblical, technology and management principles are interwoven to help lead farmers into a restored relationship with the Creator God. Experiencing God’s all-sufficiency through a journey of faithful stewardship provides a context ripe with outreach and discipleship opportunity.

• Pray for spiritual bonds to be broken and people to come into life abundant in Jesus. • Pray for strategic relationships with partner churches, ministries and organizations.

• Pray Ephesians 3:14-19 for Bill and Laurie.

Isaac & Jennifer Stough support the local church in Barcelona, Spain through discipleship and pastoral care of leaders in various ministry activities such as weekly youth groups, retreats, summer camps and more. Isaac also offers counseling to volunteers and participants in Youth for Christ activities and beyond. Jenn cares primarily for their growing family and mentors leaders and leads English camp each summer.

• Pray for joy and strength for each day as they care for their young family while balancing ministry work.

• Pray for more counseling opportunities for Isaac with teens and young adults in Spain. • Pray for God to bring youth in Spain to accept Jesus as their Lord, Savior and friend. 28

Emmanuel & Adugna Tahear serve with SIM CULTURE CONNEXIONS to connect many ethnic cultures with Christ. They minister worldwide and in the U.S. through evangelism, church planting and supporting immigrants and refugee churches. Adugna, as a missionary career dentist, strives to relieve pain, eliminate infections and give people back their smiles through compassion dentistry mission opportunities overseas, serving impoverished communities around the world.

• Pray for the Lord to grant Emmanuel and Adugna wisdom and strength in their ministry work.

• Pray for the hearts of those with whom they connect to be open to hearing the gospel.

• Pray for their ongoing compassion medical /dental mission and evangelical outreach in Ethiopia.

Victor & Leslie Trautwein have served and worked with Kids Alive in the Dominican Republic since 2002. Leslie oversees medical services for various projects and Vic serves as the co-country director and director of operations. The Kids Alive ministries have grown to serve and provide life-changing help to over 2,500 vulnerable children and youth through seven schools, three residential ministries and independence programs offering vocational and university scholarships.

• Pray that every child served enters into a vibrant, life changing relationship with Christ.

• Pray for continued community change in the places they work in and

provision of workers and funding from within the DR and from outside.

Jeff & Ann VanDerMolen serve in the Dominican Republic. They minister through Christian education to children who come from vulnerable and impoverished situations. Ann serves with Kids Alive as the director of the ANIJA school in Jarabacoa with 430 students and 75+ staff. Jeff consults with various continued on next page

ministries in areas of facility and ministry development. Jeff and Ann also mentor young adults who have grown up in the ministry as these young adults transition to independence.

• Pray for wisdom as Ann mentors national staff in areas of leadership and

training. Her goal is to continue to develop the next generation of leadership within the ministry.

• Pray for Jeff and Ann as they mentor ministry kids into adulthood.

Jamie & Kim Viands Jamie provides theological training for pastors and church leaders at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, teaching courses in Bible, Hebrew and biblical theology. He mainly teaches at the master’s and doctoral levels but also oversees the bachelor and diploma in theology programs, which include over 300 students. Kim homeschools their six children and provides leadership for a thriving homeschool group in the area.

• Pray that their students might grow in their ability to handle the Word faithfully. • Pray for Jamie as he seeks to lead the BTh and DTh programs well. • Pray for strength, grace and wisdom to raise their children to know and love the Lord.

John & Esther Waldrop serve at the International Graduate School of Leadership (IGSL) and Asia Graduate School of Theology (AGST) in Manila, Philippines. Both schools train pastors and Christian leaders from many of the least-reached countries in Asia. John teaches theology at both schools and Esther teaches in IGSL’s Partners in Ministry certificate program and tutors students in English composition.

• Pray for dependence on the Holy Spirit to effectively help students

grow intellectually, spiritually and in their commitment to fulfilling the Great Commission.

• Pray for God to use the students they serve to further Christ’s kingdom and build his church throughout Asia.

• Pray for guidance and provision for their grown children and aging parents. 30

Charley & Cheryl Warner live in Irpin, Ukraine, which has suffered heavy losses in the war and is home to thousands of displaced people. Scores of new believers are being discipled at Irpin Bible Church as Charley and Cheryl lead Bible studies and foster deep connections. They provide soul care for missionaries, teach missions courses, and mentor a team caring for Ukrainian missionaries. Charley coordinates the publication of missions and member care books to the Ukrainian language.

• Pray for Ukrainian missionaries around the world and a growing vision in Ukraine for missions.

• Pray for grace and endurance as they live in a country affected by war and point people to Christ.

• Pray for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and families recovering from war trauma.

Melissa W. provides professional counseling at Cornerstone Counseling Foundation in Chiang Mai, Thailand for missionary families including children and teenagers. Without counseling support, many could not continue their work in strategic places due to cross-cultural stress, burnout, their children not doing well or other mental health related issues.

• Pray for Melissa and her husband, Bank, a Thai Lisu man, as they build a new married life together in Chiang Mai.

• Praise that Cornerstone is growing and has a new building including a new playroom for work with children and families.

• Pray for Melissa’s continued ministry as a child counselor that continues to be in high demand.

John & Vivi Wickberg (MISSIONS ASSOCIATES) serve with Wycliffe Bible Translators. John is a full-time computer programmer and works mainly on Paratext, a program for Bible translation that is used by many organizations. Vivi continues to teach weekly ESL classes, which include continued on next page

15 minutes of Bible time. Vivi also disciples women whose husbands are not believers and meets with women who have recently arrived in the US.

• Pray for John’s team as they continue to support Paratext and develop a new Bible translation program.

• Pray for Vivi as she has opportunities to share Jesus in the context of her classes.

Chad & Leanna Wiebe minister in Ukraine with SEND. Chad is the director of SEND’s missions mobilization ministry in Ukraine. He coordinates and leads ministry efforts to help Ukrainian churches send missionaries to unreached regions of Eurasia and Central Asia, where there are more than 900 unreached people groups. Leanna coaches young women preparing to leave for missionary service outside of Ukraine and is involved in children’s ministries.

• Pray for wisdom, safety and God’s continued provision for Chad and Leanna as they serve in Ukraine.

• Pray for their three grown daughters, as they remain in the States, that they

would have a strong sense of the Lord’s presence, guidance and care as their parents return overseas.

Elena Yin serves with Every Child Ministries in Uganda as the African field director. As field director, she oversees the design and implementation of all children and families’ programs, ensuring gospel integration in each program.

• Praise for the provision of a comfortable

apartment to call home between her visits to communities.

• Praise for opportunities to teach the gospel to groups of women and children. • Pray for the Karamojong people, a group of herders (fierce warriors) in

northeast Uganda, that the Holy Spirit would transform their hearts and minds through the sharing of the gospel.

WATCH Workers Some of our missionaries work in places where Christianity is not welcome. Governments, societies and cultures suppress religious freedoms and can sometimes endanger our missionaries and the people with whom they work. We protect these workers by guarding their identities so they can continue their ministry in places that need the light of Christ. PAUL & MARY serve with Global Training Network, encouraging and equipping pastors and church leaders, especially in East and South Asia. They are focused on helping church leaders learn how to discover the message of God’s life-changing Word and to teach it faithfully to their people.

• Pray that the Lord will keep Paul and Mary close to him and fill them with his Spirit, love and wisdom.

• Pray that God will not only encourage and equip leaders in Asia through them but provide for them as well.

TWO WORKERS serve unreached, unengaged people groups throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia regions. They train local ministry and community leaders in best practices for trauma-informed care and support and theologically equip house church networks. Previously, they were living in the Middle East for over a year, learning the language, but were denied resident visas. Currently on home assignment in the U.S., they are in the process of joining a prospective team and anticipate moving towards the end of the year. God is still working out all the details of that, but they are excited about the potential team.

• Pray for God to give them

discernment and a clear path

forward as they move overseas this year.

• Pray for the adjustment of their

daughter and for all of them as they welcome their second child into the world and then move.

J & B help to lead a team that digitally shares the Bible and facilitates connection between Muslim seekers and local evangelists in restricted contexts in East Asia. Since 2019, they’ve attempted contact with over 130,000 individuals and have facilitated over 1.5 million encounters with Scriptures in places where it is difficult to share the Good News. Since late 2024, the team has been gathering Muslim seekers into online groups where these seekers can study the Bible with gifted local evangelists.

• Pray that the Lord would keep the digital door open for effective ministry in these sensitive locations.

• Pray that the Word of the Lord will not return void but would yield a harvest of faith in places where the church doesn’t yet exist.

JOAN (Missions Associate) serves in Southeast Asia using Bible stories to teach English to high school students and music-major seminary students. She also teaches English to high school graduates who are training in a Compassion Internacontinued on next page

tional hotel hospitality internship. There are also several young women that she meets with regularly to counsel, encourage and mentor.

• Pray for students to grow in their

faith and in their understanding of English.

• Pray for God to lead their efforts

in Scripture translation and the development and use of resources.

C & D come alongside middle-class

planting, evangelism and discipleship ministries in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region. They strengthen, support and equip churches with doctrinally sound publications and provide theological training and discipleship for local leaders.

families in South Asia, bearing witness to Christ through community. They are dedicated to introducing families to Christ, teaching them what it means to follow him and supporting holistic growth in faith, love, hope and truth. Working together in their maternal/child health community-based business, they support the local and national lactation profession by providing education to a growing number of lactation professionals and support families during this crucial time of life. They are a part of a local fellowship where they mutually participate in the body of Christ.

• Pray for continued growth in

• Praise God for the twelve years of

• Pray that students will be helped

through their studying the Bible in English as they pursue seminary degrees.

• Pray that a Muslim young lady that

Joan is mentoring will accept Jesus as her Savior.

JOHN & CLARA serve in church-

language learning to use spiritual vocabulary, which would enable them to more effectively teach the Word.

• Pray for their children to continue to thrive spiritually and grow as disciples of Jesus.

• Pray that they would have boldness to proclaim Christ.

TWO WORKERS partner with the local church in Asia to distribute Scripture audio players in a growing number of languages, coordinate Scripture-based trauma healing training and develop resources to build Scripture impact and grow capacity in the church. They also serve in a in a preschool program for individuals with special needs and work to connect Bible translation projects with funding partners.

• Pray for God to work through

recorded oral Bible stories being shared in several province areas to

bring many to himself and disciple new believers.

ministry that he has given them.

• Pray for wisdom as they seek to faithfully serve the Lord in each season of ministry.

KATHERINE H. is based in the States and supports the leaders of church-planting teams in Middle Eastern countries that have been impacted by war. These leaders and their team members are from different countries and serve on multicultural teams. Most are new to overseas work. They are called to serve and make disciples in unstable locations, without many other workers. Supporting them involves a lot of travel, processing regular crises and close mentoring.

• Pray for wisdom to help workers and multinational teams see fruit and thrive in difficult places.

• Pray for more workers from the

global church and for new doors into unengaged and closed places.

• Pray for endurance with travel and

the work of friendships in different locations and time zones.

ONE WORKER served as a professor at a national university for many years. Presently, as a dedicated evangelist, she seeks opportunities to share the gospel with individuals encountered in her daily activities as well as to nurture longtime relationships with friends who have yet to believe.

• Pray that God would continue to use her heart’s desire to bring people to Jesus.

• Pray for boldness to share when opportunity presents.

• Pray for open hearts to receive the seed of the Word.

KRISTEN serves in a Middle Eastern country. She is on a team that creates ministry systems to bring life to oppressed migrants and refugees, walking alongside them to help them develop sustainable solutions to living holistically better lives. Her team holds one-on-one and group discipleship circles, to study the Bible and talk about how to apply what they read in daily life. The team also trains and disciples multiple refugee churches.

• Pray for a viable path forward for

local refugees to legally live and work so their kids can go to school.

• Pray for her family’s spiritual and

emotional well-being as there is much political, economic and other instability affecting them.

DANIEL teaches Bible and theology at Forman Christian College, a Christian university in Lahore, Pakistan. Because theological education is underdeveloped in Pakistan, the college puts a special emphasis on exegesis and biblical theology. University graduates serve

as pastors, teachers, writers and scholars in various churches, schools and parachurch organizations. The vision is that the church might be strengthened through people trained to teach God’s Word and equip others to do so.

• Pray for their students to grow, not just academically, but in wisdom and character.

• Pray for wisdom and unity as their

team discerns needs, develops curricula and grows in the process.

• Pray for the church in Pakistan to

experience God’s presence and to demonstrate his love.

JOHN & LEILA live in Southeast Asia, planting churches among a Buddhist group of over 30 million people. Decades of unrest, with escalating violence in the last three years, have led many of them to move to a neighboring country. John and Leila are focused on living among them, working alongside existing churches and making disciples among these Buddhist people in Southeast Asia.

• Pray for their work among refugees

and their children on the border of two neighboring countries, that they would receive the gospel and relief in times of need.

• Pray for formation of discipleship groups and that believers would grow in their understanding and obedience to God’s Word.

DAVID & FAMILY have hearts to see reformed churches planted among Asia’s unreached language groups. They live in a predominantly Buddhist nation. Locally, David serves Buddhist background believers as a regular guest preacher. Regionally, David and Jaya facilitate a “tech & missions” organization called Upstream continued on next page

(www.upstreamcode.org). Through Upstream, they make Scriptural resources available in some of Asia’s tougher contexts where locals have smartphone access, even in remote areas.

• Pray for their resettlement to the

• Pray for wisdom as they make

• Pray for affirmation and clarity as

decisions about their children’s education. Their eldest daughter will soon be starting primary school.

• Pray for the Lord to make his Word accessible to more people through Upstream’s efforts.

• Pray as they lay this ministry at the feet of Jesus and ask him to guide them forward.

ELIZABETH serves on a churchplanting team among Muslim unreached people groups, serving as a language consultant to support fellow kingdom workers who are learning the language, and mobilizing prayer for a media campaign that seeks to make the Gospel available through online means.

• Praise God for his provision of

colleagues to continue the work of language training and equipping other kingdom workers for heartlanguage ministry.

• Pray for the Lord’s leading for this next season of life and ministry.

TWO WORKERS are university professors in Africa. They seek to develop relationships with students and point them to Christ.

• Pray for relationships with their colleagues and students to grow in depth.

• Pray for progress in language learning amidst parenting.

JEFF & IRENE served in Southeast Asia on a Bible translation team. They are now transitioning to the U.S. as they seek the Lord’s will for next steps in Bible translation ministry.

United States.

• Pray for the faith of their children as they grow to be a man and woman of God.

they seek God’s will in transition.

ROB (LAURIE) Rob serves in campus ministry to international students in Chicago, home to 20,000 international students. Most of these students come from countries in Asia, and most of the students have never heard the gospel or seen a Bible before. Rob leads evangelistic Bible studies and disciples believers with a vision that as these new believers move on from Chicago and likely return to their home country, they will be fruitful disciples who lead others to Christ.

• Pray for God to open the eyes of international students and grant them saving faith.

• Pray that believers would learn to effectively share the gospel with other international students, and that when they return to their home country, they would thrive as believers in Jesus and draw others to Christ.

• Pray for Rob and Laurie to

encourage the spiritual, emotional and intellectual growth of their kids.

JOHN & PAM have worked as hosts for a retreat for global workers since 2017. John also helps with logistical needs for any global workers in the country. At the end of June, they left their country for the last time as full-time workers. They will retire in December following six months of home assignment. After 51 and 49 years as workers overseas, the transition to full-time in the States is big.

• Pray for their hearts and minds as

they process a lot and say goodbye to dear friends.

• Pray for their staff, especially the

staff manager, as John and Pam pass many responsibilities to them. There are short-term replacements coming for them August through September, then October to July. Pray for full-time workers to host this very important place, which provides rest and restoration for many workers of many organizations in Chad.

DANIEL & CHARIS Charis leads the OMF U.S. Personnel Department to support OMF U.S. missionaries and U.S.-based staff through onboarding and member care. Daniel mobilizes, disciples and trains those who are led to Northeast Asia, and healthcare workers.

members. Their organization’s goal is to make the Word available in every person’s heart language. The team currently has 77 active projects.

• Pray for wisdom as Daniel and Julie support and love their sons.

• Pray for the translated Bibles to be taken to places and people who have never heard the gospel.

ONE WORKER proclaims the gospel of Christ to university students on campus, challenging them to consider, follow and obey the risen Savior. He follows up with interested students in their villages and meets for discussions with them in his city of service.

• Pray that more university students

would want to read the Bible for themselves and be convinced about the truths contained within.

• Pray for great wisdom for Charis

• Pray that the power of the students’

• Pray for open doors into Northeast

T & R work with a team that equips

working with her department as they are supporting OMF U.S. team members and U.S.-sent workers. Asia, for Daniel carrying the OMF role mobilizing for the region, and mobilizing, discipling and training healthcare workers.

• Continue to pray for their family to thrive in the midst of ministry.

ONE WORKER is a teacher in Central Asia. She seeks to develop relationships with high school students to introduce them to Jesus and deepen their relationships with him.

• Pray for God’s provision and protection for this worker.

• Pray for the Lord to work in the hearts of her students.

religion would be broken, and that Christ would rule and reign in many hearts here.

majority-background leaders in local fellowships with advanced practical face-to-face theological training and mentoring. Their goal is for these leaders to deepen their relationship with God and others and to learn to interpret and understand the Scriptures properly and appropriately in their contexts in the Middle East.

• Pray for trainers and students to be unified, encouraged and built up in faith through the program.

• Pray for students to deepen their

love of God and others and their application of biblical truth to life.

DANIEL & JULIE support the work of Bible translation through administration, supporting a team of over 220 Bible translation and language development team

Due to the sensitive locations in which these missionaries serve, full names and photos are not disclosed.

WATCH in Practice We assume that all mail and email correspondence could be read by someone else before it reaches our workers, and “that someone” is probably a government employee concerned about the political and religious stability of their country. For their protection, we refrain from using religious language or references using the names of God. Receiving emails is just as (if not more) encouraging for these Christians, and we would happily facilitate communication between you and our missionaries serving in these places. We do ask that communication is sent through the missions office so that we can take an extra measure of safety and can have an extra set of eyes on what is passed along. If you would like for us to email one of our WATCH workers on your behalf, please reach out to our office at missions@collegechurch.org.

Training National Leaders College Church partners with 12 schools to train national leaders.

BOLIVIAN BIBLE SEMINARY BOLIVIA

WORD OF LIFE SEMINARY BRAZIL

BANGUI EVANGELICAL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

AFRICA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY KENYA

ARAB BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY LEBANON

TRIVELIUS INSTITUTE BULGARIA

FORMAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE PAKISTAN

ODESSA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY UKRAINE

NEW THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE INDIA

The largest Christian communities today are in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Despite persecution and poverty, the non-Western church is spreading. With this growth comes a significant need for leadership development and theological training. It is estimated that 90% of churches worldwide are led by pastors with no formal training.

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HANOI BIBLE COLLEGE VIETNAM

ASIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY PHILIPPINES

TYRANNUS BIBLE SEMINARY INDONESIA

Seminaries and Schools College Church partners with national seminaries and schools to train Christian leaders for gospel work among their own people, some of whom are the least-reached peoples of the world. We aid these institutions through the provision of scholarships, committed career missionaries and short-term teachers. AFRICA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (AIU), KENYA Africa International University is committed to training Christcentered leaders who will be agents of transformation for the world’s countries, societies and communities. They offer courses in theology, information technology, counseling psychology, business management, education, development studies, and accountancy and financial management.

ARAB BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (ABTS), LEBANON Arab Baptist Theological Seminary equips servant leaders for the ministry challenges arising in the Middle East and North Africa – be it theology, apologetics, communication, pastoral care, ethics, society or culture. ABTS was founded in 1960, built on hills overlooking Beirut.

ASIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (ATS), PHILIPPINES The mission of Asian Theological Seminary is to glorify God by providing quality theological education to prepare leaders who will affect biblical transformation in the church and societies in Asia and beyond. The seminary aims to become the leading evangelical seminary in Asia that produces outstanding

servant leaders through both online and in-person courses.

BOLIVIAN BIBLE SEMINARY (BBS), BOLIVIA The primary goal of the Bolivian Bible Seminary (BBS) is to train pastors for the Evangelical Christian Union, the SIM-affiliated national church, in both undergraduate and graduate programs in Bible and Theology. BBS is vital to the spiritual health of the Bolivian church, since churches without good Bible teaching and mature leaders are in danger of losing their spiritual and biblical foundations.

BANGUI EVANGELICAL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY (BEST), CENTRAL AFRICA REPUBLIC Bangui Evangelical School of Theology was founded in 1977. BEST has over 500 students and provides schooling for over 3,000 kindergarten, primaryand secondary-aged children. They now provide an online practical theology program, offering learning opportunities to students and church leaders throughout the region who cannot come for in-person training.

FORMAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE (FCC), PAKISTAN Forman Christian College was founded in 1864 by a Presbyterian missionary from the USA. With over

8,000 students and 200 faculty, the university offers a wide variety of programs. They seek to impart, create and disseminate knowledge and to develop informed, ethical and responsible citizens who are prepared and committed to learn, lead and serve.

HANOI BIBLE COLLEGE (HBC), VIETNAM Founded in 2013, Hanoi Bible College exists to glorify God through serving the church and proclaiming the gospel to the communities around them. Many graduates have returned to their villages in the mountains to serve growing churches, while others are planting churches in various parts of the country.

NEW THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE (NTC), INDIA New Theological College is a university in Northern India whose programs are designed so that students will gain spiritual and theological training as well as practical ministry experience integrated with academic learning. They began in 1989 with just 22 students, and now have grown to become the largest fully accredited, Bible-believing theological training center in northern India.

TYRANNUS BIBLE SEMINARY (TBS), INDONESIA Tyrannus Bible Seminary, founded in 1966, is one of the oldest interdenominational evangelical schools in the country. TBS is in a predominantly Muslim community and a region of low socio-economic status. They also work with partner schools all throughout Asia to further the gospel.

TRIVELIUS INSTITUTE, BULGARIA Trivelius is an interdenominational school that seeks to train people to serve God through practical, Biblebased teaching. It is the only fully operating school of its kind left in the country. Students from different churches and denominations are trained and serve together as an expression of the unity of the church through both Bachelor’s and Master’s programs.

WORD OF LIFE SEMINARY (WOL), BRAZIL Word of Life Seminary has seen God’s gracious hand clearly at work as over the years it has grown even during the country’s financial crisis. The seminary has reached into five different countries where they offer a similar experience that prepares students for the future, whether in a career or full-time ministry.

ODESA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (OTS), UKRAINE Odesa Theological Seminary is a Baptist theological institution of higher learning that helps local churches prepare Christians for church, missionary and educational ministry both in the church and in the world, in order to accomplish the Great Commission. Throughout the last 30 years, they have had more than 2,500 graduates, 96% of whom have gone into ministry afterward.