It's obvious but often overlooked. Missions and missionaries depend on prayer support.
OSCAR's Mission Organisations Directory can put you in touch with missions who will gladly supply you with fuel for prayer and have you join their ministry in this way.
Alternatively, you can use the website www.PrayerPoints.org to pray for the current needs of a number of mission organisations.
Also, you can pray for individual missionary's needs through one of the following sites.
Website: www.24-7prayer.com or www.peopleteams.org
How to Pray
Both SIM, OMF and CLC produce a leaflet entitled 'Praying for Missionaries' that can help you focus your prayers.
Other online guides to Praying for Mission or Mission workers include:
- www.prayerguide.org.uk/mission.htm
- www.sim.co.uk/standard.asp?id=158
- www.wycliffe.org.uk/getinvolved_05_praymissionaries.html
- www.internationalmessengers.org/pub/needs.pdf
- www.omf.org/omf/us/resources__1/prayer_resources
- www.prayercentral.net/engage/prayercards/#mshield
A further online guide entitled 'How to Pray for Missionaries' Kids' is available on OMF's US website at www.omf.org/omf/us/resources__1/prayer_resources/how_to_pray_for_mks
Global Day of Prayer
Their mission statement says "To call Christians from all nations to unite in repentance and prayer, and to collaborate as God’s instruments for the blessing and healing of the nations." Following the example of the first believers who “joined together constantly” in prayer (Acts 1.14) during the ten days between the ascension of Jesus and the descent of His Spirit on Pentecost … for the next 5 years until 2010, a simple threefold strategy will be implemented:- 1. 10 Days of day-and-night prayer from Ascension Day until the Saturday before Pentecost Sunday.
- 2. A global day of repentance & prayer on Pentecost Sunday
- 3. 90 Days of "community blessing"
Website: www.globaldayofprayer.co.uk
International Day of Prayer
IDOP is an international movement to encourage prayer on various themes and key issues for our world.Website: www.idop.org
nCourage
nCourage is both ministry and a business. We look above all to be an encouragement to the Body of Christ. We offer our Creative Communication experience to help Mission Organisations. We are developing Prayer Places on our website for a number of countries.Website: www.ncourage.co.uk
Operation World
Operation World, the definitive prayer guide to mission work throughout the world, now posts the current daily prayer focus online.Website: www.gmi.org/ow/today
Prayer Alert
Prayer-Alert is a Christian initiative to encourage, envision and mobilise prayer across the British Isles and Ireland. It is a carefully researched weekly e-mail providing guidelines for prayer relating to the British Isles and Ireland as well as for Europe and the rest of the world. Items are drawn from a wide range of reliable Christian and secular sources. Prayer-Alert is a partnership project of the Prayer Association of British Isles and Ireland.Website: www.prayer-alert.net
World Prayer Centre
The World Prayer Centre is part of the new thing that God is doing around the world. As the Church begins to strategise and think globally, so we must pray globally. A united and consistent flow of strategic prayer is needed now:• to open the way for us to reach the remaining peoples of the world who have not yet heard the good news of Jesus
• to equip the church to reach out with love and grace to a hurting society
• to enable us to meet, with the authority of Christ, the challenges and opportunities of national and international power structures
• to strengthen the Church to meet its end-time calling
Website: www.worldprayer.org.uk
Email:
Tel: 0121 633 7393
Caleb Project
Caleb Project provides an advocacy programme, where you can pray for a specific people group.Website: www.calebproject.org
Global Prayer Digest
The Global Prayer Digest gives daily news for prayer of what God is doing around the world and what still needs to be done.Website: www.global-prayer-digest.org
World Prayer Team
The World Prayer Team is a website that joins people through prayer around the world. Requests can be posted by anyone and prayed for by anyone.Website: www.worldprayerteam.org