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Praise the Lord that the Bible study with the Bulldog gang members is slowly moving forward! The men are slowly responding. Praise the Lord that eight men were baptized on a different yard. Pray God will send a full-time Protestant chaplain. We have not had one for the past four years. We need someone inside all the time. The Catholic chaplain has helped when he can.
Pray our church will make a connection with our community. Pray God will bring the right people. Pray we will serve well as the school year comes to an end. Pray for God’s protection on our family and the church body.
Our family has been getting threatening texts. I don’t know if this is a real threat or a prank, but authorities have been contacted. This has been a strain on our family. Our ministry has been going well, and it feels like spiritual warfare is ramping up. Pray we stay the course and continue to place our entire hope and trust in Christ alone.
Pray for my wife and me as we are expecting our second child about a month after we launch our church replant in August. We have a 2-year-old son and are expecting a baby girl at the end of September. In addition to launching in August and welcoming another child in September, I will be completing my Master of Arts in Ministry Leadership through Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary by December. It’s a fun season but a lot of big things at once. We trust the Lord, we are grateful, and we just desire prayers for strength, sustenance and rest. Thank you!
We would be so grateful for your prayers as we seek to share the love of God with our community. Our team has been working diligently to create welcoming spaces and meaningful gatherings, but we’ve faced some challenges in seeing new guests join us. Despite our best efforts, growth in attendance has been slow. Pray God would bless the work of our hands and grant us favor as we strive to reach more people with the hope of the gospel. We long to see lives transformed by the message of Jesus and to help others take their next steps in following Him. Thank you for standing with us in prayer. Your support means more than you know as we continue trusting God for fruitfulness in our community.
Pray that all of the pieces for our homeless ministry will come together. We have a potential food partner who is interested in coming alongside us. That would really take a weight off our shoulders. Pray that our influence will be mighty for the kingdom in our baseball community where I coach and our boys play. Pray for the community events we are leading and that people would be reminded how much Jesus loves them and be pointed to Him.
Our church has grown from 60 to 110 people. With growth, opportunities come. Pray for the unity of our lay leaders. Pray for the youth of our church. In the period of one year, a 17-year-old and a 25-year-old died by suicide. Though this has been difficult, the youth group has grown from 10 to 40—praise God! Pray God will provide the church with a van. Half of our church attendees cross from the Mexican side of the border to worship and do voluntary work at our church. They do not cross with their cars because of the long waiting lines—sometimes two hours—so we need to go and pick them up at the border. Pray for my wife, Rosita, and my associate’s wife, Paulina. They work hard helping us with the administration of the church but they also, like us, are bi-vocational. Also pray we can start a little cafeteria or restaurant at the church’s building to improve our financials. Thanks to you all for the notes letting us know that you are praying for us. We have received notes from different churches, even from kids of different churches. What a blessing! Your prayers are important to us, and we thank you much for praying for us! Please come to visit us. We need your encouragement!
Pray for the healing of the families of our church. Pray there would be freedom from addictions, resolution in court matters, protection from eviction and the restoration of broken family relationships. Pray God will open doors for us to have more connections with partner churches that will faithfully and consistently pray for this ministry. Pray for our summer men’s hiking group. Pray they would have strength, connection and spiritual growth. Pray our women’s walking group will have encouragement, healing conversations and safety. Pray for the provision of a pickup truck to help with transport and outreach. Pray our core ministry team will have unity, discernment, spiritual covering and a renewed passion for the mission. Pray for the indigenous peoples of Canada, Calgary and the Siksika Nation.
Pray for the Hispanic community in this town. Most of them are originally from Mexico and have a very religious background. Pray they may be transformed by the gospel of Christ. My family and I have been here for eight months. We need your prayers as we are still adapting and need to be a light in this town since we are the only Spanish-speaking church. Thank you very much.
We are only a couple of months away from returning home. Pray we will finish this deployment safely. Soldiers are experiencing relationship issues with their spouses and significant others due to this long deployment. Pray these family members will give grace to each other and that God will give them a supernatural love for each other. I had a chance to share the gospel with a soldier recently. Pray that he will come to know the Lord and turn things around in his life.
We are planning some evangelical events this summer and would like for you to join us in prayer for them. In June, we are organizing a worship service where we will invite missionaries from different mission fields to worship together, learn about missions and share what God has done over four weeks. We call it “Mission Driven Life.” We had this same event last year, and it was a success. We expect this year that God gives us a passion for the mission and He pours His grace into our church. We need your prayers and support for this event during June. In July, we are planning Vacation Bible School (VBS). An SBC church from California is coming to Vancouver on a short-term mission trip, and they will be coming to visit Edmonton. Our church is thankful to God for the opportunity to host and serve them. We believe that this summer’s VBS will be a great opportunity for our church because it is a good way for the church to be known and serve in the community. An evangelistic event is planned in September. This is called “revival worship” in Korean. We will gather for three days to pray and share God’s Word in depth. We have been praying for this evangelistic event since 2023 and have arranged for a speaker. We are praying that a wave of revival will come to the Korean community in Edmonton through this event. Pray those who attend these evangelical events will spread the gospel, respond and make disciples. By God’s grace, our church will turn into a missional church and have church-planting-centered DNA. We ask you to pray that those who serve at those events will also financially support them.
I am the chaplain at a continuing care retirement community in Lake Ridge, Va. Recently, a resident’s family member was in a crisis situation, and police were called. Unfortunately, there were people wounded and one person was killed. One resident was also hit by gunfire and taken by helicopter to a local hospital. She is in stable but serious condition. This has been traumatic for me and the staff and residents. I ask for prayers for me and the staff and residents at our community. Blessings to all!
Lucy and I are currently considering leaving Knoxville, Tenn., so I can pursue my M.Div. in person at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, which is in Fort Worth, Texas. Ask God to give us wisdom and hearts that listen as He directs our steps.
Pray for a young lady named Caitlyn. I had the opportunity to share the gospel with her a couple of weeks ago. She is in her early 20s and has never wanted anything to do with God. But recently she has been asking questions of her grandmother. Her grandmother is a member of our church plant. After I shared the gospel with her, she said she is open for the first time in going to church on Sunday. Pray Caitlyn would come to church for the first time, and even more than that she would put her hope and trust in Jesus.