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Prayer Requests
February 2025
“So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 John 4:16, ESV).
Africa
Father, be with Canadian Baptist Ministries’ Africa Peace and Reconciliation Specialist Gato Munyamasoko when he travels this year to South Sudan. While he works there alongside CBM’s local church partner, help them determine together the best way to work with pastors, police, and military personnel.
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Lord, we rejoice with CBM Staff Darrell and Laura Lee Bustin that CBM and all of its East African church partners are going forward after the Gisenyi Covenant and have signed a new five-year covenant, the Nairobi Accord. Mightily use this agreement as the partners walk together and build one another up.
Asia
With CP Raju, CBM’s senior project coordinator in India, we pray for the many empowerment projects in the country happening with CBM’s assistance. Lord, powerfully bless these dignity-building initiatives, one of which provides training for widows, enabling them to earn money to pay for school fees for their children.
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Provider, with Lilian Yang and Joseph Lee, CBM staff in Asia’s Golden Triangle, we thank you for the Operation Dawn Drug Rehabilitation Centers in Thailand. Continue, Lord, to use these faith-based centres to help individuals struggling with addictions to recover and learn skills that will help them reintegrate into society.
Europe
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Saviour, please be with Lewis and Felain Lam, CBM strategic associates living in Göttingen, Germany, as they minister to Chinese students attending local universities. As the Lams introduce the gospel to these future professionals, many of whom will return to China after graduation, open hearts to your message of love and forgiveness.
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Hope of the world, we pray for Helle Liht, CBM’s director of partnerships for Africa, Europe, and the Middle East North Africa region. Equip her through the guidance of the Holy Spirit as she keeps in mind the varied political and social situations in which CBM’s staff live and serve.
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Middle East/North Africa
Sovereign Lord, thank you for Rabih Wazir, CBM’s regional integral mission coordinator for the Middle East North Africa region. Use his people skills and his love for you as he develops relationships and works alongside local ministry partners. Strengthen him as he also serves as general secretary for the Convention of the Evangelical Churches in Lebanon.
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Heavenly Father, please guard the 19 students from all over the Arab world who entered the Bachelor of Theology program given by the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Lebanon this school year. We pray with ABTS “that their strength would be deepened, their biblical and theological understanding enhanced, and their ministry skills sharpened.”
Latin America &
the Caribbean
Father, I pray for Bruno and Kathleen Soucy, CBM staff for Latin America and the Caribbean, as they serve in contractual roles to support CBM’s Faith and Work initiatives and SENT mission teams in the region. I also thank uphold Patty Nacho Vargas in these early months of being the CBM Team Leader for Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Lord, we ask for your leading for Byron Velásquez, CBM national staff living in Guatemala, as he accompanies SENT teams and works closely with CBM’s partners in El Salvador and Guatemala. Use Byron as he helps them prepare programming that addresses priorities they’ve identified for their churches and communities.
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We pray for the children served by CBM’s ministry partners in Bolivia; many of these kids come from impoverished backgrounds where crime and family dysfunction have played a significant role. Saviour, provide ample funding for the Casa de la Amistad in Cochabamba which provides care for children who have a parent in prison, and gives job skills training to moms.
Canada
This year, Lord, as women across Canada consider the topic of mentoring while taking part in the 2025 Great Canadian Bible Study, let the gatherings be rich times of connection. Allow generous offerings to support the study’s project, “Heath and Mentorship for Girls and Boys in Kenya.”
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Lord of all, we pray for Beth from Kenya, Jacqueline from Rwanda, and Loulwa from Lebanon, international graduate students who each received a scholarship through Canadian Baptist Women. Let our support for these women further enable them to serve you by exercising the leadership abilities you gifted them with.
Atlantic Canada
Wisest of all, be with Dr. Kenda Creasy Dean, keynote speaker of ADC’s June 2025 Simpson Lectures, as she prepares.
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Alpha and Omega, please make Atlantic Baptist Women’s “Your Step, Our Journey” initiative wonderfully effective. Use it to engage women in Baptist congregations to serve, pray, give, and join in the impactful mission of ABW and be “Better. Together.” Use each woman in our Baptist community to make a meaningful difference for you. Spark interest, that women will plan to attend ABW’s interMISSION, May 23-25 at Crandall University, Moncton, N.B.
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Father, we pray for watchcare for the athletic teams of Crandall University, Moncton, New Brunswick, who travel regularly for games.
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With the Pregnancy Resource Center of Saint John, New Brunswick, we thank you, God, for your goodness in meeting their staffing needs. We pray for their leadership as they gel as a leadership in 2025. Draw to this and each pregnancy, parenthood, and women’s centre those who need help and support for current or past pregnancy issues. Bless all their efforts to reach out to families in need.
Global
Lord of land, sea, and sky, grant successful journeys to Baptist World Alliance General Secretary Elijah Brown who travels to visit pastors, attend conferences and assemblies, and encourage the global family of Baptists, 51 million strong in 134 countries and territories.
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God, please guide each of Canadian Baptist Ministries’ directors of international partnerships and its ministry team leaders. Allow them to comprehend both the small details and the “big picture” as they oversee ministry in many countries and cultures.
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Thank you, Lord, for the witness of your love through the 5500+ Baptist congregations in Myanmar and 850+ congregations in Thailand. Be with our Myanmese Christian brothers and sisters who live in an environment of unrest and violence.