31 Days of Prayer for Operation Christmas Child - Day 5

Prayer Warriors, today we ask that you pray for provision of the shoebox filler items through Gift-in-Kind donations to be used in the Processing Centers. Operation Christmas Child can utilize over 8 million gifts-in-kind donations a year. These filler items are used to ensure that each shoebox is full and to replace any items that must be removed that could harm a child or damage the shoebox. These items include toys, school supplies, non-liquid hygiene items, quality crafts, clothing and accessories, and more! To donate gifts-in-kind call or visit: (855) 356-0252 occgik@samaritan.org

Also, this week we are focusing on praying for Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Guyana is on the north coast of South America. It is 20% Evangelical Christian. It has 19 different languages with 22 different people groups. 9% of these people groups are unreached. St. Vincent and the Grenadines are windward islands located between St. Lucia and Grenada. They have 3 languages and 39% are Evangelical Christian. St Vincent is a religious country, but most are not related to God through a personal faith in Jesus Christ. There is a crisis of holiness, lack of spiritual fruit and growing apathy, especially regarding missions. Pray for revival and for restoration of a biblically-based, Spirit-led Church.

Guyana Requests:

1. Pray that all the children who start The Greatest Journey discipleship program will complete the program. 
2. Pray the children who receive Jesus will continue to attend church. 
3. Pray that churches will collect their New Testaments for graduation and will follow-up with the students after they graduate.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines Requests: 

   1.  Pray for the efforts to reach the outer islands.


Thanks for being a prayer warrior for Operation Christmas Child!

"The prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results" James 5:16

31 Days of Prayer for Operation Christmas Child - Day 4

Today pray for every domestic and international volunteer leadership team to have a full complement of Prayer Coordinators and team members to mobilize prayer as well as fervent prayer partners who diligently and faithfully lift up Operation Christmas Child and its mission year-round. 

Part of our NEA OCC Team with Alina Massey

31 Days of Prayer for Operation Christmas Child - Day 3

Today, pray for the hiring process of approximately 1,000 associate staff who will serve in the Processing Centers.  Millions of lives will be touched by shoebox gifts collected this year!  Each precious Gospel Opportunity is carefully inspected and prepared for overseas shipments at our processing centers.  Our processing centers are in Boone, Charlotte, Baltimore/Washington, Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Minneapolis, and Southern California.  

31 Days of Prayer for Operation Christmas Child - Day 2

Today pray for the success of Operation Christmas Child volunteers in their efforts to develop church, community, prayer, and media partnerships.  If you would like to volunteer for a time slot to be scheduled to pray with people as they drop off their shoeboxes during National Collection Week for an hour or two, I am working on a schedule so please let me know asap.  As millions of souls of children and their families are at stake, we know and have seen firsthand how the enemy tries to impede the plans for shoeboxes to reach their final destination.  From now until the end of National Collection Week, we ask that you join in and mobilize prayer along with all of our other prayer network partners, team members, and leaders and strategically cover our volunteers, drop-off locations, and logistics network.  Ask your church to pray for OCC.  

To volunteer with Operation Christmas Child click on the link at the top of my blog or the link below...  www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/volunteer-with-occ

31 Days of Prayer for Operation Christmas Child - Day 1

Today will you be an Operation Christmas Child Prayer Warrior? Pray for God to work in the hearts of the millions of children who will be receiving shoebox gifts this season, and for the millions who will continue in The Greatest Journey discipleship program.  Jesus told his followers to "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:19).  We praise God for how he is working through TGJ to make disciples in over 100 countries!  Millions of children have already made decisions to follow Christ, have their own New Testaments to read in their own language, and know how to share the Gospel with their friends and family.  TGJ is in 66 languages so far, and Samaritan's Purse has trained over 250,000 volunteers to teach these precious lessons.  We hope to enroll 3.5 million children in the 12 lesson The Greatest Journey Discipleship program in  2016!!!!  TWO children EVERY MINUTE around the WORLD are ACCEPT JESUS as their SAVIOR through The Greatest Journey!  Pray and Praise Jesus today!!! 

30 Days of Prayer and Fasting Continues for FWB Missionaries

Today is day 13 of prayer and fasting for Free Will Baptist Missionaries and everyday the email updates have been very touching, but I wanted to share yesterday's prayer...

THEME III: PRAYING FOR GOD TO CALL MORE LABORERS

DAY 12: Responding to the Call 

When God has a task to do, He reaches down, taps one of His people on the shoulder, and asks, “How about you?” Throughout the ages, men and women of God have responded affirmatively to His calling.
Some people find themselves just a few miles from their birthplace, planting new churches; others are directed thousands of miles away, across the ocean, into areas that are often extremely resistant, sometimes violently so, to the spread of the gospel.
The common denominator in these directives is not the geographical or cultural context, but the Light being taken to those living in darkness.
A pastor visited us in Africa. After several days with the missionaries, he made this observation: “It takes a preacher to understand a preacher, and a teacher to understand a teacher, but I don’t know who can understand a missionary.”
I think maybe he was seeing something intriguingly unique about those who leave all, to give all. Our Free Will Baptist missionaries, both home and international, responded in the affirmative when God tapped them on the shoulder. They were willing to leave all, to give all. Each one needs your prayers on a daily basis.
Do you have a set of missionary prayer cards? Cards are a good way to look at a face as you pray for a missionary. You can also go online and see the different missionaries serving in North America (www.fwbnam.com) and around the world (www.fwbgo.com). Why don’t you set aside time to pray for our Free Will Baptist missionaries wherever they are serving?
Pray for commitment to fulfill His will as He leads. Pray those who have committed to missions work, both home and abroad, will continue faithfully shining the light of Christ.

Dominica and the Dominican Republic & OCC Prayer

This week will you pray with us for Dominica and the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Sea?

Dominica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea. Its population is just over 72,000. It is a hurricane-prone, rugged, mountainous island. It has 3 languages. 16% of the population is Evangelical Christians, while 91% claims Christianity as their religion. Most are only nominally (by name only) Christian, but only a small number actively follow Christ. Pray these socially deprived people, especially the Carbi Indians, that live on an isolated reservation will find their true identity and fulfillment in Christ. They are among the last indigenous peoples in the Caribbean. Specifically, pray for Dominica as the team builds a strategy for their second year.

The Dominican Republic shares the eastern two-thirds an island with Haiti. It has 18 different people groups and only 9% are Evangelical Christians. A challenge has been retention of those converted and getting them active in a local church. Pray for retention and pray for Biblical ethics--in this society corruption, violent crime, and promiscuity are alarmingly widespread. Praise God that the number of Dominican missionaries are growing! Pray for the Dominican Republic teams as they rise to the challenge of reaching rural areas. Pray for them as they will be stretched physically, emotionally and financially as the work to reach places previously unreached with Operation Christmas Child.

OCC General Requests:

1. As we countdown to National Collection Week, we are praying and asking God to provide 10,200 Gospel Opportunities from NEA, 737,500 shoeboxes from the Mid-South Region (TN, AR, & KY), 8.6 million from the U.S., and 11 million worldwide.
2. As millions of souls of children and their families are at stake, we know and have seen firsthand how the enemy tries to impede the plans for shoeboxes to reach their final destination. From now until the end of National Collection Week, we ask that you join in and mobilize prayer for all our volunteers, drop-off locations, and logistics network. 

You can impact whole villages and communities by praying for children in over 150 countries and regions across the globe who are waiting to receive a shoebox gift.

"Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 19:14