PRAYER GUIDE

WORLDWIDE DAY OF PRAYER 1 October 2013

Observed on the:

• Fourth Tuesday of April.

• First Tuesday of October. Common prayer needs of each laborer and every team in this worldwide movement of Campus Crusade for Christ International: Faith, growth, fruitfulness, re-vitalized first love, walking in the Spirit, refreshed vision, unfailing love, team unity, dependence upon God alone, additional laborers, and more financial resources. Glossary 3G God-attentive, God-dependent and God-responsive AE Agapé Europe (the Western Europe Area) AIA Athletes in Action (sometimes shown as AiA) ALT Area Leadership Team ATL Area Team Leader CE Christian Embassy CLM Church-led Movements (now more commonly known as Global Church Movements) CLT Campus Leadership Team (local) CPMI Church Planting Movement Initiative Destino Latino outreach of Cru Campus Domains Influential parts of society (usually seven), e.g. media or government DPMD Discipleship Ministry Partner Development training DS Digital Strategies (formerly known as Virtually-led Movements; see GDS) ELI Emerging (or Emergent) Leaders Initiative Epic The Asian American outreach of Cru Campus GCM Global Church Movements (formerly known as Church-led Movements), one of our five Mission Critical Components (MCCs) GCMT Great Commission Ministry Training (for church leaders in West Africa) GCTC Great Commission Training Center GFD Global Fund Development GDS Global Digital Strategies (DS); one of our five MCCs, formerly known as Virtually-led

Movements (VLM) GMA Global Measurement Application IBS Institute of Biblical Studies IGSL International Graduate School of Leadership (formerly ISOT-Asia) located in the Philippines ILF International Leadership Foundation The IMPACT Movement

Cru Campus’ partner for outreach to African-American students KCCC Also called Korean Cru; part of Cru Campus LD Leadership Development LDHR Leadership Development/Human Resources LLM Leader-led Movements, one of our five Mission Critical Components (MCCs), focused on reaching leaders in seven domains of society LTI Leadership Training Institute MC2 Multiplying Churches and Communities (GCM’s multiplication training program)

MCC Mission Critical Component, a major strategy such as SLM or GCM MPD Ministry Partner Development (raising and maintaining of prayer and financial support) MTL Movement Team Leader (Ministry Team Leader in some places) NLT National Leadership Team NTL National Team Leader SI Student Impact in East Asia SLM Student-led Movements, one of our five Mission Critical Components (MCCs) SOFT Shaping Our Future Together, comprising five elements of CCCI culture change SPC Student Population Center - may be a school or place of dense student housing SPP Strategic Planning Process STINT Division of Cru Campus that sends missionaries on one to two-year assignments (Short

Term INTernational originally); sometimes seen as Stint. VLM Virtually-led Movements, the MCC now known as Global Digital Strategies (DS) WSN Worldwide Student Network, the international sending division of Cru Campus

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP OFFICE • Praise God for the efforts of the design team that gave leadership to a major renovation of the

second floor office environment. • Pray as we continue to adapt to changes--especially that we would all make efforts to better

connect and collaborate across teams--as part of the Global Leadership Office. • The President’s Staff is in the process of restructuring to form a new leadership team. The

intent of this team approach is to improve and expand capacity to support Steve Douglass, Cherry Fields and the Executive Team, including second floor/VP teams.

EAST ASIA ORIENT AREA Area Team Leader: Rock and Joy Yoon Area Office

• Thank God for 2013 N. Korea International Consultation, Sept. 10-13. Participants from US AIA, Switzerland CCC, Hong Kong CCC, GAiN, Korea CCC, EA Opportunities Area, EA Orient Area established bread factory and supply 2,000 bread daily to 2,000 children in NK through a “Bread for Life Project.”

• Pray for 2014 EA Orient All Staff Conference, Oct. 19-24, 2014, in Korea. Thank God for already organizing the ASC Preparation Leadership Team and program. Pray about (1) organizing all ASC team members, (2) God preparing staff and families’ hearts for ASC, and (3) God’s supply for staff expenses of airfare, registration, etc. May God allow us to celebrate together the anniversaries of countries in our area, gain a common understanding of current changes in the global CCCI movement and cultures, commitment for contributions in other areas of the world.

• Pray for the second batch of Leadership Development Initiative (LDI), Feb. 2014, in Manila. Pray for God’s wisdom and strength to our EA Ort Area LDHR Team Leader; pray for building faithful relationships among networking groups and between the participants and the coaches by His grace; pray for the selection process of new participants and new coaches to be according to the number of participants from our seven countries.

Area GCM

• Pray for developing countries GCM staff and MC2 training which are South Korea, Taiwan and

Pakistan to show the best model of the training around the world and developing country GCM which are Mongolia, Japan, Singapore to start GCM as their own national ministry.

• GCM 2014 Bangkok Conference, February 17-21: May we see God's leading and 11 attendees from EA Ort Area countries with covered airfare and other expenses, especially two attendees from Pakistan.

• Pray for a well-equipped GCM Staff and its vision to win the nation as a spiritual movement leader.

East Asia School of Theology (EAST)

• Pray that God will continue to pour out His wisdom and anointing on our leaders, that we as an organization might be sensitive to His direction and leading. Pray for like-minded individuals to come alongside us in partnership, share their resources so that we may serve together for His glory. May our faculty, staff and students and their families “prosper in all things and be in health, just as their soul prospers.” (3 John 1:2)

• Pray that as the faculty teaches the Word and as students learn, God would give new insights and expand their understanding. Pray that the Spirit of the Word will change us, and not let the letter of the Word dry us (John 6:63). Let the teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants (Deut 32:2).

• Pray that Mentoring Groups would be environments that encourage spiritual growth, accountability, friendships and personal development.

JAPAN National Office:

• We need a new, good copy machine at a reasonable price. • Pray for our healthiness. • We are again going to go through the "Peace Maker" once a month; pray that we can apply

those principles into our daily lives. Servant Team:

• Pray that every staff member and disciple continues to grow from the inside out as a disciple. • Pray that God will provide manpower to help with the administration work of LD/HR.

SI Tokyo: • Pray for Qsang, new leader of SI Tokyo Team, to have the guidance and wisdom from God to

lead the team. • Pray for our emotionally tired team to be refreshed and lightened up in the Lord. • Pray for blessings upon follow-up work from our summer ministries - evangelistic summer

camp, a local mission trip and an overseas mission trip. SI Osaka:

• We sent a nine-member mission team to Tamkang University, Taiwan, 3-13 September. Students who trusted in our Lord last year continue to grow in faith and are leading the local movement. Pray we will encourage each other to build movements in our countries.

• In spring semester new and older Christian students were joining the SI Osaka from Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka Electro Communication U., Osaka Gakuin U., Kansai Gaidai U. and movements have started in these universities. Pray new movements will be raised up in other universities with these student leaders in the fall semester.

• Pray that our staff and students will be devoted to the spiritual movement. GCTC will begin this fall; may both staff and students' hearts for the Great Commission be renewed.

SI Yokohama: • Olobu is leading a Bible study for six sisters who are studying in Yokohama University. Pray

that they will join our discipleship training. • Praise the Lord for blessing the work of the Korean mission team, July 2-16. Pray for all the

follow-up work with the new contacts.

• We had a fruitful vision trip to Korea, Aug. 26 – Sept. 2; pray that every participant continues to grow strong in their faith and heart for missions.

SI Nagoya: • Pray that we can maintain a good connection and relationship with all the students who are

participating in our ministries. • Pray for smooth planning and preparation of all the events (fun events, summer mission, fall

camp and first half evaluation) with the guidance and presence of the Lord. • Pray that God would provide us with a Student Center. Though we do not have a concrete plan

yet, the staff and students are seriously praying about it. SI Kyoto:

• Praise the Lord for our successful ministry with a summer mission team in Kyoto; pray for all the follow-up work with the new contacts.

• Pray for the present stinters from Korea. Three of them made the decision to extend their stay. They need to raise their support for the stay. Pray for their families to understand and support.

• May God raise up new SLM staff members. There were many contacts made by the stinters and mission teams but we lack in ability to effectively follow up.

PAKISTAN

• Pray for all our staff members support and for their ministries. • Pray for the Pakistan Leadership Development Center (PLDC); it is proceeding but needs

funds and many donors to help. • Pray for GCM MC2 Phase 4 training for the GCM staff; also pray about planting churches in

target areas. SINGAPORE (Cru-Singapore) Pray for Cru Singapore to be aligned and remain focused on God's mission for us: "Raising Communities of Multiplying Disciples by Reaching, Building and Sending."

• Reach Boldly: Pray for clear vision, greater passion and concerted efforts in rallying believers in "Getting the Message Out" to 200,000 people this year. We are partnering with churches this Christmas season reach more than 200,000 people through a Christian magazine and digital strategies. Pray for strategic partnerships, effective mobilization for laborers and strong follow through after "Getting the Message Out."

• Build Deeply: May we trust God for good assimilation of freshmen into campus ministries. Pray for faithful, available and teachable student leaders to be raised up as spiritual multipliers; mobilizing of volunteers and raising key leaders in LLM; and intentional discipleship among communities of multiplying disciples across all domains.

• Send Urgently: May a sense of urgency arise in us to pray and send life-long laborers into the global harvest and through strategic partnerships with the wider body of Christ. Pray for our Missions department to mobilize and match potential laborers to meet strategic opportunities/needs of the mission field. Pray for wisdom to provide good member-care of our staff members who are in various mission fields.

SOUTH KOREA

• This past summer 73 mission teams went to 19 countries, and 1,437 people participated. They met 20,382 people and shared The Four Spiritual Laws with 7,802; pray for their spiritual growth.

• Staff Conference, 21-26 October 2013: Pray about the spiritual growth of the staff and about sharing the long-term vision of KCCC.

• We thank God that through the Summer Student Conference, Nazareth Brethren Conference, and Mission Trips many people became disciples of Jesus by knowing the heart of God for the nations. Praise God that we were able to share the gospel with freshmen in various ways last

semester. Pray for student leaders all over the country; we hope that they have a heart for this nation and the world, fulfilling the Lord’s vision by following the Holy Spirit and praying.

• Prayer conference in Jeju, Ireland, 10-13 February 2014: Pray for people attending this conference; may it be good training for our ministry; we hope to follow the Holy Spirit and pray!

• FamilyLife ministry is having a Pre-Marriage Seminar: We pray that through this seminar our wedding culture will change according to the Bible. After the seminar we hope to have HomeBuilder movement. Through this movement, may new generations arise to change families.

• 24 Sep. - 22 Oct., GCTC trainees will be going to India for the A6 mission. By the power of the Holy Spirit and the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, let them win the campus. Pray for wisdom in sharing the god news in the Indian culture.

TAIWAN

• Thank God for helping us connect with different teams and ministries: College students from a US mission trip met with student leaders in Taiwan; LLM partnered with several churches and clubs to hold a “Book Your Happiness” workshop; the GCM, LLM, and SLM leaders visited the EA ministry and maintained continued connection; the publishing ministry obtained complete authorization to publish Japan’s Risk Ride manga; we sent two missionaries to Japan; and ISP Student Venture staff from the US came on multiple occasions to provide training.

• Thanks be to God for rekindling the flame of revival in Taiwan CCC staff member’s lives. Many experienced healing from wounds in their lives, and the restoration of relationships with other people and with God; many more staff started to read the Bible in large amounts, putting emphasis on God’s Word in their lives.

• 2014 is the 50th anniversary for Taiwan CCC: We hope to connect with domestic and overseas churches through the invitation of 115 mission teams to Taiwan and the holding of various ministry workshops and celebratory activities; ask that God guide the execution of various plans, provide funds, and mobilize all levels of Christians to impact Taiwan with the gospel. Since this is a year of jubilee, may God continue His work of molding and refining the staff, so that we can experience a spiritual jubilee, renewed and set free to live a life of fruitfulness and victory in Christ. May our thinking and behavior be transformed, willing to change; pray for staff members to be able to work freely with the Spirit, not restricted by their experiences or personality, bring about renewed vigor in the movement.

EASTERN EUROPE AREA Area Team Leader: Marek and Ala Wyrzykowski MOLDOVA

• In the first week of September, CrossRoads had its first Training of Trainers, the second level of training; there are now six people who can train teachers how to use the Life at the CrossRoads curriculum in their Moldovan schools.

• After this leadership conference there are two basic level Teachers Trainings. These two basic trainings are conducted by our newly trained leaders. One was in Russian, another in Romanian.

• Please pray for the six new trainers who conducted the training, as well as for those who attended. May all continue to see their need for Jesus. Pray for effective follow-up of those who expressed interest in spiritual things.

FRANCOPHONE AFRICA AREA Area Team Leader: Mpunga and Makoyi Mukengeshay BUKINA FASO

• Praise God for the 20th anniversary of Campus Crusade in Burkina Faso. Pray for our new national team leader, Nebie Badiou; may God gives him wisdom, humility and love as he leads the team.

• We are grateful to God for a good MC2 conference of vision; two hundred pastors attended the conference. Praise God for the translations of the JESUS film in Birifor and Lobori.

• Agape Renne from France will visit us for an evangelistic outreach among students, Oct. 26 – Nov. 2; pray that many students would give their life to Christ. Pray also for protection during their stay here; pray for peace in universities and schools; without peace we cannot carry out our activities.

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)

• We thank God for two projects (in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi) in partnership between SLM and South Korea. We are also grateful to God for a wonderful ministry carried on by GCM and The JESUS Film in Kinshasa.

• Thank God for His protection and for the success of our strategic plan. Pray for peace, security, pray for the end of the war in the Eastern part of DRC. Thank God for people who decided to join the ministry as staff members and also as Stinters, despite various crises. Pray for the next Francophone staff conference in Kinshasa.

• We want to build our second guest house; please pray for funding. We want to build offices in Katanga and Bas Congo. Pray that God would raise up donors; pray for joyful families; God is our provider.

GABON

• Pray for good discipleship leading to the recruitment of new staff members; we are trusting God to be training new staff next year.

• We are praying for an office beside the University of Libreville, the biggest in our country. It will make the discipleship and training much easier; pray for peace, stability during this new academic year.

• We are trusting God for a strong leader-led movement. Pray that marketplace leaders would be actively involved in evangelism and discipleship in their workplaces and that they would have a great influence among their fellow workers; pray for spiritual multiplication in the various domains.

REPUBLIC OF COTE D’IVOIRE (RCI) (IVORY COAST) • We are grateful to God for peace in the country, for 25 new sets of JESUS film equipment, new

staff members since March, and for the staff and families’ good health and provision despite

the crisis in our country.

• Ask the Lord to raise up seven new staff members by 2014.

• Pray for the building of a student guest house on our premises by December 2013. Pray for

funding to carry on our summer project ‘’SEMAILLES VACANCES’’ in August 2014, at

Korhogo in the northern part of the country.

SENEGAL • Praise God for students who gave their life to Christ, for students who decided to serve God as

missionaries, and for students are now involved in evangelism and discipleship.

• Pray for 2013-2014: Pray for a good planning process; pray for wisdom from God for this annual strategic plan.

• Pray for opening doors, for wisdom as we start VLM in Senegal; we pray for recruitment of new staff and that God would send new laborers in His vineyard.

TCHAD

• We thank God for Camp Sinai, organized by SLM, July 1-7 2013; three hundred students and young professionals attended; ten students decided to join staff after graduation, and 18 decided to become volunteers. Two top leaders of the University of N'djamena came to the opening and closing ceremonies.

• We are grateful to God for our National Team Leader, who is home and doing much better following two months of medical treatment; he must continue treatment up to nine more months; pray for God’s provision of the 2,200 USD per month.

• Campus Crusade for Christ Chad, in partnership with Heart for Chad Association and the body of Christ in Chad, will hold a national conference in March 2014; pray for unity as we mobilize Christians, for financial and material provision, and for the 5,000 participants we are expecting. Praise God for the partnership between GCM and five churches; the vision is to plant new churches in the context of spiritual movement.

TOGO • Praise God for the successful partnership between CCC Togo and CCC Korea; they came six

times for a short-term mission with wonderful results and fruit. Pray for our partner project called Dream Center; we want to build a hall of 1,000 seats for Sunday services, three conference rooms, one cyber center with 100 computers and some small offices. The budget is $400,000(USD); we are hoping to start on October 14; pray that God would lead everything from now to the completion of this project.

• Training for Bible story tellers from Oct. 7 – Nov. 08: We want to equip people to use stories from the Bible to evangelize, follow up and also plant churches; pray for the trainers and the 22 participants we are expecting; and pray that each participant should be able to have a group of 12 listeners by the end of the training.

• Praise God for the desire and the engagement of staff member to raise their support. Pray that each staff member should have at least 50% of his support by December 2013. Pray for blessings upon our ministry partners and for their faithfulness.

LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN AREA Area Team Leader: Layo and Luchy Leiva Area Leadership Team

• We are very grateful for the provision of our new area headquarters office in Tres Rios, Costa Rica (San Jose suburb) thanks to the hard work and dedication of Ron and Jeanie Burgin and for the arrival of our team leaders, Layo and Luchy Leiva, in Costa Rica this past month.

• Please pray for our area team as we meet in Buenos Aires the first week of Oct. to participate in the “Building Powerful Ministry Teams” training together and then to help in the development of several national teams as they also go through it that same week.

• Pray for our team as we continue to support, help and develop national leaders in 26 countries and in the forming of healthy national teams.

ARGENTINA

• Praise God for the team of 19 students who travelled to Haiti's Project in July.

• Praise God for the 120 students and professionals who participated for two weeks in the Social and Spiritual Project we have done already for 10 years, in the north of our country.

• Pray for the opening of new campuses in our country and for the students and leaders who are travelling from other provinces to help one another build movements on each campus.

BARBADOS

• Praise God for raising up three persons who volunteered to work with CCC Barbados. • Pray for unity with other Christian associations on campus, as we seek to carry the gospel to

the university's population. • Ask God to grant us more national recognition and support for the ministry, in the light of our

tenth year of ministry. BOLIVIA

• We are grateful for the time of evaluation and adjustment in each movement of Vida Estudiantil (campus ministry) in Bolivia and to see all that the Lord did in the first semester of the school year. We give thanks for the commitment of our student leaders and the growth we have seen in their lives. To hear how the Lord’s love is working in their hearts and the dreams they have to see lives transformed--in spite of the struggles in their own lives--has been very exciting and refreshing.

• Pray that the Lord would lead us in the planning and execution of our national conference, 3-8 January in Tarija; pray there would be an environment of humility and surrender to the Lord; may our love for Him be renewed and our commitment to the Great Commission bring a new era in our high schools and universities.

• Please ask the Lord in His grace and wisdom to care for each of our staff members and student leaders; pray that we would have a greater hunger and thirst for God and would walk more closely with Him each day, knowing Him better and enjoying Him more.

BRAZIL

• Praise God for 20,703 pastors and leaders from five Brazilian states, trained in evangelism and discipleship in 2012, through Home of Salvation Project. Pray for three states where the training will be given to pastors and leaders by the end of this year.

• We are thankful for the student conference last June, where about 500 students joined us from all around the country and expressed a desire to obey His call to this generation; pray for fruitful summer projects to be held in January--two in Brazilian cities of Viçosa and Juiz de Fora, and one in Cape Verde, Africa—as well as the students’ cities of origin; we are very happy that God has allowed us (CARE) to be in high schools again; may He consolidate our activity permanently in one school this year and introduce our new missionaries in two other schools by the beginning of next year.

• Thank God for sports ministry opportunities; Brazil will be the stage for the entire world in coming years; praise God for churches that are engaging with these opportunities; ask God to give us wisdom in reorganization of the ministry and the search for new missionaries in the midst of all the ; during this whole process, pray we can communicate and organize well so that AIA and other Campus Crusade ministries in Brazil can serve together at every opportunity.

CHILE

• Thank God for the 40 students and professionals who have accepted the challenge to lead a missional community, as well as the four full-time staff members who have taken the challenge to go, leaving Santiago to serve in the south of Chile and in Brazil.

• May every missional leader and staff member experience a daily life filled with the Holy Spirit, devotion to the Word of God and a deeper and delightful relationship with Jesus Christ.

• Ask God´s favor in recruiting new full-time staff in Chile and committed and motivated leadership for the 14 national summer projects.

COLOMBIA

• Pray that all full-time staff members, partners, volunteers and college leaders keep a heart in love with God that leads them to maintain a high commitment and passion to serve in ministry; please pray for financial support for our staff and leaders in Colombia.

• We thank God for all He did before, during and after the CM2013 student conference in Pereira, Colombia in July, which was attended about 940 young people. Hearts were touched by the Holy Spirit, with the desire to serve in universities. Pray for establishment and consolidation of all New Life Groups (GVNs) that have begun since CM2013; pray also for the dedication and persistence of all university students who are leaders of these GVNs.

• Thank God for helping us to put in order administration of the movement and to resolve situations that were hindering development and growth of Vida Para Colombia.

COSTA RICA

• Ask the Lord to send more workers for His harvest at the main campuses in Costa Rica. Until we get more, next semester it will be three full-time staff members and two associate staff, with two of the group full-time moms.

• Pray about a "structure" that could serve the vision of seeing student missional communities everywhere.

• Pray we will continue trusting that God is not limited by the size of the staff we have in order to grow movements of “spiritual multiplication everywhere.”

CURACAO

• We would like to praise and thank God for His grace shown to us during this year. Finally we are becoming a registered entity and the financial resources are starting to flow.

• Curacao is facing some political problems now. Pray for God to give wisdom and direction as there is a gay parade coming up, so all churches are coming together to pray during this week.

• Pray for the students who have accepted Jesus during the intro week of evangelism to stand firm for their decision and agree to follow the discipleship training.

GUATEMALA

• As we initiate our prayer movement here in Guatemala, we pray that the Lord would awaken a desire and need in all of the staff to seek His face.

• Pray for direction for the country prayer coordinator of Guatemala, as he seeks to select and equip others to lead in prayer; may we have men and women with a heart for God and a passion to live in His presence.

• November is a critical month for us to raise support. Pray that the Lord would open many doors so that the staff could complete all they need for personal and ministry support.

GUYANA

• We praise the Lord for the recently concluded mission’s project by the campus staff and students from Guyana and Barbados to St. Lucia; the purpose was to launch a movement on the campus there; highlights included the 70 students who indicated decisions for the Lord and started to attend follow-up; another highlight was the 100 percent welcome and acceptance of the ministry by the Principal and lecturers of the Sir Arthur Lewis College.

• Pray that the Lord will raise up staff for the work at the Sir Arthur Lewis College. • Pray that all our ministry partners will be faithful, so that all staff members receive their salaries

on time and be able to get their reimbursements.

HAITI • We are praising God for the opportunity for the many ministry partnerships that have come

alongside us. Because of this we were able to work with various teams/countries and recently concluded our summer hosting of an evangelistic event involving NBA Indiana Pacers and lead point guard George Hill, who was eager to work with various students.

• Pray for the three areas of ministry that our small team focuses on (Student-Led, JESUS Film, and the social arm of Campus Crusade Haiti - NVM). May we remain faithful to fulfilling the Great Commission, as we seek to use these strategies to Win, Build and Send people.

• Pray that the upcoming general elections will be peaceful, as they coincide with the opening of universities this November.

HONDURAS

• Thank the Lord for the lives of our disciples and UNITEC Pedagogical University in Tegucigalpa, who are sharing their faith and participating in discipleship meetings.

• We thank God for the provision of Johnson and Johnson Foundation, which is considering continuing funding for Youth at the Threshold of Life and enabling Women of Today expand through the Magdalena Project Initiative. Please pray for the Training Program for colleges, with topics on Sports Training, Physical Training and Character Development, which will begin at the Pedagogical University with physical education students and coaches.

• Pray for the spiritual life of teachers who support our ministry activities. Pray for preparations by the CrossRoads Instructor Team, which will train 120 teachers in Medellin; may God guide them through Honduran Ministry Counseling, coordinating the pre-conference in Colombia. Our expectation is that the majority of teachers who participate will make a decision for Jesus.

JAMAICA

• Praise God for an AIA Ohio team that helped us get AIA Jamaica started. • Thank Him for faculty members on four campuses in Jamaica and one in the Bahamas who

are committed to revamp or start a faculty movement on their campuses and for student leaders on all campuses who own the movement and are taking leadership to make things happen and disciple other students. Pray for continued ownership, commitment and leadership of students involved, and for effective and efficient follow-up of new students who indicated interest in knowing God, joining or helping to lead Bile Studies, so that we see the movement multiply with strong, committed disciples.

• Pray for continued good teamwork among staff members, for full financial support for each staff and for God-directed recruitment of new staff members for our local team in Jamaica.

MEXICO

• Praise God because He has started to heal our relationships, and He is giving us unity as the staff in Campus Crusade Mexico.

• Ask God for faith, wisdom, guidance, and diligence to make the National Strategic Plan soon for the next five years.

• Plead to God for more workers for His harvest in our ministry. We are praying for devoted, teachable and surrendered workers for Jesus.

PANAMA

• We praise God because Vida Estudiantil (Campus Ministry) was able to open the ministry on three campuses, two of them private and one in Colon city.

• Pray for the Indigitous Digital Strategies Conference, November 20-24 here. • Please pray for the Lord to provide office property for Crusade Panamá.

PARAGUAY

• Please pray for our E missions (evangelistic missions), expected to reach, through 20 churches, 8,000 people in 20 different neighborhoods. We have done these missions for three years, and now we want to share the model with the churches to implement under our direction, in order to develop leadership. It also involves showing the JESUS film with live music, theatrical performances and distributing food and toys.

• Pray for our Christmas outreach, "Night of Peace." It is an evangelistic event of music, theatrical performances and dance that seeks to gather all the work done during the year, in an auditorium for 500 people, with the participation of 80 volunteer leaders of Campus Crusade. National, academic, business, and sports authorities will be invited.

• We give thanks for the leadership training that is being held every Saturday with 19 disciples. SURINAME

• We are thankful for a successful mission to St. Vincent. We shared the gospel with hundreds of students on the Community College in St. Vincent. Praise the Lord for staff members from Surinam who are willing to serve in St. Vincent for two years and that the student leaders who participated in this mission are motivated to win and disciple students in Surinam during the orientation week and after.

• Please pray that we can have 75 students in discipleship groups as a result of the evangelism activities during orientation week. Pray for committed disciplers who will commit their time to these students. Pray for support for the staff couple who we will sent to St Vincent to help build the movement and also pray for 1-2 staff members to serve 2-6 months in St. Vincent starting this month.

• Pray for the leaders of the Professional ministry - for vision and time to build and strengthen this ministry in Surinam.

TRINIDAD

• Praise God with us for the successful first joint summer project between El Salvador and Trinidad & Tobago, involving 30 campus students in June. They were able to reach out to the campus, community and secondary schools with multiple strategies, including beach evangelism.

• Please pray for our student-led movement this academic year, 2013-2014, that contacts among first-year students will be followed up and discipled faithfully; pray that many students will come to know the Lord through our evangelistic "Speak the Word" project on 21 November, and for a fruitful Grenada Missions Project.

• Please pray for our FamilyLife team comprised of 10 volunteer couples; may we continue to have an increasing national impact on families; pray that our first FamilyLife one-day Marriage Seminar in Tobago on Oct. 13 will pave the way for FamilyLife ministry to multiply in our twin-island of Tobago.

URUGUAY • On August 20 our second Stint Team arrived, with seven members and our first ICS couple

ever! Praise the Lord! Each one of them challenged themselves to initiate 100 spiritual conversations per week.

• We have seen students put their faith in Christ weekly since the start of this semester, and our weekly meeting attendance has been higher than ever before. So, that is why we have to move to a bigger Cru Office. We need to find an appropriate place, with a good location and with capacity to host a lot of people.

• We were able to raise 75% of the money we need to rent the new office. Pray that it would be possible for us to reach the remaining 25 % and complete the monthly rent of the new office.

VENEZUELA • We give thanks to the Lord that almost all of the staff of Vida Estudiantil (campus) have 100

percent of their financial support, and that we are sending our first all Venezuelan team to launch a movement in the city of Merida.

• Please pray for this new Venezuela team to Merida to depend on the Lord in all they do, including finding housing, growing in team relationships and ministry planning.

• Pray for the next gathering of the Venezuela Campus Crusade staff and for all the different meetings; may we develop strong bonds of unity and grow in supporting one another.

NORTH AMERICA & OCEANIA Area Team Leader: Steve and Christy Sellers

• Pray for a smooth leadership transition for both Australia and New Zealand, both receiving new National Directors. Pray for the O'Malleys as they move their family to Auckland, NZ and all of the details needed for them to get settled well. Pray for Allan and Mandy Gibson as they are settling into Melbourne, AU.

• Pray that Kathryn and Don Mansfield (Director of the Pacific Islands Region) will get a visa allowing them to stay in New Zealand. Their present visa has expired and they are facing problems collecting the documents the government is requesting from them. Pray for God to allow them to get the documents or soften the government's stance.

• Pray for Power to Change (Cru in Canada) as they host The Life Conference this October 25-27. Pray that God would continue to spread partnerships for this evangelism and discipleship strategy. Pray for success for The Lion's Den, a unique project funding strategy based on The Shark Tank TV program.

AUSTRALIA

• Praise God for the many ways He has gone before us as we transition to a new national director, beginning 1 October 2013. We are grateful for how He has enabled Bill Hodgson to finish well as ND, transitioning to new opportunities to continue to pioneer and lead within the organisation as well as preparing the way for Allan Gibson to step into the role and provide leadership for this next chapter here in Australia.

• Praise God for the new missionaries that He continues to bring on board with us. We have consistently had an increase in numbers of new missionaries joining the organisation over the last two years. At times it presents some challenges, but we are grateful for them and continue to trust God as He grows the movement.

• As we transition to a new national director in Australia, pray for the Lord to continue to go before us. Pray specifically for Allan Gibson and his wife Mandy as they enter this new season. May they experience continual refreshment from God's Word, and may they sense His presence with them. Pray for the Lord's wisdom and discernment in guiding their steps and may they continue to walk in faith in all that He has called them to do.

• Pray for the National Leadership Team as we continue to move forward and progress our strategic plan alongside the transition of national directors. Pray also for the CCCA HQ Executive Team that is working on a strategic plan for the HQ Office, which will help to accelerate building movements around Australia. May the Lord give those involved wisdom and discernment to help move the teams and the ministry forward.

CANADA (Power to Change) Church Domain

• Please pray for our Langley outreach team as we develop a discipleship program for those we have been reaching out to in the inner city. Pray for a clear strategy to best serve this group (low income and homeless people), in a way that would help bring healing in the present, and courage to take practical steps toward a better future for themselves and their families.

• Please pray for our school team as we develop a volunteer reading program for our inner city school. This will include reading with, and praying for the children and their families. Please pray that God will send godly volunteers with a heart for the children, an ability to help them effectively with their reading, and a commitment to prayer.

• We are emphasizing dependence upon the Spirit and asking the Lord for breakthroughs in the lives of volunteers and those we are seeking to reach. Please pray with us that the Lord would grant favor and open doors with churches and organizations in order to share the LIFE challenge and the invitation to take steps to reach out together with others.

• As this new ministry season begins – please pray with us that the LORD will continue to transform lives. As Matthew 11:5 says that “the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor.”

Government Domain • Praise God for an ambassador who recently confirmed his commitment to Christ and

expressed interest in being part of a Christian Embassy follow-up study with another colleague.

• Praise God for the results of the September international summit of seven Christian Embassies, for fresh vision, a deeper sense of calling, and clarity of mission, as well as commitment to integrating our efforts around the world:

1) Pray that 10 ambassadors and their spouses will commit to participating in an 8-week course

on the essentials of Christianity, beginning October 2. 2) Diplomats and Members of Parliament have demanding schedules that add stress to

marriages. Pray that 12 or more of these couples will attend a FamilyLife weekend getaway October 18-20, or other marriage related events October 21 and 22, resulting in stronger marriages.

3) The Christian Embassy is preparing for its 30th Christmas Banquet on December 3, normally attended by about 200 ambassadors, parliamentarians, business leaders and their spouses. Pray that God will continue to lead and inspire, preparing hearts of participants so that many will come to know Him in a very personal way.

Business Domain • Pray about our ongoing search for an Executive Director to oversee our movement which is

now coast to coast in Canada and six cities in Latin America. • Lift up the Nov '13 Medellin/Bogota Exchange Trip : This will be our third visit to Medellin,

where the ministry continues to flourish ; the trip will include a 36-hour foray to Bogota, as Colombia is becoming the beach head for growth with partners across South America.

• Pray during our busiest fall yet: 13 events over Sept & Oct including Vision Events, Forums and two golf outreach/fundraising tournaments in B.C. and Ontario; many new groups are beginning and thus many new group leaders are required.

Media & Technology Domain • Please ask the Lord to continue to raise up ministry finances, with long-term prayer coverage. • Please pray for the global and international groups that are reviewing The Mentor Center. They

are very interested in using it on a large scale, and if that were to take place, we will see our reach expand exponentially. Pray that the Lord would work in TMC so that every crisis message that is written to us would not be delayed in any way from mentors responding within a day.

• Please pray for the Lord to raise up champions who will be enthusiastic to fund filmmaking in our ministry and promote fundraising amongst their colleagues.

Student Domain • Pray for the team of interns who will be traveling throughout the province of Quebec launching

new student-led movements on Francophone campuses in this least reached region of North America. Pray the gospel would take root and grow in the hearts of many Quebecois, and that Canada would be a sending ground of laborers to the French-speaking world.

• Pray for the student leaders on the 60 campuses where we have a ministry presence. Pray they would be empowered by the Holy Spirit to take bold steps of faith to lead students to engage other students in the life changing message of the gospel. Pray with us that we would see students discover Jesus on all 60 of those campuses!

• Pray for our conferences as we seek to equip the next generation to be a part of reaching their world. Pray many would come and be inspired to live fully surrendered to Jesus and help fulfill the Great Commission.

Sport Domain • Praise God for the AiA Link ministry established on 13 campuses across Canada. These are

led by inspired student athlete multipliers. • Praise God for the responsiveness of athletes. AiA surveyed 65 athletes of a local football

team, and 30 of them requested more information about knowing God personally, attending Chapel, and integrating faith in sport.

• Please pray for the follow-up to ensue, that there would be opportunities to share the gospel with athletes. Pray that leaders would be surfaces who can help launch the ministry at Ryerson University. Pray for opportunities to love and serve the athletic department and for the Athletic Director to come to know Jesus.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Cru) Cru Campus

• Praise God for the 400 stinters sent to 68 cities around the world, 11.8 million exposed to the gospel and more than 155,000 decisions this past year!

• Pray for more students and faculty around the world to come to know Jesus, with more movements launched in ethnic contexts and 10% of our involved students and faculty going to the world each year.

• Petition the Lord to raise up more than one million followers of Jesus committed to making disciples and changing the world together.

Bridges International:

• Praise God for more than one million international students who the Lord has brought to the U.S.! Nearly one quarter of these students arrived in America since mid-August. Many are still in culture shock, and some may be within a few miles of your doorstep. Will you pray God opens these students' hearts and they will be receptive to exploring a relationship with God?

• Co-laborers - Many international students long to learn about American culture and connect with local families, but the reality is only a small percentage will actually step foot in an American's home; please pray the Lord will raise up an army of American students, volunteers and churches who will build relationships with students; pray God will give our Bridges staff favor in mobilizing more of the body of Christ to join with us in the harvest of international students coming to the U.S.; specifically pray that each international student will have multiple opportunities to connect with American believers.

• Sending to the world - We desire to see God inflame the hearts of believing international students with a vision for reaching their people and a passion for reaching the world; please pray that God will bless our staff as they disciple, train and equip these student leaders; pray God raises up hundreds, even thousands, of students ready to return to their country as a laborer for Jesus Christ!

Cru High School: • Pray about bold evangelism this fall on high school and middle school campuses through our

students, volunteers and the staff. • Ask the Lord to cause new movements to emerge through key campus partnerships and

college volunteers. • May God compel a generation of teenagers who will multiply their faith among their friends.

Destino:

• Praise God for our Destino staff of 92; pray for the training of 62 Anglo staff members to be effective in cross-cultural ministry; and pray for the development of 30 Latino staff as leaders.

• We are moving from one to two Destino Winter Conferences in January; pray for the adjustments and for more students to attend as a result of the change.

• This semester Latino students represent 17% of all college students in the U.S.; they are the largest ethnic minority group; and so, pray the Lord sends laborers into the harvest.

Ethnic Field Ministry:

• Pray for God to open the hearts of ethnic minority students and faculty to the gospel; pray for sweeping conversions.

• Pray for the planting of new EFM movements across the country. • Pray for each of our National Ethnic Ministries, along with their directors - Bridges

(international students) Trae Vacek; Destino (Latino students) Jim Sautner; Design (South Asian students) Dave Smyth; Epic (Asian students) Tommy Dyo; Impact (African descent) Charles Gilmer; KCCC (Korean American) Dongwan Kim; and Nations (Native American) Mike Kelly.

Faculty Commons:

• Pray Christian professors--and all of us--will be more enamored with Christ than other competing idols.

• Pray God will use Cru to raise up key professors for the next generation of faculty. • Ask God to raise up hundreds of campus staff members who want to begin to invest in building

whole campus movements. Global Mission:

• Pray for Eastern Europe Expedition STINT team to launch eight movements in eight different countries in one year as a pilot effort that could be duplicated in other areas around the world in future years.

• Pray about connecting with and mobilizing Christian university students and faculty to go internationally to reach students and faculty with us.

• Thank God for raising up teams for all of our priority locations this year. Operations:

• Ops vertical meetings went great! Sweet, sweet people. • Pray for David with his MIT classes. • Ask God to help the Exec team be united.

KCCC:

• We praise God for fruitful ministry in Boston. We launched ministry in Boston a year ago, and this year we had more than 90 students show up at the gatherings.

• Pray for our winter conferences, which will be held in five different cities. Pray that 3,000 students would attend the conference and 900 would commit to summer projects.

• We will launch ministry at Stanford University this month. Pray that key student leaders will be connected to the ministry.

Christian Embassy, D.C.

• Pray that our team would continue to experience and express Jesus’ love for us and for one another, that those around us would know we are His disciples because we love each other as He loves us!

• Pray that we would surrender ourselves completely to His Lordship and Mastery in every area so that our motives, methods and message are pure and worthy of those who bear His Name.

• May we experience His blessings in such a powerful way that others would be attracted to His movement here and would themselves be empowered to reach their circles of influence: “They can do it; we can help!”

Cru Inner City

• Pray for wisdom and discernment for S.A.Y.Yes! Center directors and mentors as they start up their after-school mentoring programs with children from the inner city and for many children to come to the Lord and grow in their faith.

• Pray for follow-up being done by urban churches as they re-connect with families who heard the gospel during the recent PowerPack outreach.

• Lift up interns who have just reported to their assignments to adapt well to their new roles and to grow in their faith and ministry experience; ask God to lead many of them to join the staff; praise the Lord for a couple from Spain interning this year in the Twin Cities and hopefully by the summer of 2014 will starting a ministry in Spain to reach and serve the poor and underserved; and pray for a team to go with them.

FamilyLife

• Pray for the ministry’s four strategic initiatives: Operation Home Team, Mission Possible, iEngage, and Project Super Connect.

• Pray we can effectively engage and inspire a movement of Homebuilders. • Pray our staff will believe God for the impossible and that God will increase our faith.

The JESUS Film Project

• A new resource for evangelism and discipleship, bringing to life events of the Acts and Paul's epistles, is being developed; please pray for wisdom for those working on this resource. www.jesusfilm.org/paulproject

• There are more than 800 languages groups with 50,000 or more speakers who have no JESUS film and limited to no exposure to the gospel. Pray for opportunities to translate the film into these languages so people can hear about Christ. www.mission865.org

• Praise God for a new app that makes JESUS related resources available on mobile devices. Pray that many will be able to hear about Christ in their heart language because of this app. www.jesusfilm.org

Josh McDowell Ministry

• Please pray for necessary funds for the translation, printing and production of Undaunted—The Early Life of Josh McDowell--DVD and book-- as it is being requested in many languages throughout the world. Pray for people’s lives to be healed and transformed through the forgiveness that results from people reading and watching Undaunted.

• Pray for spiritual wisdom and direction for Josh and our executive team as they seek God’s will for future direction of our ministry in making the most effective use of Josh’s time and talents in reaching people for the kingdom.

• Give thanks for the lives that have been changed as a result of Josh’s time spent in Latin America over the past year with The Bare Facts and Undaunted, the investment of donors in our ministry, and especially for God’s gracious hand upon us.

Keynote

• Pray for good "wins" this fall as we engage in new types of creative outreach, both in the U.S. and internationally.

• Pray as we create an effective development plan for our staff that would build a culture of creativity and faith; may we as leaders lead and love our staff well.

• Ask that we would experience intimacy and a renewed zeal in our relationships with Jesus. Military Ministry

• May we be unified in the mission to which we have been called and when people encounter us, we pray they will have encountered the love and compassion of Jesus Christ.

• Cru Military International: Pray for the turbulent situation in the Central Africa Republic (CAR) and that “No harm will befall…” our CAR Military Ministry Director and family. We praise God for divine connections with all three African Area Team Leaders at Cru CSU 2013 and opportunities to join in prayer for the entire African continent. Lift up our ministries to international military members sent to the States for formal military training. Pray for retired military members in Latin America to get involved in continuing to build a spiritual legacy throughout military and police forces. May the Lord spur on movement building throughout Asia, including the Philippines and the Mongolian Centurion Military Ministry staff. Ask for our Romanian director to experience favor and peace to build into the lives of cadets. Pray for an increase of volunteers serving men and women who wear the military, police, fire service, and immigration uniforms around the world.

• Cru Military National: Through our partnership with FamilyLife, they are providing 1,500 scholarships (750 couples) for military personnel to attend any Fall 2013 Weekend to Remember (WTR) nationwide; this includes U.S. active duty, Guard or Reserve, engaged Academy or ROTC cadets and midshipmen, and international military couples on assignments in the U.S. Pray all scholarships will be used, and the Lord will work mightily in the couples who attend. Additionally, we are working with FamilyLife to host “Star” Military Emphasis Getaway events at six WTRs in Oct.-Nov. in high density U.S. military community areas (San Diego/Carlsbad, San Diego/La Jolla, Monterey, Tampa, San Antonio and Williamsburg, VA). Military couples who attend these WTRs are given special recognition, and are provided a military-focused breakout session and an appreciation breakfast. Pray for another significant increase in attendance this year and for follow-up efforts to result in many new Military HomeBuilders small groups.

New Life Resources

• Pray that New Life Resources (NLR), the publishing and materials distribution ministry of Cru, can effectively serve and support the ministries and staff members of Cru, as well as churches and individual Christians with a heart for ministry, by providing resources, tools and strategies needed to accomplish the visions for spiritual movements God has placed on their hearts.

• Pray for development and continued refinement of the public (www.crustore.org) and staff-only (www.crustaffstore.org) websites, making it easy to find and acquire the resources that will enhance the ministries of the staff, churches and individual believers with a heart for ministry.

• May marketing strategies be successful in cultivating relationships, so those NLR serves look to Cru as a key resource for materials to accomplish the ministry God placed on their heart.

SOUTH ASIA AREA Area Team Leader: Jose and Neena Sam Area Leadership Team

• Pray for God’s wisdom and clear guidance as we clarify the goals for 2020 and take steps towards growing the movement to the next stage in our national ministries. Our national leadership teams are coming together in Oct. and Nov. (in two batches) to begin the strategic planning process for the next three-year block (2015-2017). We ask the Lord to open our eyes, stretch our faith and to help us to think outside the box as we begin this process.

• In South Asia, we are focusing on strengthening four foundational elements that we call the Launch Pad for movements: a) Earnest Prayer, b) Motivated People, c) Passion for Holiness, and d) Authentic Community. Pray that all our staff, disciples and ministry teams will be characterized by these qualities.

• Pray that the Lord will help us to make huge progress in our capacity for resource generation, especially in the area of ministry fund development. Some national ministries struggle also in the area of staff support.

NEPAL

• Pray that the new constitution of the country could be drafted on time and an election called quickly after this process. Pray for unity and selflessness among the political leaders, and that they would work for the betterment and common good of the country.

• Pray that the target of evangelizing the 25 unreached, unchurched, unengaged major cluster groups in the country will be reached. Pray for the resources, manpower necessary and God's leading Spirit.

• Pray for the necessary financial resources to establish one well facilitated Christian Retreat Center for prayer, seminars, conferences and other mission activities in the country.

SOUTH WEST INDIA

• Pray for an effective multiplying discipleship ministry in SLM and LLM, where each staff member would be able to develop 10 multiplying disciples in each campus and LLM domain in the current academic year.

• Pray that 20 disciples from our discipleship chain will join the staff this coming year. • Pray for good networking with churches and organizations to reach the unreached campuses

and people groups, in the church planting movement initiative.

SOUTHEAST ASIA AREA Area Team Leader: Chris Uy

Area Leadership Team (ASEO)

• All national leaders to be able to identify what God is laying on their hearts, in relation to our Vision 2020.

• Leadership transitions and successions – Pray that we will be able to identify who God wants to put in leadership positions.

• Pray about ongoing strategic and tactical planning in the countries of the Southeast Asia Area. East Asia School of Theology (EAST) - Singapore International Graduate School of Leadership (IGSL) - Philippines

• Pray that God will raise up more IGSL faculty members to help reach the influential sectors of our society.

• For our students to have an effective strategy in reaching their target area ministry. • Pray that we will be able to acquire the properties that we are eyeing for physical expansion of

the school. PHILIPPINES

• Operation Jabez Media, the year-long emphasis on raising up kingdom builders in the major TV networks and print media (newspaper) companies in the Philippines; pray that the current T4T training among key disciples in this sector will multiply effectively and impact the media and entertainment sectors of our country.

• Two-year cycle MPD started on October 1; pray for enough coaches and volunteers; pray that the preparations of the DMPD team will be done on time; pray that the staff indeed will be able to complete their two-year support needs on time, with abundant contacts for all staff members.

• As each MCC begins to look ahead to the 2020 Vision, pray that God will cause the teams to be strong and healthy; for God to deepen and strengthen the inner lives of our staff; develop the synergy and unity among the MCC's in building movements everywhere in our country.

THAILAND

• Thanks be to God that He has brought about Christian unity in Thailand; please pray for Vision 2015 - to see one million Christians in Thailand. May God provide wisdom for the "Church Everywhere in Thailand" team, in motivating and mobilizing Christians from all denominations. GCM - Pray that multiplying churches would be a reality - multiplying themselves to four generations. Pray for five new churches to be born this year.

• Pray about the iServe Campaign - mobilizing young people to evangelize and do good in their communities; we are asking God for 50,000 young people to join this initiative. SLM - Most students come from other religious backgrounds; pray they would be born again - that they would truly repent and trust Christ. Pray that both our staff and our key students would become movement builders this year.

• LLM - May God strengthen this staff team and may there be more staff members added to it. May they be able to connect with leaders in various occupations and professions.

SOUTHERN & EASTERN AFRICA AREA Area Team Leader: Farai & Chipo Katsande MADAGASCAR

• Praise God for the nine new staff applicants who finished their interviews for joining staff training; pray for all processes and the beginning of Great Commission Training Center in October; and pray as all develop a team of ministry partners who can fully supply their salary and ministry expenses.

• Thank God for the Magdalena premiere showings and the trainers’ training for the “Reflections of Hope” in two provinces, Mahajanga and Antsiranana; pray for recordings of the JESUS film in the Antakarana language November 11-23 and the Ambilobe and Antesaka languages November 26 - December 6.

• Praise God for the first mission last August to open catalytic campuses in Mahajanga; pray for the next mission in November to be effective; pray also for the collaboration with student leaders in each campus, such as Polytechnic of Vontovorona, Ambohipo, Ankatso I and Ankatso II, to develop multiplying disciples.

SOUTH AFRICA

• Thank God for our young interns, and please pray that they will learn and apply DMPD methods for effective support raising. Pray that those who are called to full-time staff will answer the call.

• Pray for an ambitious and wonderful plan (Operation Restoration) to reach and disciple 500,000 people in several areas of Pretoria over the next three years. Pray that this may be one of many catalysts for nationwide movement building.

• Pray that God will show us how to effectively restore the ministry to sound financial health. UGANDA

• Thank God for the successful launch of an LLM core team that will spearhead urban ministry with a focus on workplace ministry amongst the professionals and executives in the city; pray for creativity as we use Walking With Jesus, Magdalena and even the JESUS film for effective follow-up and discipleship of believers, whether on campuses, in churches or amongst professionals.

• May LIFE Ministry Uganda remain a cutting edge movement, effectively helping in accelerating the fulfillment of the Great Commission and societal transformation in Uganda and beyond by taking every opportunity to connect, win, build, train, mobilize and send laborers for eternal harvest.

• LIFE Ministry Uganda, the oldest CCC ministry in Southern and Eastern Africa, as we celebrate 43 years of ministry in Uganda. Ours will be a working celebration, and we shall be joined by Judy Douglas and Betty Adadevoh in the third week of October, ministering to several different audiences from students to professionals.

WEST AFRICA AREA Area Team Leader: Austin and Zchat Okomohwo DMPD

• Praise God for the committed ministry partners that we have. May He prosper their families and work.

• Maintaining ministry partners is the key to sustainable fund development. In view of that pray that staff will be committed to maintaining their ministry partners regularly.

• Pray that each staff member will continue to work towards raising more than their 100% support monthly.

GCM We have no full-time staff in Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe, our Portuguese speaking countries. Dynamic Church Planting International has agreed to partner with our ministry to do church planting training in these countries. Our part is to bring the pastors together for training.

• Cape Verde – The church of the Nazarene, the biggest church in Cape Verde, has agreed to bring their pastors together for church planting training at the end of October. Pray there will be a large turnout and the training will result in a multiplying church planting movement.

• Guinea Bissau – We have been working with a local church denomination and another organization. We would like to have their training just after that of Cape Verde. Pray the Lord will make this possible by giving us a timely decision from the new organization.

• Sao Tome and Principe – May the Lord give us the right contacts so we can open up the country with the church planting training.

Operations

• Pray for internet connectivity and the electricity supply to improve in all the countries within our area, especially Nigeria. Pray that both would be available, stable and affordable. Easy accessibility of the internet and power would help provide the staff with better systems to meet their needs.

• Ask for wisdom, strength, safety and good health for all operational staff in the area. Pray that they understand their roles and commit to serving staff in the best possible ways.

• Ask God to bless the area with more staff members to serve in various roles, especially operations. We have applied to the government for release of an IT graduate to serve with our organization. Pray for a favorable response. May God bless efforts to raise indigenous funds.

SLM

• We are trusting God for about 30 new Catalytic Campuses in our area as a result of Pamoja Africa this financial year, pray that God will make that a reality.

• We have Catalytic trainings scheduled across the area to train and equip these new campuses; pray for the success and resources needed.

• Pray for resources and success of the Campus Directors training in Ghana and Nigeria, pray that the training will equip our directors.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

• Praise God for the success of the JFMT project just completed in Equatorial Guinea and the MC2 training done. Ten shows were done and six pastors completed the training.

THE GAMBIA

• We continually thank God for the open door He has granted us here in the Gambia to share Christ. Though the country is primarily another religion, the constitution guarantees freedom of religion and we can therefore share Christ freely.

• Pray for the sucess of "Let's GO 360". Just as a circle has 360 degrees, we are trusting God to establish 360 CMDS (community of multiplying disciples) and, in effect cover the entire Gambia for Christ; pray for manpower, partnership, volunteer workers and staff.

• Pray that indigenous leadership will multiply exponentially and that an indigenous National Team Leader will be in place prior to 2020.

GHANA

• In Ghana we have experienced God's steady process of building a strong National Leadership Team which is united, strong, focused and committed. Praise God for the high team spirit and great sense of commitment.

• As a follow-up to the Pamoja III, we are having a national students and young professionals conference, December 28 - January 2, dubbed "FireSeeds Conference." The focus is to recruit laborers for full-time service, Go North Projects and Volunteering, then send participants as FireSeeds of evangelism and discipleship across the campuses in the country. We are trusting God for 500 participants. Please pray for preparation, mobilization and a fruitful conference; for participants to be able to raise the required amount of funds in order to attend (each is expected to pay $30); and for the Lord to us raise $25,000 to subsidize the cost of the conference by directing us to donors whose hearts He has prepared to give towards the conference.

• GCM in Kumasi is connecting with parent churches we have worked with to plant daughter (first generation) churches to envision them with the new church multiplication training (MC2); pray the Lord will open doors in these 56 churches in order for us to develop model ministries of church multiplication and reproduction.

LIBERIA

• Praise God for a successful national conference for university students, called Legacy; several students from the United Methodist University, University of Liberia, Cuttington and Stella Marie Universities have all started small groups across their campuses. The Campus Ministry is in desperate need of a 15 seat bus. The only van we have used over the years is completely down; please pray that God provides (USD)$40,000 to purchase and register a new bus to enhance special student projects to villages across the country.

• The Global Church Ministry (GCM) was able to hand out 510 DVDs during the end of Ramadan. One senior member who received one of the disks has asked the GCM team to project the JESUS film to VIPs of their faith community, whom he has invited. Please pray that Jesus Christ will reveal Himself to them and prepare their hearts to receive Him.

• The Executive Ministry has highly placed Christians in the Liberian Government. Pray that their honesty and commitment to their faith will attract their colleagues to fully receive Jesus Christ into their lives.

NIGERIA

• Praise God for a time of respite from insurgencies in Nigeria, although lately there were some hues and cries again. Please pray that afflictions will not rise up again the second time. Pray that the perpetrators of terror will be checked permanently and for safety of lives and property as people go about their normal lives, especially in the northern part of the country.

• Praise God for the just concluded IBS/ILS and women's meeting in Nigeria. The events made us spend time together at very close range. Pray that these events will result in solid relationships among the staff and a stronger grip of other dynamics for team effectiveness, so that our dream for abiding and multiplying spiritual movements across the country will be realized.

• It is common practice in a part of Nigeria to have adult children build their homes near the patriarch. Such a community of 78 people of the same family was located in the ongoing Kano Project, and a church was planted for them. Pray that the church community will grow in their faith so much that they will be able to stand for the Lord and shine as light in the midst of their unbelieving neighbors. Pray that more people will come to faith in that community.

WESTERN EUROPE AREA (Agapé Europe) Area Team Leader: Javier and Gema Garcia SLM

• 17 Oct - Pray for the student leaders in Leuven, Belgium.; they are a great example of a catalytic movement, where there is no constant staff presence; pray that they will lead well the fledgling movements.

• 28 Oct - Pray for Norway, Iceland and Denmark, that catalytic student-led movements will be launched this year.

AUSTRIA

• Austria urgently needs one or two people taking care of the evangelistic Gottkennen.at website. Pray we find someone; praise God for two enthusiastic young Christian students that have been accepted to work with the Salzburg student ministry and pray for their MPD.

• Pray for the Campuslive workers in Salzburg to come to and stay close to the heart of God in all preparations, so that they might recognize God´s plans for the beginning term.

• 25-27 Oct: Pray for a refreshing time as the Austrians gather for their fall staff retreat. CYPRUS

• Pray for the organization of a women’s conference with the green party in Cyprus taking place 24 November; pray for Des on the committee as she shares her ideas.

• Pray for ministry partners to be found so that ministry can continue. • 19-20 October, we will have the Family Life Conference - the first big event since the big

financial crisis started in Cyprus; pray this will be of help and encouragement to the people. ESTONIA

• Pray that the student ministry will grow in Tallinn and that students would take responsibility and ownership to start and build movements on the university campuses.

• Pray that Estonians would open up their hearts to God and trust Him and God would protect Estonian families and marriages; pray that the Estonian government would keep the law that says marriage is between one husband and one wife; and pray for revival!

• May the Agape team be unified and seek Him first. FINLAND

• A number of our staff will be retiring this or next year; pray we find those the Lord has called to this ministry to replace the ones retiring.

• Pray for understanding and wisdom in plans for the next couple of years – for clear vision, direction, courage and creativity from the Lord.

• Pray for our ministry in the bigger cities (Helsinki, Turku, Tampere) as those responsible for the work are seeking new ways to reach out, organize the work and build teams.

FRANCE

• Pray for preparation for the Campus and AIA project to Burkina Faso, October 19; may God cause the 10 French interns serving here and around the world to be part of raising up French-led, multi-national movements that are a blessing to the nations.

• Pray for follow-up from the 27-29 September event in Paris "Protestant en Fete," (A Protestant Celebration); the French volunteer-led ministry of Crescendo, working among professional classical and jazz musicians, organized the concert for 10,000 people, and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate Leymah Gbowee spoke to students; this unique event was held in Paris and brought together more than 20,000 people; a team of artists for Agape France unveiled their newest art exposition, "The Folly of Hope;" pray for the Paris artists attending the International Arts Movement conference, 4-6 October; pray for the work of Crescendo Student in Paris. Pray for the newest book in France, Stand Up, Dream and Commit Yourself: From Anger to Action with Martin Luther King (rough translation of S'Indigner, Rever et S'engager). The book, edited by staff member Dr. Jean-Claude Girondin, calls the French-speaking people to stand up for righteousness, to stand up for justice and to stand up for peace, whatever the cost.

• Pray that those who courageously serve Agape France in our administrative offices and on our technology team would remain bold and confident in all that God calls them to do.

GERMANY

• Pray for the many GAiN Germany projects - for protection and good health of the teams, for protection on all the truck routes and shipping, for staff developing their MPD, and for new staff to fill some needs of various projects.

• Two new young people joined the internet and film ministry; pray for successful MPD and for a powerful ministry.

• Pray for more people to staff a nine-month discipleship school in Hamburg. This discipleship training is also taking place in Berlin and Dresden. Pray that sufficient people will register and meet the challenge of a nine-month commitment.

GREECE

• Pray for a fund raising training in October with two weeks focused on finding new supporters for each staff member and for the ministry too; pray for the presence of the Lord, faith, encouragement and wisdom.

• Pray for the new teams of Stinters in Athens and Ioannina, that they will adjust well in Greece and for connections to be made with students reached by the previous teams.

• Praise God for the first Greek SLM meeting of staff and Stinters that took place the end of September. It was inspiring and encouraging for the new Stinters and helped build a common vision for SLMs in Greece.

IRELAND

• Pray for the development of public relations for the Irish ministry—via public speaking, news media and re-vamping of its website.

• Oct. 25 - Irish student surfing weekend in Lahinch, designed for a mixture of believers and unbelievers; ask God to work in each heart.

• David Wilson, National Director, Ireland, is in great need of a really good personal assistant—the sooner the better!

ITALY

• Praise the Lord for new Italian staff members joining us; pray the Lord would provide their financial support quickly and more young Italians would commit to serving the Lord full-time.

• Many of our teams and cities have had major changes in personnel this fall; pray for peace in the transitions and stronger teams with those that remain.

LATVIA

• Pray for the sports ministry conference that will be in Latvia October 25-27. • Pray for new student leaders who would not be afraid to take up responsibility, would be

faithful, available, teachable and above all who would have a heart for the sharing the gospel. • Pray for the university "Turība", where we have open doors for the gospel message, and that

God would show us the way He wants us to work; pray for new inspiration for our Agape student ministry – may God prepare hearts for the new semester of opportunities to serve Him.

LITHUANIA

• Pray that God brings spiritually hungry students into contact with our student leaders; pray also that we meet new Christian students on our campuses.

• Pray for our young campus team, that God would build them into a mighty team and use them to build a spiritual movement across campuses in the country.

• Pray for full support for each of our staff members. NETHERLANDS

• Pray for the different missional communities of students that are forming on various universities in the Netherlands. Specifically pray for the re-launch of a missional student community in Amsterdam. On October 10 we will have two important meetings, and we pray students will come and be inspired to be part of this missional student community.

• AiA NL is helping churches in Brazil develop sports ministries and leaders in different cities in preparation for the World Soccer Championships in 2017. Pray the training will be well received.

• Designjeleven (Design your life) is a project of FamilyLife specially for women. Pray for the launching of its website but also for an appropriate team leader for the project; Pray for the new development plans being worked out for the FamilyLife Rotterdam team. Pray that they will have a clear vision on how they can better reach their community.

PORTUGAL

• We are starting the ministry in Lisbon this fall; pray for God to lead us to Christian students around the city, from among about 150,000 students and more than 20 universities; ask God to raise up student leaders for Agape Campus Porto.

• Pray for the High School ministry in Lisbon and Porto, for God to open doors for us to be able to get into schools.

• Pray for God to refresh, encourage and meet with our National Directors, Jose and Marta Pinto during their Sabbatical time, and for the operations and staff team as we will miss them and their contributions and them during this time.

SPAIN

• We have several MPD training courses October 4,8,9-10 in Barcelona and Malaga. Pray that everybody learns well and results in full support.

• Pray for our children as they begin a new school year with new teachers and new mates. Pray for their physical and spiritual growth and to make good decisions.

SWEDEN

• Pray that God will provide a visa solution for SLM Stinters assigned to Sweden so that visas will not hinder their coming or staying in Sweden.

• Pray that the plan of distributing 400,000 copies of the children’s JESUS film to homes with children would become a reality in 2014.

SWITZERLAND

• The student ministry so far has not been successful in finding new staff members; pray that we will soon find the right people so we can move forward at full strength.

• National Women’s Day is being celebrated 26 October in Lucerne. Pray for a deep longing in the hearts of women from all over Switzerland to know Jesus and grow in faith.

• Every three years we have a retreat for all our staff members serving abroad; pray for all those travelling (many with children) to come to the retreat that they will find rest. Pray for the many last preparations for several international and national meetings with global leaders and local ministry friends happening for the leadership change November 2.

UNITED KINGDOM

• Pray that the UK’s FamilyLife ministry would continue to see fruit from their ‘a day together’ workshops as they teach Biblical principles for relationships to both Christians and non-Christians.

• Pray for the London Lab, 23-27 October, where people will be joining together in London from across Europe to discuss how we can reach cities with the gospel. Pray that this would be an exciting time led by the Holy Spirit.

• Pray for the Agapé Student Life teams at the start of the academic term. Ask God to lead them to spiritually open students who want to find out more about Jesus, and to Christian students who are passionate about sharing their faith.