November 15 : Break Down Barriers. DS lives in northeast India. He is a schoolteacher by profession and a graduate of our Leadership Equipping and Development (LEAD) program. He has a heart to follow Paul’s 2 Timothy 2:2 principle of training others who will, in turn, train still others. He faithfully holds training seminars in nearby villages as well as in his own church—without financial backing, and basically without the encouragement of his church or convention. DS is burdened because the churches have become satisfied with ritual, and there is no emphasis on Bible study beyond the Sunday morning service. He sees the young people leaving the church because it is not offering them what they need. He asks you to pray that barriers will be broken in these churches, and that the leaders will see the need for Bible studies that will bring about spiritual growth. Pray for DS and his family, asking that they will not grow discouraged.

November 16 : Student to Teacher. A Christian college student has been sharing the Gospel with her teacher during her private tutoring lessons. The student’s husband serves fulltime among the Bihari Muslims in Bangladesh. Through God’s orchestration, the only other student in her class is one of the few educated Bihari young men who live in their neighborhood. Initially A. was quite opposed to talking about religion during class time. He also denied that his identity was Bihari. As the students became better acquainted, A. began to visit the Christian student and her husband in their home regularly and opened his mind to talk about Isa (Jesus). Please pray that the student’s husband can continue to build a relationship with A. Pray that God will give A. a deep hunger for His Word, and that A. will soon place his faith fully in Isa as Savior.

November 17 :  Remove the Veil. Cross-cultural workers in Bangladesh ask: “Please pray that as we share God’s Word, those who are seeking will have their eyes opened to the truth and the veil removed by the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 3:14-16), and those who have found the Treasure will invest time in learning, growing and sharing with others (Matthew 13:44-46).”

November 18 : Health Lessons Spread Truth. A cross-cultural worker in Pakistan writes, “A series of trainings took place at the end of September for national partners on how to make and teach simple health lessons in rural areas. It is very difficult for outsiders to access these areas. Pray that the health lessons will be well received and will help improve the people’s physical needs and, at the same time, be an open door for the Truth to come into homes. Our hope is to meet spiritual needs as well as physical needs through health lessons.”

November 19 : Punjabi Student Discipleship. Many Punjabis attend colleges and universities in Lahore, a mega city in the heart of the Punjab. More than 4,200 students study at a Christian college in Lahore, and 700 of these are from a Christian background. Cross-cultural workers are seeking to engage students on this campus through discipleship programs and other opportunities. They write: “Please pray for these opportunities as we build relationships on campus with Punjabi students. Ask God to strengthen the small minority of Christians in order that He will be made known and received by all on this campus.”

November 20 : Young man: God’s Answer to Prayer. You have prayed for two separate requests, and God has answered them both in one young man, N. In March you prayed for the youth group meeting in the home of international Christians, asking that having learned how to share the Gospel, they would “overcome any fears that may keep them from living out loud the Gospel of Christ.” Then in July of this year, you prayed for the thousands of refugees who now make a government displacement camp in either the north or the east their home. You were asked specifically to pray “for those who will be allowed to go in as aid workers” and to pray that “believers will be among that number and will share the love of Christ with people in what has been dubbed a ‘humanitarian catastrophe.’” N, a former youth, has overcome the fear and is living out loud the Gospel of Christ in one of those camps. Pray for N, who speaks both Sinhala and English, but who now finds himself amid Tamil speakers and doesn’t have the language to communicate. Pray that God will pour out grace in abundance (2 Corinthians 9:8) so that N will have everything he needs to do every good work. Pray that this experience will challenge N, as he looks toward the future, to see his people as God sees them: lost and in need of a Savior. May his heart so break that he is willing to give up his plans to follow God’s plans.

November 21 : Households for Christ: Please ask God to call out a variety of laborers from many nationalities and with various giftings to reach this diverse and spread-out population. Pray that God will provide any training these laborers might need—language lessons, church-planting skills or professional training—to help them gain access to Muslim communities. Call upon God to give a unified vision and strategy for reaching the Muslims of Karnataka. Pray that as Karnataka Muslims come to faith, entire households will come to Christ. In situations in which an individual comes to Christ, beg for favor in the Muslim community and for many opportunities for bold witness.