May 16 : Bhutanese Believe. For several years, you have been praying for more than 60,000 Bhutanese refugees who were being relocated to the United States and Canada. A new group recently arrived in Virginia. At the home of one refugee family, American and international Christians began sharing chronological Bible storying with a group of the refugees. The week before Easter, this group watched the “JESUS” film together. Afterwards, a South Asian believer led them in a discussion of the movie. At least five of the refugees indicated that they were ready to receive Christ as their Savior, and they prayed to do so at the end of the evening. Praise God for their salvation! Praise Him for those who reached out in love to share the Gospel! Pray that these new brothers and sisters will pursue discipleship and receive training in how to live this new life they have been given.

May 17 : Restaurant “Satsang.” Mr. B is one of 450,000 South Asians living in a major city in Canada. Born into a Christian family in India, he worked in several countries before immigrating to Canada. Mrs. M, a Hindu woman who also had immigrated years before, helped Mr. B get a job. Mrs. M eventually came to faith in Christ through the testimony and many urgings of Mr. B. Later they decided to open an Indian restaurant together, which was very hard for just the two of them. Mr. B decided that it was time to find a wife, an Indian Christian woman. The church prayed for him as he left for India, and he came back engaged! Later he returned to India for the wedding and to start the application process for his wife to immigrate. Again the Lord answered prayers for his wife, and she is now with him – a great helpmeet indeed! In February of this year, a weekly Bible study was begun in their restaurant. It is called a “satsang,” meaning “assembly for learning truth.” Please pray that the Holy Spirit will bring many other South Asians to the “satsang” to learn the truth about following Jesus as the Way, the Truth and the Life.

May 18 : Creative Outreach. Pray for more women to come to Christ in Pakistan. Especially pray for those families that already have a husband or brother who has come to Christ, asking that those believers will be able to give an answer for the hope they have in Christ with gentleness and reverence. Pray for creative outreaches to women without access to the Good News. Ask that crafts and songs will be used by many women to teach others and that women will respond to the Gospel. Also, please pray for the completion of discipleship materials.

May 19 : “After God’s Own Heart.” Workers recently learned of a village hostel housing 23 boys, ages 8 through 16. These boys come from extremely poor Christian families living many miles from the hostel. Families pay a minimal amount for their son’s housing and education. Supporting funds have been abused, leaving little money for food, education and daily necessities. A Christian family and a “gatekeeper” have been overseeing the children. Cooking is done by the children themselves; however, the shelves were found recently to be almost empty, with hardly enough food for a day or two of meals. There is barely enough money for the boys to continue schooling. World Hunger funds have been procured to provide food. Representatives have begun coming to give encouragement and Christian teaching and discipleship to the boys. The boys have been leading their own worship services – selecting songs, praying together, and reading the Word to one another. Pray for the representatives engaging in this ministry to be catalysts leading to the spiritual growth and maturing of this future generation of Punjabi Christian men. Pray that they will grow into men after God’s own heart.

May 20 : Salt & Light. “Please continue to pray for the development of our agricultural model site. Last month, volunteers from the United States visited to assist with the site and share advice on how to make improvements. Please lift up the Christian community where this model site is built. A national partner reports that many villages around this community are open to the Good News of Jesus but are turned off by the way the Christians live. Pray that the church in this community will truly be salt and light to those around them. Pray that they will catch God’s vision and heart for their neighbors in surrounding communities to be reconciled to Him.”

May 21 : All For Him. “V and Friends”… this is a group of five recent D Muslim-background believers along with V, a Christian evangelist. For the last eight months, they have consistently pursued their family and friends with the Gospel, spreading across multiple cities, towns and counties. Recently, while traveling back from visiting two families who had professed faith in Jesus, their car was stopped and vandalized. God spared their lives, yet they were traumatized by the experience. Several leaders from the community they were driving through had led some troublemakers to break their windows and slash their tires. Please pray that God will continue to deepen their faith in and obedience to Jesus, that they will be comforted by the Holy Spirit, and that they will receive God’s anointing to continue being so bold.

May 22 : Deep Roots. Jat Pastor S and a few of his friends met recently to pray together and seek God’s will for the work among the Jat Sikhs. They really felt that God was showing them the need for depth in the work. In other words, they want to focus on discipleship and mentoring. S has said that the work “seems to be a mile wide but only an inch deep.” New Jat believers need to learn how to live in obedience to the commands of our Lord Jesus. Pray for S and others working among the Jat Sikhs as they try to go deeper with the new believers. Pray that each new believer will be deeply rooted and anchored in Christ.