Through prayer and partnership, the Lord has opened up two sovereign doors to impact and affect the nation of Japan. We\'re excited to share these with you today! Watch the video to learn more and to get involved.

\"We\'re believing, by the power of prayer, this wall will come down, and Japan will be saved and brought home to the Father.\"

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Pray for national prayer walking mobilization and the teams serving it across Japan.

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Send a life-giving scripture or word of encouragement to our Japanese friends. You can email your messages to info@seapc.org for us to deliver.

Greetings from Africa! We are so excited about what God is doing in Africa since March when many of us first connected at Friends Around the Table in South Africa. There has been such an incredible call to friendship and partnering for Kingdom advancement through prayer.

Our Africa team has been meeting every alternate Monday evening to share, testify, and pray into strategic plans, relationships, and areas of ministry and God has shown Himself strong. We are experiencing a greater unity and momentum in just over 2 1/2 months, this is a testament to God connections.

Our Africa publishing project has translated the Prayer Guide into several African languages, including French, Chewa, Runyankore-Rukiga, Chichewa, and Swahili.

We have supported prayers in Cameroon, led by our Brother Georges, at Parliament buildings and commitments to regular prayer walks by the team that’s being raised up there. The plan is for monthly prayer walks as well as a major prayer walk in November where they are trusting 1,000 people to take part.

We have seen many deliverance crusades in Zambia with our brothers Albert and Joe, with many hundreds on souls being won for Christ. We are also planning a three-day crusade in May 2023 where we will do leadership development and church planting seminars during the day and revival crusades during the evening.

We are trusting with our brother Henry for a halfway house for prisoners to be built where they can be rehabilitated and upskilled. This is needed in the community and we know God has already gone before to prepare the way. 

Church planting continues in Uganda through Pastors Elisha and Junior, and we are trusting that another church will be rolled out before the end of July. We are also seeing ministry trips taken through Pastor David, in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania.

As you can see, the Lord is moving mightily in Africa, and we thank you for continued prayers!

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Pray for the distribution of the prayer walking guide (now in five African languages) throughout the continent.

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Give toward the printing and distribution of prayer walking guides throughout Africa. Click here to give now.

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Go to one of the nations of Africa to assist our friends in ministry. Email us at missions@seapc.org to get started.

When I hear the testimonies of God’s faithfulness through the last 30 years, I am so humbled to be a part of the global community of friends here at SEAPC. I remember the day that I met Mark Geppert nearly 20 years ago and the encouragement that flooded my heart as I heard the stories of what God was doing across Cambodia, Indonesia, China, and Guatemala. As a young church planter, these testimonies were like fuel for our journey.

Both my wife, Adriane, and I had grown up with a heart for missions. I have to admit that I felt a little gipped when I sensed the Lord asking me if I would be willing to view the United States as a mission field. That didn’t seem nearly as exciting as going to some faraway place where people had never heard the name of Jesus. When I had given God my ‘Here am I, send me,’ I definitely expected something different.

But God had been clear. After seven years serving a local church in the Bible-belt, we sensed God calling us to a small town outside of Pittsburgh to “be and do church for people who would never go through the doors of a church.” We sensed that this was what seeing the U.S. as a mission field looked like for us in that season.

I wept as I listened to Mark share stories of lives changed in the underground church of China, and God’s promise to raise up a generation out of the killing fields of Cambodia. God, what would it look like to see these stories happen here across the United States? While I wasn’t sure of what it would look like, I was convinced afresh that the power of the good news of Jesus was spreading, transforming lives, and changing nations.

Through the years, our understanding of what it means to engage the United States as a mission field has continued to grow and evolve. We are grateful to God for the small part that He has allowed us to play in discipling, equipping, and sending out young leaders to impact every sphere of society for the glory of God. It was especially humbling when our friend, Matt Geppert, invited us to join the team at SEAPC to help serve the vision of engaging the United States as a mission field.

For years, we had carried a vision of mobilizing everyday followers of Jesus in giving themselves to prayer and to living out the gospel in their own communities, believing that as we did that, many would be called to cities across the nation and beyond. In 2005, we began carrying a vision to see sending communities that would function as regional hubs established in strategic cities across the nation. As I met and prayed with Matt and with other leaders from the SEAPC team, I was astounded by the way that what we had been carrying in our hearts for the U.S. seemed to be in alignment for what the team was believing to see happening across the earth.

Partnering with the YES!

One of the most important things that I have learned from being a part of a team that has witnessed miraculous moves of God around the earth, is that it is better to be a small part of a big thing than a big part of a small thing. Practically, this has meant asking the Lord to show us what our portion is as a team. One way that we have done this is by connecting with some of the strategic partners our team has worked with in the nations and listening to them about what they are sensing in the U.S.

It was in one of those conversations with our friends at Every Home for Christ that I felt the Lord shining His light, and bringing clarity to how we could serve what He was doing across our nation. In our conversations, both Scott Middlebrook and David Schaal shared about the need for God’s people to be empowered to share the good news of God’s love with their family, friends, and neighbors. Their research showed that 74 percent of the believers they surveyed prayed at least once a month for opportunities to share their faith, with 40 percent saying that they prayed that prayer on a daily basis. Yet in that same group, only 15 percent felt confident and free to share their faith with obstacles hindering them.

Their team had been working hard to create resources for local pastors and church leaders to deal with the most common barriers that people faced in sharing their faith that had come up in their research. As I listened to these friends, I felt sad that so many believers reported these roadblocks, but there was also really positive news in the research. I was encouraged that so many believers reported wanting to be a part of sharing the good news. Could it be that part of what God was leading our team to focus on partnering with the YES in the hearts of His people to multiply workers for His great harvest?

Another thing that we learned from our friends at EveryHome USA was that many of the people who were surveyed were already consistently praying for opportunities to share the gospel. As a prayer ministry, we began to seek the Lord for ways that we could meet these believers where they were in prayer, and serve and equip them to be ready and confident to engage the world around them with the good news of God’s love. As we prayed, we became even more convinced of the need to multiply our prayer walking trainings, and continue to make The Attack Lambs resources available to as many people as we could.

Focused Next Steps

Over the past several months, our team has been praying and working through a strategy that allows us to connect, serve, and mobilize the existing relationships that God has entrusted to us. One way that we have started putting this in practice is by partnering with EveryHome USA by inviting them to bring their Revive Mission Collective initiative to Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. David Schaal shared with pastors in Pittsburgh, Youngstown, and Grove City about how testimonies of simple stories from the life of Jesus are one of the most effective ways to empower people to overcome the roadblocks that keep them from sharing their faith. The pastors then received training resources to take back to their churches to begin mobilizing people to spread the gospel.

Our team was able to reach out to many of those leaders and invite them to connect with each other for a follow-up conversation about how to implement what they had learned. They also took time to get to know one another and pray for each other. Real gospel partnerships are forming around the table of friendship.

After the round table, we found a hunger among the leaders to see their people equipped. A local pastor was willing to host a regional prayer walking training where at least 75 people from 10 different churches came together for a weekend of learning and practicing this simple prayer and mission strategy. There have already been reports of how the gospel is spreading and people are coming to Jesus and being baptized. Other churches are now planning community prayer walks and are wanting to make the training available for believers in their communities.

As I think about what it looks like to engage the United States as a mission field, my heart is confident that God is working and that He is multiplying workers for His harvest here. From coast to coast, people are reaching out with a hunger to be equipped to co-operate in seeing the good news spread.

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If you have a YES in your heart to see the good news of Jesus, would you join with us as we go, pray, and engage our communities with God’s love? Go to prayamericas.com to be a part of the 40 Days of United Prayer this summer, and to learn about prayer walking trainings and resources.

At the end of 2019, we heard the news about a virus starting to spread, and then, months later, the pandemic hit, forcing many to go into their homes and distance themselves from others to ensure health and safety. As a missionary who travels quite often, I asked God, “What is going on, and where is my place at this time?” I sensed Him saying, “Focus on community and friendship.” 

But how could I be a part of the body and fellowship with the community without being physically present? Matthew 18:19-20 came to mind: 

“Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. Where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

I kept thinking, “For where two or three gather in my name, there I am with them.” 

I knew that this was an invitation to pray for the nations; the cogs in my mind started turning as I thought about ways I could do this and grow friendships along the journey. I began by emailing our international friends and missionaries living in foreign countries and praying for them as they would send requests. This was a good first step, but I was still praying by myself, and the invitation of Matthew 18:20 was to pray together. 

Then, when I started working with SEAPC in 2021, the team decided to initiate weekly and bi-weekly prayer video calls with SEAPC’s friends in the nations… and I was chosen as the point person. My heart jumped at the prospect! I started with just four nations a week, each so different from the other. As we continued to connect, I felt friendships beginning to grow. The calls became one of my daily joys, and, praise God, testimonies began to unfold with them. 

One of my calls was with a gentleman named Chung Nung. He and his wife, Dim, are some of the most grateful people in the world and are house-parents to 173 kids in Yangon, Myanmar. I met Chung Nung briefly at a Friends Around the Table gathering but had never had the chance to talk to him intentionally. On one of our prayer calls, Chung Nung asked if we could pray for his high blood pressure. He began to explain the difficulties he and many people in Myanmar were experiencing due to the civil war in his country, which is ongoing to this day.

As we began to pray, I remembered Matthew 18:20, believed that Jesus was indeed with us, and imagined Him touching Chung Nung’s heart. We ended the prayer with joy and said goodbye. The following week, when we video called again, he greeted me with his usual big smile and shared, “Mercy, I have a praise: I no longer struggle with high blood pressure!” He informed me that he felt better and believed God had healed him as soon as we finished the previous week’s prayer call. He kept track of his blood pressure for the rest of the week, and it was perfectly normal! He didn’t have to rely on his medication. We were both amazed and felt our faith level rising as we praised God. That day, we went on to pray for peace and protection over the children, and a week after that, Chung Nung marveled that they had felt a supernatural bubble of protection and peace over the whole campus, even as war raged around them. 

For the past nine months, Chung Nung and I have met every Friday morning to praise God for the many blessings He has brought and pray for more of His glory to reveal itself to the nations. I have truly seen power and friendship through gathering together like this in agreement and unity in Jesus’ name. He is truly with us and will never forsake us.

I now talk to nine countries a week on video calls, email countless others, and I have been privileged to hear many testimonies from our friends in the nations: kids walking out of wheelchairs, people healed of tuberculosis, others of covid-19, financial provision, people coming to Christ, and many getting baptized. These reports have come not just from Myanmar but Brazil, the UK, PRC, and plenty more.

Prayer can be a challenging invitation, especially when you don’t hear testimonies reported back, but I have confidence that whenever we gather as friends to pray, Jesus is with us. We get to experience life with each other and fellowship with Jesus, no matter what. 

Friends, I challenge you to think and pray about Matthew 18:19-20 and what those verses might mean for you. If they speak to you, I encourage you to find one or two people who will commit to praying together weekly, whether in person, on a video call, or by phone. There is wonder-working power in gathering in Jesus’s name. 

As we approach our annual 40-day prayer walking initiative, we want to invite you to learn more about the heart behind Pray Americas and how to implement this as an ongoing lifestyle of prayer and missions!

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Pray for right connections as we serve relationships to mobilize 200 new communities to go, pray, and engage during this summer\'s 40-day initiative.

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Please consider a one-time gift of $250 to help us develop prayer resources, send out teams, and mobilize people to walk and pray in their communities. Click here to give now.

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Join us for 40 Days of United Prayer this summer from June 15 through July 25 by signing up at prayamericas.com.

“Jesus said ‘Go.’ Obedience releases anointing. Anointing breaks the yoke of bondage. The glory is the Lord’s. It\'s a very simple thing.\" - Mark Geppert

At SEAPC, we have witnessed lives and nations being changed through prayer. Watch the video to learn more about what it means to engage in a lifestyle of prayer and missions.

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Please pray for the multiplication of leaders who will serve and equip more everyday followers of Jesus into a lifestyle of prayer and missions.

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Would you give a one-time gift of $250 to partner with friends in Central America, Brazil, West Africa, and throughout Asia to create and distribute prayer walking resources and mobilize God’s people? Click here to give now.

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Be committed to regularly prayer walk in your own community. Go to prayamericas.com/training to access online resources and prayer walking training in the U.S.

There’s no doubt that God watches over each of us and has a plan for our lives. He orchestrates events and places people in our path for specific times and purposes. Sometimes we can’t see how God is working in our lives, and other times the hand of God is so evidently upon us that it leaves us in awe of His sovereignty and kindness.

In early June of 2012, two women approached the Charity Children’s Home entrance in Yangon, Myanmar. Along with them was a young boy, age unknown, born with Down syndrome. These two women were looking for someone to care for the boy because they couldn’t meet his needs and give him the medical care he required.

The staff at the children’s home saw the desperation in the women, but they didn’t feel confident that they could care for the boy either. The kind of medical care he needed was something they weren’t familiar with, and although there is a school for children with Down syndrome, it was far away and relatively expensive.

The staff turned the women away that day.

Later that same evening, the staff heard someone crying near the gate entrance of the home. They found the boy that had been with the women just hours before, standing alone crying. The staff knew nothing about him. They didn’t know his name, age, or where he was born. They welcomed him in, knowing that God had brought him to the children’s home for a reason. They lovingly and appropriately named him Moses. That day was June 2, 2012.

Since Moses couldn’t attend the regular school and the school for children with Down syndrome was too expensive, the Charity Children’s Home staff have been faithful to work with him and teach him. They’ve brought in specially-trained tutors to work with him on his speech and have taught him basic skills.

He can now speak, and he understands the Burmese language as well. He has learned how to take care of himself and has become quite the helper around the home. He has accepted Jesus into this heart, and he loves to worship and sing songs.

While Moses’ life has been anything but easy, the hand of God has been so evident in his life. God knew that the women taking care of Moses couldn’t provide what he needed, so He led them to Charity Children’s Home. And while his story is heartbreaking, it’s also full of so much hope.

Through the work of the staff at the children’s home, the prayers from his sponsors of almost ten years, and the sovereign plan of God, Moses’ life is evidence that God is faithful. In the same way that we see God working through the life of Moses in the Bible, from the time his mother placed him in the basket until the day he died, God put people in his life and orchestrated events for a specific purpose and used each one of them to lead Moses to Himself.

When we allow God to work through us, whether through our time, money, or prayers, we can’t fully grasp all the ways He will work.

When you sponsor an orphaned, abandoned, or at-risk child, it’s far more than sending $50 a month. It’s allowing God to use you, the finances He’s blessed you with, and your prayers to change a child’s life. To bring them hope and a brighter future. Your sponsorship can forever change the trajectory of a child’s life in ways that only God can see. Your generous giving is such a blessing.

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Pray for the orphaned, abandoned, and at-risk children that Raising Kids serves. Pray for their health, safety, education, and that they would come to know Jesus.

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Consider sponsoring a child in need for $50 a month. Your sponsorship supports the monthly food, education, medical, and clothing needs for your child.

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Email erin@seapc.org to host a Bridging Homes event, to get connected with a children\'s home!

Firstly, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to every one of you who prayed for Myanmar. Especially in such a time like this, we truly need your prayers, and we treasured them so much. After seeing all the good results from your prayers, I am confident to assure you that our mighty God heard your prayers, and we have been blessed so much because of them.

When the Delta wave of Covid-19 happened in Myanmar, four members of my household, three in my father-in-law Pastor James family, all of the Charity Childrens Home staff (except one), and 73 kids in our childrens home were infected and got ill. But we all got healed wonderfully, and none died. Gods miraculous healing power was clearly shown upon our Charity Childrens Home family because people like you are praying for us.

We are now under politically chaotic conditions, and many shootings and bomb blasts are happening almost every day everywhere in the country. As government schools are reopening after the third wave of Covid-19, one of our most difficult decision was whether to send our kids back to school or not due to the current circumstances. But we finally decided to send them back to school. Because they have been out of school for so long and if we delay sending them too long, their names could be marked with red ink, which means the school may never accept them. Today, they regularly attend their classes and are safe due to your prayers.

Many people, especially youth, are being arrested due to their expression of political-related stuff on Facebook. God is even protecting us from all those troubles and keeping us safe.

Myanmar is already known as one of the poorest countries around the world. It now has so many problems in its political and economic systems, which worsen its poverty issue. Many people are suffering without access to food, and theres been an increased rate of beggars and prostitutes on the street. Our children eat good quality rice and enjoy their delicious meals every day.

It could not happen without your prayers and financial support. Gods provision comes along with your prayers!

As we see the pressing situation to help so many people around us due to the civil war, we have also have prayed a lot to our God, who is our provider, and asked you to pray as well. The results have shown that we can now help out hundreds and thousands of families and people with the help of some very kindhearted friends from Hong Kong. Thank you very much for joining your hands and hearts with us in prayers. It is truly powerful.

As many of you may know, I have requested prayer for my home, which had to be demolished and removed from its land due to the necessary expansion of a main road through the city. Thanks to all who prayed for my house, only half had to be demolished, and the other half was safe. Many house owners lost their entire homes. I felt truly bad for them, but we are so thankful to God for the remaining half of my house. Praise the Lord! Again, thank you very much for taking your precious time in prayer for us. We genuinely appreciate it.

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“People say miracles don’t happen anymore.” Pastor Hector Zetino chuckled. “But you know what Pastor Mark says. ‘If you don’t go, you never know.’”

Hector is the embodiment of one who has taken that admonition to heart as he ministers to at-risk youth in Guatemala City’s most dangerous neighborhoods. ASOFE, the program he began with a handful of kids, is growing. Young people are learning that they are children of the King. And as such, they are set apart to serve God, to serve one another, and to serve their community. Friends in Mexico and El Salvador have taken notice; ASOFE may soon be in those nations as well.

The one thing Hector doesn’t see in himself is the gift of prophecy. He hears God speak but is very careful about sharing what he perceives. But recently, Jeff, a prophetic visitor from Dallas, met with him in Guatemala.

One evening Jeff said to Hector, “We are going to pray for each other and prophesy to each other.”

Hector’s response, “I’m not prophetic,” elicited this from Jeff: “Yes, you are.”

And so they prayed. While they were in prayer, Hector saw a picture for the briefest of seconds before it fractured into pieces in front of his mind’s eye. But those seconds indelibly recorded the images in minute detail.

“I saw a bunch of flowers on a little hill. They were so bright—yellow and dark red, and some white ones. There were a few trees, and the sun stood over them to the west, creating bright light and shade. But the shade didn’t affect the flowers.” Hector mentioned this to Jeff but had no idea how to apply what he’d seen in a practical way.

The next morning, Hector and Jeff went to pray at a place where shaman would come, sacrifices were made, and drug lords carried on their business. They saw people walking on their knees in penitence. And then Hector noticed a lady with two young girls at her side. He felt God compelling him to approach them. As he got closer, he heard the woman saying, “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,” with great emotion.

Hector walked over and addressed her. “Did I hear you calling on Jesus?”

She didn’t seem surprised by the question or by Hector’s presence. “Yes. He is my fortress. He is my rock.” Many calamities had befallen her during the year: her husband left her, she lost her job, and she had no money to send her children to school. “But,” she added, “Jesus provided.”

The girls had started to cry.

Hector prayed with them and asked how he could help. As she talked about having no money to educate her children, he realized he had only a small amount of cash in his pocket—not nearly enough to make a difference. And the girls were too young for the program he had started. But he told them about ASOFE and found himself blurting out, “Would the girls want to come to ASOFE? And I will help you to send them to school.”

The girls’ big eyes got bigger, and their mother smiled as hope blossomed in her heart.

At this moment, he looked 30-40 feet behind where he had been praying for the family. And there, he saw the exact image from his vision the night before, right down to the vibrant yellow, dark red, and white flowers. The skin on his arms raised in goosebumps.

Through those flowers, God assured Hector of two things. “I’m in the right place, where God wants me. I’m doing what the Lord is telling me to do.”

He saw that so many people have no hope and that it is the job of all who follow Jesus to reach out. True, he had no funds to fulfill his promise to the woman and children, but God gave him total peace over the offer. Hector knows that God’s provision will come. And that rather than limiting ourselves by walking the path laid out in our heads, we need to walk the path that we see through the eyes of Jesus.

“We have to stop being rigid and logical,” Hector said with another of his famous chuckles. “And let God do his work.”

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In 2018, teams began going to Guatemala simply to pray.

Today, because of their prayer and over 30 years of dreaming, we are seeing hope, faith, and healing return to the streets of Guatemala City. Watch the video below to hear the rest of the story!

Pray

Please pray that the Holy Spirit will give the ASOFE team the creativity, strength, and strategies they need to serve the people in Guatemala during the continuing pandemic. Pray for a breakthrough for youth, that they would fully embrace their identity in Christ.

Give

Consider committing to contributing $100 per month to help support the regular distribution of Boxes of Hope to the families in 4 different communities in Guatemala City.

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Be a part of what God is doing through ASOFE by pouring into pastors and leaders, working on construction projects, ministering to kids and youth, serving in medical clinics, or prayer walking the streets of Guatemala. Email us to get started.