Prayer Updates
General requests:
General requests:
- Containment of the nuclear crisis
- Wisdom for MTW staff and relief workers to know where help is needed most, and for safety and endurance as they minister to overwhelming needs.
- For grieving families to know the love and comfort of Christians
- That those trying to find each other get reconnected soon
- Safety from aftershocks, which are still quite strong
- Shelter for those whose homes are destroyed
- Restoration of power and communications
- The areas affected by the earthquake and tsunamis of Miyagi, Fukushima, and Ibaraki are some of the most spiritually needy places in Japan, with over 4.9 million people yet only about 9,000 active Christians (about 0.15%). Fukushima has the lowest average worship attendance with only 19 per church. There is one city and 44 towns still with no church. Pray God changes the spiritual situation. (Sources: CIS News 12/2012, JEMA Directory 2010)
- May the Japanese people come to thirst spiritually and seek Living Water (Isa. 55:1-2; John 4).
- May they flee to higher ground . . . to The High Rock (Ps. 61:2).
- May a tsunami of grace, wave after wave, flood Japan (Ezek. 47; John 1:16)
Pray for our ministry to the people there:
- That God will provide funds to purchase supplies and the trucks and gasoline necessary to deliver them (renting trucks in March is next to impossible because it is when most people move before the new school year begins in April)
- That church groups quickly obtain permission to access the expressway and get through to areas that desperately need these supplies
- For protection and stamina for these Christians who are caring for the people
- That we will have the opportunity to proclaim Jesus' name as we carry out mercy ministry--that God will fill the hearts of these laborers with His love, so it overflows to others, and that He will be glorified through this.
- The areas hit by the quake are the least evangelized areas in Japan. May the light of His love shine through!
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