India

Please pray for our Dalit education project in Patripul, near Mumbai, India. Please pray for: wisdom and perseverance for Director Simon George and the staff team including managers Manisha and Mahendra; protection from high caste groups who object to Dalit education; resilience and effective learning for 200+ Dalit children attending the GCare Centres; protection for Dalit girls, who are extremely vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.

From the 1st to the 5th October we are praying for our work with girls, marking the International Day of the Girl (11th October). Pray for: - encouragement and positive change for 350+ girls attending new Girls Clubs at four primary schools in Rukungiri, Uganda - our partners in Malawi and Guatemala and their work mentoring girls - protection and opportunities for extremely vulnerable Dalit girls at our projects in India - skills training for Ugandan girls - a bright future for sponsored girls at our projects worldwide.

From the 8th to the 14th of September we are praying for our partners' efforts worldwide to improve literacy - marking World Literacy Day on the 8th September. Pray for success and provision for: - our partners operating formal schools in India and Kenya - our partners running informal education initiatives, in Sri Lanka, Syria, Malawi, India and Bangladesh - our partners working to improve literacy, in extremely difficult conditions, in Myanmar and South Sudan - Pray for all the young people these initiatives seek to help

Praise God that the students and tutors at JKPS’ Bethel Training Institute had a meaningful Independence Day celebration last month. Please pray for ongoing religious freedom in India, enabling JKPS to flourish. Also, ask God to be with the sponsored children supported by JKPS, who are in year 11, as they take their first-semester exams during September. May they remember all they have learnt and work to the best of their ability.

Please pray for Samaritan Ministries for the Lord to provide as we rebuild the school, campsite, dental clinic, farm and sports projects to impact children and young people for the Gospel. Also for good partnerships with local and global ministries to do our work in excellence and for the families we support and who work for us including refugees.

From 25th to 31st August we pray for our Harvest Appeal, helping to prevent hunger for children we support worldwide. Please pray for: - a positive response to the appeal - wisdom for our partners in countries affected by drivers of food poverty, especially drought in our African projects, conflict and economic instability - families struggling to provide even one meal a day - wisdom in developing work to protect against food insecurity, as well as resources to feed children where necessary.

Pray that the braille Bible volumes being produced would reach their destinations in India. Pray for those receiving them, that they would grow spiritually and spread the Good News with others through the braille Bibles.

Thank God that the students on JKPS’ Diploma in Ministry course and Community Transformation programme in India have finished their exams. Pray that they would all trust God with the outcome. Please pray also for the good health of JKPS staff and volunteers as they continue their work on forming new house fellowships in unreached communities in India.

Pray that the recent three-day summer camp which took place for 550 children supported by JKPS in India was successful and brings many to faith. Thank God also that JKPS were able to conduct discipleship training, medical outreach and scheduled field visits last month, despite the heatwave in India.

Please pray for the Dohnavur Fellowship, who are currently looking at new ways to reach out to their local community, and exploring options to fund these new projects that will continue to help those in poverty and need in rural India.

In South Asia, they have some of the highest numbers of unreached people groups in the world, with the equivalent of only 1 full time Christian worker for every 500,000 Muslims. Pray for the Gospel to be spread here.

Pray for impact from our Marwari gospel broadcasts. Marwari is the main language of the Indian state of Rajasthan and is also spoken in many other places throughout India. Approximately 934,000 people speak this language. Pray that listeners will be challenged by the Christian programmes that they hear on their radios today.