Kenya

Pray for perseverance and resources for Kenyanito and the staff team. For good health, safety and protection for the children, especially while schools are closed in August. Please pray for provision for families despite cost of-living rises. For more sponsors, to improve regular funding in support of children and wisdom for the school board in the wake of curriculum changes and as they support and lead the direction of the school.

Please pray again for communities struggling with food poverty, and for our Harvest Appeal. Please pray for: - families hungry due to climate-related challenges impacting harvests, especially unpredictable rains causing floods, drought, landslides and cyclones, and those coping with extreme temperatures - families hungry because they can’t cope with cost of living increases - families hungry due to conflict and displacement - more work from international, national and local authorities to improve food security.

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

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.

Over the next three months, four New Testaments and one Old Testament are going to be prepared for printing in Kenya. Pray for accuracy and inspiration as the Tugen, the Weera* and the Tachoni New Testaments are prepared for printing. Pray for God’s protection as the final preparation for printing goes ahead for the Upper Pokomo New Testament. Ask God to prepare the Marakwet people to meet with him, as their Old Testament begins its printing journey.

Pray for a dear Brother, one of AM’s trainers in Africa who has been sentenced in absentia to time in prison and fined for holding an unauthorised religious assembly (worship), having been closed off by the governor of the area in 2019. More hostility and false accusations and charges are being brought against God’s people in this land and more and more Church fellowships are having to close. May the LORD empower, enable, and strengthen His people in this nation, part of Jesus’ inheritance. May our dear Brother know the peace and presence of our precious Saviour with him.

Our media partner in Kenya wrote, "Our children’s programme, a result of the recent training from Reach Beyond, is about to be launched. Thirty minutes, once a week in both Kiswahili and our vernacular here. Pray for us, for apart from airing via radio, we are producing an accompanying podcast which we want to share with the young ones via smartphones." Pray for impact on the young people through this new programme.

Please pray for the authorities in Kenya to consider children’s best interests in their policy making, especially concerning orphans and those living with constant hunger. Pray for Kisumu Children as we seek to provide opportunities, sustaining strategies and help to overcome poverty.

Pray for 100 children at a new preschool in Koshe, launched by mums belonging to a self-help group funded by Global Care. The preschool gives children a basic education locally, so when they are old enough to manage the distance to formal school, they are not too far behind academically to progress. Give thanks for this wonderful outcome of the self-help group programme and pray for more life-changing outcomes to come from the 20 groups spread across the district

We are thankful to God that all 105 recent young Bible Camp attenders were given a Gideon’s International New Testament and that 60 of them gave their lives to Christ and made a commitment to always follow Him. A couple also renewed their faith. Please pray for their protection and growth in an environment of much poverty and food insecurity in Kenya. Kisumu Children Trust.

Pray for Africa following Al Massira’s recent face to face gathering in Sierra Leone where 15 African nations were present. The Gospel is being shared through the AM resources in several languages. Two fruitful trainings have just taken place in Tanzania, and others in Uganda, Mozambique and another coming up in Kenya early in 2023. Pray for Holy Spirit power, courage, and wisdom for the Persecuted Church, particularly in Nigeria. May the faithful team there and across Africa know the presence, power, and peace of the King as He loves and leads them forward to advance His Kingdom across Africa!

In Nairobi, please pray for the girls at the risk of sexual violence, especially in Niarobi’s Kibera slum. Lifewords’ Pavement Project was identified as an intervention strategy to help sexually violated girls undergo a healing process, so please pray for the team in Kenya as they work with those in this particular need. Also, in Nairobi please pray for young people in Nairobi who are struggling with identity and self-awareness. The team from Christ is the Answer Church who engaging those young people with the Bible to help tackle those issues.