Nigeria

Please pray for Al Massira (The Journey) and for the faithful, steadfast team in Nigeria following the recent training held in one of the leader’s own hometowns. Over 200 Brothers and Sisters participated in the AM training, including pastors and leaders from a great number of congregations. Praise the LORD! As the LORD edifies His people may He also multiply. Pray each trainee would use the resources with family, friends and the community. Pray too, that all who have been trained would go onto train others through AM - taking the Gospel out and bringing the enemies of God in!

Please pray for a group of young men in Northern Nigeria, who are zealous for the LORD and His glorious Gospel! They were part of a recent Al Massira group being trained to help equip, teach and support the Church in sharing Christ with their majority-religious neighbours in their contentious region and beyond. Pray they will be built-up, commissioned to go and that the Church would be strengthened and multiplied throughout the communities. Pray for divine wisdom and boldness and for the LORD’s presence, power, provision and peace to be at work in and through them. For God's glory!"

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.

Please pray for Nigeria, following reports of persecution by a terrorist group in the north of the country, causing men, women, and children to flee their homes to seek shelter in the bushes, without even the basic of necessities. And yet! The LORD is strengthening His people and using them to stand against the devil’s schemes. Pray for Al Massira, for the widespread use of the Hausa translated resources to train and help equip the Church to reach precious souls from all backgrounds, with the Good News.

Increasing persecution against Jesus and His people continues in Nigeria. A country rich in natural resources, steeped in culture, with warm hospitality. And yet, the Church is being attacked by various terrorist groups in these days. Corruption is widespread, and injustices are rampant. Pray for the election in February, that no blood would be shed and that the Lord may seat in power, a just and godly leader. Please pray Al Massira serves humbly, helping equip the local Church to share the Gospel in local languages, to all people groups without fear but in Christ’s love in this beautiful country.