It's obvious but often overlooked. Missions and missionaries depend on prayer support.
OSCAR's Mission Organisations Directory can put you in touch with missions who will gladly supply you with fuel for prayer and have you join their ministry in this way.
Alternatively, you can pray for individual missionary's needs through the following sites.
Website: www.24-7prayer.com
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How to Pray
SIM, OMF and CLC all produce copies of a leaflet entitled 'Praying for Missionaries' that can help you focus your prayers.
Other online guides to Praying for Mission or Mission workers include:
- www.sim.co.uk/Pray/ways_to_pray_for_missionaries
- www.wycliffe.org.uk/getinvolved_05_praymissionaries.html
- www.internationalmessengers.org/pub/needs.pdf
- www.omf.org/omf/us/resources__1/prayer_resources
- http://prayercentral.net/engage-me/prayer-cards/missionaries-prayer-shield
- www.kingdompraying.com/prayingMissionaries.html
- http://home.snu.edu/~HCULBERT/hand.htm
A further online guide entitled 'How to Pray for Missionaries' Kids' is available on OMF's US website at www.omf.org/omf/us/resources__1/prayer_resources/how_to_pray_for_mks
24-7 Prayer
24-7 is an online prayer facility that links up many prayer groups across the world and offers a dynamic opportunity to be involved in worldwide prayer.Website: www.24-7prayer.com
Global Day of Prayer
Their mission statement says "To call Christians from all nations to unite in repentance and prayer, and to collaborate as God’s instruments for the blessing and healing of the nations." Following the example of the first believers who “joined together constantly” in prayer (Acts 1.14) during the ten days between the ascension of Jesus and the descent of His Spirit on Pentecost … for the next 5 years until 2010, a simple threefold strategy will be implemented:- 1. 10 Days of day-and-night prayer from Ascension Day until the Saturday before Pentecost Sunday.
- 2. A global day of repentance & prayer on Pentecost Sunday
- 3. 90 Days of "community blessing"
Website: www.globaldayofprayer.co.uk
International Day of Prayer
IDOP is an international movement to encourage prayer on various themes and key issues for our world.Website: www.idop.org
Operation World
Operation World, the definitive prayer guide to mission work throughout the world, now posts the current daily prayer focus online.Website: www.operationworld.org
Prayer Alert
Prayer-Alert is a Christian initiative to encourage, envision and mobilise prayer across the British Isles and Ireland. It is a carefully researched weekly e-mail providing guidelines for prayer relating to the British Isles and Ireland as well as for Europe and the rest of the world. Items are drawn from a wide range of reliable Christian and secular sources. Prayer-Alert is a partnership project of the Prayer Association of British Isles and Ireland.Website: www.prayer-alert.net
Praying for Missionaries
Dernier Publishing produce 'Prayer - just do it!' booklets; one in the series is Praying for Missionaries. Missionaries value our prayers so much. Many supporters have a genuine desire to pray but run out of words! These little booklets give 30 biblical prayer pointers, so anyone can just pray!Website: www.dernierpublishing.com/prayer.php
World Prayer Centre
The World Prayer Centre is part of the new thing that God is doing around the world. As the Church begins to strategise and think globally, so we must pray globally. A united and consistent flow of strategic prayer is needed now:• to open the way for us to reach the remaining peoples of the world who have not yet heard the good news of Jesus
• to equip the church to reach out with love and grace to a hurting society
• to enable us to meet, with the authority of Christ, the challenges and opportunities of national and international power structures
• to strengthen the Church to meet its end-time calling
Website: www.worldprayer.org.uk
Email:
Tel: 0121 633 7393
Global Prayer Digest
The Global Prayer Digest gives daily news for prayer of what God is doing around the world and what still needs to be done.Website: www.global-prayer-digest.org
World Prayer Team
The World Prayer Team is a website that joins people through prayer around the world. Requests can be posted by anyone and prayed for by anyone.Website: www.worldprayerteam.org