Latest Prayer Requests for East Asia

As China’s Silk Road urbanizes, rural schools struggle to find and keep good teachers. Pray for teachers to be willing to serve children in rural areas, even when this means personal sacrifice.

The OMF Western Australia team will be having a team build and strategic planning time January 12-13. Pray for God’s blessing on the team to work closer together in a way the glorifies our Lord.

In Silk Road areas there often aren’t enough good jobs for all the young college graduates. Pray for young graduates to find jobs, even if they don’t get to make use of their degree.

Praise God for answering prayer by sending us 5 new applicants in September and October. Pray for smooth journeys for all in the process and for their partnership development. Pray for wisdom for the candidate team as they prepare for the next Candidates Course, collaborate with mobilizers and refine candidate training and processes.

Give thanks that over the last two months, God has brought several enquirers for both short and long term missions. Give thanks for the recent commissioning of a couple to serve in Japan. Pray for our various state teams as we journey with those who have expressed an interest in missions, and look for suitable placements for 2024.

• Pray for Thai churches to join a cross-cultural short-term missions program (Serve Asia) with us in 2024.

• Pray for participants at the MIA+ Conference to respond as goers, prayers, mobilizers, welcomers, and givers.

• Pray for the provision of a Medical Advisor.

Give thanks for many individuals and teams enquiring or applying for Serve Asia. Pray for the coordinators who screen, arrange placements with the fields, train and debrief. Also pray for new Serve Asia administrators and coordinators for the OMF Australia team. Pray for a dental student going out in early December to serve a 5-week short-term placement in a sensitive context.