Egypt:

1. Thanksgiving: We thank the Lord for the growth of the ministry, for the new staff who are joining every year, and the increase in the number of the disciples. Also we thank the Lord for sending out staff to serve in other countries.

2. The challenge: is the finances for the ministry in Egypt. There are financial needs for both the ministry and the staff.

3. The dream: We dream of having a team of staff from the majority background. We also dream of building a place for conferences and training.

African country:

1. Lament: Extremists are in power and the church is being persecuted. 90 percent of Christian leaders and Christians have left the country. Searches and terror are constantly going on in the country.

Pray for repentance: Cruel hearts, persecution of other religions, persecution and murder of an ethnic group.

2. Celebration: Despite the negative situation, church leaders who remained in the country continue to gather the church for weekly services. In December 2021, they held a Christmas service. During the Christmas period, one church was able to share the gospel with 10 people, and one person became a believer.

3. Looking forward: Pray that the church be preserved and strengthened. Pray that the Lord would raise up new spiritual leaders of the local church.

Desert Rain:

1. Lament: While government persecution is low, societal and familial persecution still exists. National Christians often face consequences from their families for believing in Jesus, including increased suspicion and restriction.

2. Celebration: Seven new International Campus Staff have arrived in our country in 2022. We have also hired four new national SLM interns (two-part time) and three national interns have chosen to intern with us again!

3. Looking Forward: We look forward to development of staff and interns, and the launch of national and international ministry in four cities.

The Dunes:

1. Lament:

●  Our country is still mostly unreached.

●  We have ~200 nationalities in the country, and there are many different people groups who still have very little access to the gospel.

●  The local peoples remain pretty closed off and families are very hard to build trust with. There remain many barriers and challenges to them giving up their local faith.

●  95% of the population is non-Christian. 

2. Celebration

●  Since the start of a big project in the country, we have had over 4,000 conversations and over 2,300 spiritual conversations! Praise God for how He used the project to reach people from so many different countries!

●  The opportunity to meet with leaders on a very high level to pursue projects involving the three monotheistic faiths.

●  We were connected with a local believer, and have been able to begin discipling her. She has a network of friends we've also been able to connect with. We praise God for her precious 15-year journey that brought her to where she is today.

3. Looking Forward

●  Pray for wisdom in all of the follow-up after the big project.

●  Pray that we could see the realization of several projects involving the three Abrahamic faiths, and that the intersection of faith and science would bring great glory to God!

●  God will establish Leader Strategies ministry to reach out to the workplace, which is over 60% of the population.

●  We are waiting to see more locals trust in Him and entire families be transformed.

Syria:

1. Lament: Repentance of believers (church) for not living in obedience and faithfulness to the Lord and not being serious in praying, evangelizing and being internally focused. And the result of that: no spiritual multiplication and no faithful, qualified people who are called to serve. Also an increase of broken families and addiction (alcohol and drugs), especially in youth.

2.    Celebration: We praise God for His compassion and graciousness. We celebrate His continuous work in our country and ministry team. There are still faithful people praying and serving the Lord, and God is adding many to the church. We see spiritual movements in the Student Led Movement and Global Church Movements. We thank God for the full-time staff, new staff in training and potential new staff. We thank God we are still able to worship and serve the Lord freely and our team is united and cooperative and has a clear vision.

3. Looking forward: Spiritual revival in the hearts of believers so they will be a living testimony. That God will be glorified, our country will change and ministry will advance (Student Led and Global Church Movements, and Digital Strategies) in all of our country’s infrastructure, universities and websites. To reach others, continue to spiritually multiply, be steadfast in the Word of God and have full-time staff called with obedient hearts and passion to serve God.

TK:

1. Lament: Instead of whole families coming to faith, usually just individuals will choose to follow Christ. This holds people back from fully following the Lord and increases fear in new believers as they experience opposition.  

2. Praise: In the last few years, more and more people have caught the vision for spiritual multiplication and raising up multiplying disciples. 

3. Looking forward: Pray that leaders will catch the vision to develop other leaders.  Pray for 3rd and 4th generation leaders in churches and, as a result, there would be transformation throughout the country. 

Lebanon:

1- Lament: Idolatry. Lamenting on behalf of the Christians who have worshiped the creation apart from worshiping God. We ask forgiveness on behalf of the nation for our sin of pride, not humbling ourselves to learn from others, looking with discrimination at people in several aspects (ethnicity, education, etc.) 

2- Celebrate: Christian organizations and different churches coming together in partnerships. 3rd of September prayer tent in Forum de Beirut  for prayer.

3- Looking forward to the Lord answering our prayer that the fear of the Lord would be in the hearts of our leaders so they would do justice and serve the people instead of themselves.

Pak:

1. Lament: We confess that we as staff teams have not focused on working regularly and properly on staff support raising even though we all took DMPD training, so we are having financial struggles.

Please pray for the positive attitude and regular DMPD to have better support by our staff.

2. Celebration:  We thank God that 13 new staff (for Great Commission Training Center) have been selected and are ready for new staff training from Sept-Oct 2022.

3. Looking forward: In the coming months pray for our DMPD support coaches to help other team members to improve their support.

TS:

1. Lament: After Covid, the economy continues to suffer, thus affecting job opportunities as well as poverty levels. While there is a growing number of believers in our country, there is a lack of unity, preventing believers from gathering in fellowship together. We are praying that the people who trust Christ would grow in faithfulness in following Jesus. There is a high number of people who will decide to follow Jesus but don’t remain faithful in their relationships with Him. 

2. Celebration: We now have a presence in 3 cities in our country. Praise God for raising up laborers to join each team and step out in obedience to move to new cities. We have seen a gradual shift in spiritual openness moving towards the south of our country. While much of the spiritual fruit we’ve seen has been restricted to the capital city in the past, there are now the beginnings of a spiritual movement in another major city. We have regular weekly student meetings in this city. 

3. Looking forward: We are praying for movements in three more cities besides the capital city, where we have a presence with our ministry. This will contribute to our long-term vision to see 10 spiritual movements in 10 states with 10 houses as regular meeting places. Additionally we are praying for God to raise up our current disciples to grow in maturity and faithfulness in the ministry.

Holy Land:

1- Lament: Materialism and luxury affect the church’s focus on God. Believers are preoccupied with secondary issues, apart from Jesus and apart from spreading the good news that people need. Young people are in dire need of Christ, but unfortunately they are looking to meet their needs outside the church and away from Jesus. At the same time, the church is struggling to attract young people to Jesus.

2- Celebration: There is a greater tendency among people from another religion to ask about Jesus and search for biblical truth. We have more opportunities to talk about Jesus with them than ever before, especially with young people seeking God. We made several relationships from this background with new towns in our country. 

3- Looking forward: New frameworks and centers in order to communicate with the community, especially the youth group. We are looking forward to opening a cultural center in the form of a coffee shop to attract young people and communicate with them. And also entering high schools in order to influence them before graduation and bring them to Jesus.

Mali:

1. Lament: Malian people generally love Jesus and many have come to Christ (while outside of the country). When they return to Mali, they begin to fall away because they can't gather with other believers. 

2. Celebration: There are some people who came to Christ in the past but have not really grown in their faith. Now they want to grow and have a vision to share. One person returned after four years and now wants to serve. Seeds previously planted are now blooming. 

3. Looking forward: Pray for wisdom as the Mali team will be building bridges to partner with other strategies, ministries and other organizations as we take the Good News to Mali people.

Jordan:

1. Lamentation: The Youth have left the church and the Media has a strong influence on them. Also the country is going through a hard economic time.

2. Celebration: We praise the Lord for multiplied small groups. There is a new ministry to the Egyptians in Jordan. A fruitful ministry with the youth. Planning a training for several pastors and church members.

3. Looking Forward: to start church planting in places that do not have ministry or churches. Increase of full-time vocational staff.

Sudan:

1- Lament: We lament for the country’s lack of security, the economic crisis and our political conditions. These conditions became a major obstacle to the Church movement. We pray for the Lord to lift all the hardships and that the Christian believers would hold on to God and not be troubled by the economic conditions of our country but focus on their relationship with God. We pray for protection from the diseases and pandemics we face. We pray for the Lord's protection of all the Sudanese staff.

2- Celebration: We praise God for the fruit and the multiplying disciples in all the strategies. We praise God for the open opportunity to minister at the prisons which yielded disciples and trained them inside the prison. We praise the Lord for completing the translation of the Jesus Film the Danakla language. We celebrate God’s wonderful work with us in the ministry in spite of the challenges we are facing.

3- Looking Forward: We pray for a spiritual breakthrough of the eastern and western regions of the Nuba Mountains this ministry year. We pray for a breakthrough for the ministry and to be able to reach the Darfur region, especially West Darfur. May the Lord help us. We pray for the universities in western Sudan and to conduct training for the students there. We also pray for more volunteers and staff to serve with the Digital strategy in different regions.

TJ:

Victory:

1) Many evangelistic projects in all regions of the country.

2) Conferences, seminars and training for new believers and disciples. The development of leaders.

3) Delivering humanitarian aid to poor families during Covid and natural disasters.

Cry:

1) Persecution.

2) Departure of leaders to live abroad due to the difficult economic situation.

3) Difficulties in carrying out projects due to the impossibility of delivery to the country. Corruption in the country.

Expectation:

1) More evangelistic projects among women, students, youth and children.

2) Every three months there are conferences, seminars and training for students and new leaders.

3) Obtaining registration for the church.

AZ:

1. Lament: AZ Christians and staff often do not have a broad vision. We lack multiplication and synergy in the work.

2. Celebrate: We praise God that He is faithfully adding staff to our teams.

3. Spiritual breakthrough: We are praying that every staff, intern and volunteer will have deep relationships with God, hunger for the ministry and clear understanding of how to do their job.

KG:

1.  Celebration: We are grateful to God that He continues to draw people to Himself, change their lives, and raise up life-long laborers for Him. 

- We praise God that there are many new indigenous leaders being raised up in our ministry, both at the local and national levels. 

- We praise Him that this year the parents of a number of our staff received Jesus as their Savior and Lord.

2. Challenges: We long that all of our family members would come to know God, repent, and come to Him for eternal life.

- We pray for economic stability and opportunity in our country, so that families could stay together, and so that we would not lose our most valuable people to other countries.

- We want very much for our people to hear the Good News in every town, city, and region.

3. Our vision and our desire is that all of our staff know their gifts and have an opportunity to use those gifts to build the Kingdom of God in KG, and to the ends of the earth.

- We want our Student Led Movements (SLM) teams to continue to have influence on other countries, so that in the Lord's timing we would have influence in UZ to help raise up a team of SLM staff. 

- We really want to see multiplication of disciples among believing teachers as well as among believing young professionals in two of our big cities. 

- We want to see a team of church planters in every region of KG who are trained to plant still more churches.

- More than anything we want to be a spiritual family who are devoted to our God with all of our heart, mind, and strength.

UZ:

1. One thing to celebrate is this year we will have three new staff.

2. Challenges that we need Breakthrough for is continuing ministry no matter the persecutions. There are many persecutions from M and relatives.

3. One lament is persecutions in families.

KZ:

1.  Praise to the Most High, who gives wisdom to our directors in leading the country and in setting and achieving that vision.

2. Lament:

a. In most places in our country there is no church.

b. War in Ukraine -- Many people who live here in KZ have relatives in Russia or in Ukraine. As a result of the war there are divisions among our people, even in the churches.

3. Our vision: one church for every 1,000 people in KZ. Our population is 18 million, so we want to see 18,000 churches planted. And we also want to see teams from our company in each of the 17 regions (oblasts) of our country.

AG:

1- Celebration: We praise the Lord for new national interns who joined our movement.

2- Challenges: the economic crisis in the country. Food prices are increasing tremendously; the currency value is decreasing. Pray for families and remember the poor. May the Lord change the situation. The youth are hopeless.

- Pray for the churches that authorities closed two years ago to open. Pray for perseverance for brothers and sisters who are not able to meet and have fellowship.

- Pray for the church leaders who are on trial. Pray for God’s protection upon them. May they sense His presence every moment.

- Remember the persecuted and harassed brothers and sisters.

3- Supplication: Pray for the ability to bring Christian evangelistic material and literature into the country for kids and for adults.

- Pray for the young generation to accept the Gospel and be a change agent in the country.

Iraq:

1. Lament: Political instability and conflict among different parties.

2. Celebrating the graduation of two new staff who were trained in the country.

3. Breakthrough: Starting Community/ Trauma Center in one city this year.

NAMESTAN Europe Network:

1.  Challenge: Unity. As we bring our many ministries together into this new network, pray that God would unite us, with one clear purpose and with one mind (the mind of Christ), through the power of the Holy Spirit. 

2.  Praise: Praise God for how He has worked to show His love to NAMESTAN people in Europe. Praise the Lord for the many people who heard the gospel this summer,

and thank God for bringing faithful project participants from all over the world to share His message.

3.  Looking Ahead: Pray for God to raise up multiplying disciples among NAMESTAN students in Europe, among marketplace leaders, through Digital Strategies, through GCM, and among women. Please pray specifically that within the next two years, God would raise up at least one movement of multiplying disciples through this work.

Thank you for praying!