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Since 2010, Southern Baptists have planted more than
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The Week of Prayer for North American Missions
Every year, SBC churches observe the Week of Prayer for North American Missions by praying for missionaries, their families, and their ministries. These missionaries need you to step into their stories through your prayers as they often face opposition, discouragement, and battle loneliness.
This year, the official date for the Week of Prayer is March 2-9. North American missionaries take the gospel to unreached communities throughout the U.S. and Canada. They need your prayers to open hearts and help them disciple new believers. Your church can choose to participate this week or any other time during the Easter season.
Day One: The Real Jesus
Provo, Utah
Provo, Utah is, according to David Gaskins, “the heartbeat and hub of the Mormon church.” And yet, in what might be the most unchurched city in North America, where evangelicals make up only 0.5% of the population, David and his wife Sara have helped start a church that’s now sharing the true gospel with people who desperately need to know the story of Jesus.
PRAY FOR
God to call more missionaries who will share the gospel with people in Utah.
Wisdom, humility, and boldness for David and the other pastors at Mosaic Church.
God to grow David and Sara closer together while they live and serve in a difficult place.
Day Two: Let Us Do Good
Flint, Michigan
It wasn’t that long ago that Leo and Miosha Robinson’s Flint, Michigan neighborhood had almost no gospel witness and absolutely no laundromats. Those two seemingly unrelated things came together when Leo and Miosha planted Good Church and then started Good Laundry. Now, in a community that was once 80% unchurched, they’re meeting a physical need, building witnessing relationships, baptizing new believers, and seeing God change lives.
PRAY FOR
The development and discipleship of new leaders at Good Church.
People in Flint who’ve experienced pain and trauma, that Good Church would be able to meet them with the hope of the gospel.
The large number of teenagers in the neighborhood who are hearing the gospel for the first time.
Day Three:
Gospel Development
Sneads Ferry, North Carolina
After serving as an active-duty Marine for 20 years, Joshua Brown knows what it means to be sent. So, there might not be anyone better suited to plant a church outside Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune than Joshua and his wife Brittany. When military families here meet Christ, get discipled, and then are deployed or reassigned, they’re able to take the gospel to places many people will never be able to go.
PRAY FOR
A team being sent out to plant Pillar Church Fayetteville, near Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg).
God to call more church planters who can reach other under-served military communities.
God to raise up new leaders at Pillar Church Topsail as current leaders get deployed or reassigned.
Day Four:
Married to the Marines
Sneads Ferry, North Carolina
The separation, the worry, the what-feels-like-single-parenting—Brittany Brown knows what it’s like to be married to the military. She and her husband Joshua, who was an active-duty Marine for 20 years, are now church planting missionaries in Sneads Ferry, North Carolina. In the church they planted just outside Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Brittany’s past experience uniquely equips her to share the gospel with military wives.
PRAY FOR
Acts of kindness and service to be done in such a way that gospel conversations will naturally occur.
The people at Pillar Church Topsail to find and connect with lost families in their community.
Families who leave Pillar Church Topsail when they’re reassigned to other military bases will find caring churches where they can grow in the community.
Day Five:
Connecting the Dots
Langley, British Columbia
Christian and Laura Rowland were understandably nervous when they left their home in Texas and moved to Canada to plant a church in the Vancouver suburb of Langley. After all, they knew no one there. But now that they’ve planted New Song Community Church in a community that until recently, had almost no gospel witness, they can look back and realize how God used everything in their lives to perfectly prepare them for the work he called them to do.
PRAY FOR
Continued unity as New Song Community Church experiences growth.
The resources Christian and Laura need to do ministry in one of North America’s most expensive metro areas.
Encounters that lead to gospel conversations.
Day Six: On The Border
Laredo, Texas
For Osvaldo and Vanessa Lerma, location is everything. The Lermas serve at the Send Relief Ministry Center in Laredo, Texas, just a few miles from one of the busiest international border crossings in the world. They minister alongside volunteer mission teams, showing them how to meet physical needs and share gospel hope with refugees who are legally entering the U.S. to seek asylum. Lessons learned here provide teams with tools they can use to make Jesus known in their own communities.
PRAY FOR
Osvaldo and Vanessa’s endurance as they serve refugees in Laredo in this challenging time.
Mission teams to learn lessons in Laredo that will make them more effective gospel witnesses in their own communities.
Refugees who are resettled elsewhere to connect with local churches who will compassionately share the love of Christ with them.
Day Seven: Circuit Riders
Bar Nunn, Wyoming
There are 203 cities and towns in Wyoming. More than 60 don’t have a church of any kind. That’s why Tyler Martin is training men how to make Jesus known in Wyoming’s unreached places. Tyler and his wife Ashley planted Outfitter Church in Bar Nunn, Wyoming, just a few years ago. Now, Tyler says the planters who’ll one day take the gospel to all those other Wyoming towns will come from churches like Outfitter.
PRAY FOR
God to raise up more men at Outfitter Church to take the gospel to more unchurched communities.
The endurance and perseverance required to start and grow church plants in remote, hard-to-get-to places.
Other churches in Wyoming to recognize and respond to the gospel needs around them.
Day Eight: The Other Side
Bar Nunn, Wyoming
Choices for meeting space are limited in Bar Nunn, Wyoming. That’s why Tyler and Ashley Martin ended up planting a church at the Hangar Bar and Grill. As it turns out, that was the perfect place to draw in people like Trent Fetherston, a self-described “wild dude” who’d been “kicked out of every bar in town.” Trent knew all about the Hangar. But he knew nothing about Jesus until he showed up at what is now Outfitter Church.
PRAY FOR
Trent’s expressed desire to one day help plant and pastor new churches in Wyoming.
Encouragers who can build up Tyler and Ashley as they serve in an isolated, unchurched place.
A dedicated facility where Outfitter Church can meet and do ministry.
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