DAY 5 DEREK AND SHARLA OSBURN
Derek is a church planter and pastor of The Vine Community Church in Clovis, N.M., a rural community with a large population of Air Force personnel. Church members serving overseas use the Vine’s podcasts to lead Bible studies with groups of other military personnel. Learn more about Derek on page 32.
• Pray that the Vine Community Church will be seen as a place where sharing the gospel is a priority and where people are welcomed no matter where they have been in life.
• Pray for Derek and Sharla to model a Christian marriage and to be strong witnesses for Christ within the community.
DAY 6 DANNY ANDKARINA EGIPCIACO
Danny is a national church planting missionary who works with and trains church planters in South Florida. If you want to see what the population of the U.S. will look like in a decade, Danny says to look at Miami where more than 180 languages are spoken by those who call the city home. Learn more about Danny on page 38.
• Pray for Danny and other church planters as they seek partnerships and opportunities to start new churches.
• Pray for more church planters to answer God’s call to start new churches in South Florida.
DAY 7 EQUIPPING THE NEXT GENERATION
Each year NAMB facilitates the placement of summer and semester missionaries who work alongside missionaries and church planters. These short-term experiences are a training lab for future career missionaries, church planters and on mission Christians. These young adults are learning by doing, cultivating their personal passions and skills and seeing lives changed by Jesus Christ.
• Pray for more individuals to answer God’s call to serve in short-term missions experiences.
• Pray that short-term missionaries will have a godly vision to see the needs of their field of ministry and to develop methods for reaching people for Christ.
DAY 8 LOVE LOUD
What does it mean to Love Loud? It means loving neglected and hurting people as Jesus did—and pointing them back to Him as the source and ultimate author of that love. It means a daily commitment from churches and individuals to connect mercy ministries with missional living in support of church planting and church strengthening. Through meeting needs and taking the gospel to people where they are, missionaries are seeing transformation in their communities. They infuse ministry evangelism in the church planting process and invest in people’s lives.
• Pray for Southern Baptist missionaries to be compassionate and sensitive to the needs of others so they can share the good news of Jesus Christ with all people.
• Pray for God to open doors for new church plants and for individuals as they minister in hurting communities.
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