Please pray for Bala and Carol B., our missionaries serving in Southeast Asia. Pray for good respiratory health for Bala when he leaves on March 10 for a trip to Southeast Asia. Pray for both him and Ernie Manges while they are doing a curriculum consultation workshop at a seminary in that area the week of March 15-19. (3/8/2010)

Please pray for Tim and Lynn Anderson, our missionaries serving in Colombia. Pray for their ongoing project of the updating of "Gloria 11," the electronic music box that provides the music for over 6000 small churches around the world. Also pray for wisdom as the Andersons plan to transition to active retirement. (3/1/2010)

Please pray for White Cross, a ministry of EFCA TouchGlobal that provides materials to missionaries such as blankets, surgical supplies, layettes, educational materials, etc. Pray for White Cross's work to support the Tandala Hospital in the Congo. Also pray for people from our church to donate to the White Cross's backpack kits for the Congo. (2/22/2010)

Please pray for Keith and Judy Anderson, our ReachGlobal missionaries in Costa Rica. Pray for Keith's latest trip to Colombia for regional meetings with Latin American seminary and Christian university presidents to discuss cooperation in theological education. Also pray for two of Keith's staff members who are recruiting students in Peru. (2/15/2010)

Please pray for Mark and Athlee Bowman, our missionaries in Japan. Pray for their ministry center called Cafe Co-En (www.cafecoen.com). Pray for God to fill their staff needs at the café, since they will be losing a few volunteers this spring. Also pray for a couple from Illinois who are planning to spend the summer working with them at the café. (2/8/2010)

Please pray for all our mission partners who were featured at the International Dinner. Pray that their work for the Lord is expanded by our church's recent increase in their monthly support. (2/1/2010)

Please pray for Ben and Jeanne Beckner, who are ReachGlobal missionaries serving in Lyon, France. Pray for Ben’s organization, French Without Borders, which conducts French language camps as a means of outreach for the Gospel. Pray for Ben's spring trips with French outreach teams to the Balkans and then Kursk, Russia. (1/25/2010)

Please pray for Ernie and Donna Manges, who have been missionaries to the Philippines since 1987. Pray for Ernie while he is gone January 15 through March 21 to teach at a seminary in the Philippines and a church leader training center in Southeast Asia. Also pray for Donna this winter as she stays at home and continues with her job with the Woodland school district. (01/11/2010)

Please pray for Tim and Sarah S, our missionaries serving in East Asia who have been in the U.S. resolving various health issues. Pray for their faith goal to return to the mission field at the beginning of this year. Pray specifically that they get the $1450 in new monthly support that they need to make this possible. (01/04/2010)

Please pray for Andrew and April Lewis, EFCL missionaries serving in Montana through a Christian discipleship wilderness camping program for boys. Pray for them as they are starting the recruitment process for campers for the upcoming summer. Also pray for the Moms with Tots ministry that April has just started in their local church. (12/28/2009)

Please pray for Gordon and Caryl Saunders, our EFCL missionaries serving in Germany. Please pray for Gordon as he continues to work with colleagues to develop online Virtual Prayer Walks and completes a graphics make-over for a new GEM prayer site. Also pray for Caryl, who leads English Evening for German women.(12/21/2009)

Please pray for Lydia Home, a residential children's program in Chicago that EFCL supports. Pray for the 40 children there who are victims of physical/sexual abuse or neglect. Pray that they would come to know the Christ of Christmas. Also pray for the Safe Families in our community who provide short-term housing for children in need. (12/14/2009)

Please pray for Lonnie and Debbie Smith, our missionaries who are serving in Marseille, France, and are involved with church planting. Pray for a French couple who want to team with the Smiths and come alongside their ministry endeavor. Also pray for Thierry, a member of their church who will be deployed soon to Afghanistan as a military chaplain. (12/7/2009)

Please pray for Tim and Nancy N., our missionaries who have been serving in East Asia since 2006. Pray for Nancy, who is grieving the loss of her father in late September. Pray for a couple who will visit Tim and Nancy in early December to check out long-term work in their area. Also pray for the salvation of the director of the village for leprosy-affected people. (11/30/2009)

Please pray for Trinity International University in Deerfield. "Forming students to transform the world through Christ" is Trinity's mission. Please pray for the students at Trinity who are facing financial challenges this school year. Pray for the international students at Trinity, especially those who were not be able to go home for Thanksgiving break. Also pray for Dr. Craig Williford, Trinity's new president. (11/23/2009)

Please pray for Wayne and Barb Brink, our missionaries serving with Campus Crusade for Christ in Mission Viejo, California. Pray for their work with the Jesus Film Project around the world. Pray especially for the communication centers that have been set up in Europe and the Arabic speaking world to support the outreach of the Jesus Film Project. (11/16/2009)

Please pray for Leon and Mandy Poplawski, who serve in Lake County with Campus Crusade for Christ. Pray for Leon as he oversees eight cities as a regional director for the new Marketplace Ministry. Pray for Mandy as she ministers to women in our community. Also pray for their son, Jesse, who is serving with the Army National Guard in Afghanistan. (11/9/2009)

Please pray for Dick and Robin Hart, EFCL missionaries who serve in Amman, Jordan. Pray for PTEE (Program for Theological Education by Extension of which Dick is Executive Director) to meet the goal of offering classes in all the Arab countries by 2012. Pray for their newest class which will be used to disciple new Christians. (11/2/2009)

Please pray for Youssouf & Awa Dembele, who serve in Africa. Pray for their local church, which has grown in attendance to 200 and is reaching out to Muslim people. Pray for the progressing construction of their service center in Bamako, Mali. Also pray for Youssouf's continuing plow and oxen program that provided for the needs of 26 pastors during the 2008/2009 farming season. (10/26/2009)

Please pray for Mike and Ann Wheeler, our missionaries in Bolivia. Pray for them and their daughter, Amanda, while they are on home assignment through January. Also pray for their ministries in Bolivia--for Mike's Bible college to have 1500 students for a modular course in November and for Ann's Christian radio station to reach more Quechua people. (10/19/2009)

Please pray for Timber-lee (a Christian camp in East Troy, Wisconsin, that our church supports). Pray that the word of God that was planted at the summer camps takes root and grows in the children's hearts. Also pray for the adult retreats at Timber-lee, especially the men from our church who will be going there the weekend of October 23-25. (10/12/2009)

Please pray for Gerry Buchholz, an EFCL missionary in California who has been serving with Campus Crusade for Christ for more than 30 years. Pray for a future ministry opportunity that she'll have to train about 200 staff members to teach a middle-school curriculum in Iraq. Also pray that they will be free to give out the Bible and the Jesus Film. (10/5/2009)

Please pray for FIT Teen Moms, an LEFC-supported organization that ministers to teenage mothers in Waukegan. Please pray for the young moms who are starting their new parenting, life skills and GED classes this fall. Pray for the members of our church family who provide dinners once a month to these moms. (9/28/2009)

Please pray for The Gideons International, whose mission is to win others for the Lord through personal testimony and personal work by individual Gideons, and through placing the Bible in hotels, hospitals, schools, and other institutions. Pray for more open doors for the Gideons to spread the Gospel throughout the world. (5/25/2009)