Updates from Around the World
See What God is Doing Across the Globe
We primarily share updates from our Sovereign Grace partners for two reasons: encouragement and prayer. Few things encourage our faith like hearing about God’s activity around the world. These stories remind us that our God is living and active and spur us on into a deeper faith. You can find all kinds of stories on the SGC Mission Blog. Moreover, these stories remind us to pray. A list of prayer requests from our partners is below. You can find the full list here. We hope you’ll take a moment, see what the Lord is doing, and pray. We believe it’ll make a difference in your life and the lives of our partners.
Pray for the SG Australia Planters & Pastors Academy students as they begin their assessments to consider what’s next. Pray for grace, wisdom and insight. Pray that these men would be deployed for the glorious name of Jesus.
Pray for Carlos Contreras and all those involved in this year’s Fieles Conference in Juarez, Mexico, August 10-12th.Pray that all 400 coming will be encouraged, equipped and empowered in their ministry. There are pastors coming from 23 different Mexican states, representing around 110 churches. 16 of those are new churches. Also, there are around 20 coming from Costa Rica, Bolivia and Colombia. Please pray that God will be glorified, His purposes advanced and His Church edified by everything that takes place at this conference.
Pray for me (Dave Taylor) and Riley Spring (Lead Pastor of Sovereign Grace Church, Parramatta, Australia) as we head to Ethiopia from August 19-26th to teach at the SG Pastors College there. We’ll be teaching on ‘Planting & Building Sovereign Grace Churches & Nations.’ Please pray that we’ll have a good time with the students and equip them for the future.
Pray for the dear folks of Ukraine. Please pray in particular for Michael Ostanin and the brothers and sisters in Arche Church, Dnipro. In the last month, their town was bombed, yet they continue to seek to be the hands of feet of Jesus to the needy in their town. Please pray that the light and hope of the gospel would shine even more brightly in the midst of darkness and suffering and that the manifold wisdom of God be revealed through His church.
Pray for the pastors and wives in Belarus. The government in Belarus has stepped up intensity of action against any form of dissent, and officials have been combing through social media posts of photos of anyone who attended the massive 2020 demonstrations. This led to soldiers breaking into one pastor’s home during the night and arresting him and his wife as “traitors to the motherland and enemies of the people”. The pastor sought to explain that they were only at the demonstration to pray with people, give out Bibles, and invite them to Church. He was released, but his wife remains in prison and is being threatened with a 2-5 year imprisonment. We praise God for the ongoing testimony of abiding faith this couple has shown even in these frightening circumstances. Pray with us for her release, for gospel comfort for her husband, and for their gospel witness to bear much fruit in and through it all.