Praying for Those Who Weep

Scripture says to mourn with those who mourn. On this anniversary of 9/11, we mourn with all those who lost someone or who were injured or highly impacted on that tragic day in 2001. When we pause to remember, the horror is still fresh. And despite all that has transpired since, terrorism continues to take lives, leaving broken bodies and families.

Today’s anniversary brings to mind the fresh tragedy and great losses that Israel is experiencing at this time at the hands of terrorists and terror organizations. As we approach the first anniversary of the October 7 kidnappings, tortures and killings in Israel by Hamas, we mourn with Israel. We mourn with those whose loved ones were victims that day and since.  We mourn with those who were injured and scarred in their bodies, minds or spirits. This includes first responders, recovery teams, and the IDF, who continue fighting this evil, many of whom have borne the loss of life and limb and undergone great trauma while courageously serving with valor. We grieve with the hostages still held by terrorists and for their families who wait, grieve and cling to hope.

Amid such heavy tragedy, it can be hard to know how to pray for the victims. Here are some ways we’re praying. Will you join us?

• Pray that the comfort of the Holy Spirit and the presence of the Lord will be very real to all who mourn in Zion — the people of Israel, wherever they are
• Pray for safe, healing relationships and groups where mourners can remember their loved ones, be honest about their grief, and receive support and hope to move forward over time
• Pray for help for families dealing with the loss of a specific and beloved person and the hole their absence has left
• Pray for those who not only grieve deeply but who have also had their daily lives disrupted, which could include where they live, how they are making their livelihood and meeting their needs and those of their families — Lord, provide for them and surround them with resources and support
• As can be expected, the need for trauma care and grief recovery is immense in Israel. Pray for excellent, qualified counselors and trauma care specialists who will effectively point hurting people toward healing and toward God
• It has been said that the whole nation of Israel is in a state of mourning in one way or another, experiencing various forms of trauma right now. Please lift them up to the Lord
• However Jewish people choose to observe the Fall High Holidays this year, may the Lord meet them in powerful and personal ways. May these holy days be a catalyst for personal and corporate healing for Jewish people everywhere as they draw near to God

Let’s Pray

Lord, help us to truly mourn with those who mourn. Help us not forget to pray for Your people and for all of Israel. The well of grief is so deep and its waters so bitter, only You and You alone can meet with and minister to Your people at this time. Oh, Lord, comfort and heal Your people, and protect and vindicate them as they mourn. In Yeshua’s name, Amen.

Reaching New Locations in Zambia

Would you pray with us? Your prayers matter.

The Lord has opened a door for us in Zambia, and we’re about to go through it for the third time. We are headed to Chiwena, which is a new location for us in that country. Our Medical Outreach trip will be August 29–September 8. We’re excited to minister to the many Lemba Jewish people there and their neighbor

Your prayers really do matter. We know the Lord alone can make this Outreach effective. Please pave the way for us through prayer. Here's how:

• Follow along day by day using these detailed Prayer Points to pray for this upcoming Medical Outreach

• You can commit to a specific time slot to pray for us from home during the Outreach. SIGN UP HERE on our Prayer Schedule, referring to the dates below.

Please pray for us on this Jewish Voice Ministries Chiwena, Zambia, Medical Outreach.

Preparing for the Outreach

The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”

— Isaiah 40:3 NKJV

Wednesday, August 21 – Wednesday, August 28

• All preparations – such as visas, medical supplies, site readiness, team unity and community relationships – to come together and be fully in place in good time
• All our improvements to the local rural clinic to be ready to receive patients during our Medical Outreach  
• Protection, health, safety and favor as our team and partners prepare and travel
• The Lord to prepare people’s hearts and the spiritual atmosphere in Chiwena, causing spiritual forces of darkness to flee and making way for the King of Glory to come with salvation, healing and deliverance

Travel and Team Readiness

The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

— Psalm 121:8

Thursday, August 29

• Safe travels and arrivals in the air and on land for people — and their luggage
• Fellowship and unity among staff and volunteers to begin right away and last all week
• Physical health and spiritual preparation for all participants

Friday, August 30

• A wonderful Erev Shabbat meal and service at the local Messianic congregation
• Easy adaptation to new food, new environments, and a new time zone
• Stamina, health and strength for our small team of medical personnel and partners, as well as for our JVMI staff members

Saturday, August 31

• Efficient Clinic set-up and a strategic plan for patient flow through the Outreach Clinic area
• Effective orientation for medical and dental professionals and all Outreach partners
• Training for specialty areas, including Zehra Kids, the water training program and the Spiritual Care Ministry

During the Outreach

“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,”

— Luke 4:18

Sunday, September 1

• God’s help in hiring trustworthy local workers and that they would receive Yeshua (Jesus)
• An excellent start to the Zehra Kids Program and for it to continue strong throughout the week
• A timely and wonderful opening to the Clinic, with many coming right from the beginning to receive care

Monday, September 2

• The Lord to bring our team wisdom, favor, discernment and protection regarding any local or unique factors regarding this location, conditions or timeframe
• Our Spiritual Care Manager and the local Believers to partner beautifully in providing prayer, ministry and words of life through the power of the Holy Spirit
• Spiritual freedom for anyone under the influence of witchcraft or false religion

Tuesday, September 3

• The water training program as it brings clean water as well as the Good News of Living Water in Jesus
• Encouragement and fresh energy for everyone serving, renewed by intimacy with the Lord, the daily prayer times and the mid-week worship service
• Miracles, signs and wonders that will confirm the Word of God
• Healing through effective medical and dental care and also through God’s supernatural intervention as a testimony of His power and love

Wednesday, September 4

• The Lord to work in the hearts of the Lemba Jewish people, helping them know both their identity and Yeshua’s
• Our presence in Chiwena to confirm to the Lemba that the Lord loves and desires to bless them
• The local Christian community to gain an appreciation and greater understanding of God’s love and purposes for the Jewish people, especially the Lemba in their region

Thursday, September 5

• The Lord to move powerfully through the Gospel and the ministry of the Holy Spirit
• The ability to see as many patients as possible on the last day of the Clinic
• A safe tear-down and peaceful payment of local workers once the Clinic closes

After the Outreach

In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of [Messiah] Jesus.

— Philippians 1:4–6

Friday, September 6

• An evening of praises and testimonies during Shabbat dinner together
• Each person to sense the Lord saying, “Well done, good and faithful servant!”
• The ability to truly rest and be restored after a week of ministry and service

Saturday, September 7 – Sunday, September 8 and beyond

• Safe travels home and a special outpouring of grace on everyone who served by honoring the Lord and loving the Chiwena community through this Outreach  
• Effective and timely follow-up to all who want to hear more about Jesus
• The Lord to continue establishing His Kingdom in Zimbabwe and developing healthy congregations
• The Lord to continue working in the Mumbwa region, bringing a great movement of His Holy Spirit among these dear people

Let’s Pray

Lord, our hearts’ desire is to reach even more Lemba Jewish people during the Chiwena Medical Clinic than we reached in the past two Clinics. Please prepare the region and the people’s hearts for Your Good News to have maximum impact. May You use us to facilitate not only the healing of bodies but also the healing of hearts and minds through salvation and deliverance. May everything we do be done in love and by the power of Your Spirit. We trust in You and thank You for this opportunity. In Yeshua’s name, Amen.

Because we want every Jewish person to know that God’s plan for them includes Jesus the Messiah, we have developed a long-term ministry journey toward reaching the Lost Tribes of Israel with this Good News.

Showing Jesus’ love by meeting physical needs is a significant part of Jewish Voice’s work, but it’s only a portion of an eight-step ministry model to reach the Lost Tribes of Israel with the Gospel. Jewish Voice is committed to long-term ministry in the areas we serve. Coming alongside indigenous Messianic congregations, we help establish lasting fruit and foster thriving locally-led congregations of Messianic Jewish Believers.

The first step is learning about communities claiming Jewish origins.

1. Learn of a Community

Jewish people live all over the world, and we want to reach them all. Members of the Lost Tribes of Israel live in remote, sometimes isolated villages in surprising places, and more and more are becoming known. We learn about them through our own research, or communities may contact us directly. Some communities reach out to a Messianic Jewish congregation we partner with in their country, or another ministry may contact us with a discovery they’ve made. In these ways, we have learned about potential Jewish communities in South Africa, India, Central Asia, the remote Pacific Islands and beyond.

2. Explore and Validate

Second, we research, inquire, and meet with community leaders to establish relationships with leaders and learn their oral history, traditions, religious practices and other factors. These help us verify the validity of their claim to be from the Lost Tribes of Israel. Once we validate their claim, we engage with the community in the next step.

3. Discover a Critical Need

It’s often difficult for someone to focus on their spiritual needs if they live with desperate physical needs. Once we’ve confirmed an unreached people group’s Jewish heritage, we continue conversations with village elders and other indigenous Messianic Jewish congregational leaders to discover the most pressing needs. From there, we create a plan to meet that need.

4. Meet the Need

The most critical need could be anything from clean water to medical care and more. We serve all who come to us, Jewish or non-Jewish, but what brings us there is the Jewish community.

We conduct week-long Medical Outreaches, provide clean drinking water through portable family and community-sized water filters, dig wells and more. The greatest, most compassionate gift we can give is the Good News.  Jewish Voice Outreaches meet vital physical needs, people see God’s love for them and their hearts open to hear about Jesus the Messiah. Alongside the practical aid, we bring a Spiritual Care Ministry that enables people to receive prayer and hear the Gospel. Many people have prayed to accept Jesus as the Messiah through these Outreaches.

5. Plant a Local Faith Community

Each Outreach produces the fruit of new Believers who need a place where their faith can grow. For this, we rely on the invaluable help of existing Messianic congregations in the country. These leaders follow up with new Believers and those who told us they wanted to learn more. They sometimes travel far from their own cities to make home visits and lead small Bible study groups toward forming a congregation. We work closely with the leaders of these congregations through every phase of our ministry in their countries.

6. Equip Indigenous Leaders

Together with indigenous congregational leaders, we identify local Believers within these new communities who have leadership potential. We then provide them with training in the Bible, discipleship and leadership so they, in turn, can reach their own Jewish communities and plant additional healthy congregations.

7. Release Indigenous Messianic Jewish Ministry

As leaders mature and congregations grow, they reach out to their communities with a much more significant impact than we, as outsiders, can. Releasing indigenous ministry is always the end goal of cross-cultural congregation planting. Indigenous leaders are best equipped to minister in a nation because they know the people, culture and environment. We continue providing training and financial support to assist them in pursuing national congregational networks and self-sufficiency.

8. Connect

Lastly, as an indigenous ministry is released into independence, our role is to connect them with the larger worldwide Messianic Jewish and Gentile believing body, helping them take their place as essential members of the unified body of Messiah.

You can see that Jewish Voice has a long-term vision for ministry to the Lost Tribes of Israel. We are so grateful to provide humanitarian relief for communities in need, but we can’t stop there. We recognize that the most vital matter is making Yeshua (Jesus) known and giving Jewish people the opportunity to accept Him. And we will go to the ends of the Earth to find the unreached Jewish communities with this life-giving news that the Messiah they’ve waited for has come.

God Used You to Change the Conversation in Northern Ethiopia

• 8,747 Patients Received Care
• 761 People Received Dental Care
• 1,925 Eyeglasses Distributed
• 107 Eye Surgeries Performed
• 84 Minor Surgeries Performed
• 9 Babies Delivered at the Clinic
• 200 Families Received LifeStraw® Water Filters
• 14 People Received Yeshua
• 120 People Requested Congregational Follow-up

The people in northern Ethiopia have endured much trauma in recent years. At the beginning of our Clinic week, all anyone could talk about was how hard the last few years have been, what it was like and what they endured. However, by the end of the week, the conversation had changed. The region recently went through years of civil war where hardship, violence and fear dominated daily life.

Hope was returning to their voices. They marveled that people would come from across the world to help them. They were amazed at how we transformed a humble, ill-equipped clinic building into an enormous Clinic event. They were thrilled to receive the medical, dental and eye care they needed and that thousands received such care.

This Outreach shifted the focus of an entire community. You sent us there, and God used you to change the conversation from difficulty and despair to healing and hope. Thank you!

Our Spiritual Care Ministry for this Outreach was located across the street from the Clinic entrance, where Messianic Jewish leaders from Ethiopian congregations met with people seeking guidance and prayer. One day, they ministered to four busloads of particular groups we brought to the clinic. These busses transported members of the local Jewish village, men and women from area prisons, and women from a safe house for survivors of sexual abuse. Much more ministry took place with these groups than perhaps could have happened if the prayer room had been onsite.

Because of this different setup, we couldn’t collect some of the statistics you may be familiar with. But we know you’ll be praying nonetheless for the people touched by the Gospel and God’s love for them through this Outreach in northern Ethiopia.

Again, you made this entire Outreach possible through your gifts to Jewish Voice. Because of you, lives have changed. Take a look at the numbers below, remembering that each one is a life you touched. (And note the nine babies brought into the world. One was born just minutes after the mother arrived and got situated in an examination room.)

Thank you again for making such a difference.

Cultivating Seeds

One of the most wonderful things we partner with you in doing is having fun with kids while simultaneously affirming their Jewish identity and sharing with them the Good News of Yeshua (Jesus).

We do this through the Zehra Kid’s Program. If you have been a partner with Jewish Voice Ministries for some time, you’ve seen the photos: happy children playing with hula hoops and soccer balls on a playground, singing, learning, and coloring under the Zehra sign and brightly decorated canopies.

This is such a significant aspect of our Outreaches. The children have meaningful experiences onsite at our Medical Clinics. We also reach out to them during special school visits, interacting with hundreds of children in a short time.

The name Zehra comes from the Hebrew word for “seed.” This program, along with the newly developed Nehemiah Teen program, Shabbat school materials and other resources and initiatives, truly plant seeds of love, joy, truth, and identity.

Will you help cultivate these seeds in the lives of these beautiful children and teens — through your prayers? Here are some points our Zehra Program Manager asks us to please pray for:

• The Zehra children’s program during our Medical Outreaches to be well situated and staffed, and to impact not only the kids who visit, but their families and friends as they go home and share the songs, lessons, and coloring pages
• School visits, where our Zehra Program leader and others can impact hundreds of children in one short visit
• The new and very well-received Nehemiah Program, specifically designed for Jewish teens and their friends in our Outreach communities
• Anointing and excellence in developing and facilitating Zehra Leadership Trainings for indigenous leaders
• Life-impacting times of service for the young adults who minister by helping facilitate the programs
• The Lord’s help and favor for some significant resource projects designed to speak straight to the heart and identity of children from some of our key communities

Some more areas for prayer include:

• Community Impact: Pray that Zehra may have a positive and lasting impact on the communities we reach out to, bringing hope, joy, and transformation to children, teens, and families
• Spiritual Growth: Pray for the spiritual growth of the children and teens, that they may come to know and love God deeply, understand His Word, and grow in their faith & godly identity
• Volunteers and Leaders: Pray for wisdom, strength, and guidance for all volunteers and leaders involved in the ministry so that they may serve with love, patience, and humility
• Outreach and Impact: Pray that the ministry will effectively reach out to even more in the community and that the love of Messiah will be evident through the ministry's activities and interactions
• Open Hearts and Minds: Pray that the children and teens will be opened to receive God's love and truth and receptive to the messages shared

Let’s Pray

Lord, we know that, because of You, there is hope for the seed. May You use the Zehra Program in all its aspects to deeply impact the lives of many, many children and teens, as well as their families, friends and communities. May the kids learn life lessons that will help them know and love You, understand Your love and blessings for them, and step into the identity and calling You have for each one. Thank You for all You have done and will do as we water the Zehra program “seeds” with our prayers! In Yeshua’s name, AMEN.

Bearing Fruit in Chatikobo, Zimbabwe

Have a look at the lives you changed in Chatikobo:

• 9,904 Patients Received Care
• 1,223 People Received Dental Care
• 1,819 Eyeglasses Distributed
• 120 Families Received LifeStraw® Water Filters
• 1,220 Children Attended the Zehra Kids Program
• 1,333 School Children Experienced Zehra in Their School
• 4,351 People Visited the Spiritual Care Ministry
• 235 People Received Yeshua 
• 288 People Requested Congregational Follow-up

Thank you for sending us to Chatikobo, Zimbabwe, for another Jewish Voice Medical Outreach.

Chatikobo is in the Masvingo Province of Zimbabwe, where we’ve been before but never to this location.

We received a hearty welcome that included a visit from the local Lemba chief addressing the people on our opening day. His presence went a long way in establishing the community’s trust in us. Whereas we typically care for around 5,000 to 6,000 people at a new location in Zimbabwe, in Chatikobo, we treated almost 10,000 patients.

More than 40 percent of those you helped provide medical care also chose to visit the Spiritual Care Ministry tent, where they shared their burdens and received prayer. More than 200 prayed to accept Yeshua (Jesus) as the Messiah.

Many of the Lemba in Chatikobo already believed in Jesus, and 50 people wanted to publicly profess their faith with an immersion ceremony. Indigenous ministry leaders participating in the Outreach assisted, and the Messianic Jewish Lemba choir celebrated during each person’s immersion, filling the air with the sounds of their original worship music. It was glorious!

These responses speak to the Chatikobo community’s readiness to be a part of worshiping together from their Jewish origins. Two new Messianic Jewish congregations have formed since the Outreach in May, and area Lemba leaders are also following up with hundreds of people who want to learn more about Jesus.

Thank you for making all this possible. Your gifts to Jewish Voice brought physical and spiritual care to so many. Through your faithful monthly gifts, you are also providing discipleship to new Believers, the training and nurturing of local pastors and support for congregations that will continue bearing fruit in Chatikobo for years to come.

Your gift today will also help local Messianic Jewish Believers follow up with patients who expressed interest in learning more about Jesus, offering them another opportunity to hear the Gospel, accept Jesus, and receive biblical discipleship.

Equipping and Inspiring Messianic Jewish Leaders in Africa

Your prayers are still needed for our current Zimbabwe Medical Outreach, but will you also agree with us in praying for our upcoming Messianic Leadership Training programs in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe?

Several of our key leaders, Messianic rabbis, will serve at the Zimbabwe Outreach and then travel to Ethiopia and back to Zimbabwe to conduct these leadership trainings. The program is specifically designed for leaders of the Messianic Jewish congregations with which we are aligned in those nations. It will be an excellent time of teaching and impartation.

Please use our 24-7 Prayer Watch calendar to sign up to pray from home for these critical times of instruction and relationship building, happening Sunday, July 21, through Tuesday, July 30, including travel days.

The program helps congregational leaders both theologically and practically. At the leaders' request, a key element in this year’s Messianic Leadership Training will focus on ways to incorporate Jewish identity and legacy into the lives of individual Jewish Believers in Yeshua (Jesus) and the beliefs and practices of their congregations.

Here are some specific ways you can pray:

• Health, safe travels, and protection of all kinds, including for our traveling rabbis’ families at home
• The Lord to prepare the leaders’ hearts to receive a new level of understanding and revelation regarding effectively leading Messianic Jewish congregations
• The anointing of the Holy Spirit on the teaching, on every word that is spoken and received
• Dynamic teaching times that will encourage, excite, and equip
• The leaders to experience a deeper and richer connection with the people of Israel as a result and with Yeshua, the Messiah, who personifies the God of Israel
• The leaders to leave with hearts stirred, many questions answered, and a fresh anointing on ways they can take their congregations deeper into theology, practice and life in the Jewish Messiah, Jesus

Let’s Pray

Lord, the leaders of the many small congregations of Messianic Jewish Believers in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe are groundbreakers and trailblazers. They are part of a growing movement in their nations as they lead Jewish Believers in following Yeshua according to their Jewish identity. What exciting times! Your Spirit is moving and stirring Your Chosen People to learn and grow in You. Bless our teaching rabbis and all those who will be trained by them as well as all those that the leaders will go on to disciple and equip. In Jesus’ name, AMEN.

DON’T FORGET: Join us in praying for the last portion of our Zimbabwe, Outreach. See the dated Prayer Points here.

We are headed to Gokwe, Zimbabwe, again! Although we held a successful Outreach there just last fall, we believe the Lord has “unfinished business” for us there among the Lemba Jewish people and their neighbors. On the last day of that previous Clinic, we had to leave many potential patients unseen. So, we can’t wait to return and treat more of those in such great need. And even though new congregations were planted last year, we believe there is an opportunity for even more.

Several other noteworthy elements of this Outreach include:

• A larger than usual number of Jewish Voice Ministries staff members are going
• Several “next generation” teens are also going to serve, whose parents are engaged in Messianic Jewish ministry
• A team of about a dozen people from a ministry in Israel will be ministering together on this Outreach
• About two dozen first-time Outreach volunteers are joining us, along with another dozen who have been with us before
• In total, this will be our largest team of international Outreach Partners since before COVID-19

We’re excited to see what the Lord will do during this second Outreach to Gokwe, Zimbabwe. And we are very excited to include YOU on the Outreach team – through your prayers. We take nothing for granted but bathe everything in prayer. Please join us.

Ways to Pray for the Gokwe Zimbabwe Outreach

You can use the daily prayer guide below as you pray. And please commit to a specific time slot to pray for us from home during the Outreach. SIGN UP HERE on our Prayer Schedule, referring to the dates below.

Here are the ways you can pray for us on this Gokwe, Zimbabwe, Outreach, July 11 – 21, 2024.

Before the Outreach

The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”

— Isaiah 40:3 NKJV

Wednesday, July 3 through Wednesday, July 10

• That all preparations, such as VISAS and medical supplies, are entirely in place and received with favor by local leaders
• Campsite and Clinic readiness (the conditions will be rustic), team unity and community relationships
• Word to get out regarding the return of our Medical Clinic so that right from the start on Sunday, July 14, we will serve as many as possible each day
• An important request: The Lord to prepare our way through tremendous and lasting favor with local officials and community leaders

• Spiritual forces of darkness to flee, making way for the King of Glory to come with salvation, healing and deliverance as the Lord prepares the spiritual atmosphere and hearts of the people

Thursday – Friday, July 11 – 12

• Protection, health, safety and favor as our team and partners prepare and travel
• Family members back home and all that pertains to them
• Smooth travel and all luggage to arrive on time in good condition
• Safe travel, especially during the rugged six-to-seven-hour drive to the Clinic location on Saturday
• Fellowship and unity to begin and deepen during these first few days, including the Erev Shabbat dinner on Friday night

Saturday, July 13

• All medical resources to be fully set up and ready for patients in the small, primitive clinic we will be using
• Clear and effective trainings and orientations for the medical and dental personnel, as well as Outreach and Spiritual Care Ministry partners
• The Lord to oversee the weather throughout the week — it will likely be warm during the day and cool at night

During the Outreach

“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,”

— Luke 4:18

Sunday, July 14

• Everything to be in place and for a smooth “opening day” as we begin to serve the community Sunday, with many being quick to come and receive care so our lines are full all week
• Local workers, chosen by the Lord, to not only be a blessing as they serve but to be blessed and saved
• Many from the community to come for care and receive salvation as well
• The Word of God to go forth swiftly, accompanied by miracles, signs and wonders

Monday, July 15

• The Lord to give our team wisdom, favor, discernment, and protection regarding any local or unique factors pertaining to this location, conditions, or time frame, including some darker elements in the local spiritual climate
• Great unity, love and fellowship among all team members and partners that testify of Yeshua (Jesus) to all in the community
• For the Messianic Jewish Believers who will be speaking with and praying for people in the Spiritual Care Tent to be used by the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) in seeing salvations, healing and deliverances
• The Zehra Kids Program — both at the Clinic site and during school visits — to leave a lasting and eternal impact on the community’s children and families through truth, joy, salvation, and love

Tuesday, July 16

• Protection, strategy, and divine encounters for the Living Waters team as they bring LifeStraws® and the Good News of Jesus to nearby communities and schools
• The wonderful and weighty presence of the Lord to anoint and refresh our whole team during daily morning prayer times
• Divine encounters in the community leading to openness to the Good News and many salvations
• The Lord’s mighty protection covering the entire Outreach and all involved from any spiritual or natural interference

Wednesday, July 17

• Glorious worship times with the Lemba choir, especially during the Wednesday evening service, bringing renewal to the team, delighting the Lord, and sending the powers of darkness to flight
• The Lord to move powerfully through the Gospel and the ministry of the Holy Spirit
• Effective medical and dental care and healing to take place, including supernaturally as a testimony of God’s power and love

Thursday, July 18

• The ability to treat as many patients as possible on the last day of the Outreach, which is planned as a half-day
• Order and shalom to reign as we pay local workers and close the patient lines
• Safety and efficiency in closing the Clinic and packing up equipment and supplies

Friday, July 19

• Safe travel once more on rough roads
• A relaxing day celebrating all the Lord has done and ending the week in fellowship with one another
• Each one to hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant!”
• A blessed Erev Shabbat dinner with testimonies of the Lord’s goodness

After the Outreach

In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of [Messiah] Jesus.

— Philippians 1:4–6

Saturday – Sunday, July 20 - 21 and beyond

• Safe travels home and a special outpouring of grace for everyone who served through this Outreach by honoring the Lord and loving the Gokwe community
• The Lord to continue breaking ground for the Good News of Yeshua in the Gokwe region, bringing a great movement of His Holy Spirit among these dear people
• Effective and timely follow-up to all who want to hear more about Jesus
• The Lord to continue establishing His Kingdom in Zimbabwe and developing healthy congregations

Let’s Pray

Lord, thank You that You are the God of second chances! Even though our first Outreach in Gokwe was effective, we truly sense that You have more work that You desire to do through us to bring blessing in this region. Pour out Your Spirit and bring great and lasting evidence of Your saving, healing and delivering power. You do mighty miracles, and we pray that Your power displayed in Gokwe will bring eternal fruit. In Yeshua’s name, AMEN.