Pray for Specific Areas of Ministry
Pray for Asia's Women Missionaries
In a culture where women don’t interact freely and openly with men, heartfelt conversations with male missionaries are limited. But God is raising up sisters in Christ to reach women in their spheres of influence.
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Pray for Children's Ministry
Children are the future of any society, and right now, many children in South Asia find their futures may be teetering on a cliff’s edge.
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Pray for Christmas Gifts
To many across the globe, Christmas is the season of giving. It’s a time we think about others and plan to bless our friends and family with gifts that let them know we love and care for them.
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Pray for Church Buildings
For most Asian congregations, a church building is much more than a Sunday morning meeting place. Learn why thousands of congregations are currently praying for church buildings, and how you can pray with them.
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Pray for Compassion Services
GFA's Compassion Services—which includes disaster relief efforts, and the medical, slum and leprosy ministries—meet some of the most vital and urgent needs of people in South Asia.
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Pray for Disaster Relief
Join with us as we lift up those who brave the harshest of catastrophes to minister to affected communities.
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Pray for Film Ministry
Within a few hours, a film and a team of two to five missionaries can tell Jesus’ story to an entire community and provide an opportunity for the local pastor to start building relationships with villagers.
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Pray for GFA's Leprosy Ministry
Tens of thousands of people worldwide suffer from leprosy, which is a bacterial infection that affects the skin and destroys nerves. The social stigma is devastating, perhaps even worse than the disease itself.
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Pray for GFA’s Mission Support Team
GFA’s Mission Support Team is made up of men and women serving behind the scenes in GFA’s administration offices. Their hearts are set on helping the people in Asia, and they serve as the vital link between GFA supporters around the globe and ministry on the field.
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Pray for GFA-supported Bridge of Hope
Millions of children in Asia grow up with little to no education. Extreme poverty prevents parents from being able to send their kids to school. Please join us as we pray for GFA-supported Bridge of Hope this month.
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Pray for GFA-supported Radio
Since 1986, God has used GFA-supported radio programs to bring His message of love to people across Asia. Radio broadcasts can cross treacherous terrain to share with people who are hungering for a love greater than the world can offer. Walls cannot keep this faithful messenger away, so hope-filled programs can be heard within prisons, hospitals and even brothels.
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Pray for GFA World's Clean Water Initiatives
Approximately 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to clean water, which adds unnecessary hardship to people’s everyday lives as they struggle to obtain this vital necessity. People in developing countries often rely on surface water to supply their needs, but these waters are often contaminated and can lead to frequent illness and other health concerns. In these areas, including countries in Asia and Africa where GFA World serves, 80 percent of illnesses are linked to unclean water and poor sanitation
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Pray for GFA World’s Feeding Program
GFA missionaries and churches have responded compassionately to the need for food and other essentials in light of this crisis. Please join us in praying this month for GFA World’s feeding efforts and the people who continue to grapple with hunger in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pray for GFA World's Medical Ministry
GFA World’s medical ministry provides free health care to people in need. This care is given mainly through medical camps, where GFA’s medical team brings skilled doctors, medical staff and medication to remote and impoverished areas which lack health care. Please join us in praying this month for GFA World’s medical ministry.
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Pray for GFA World’s Sanitation Initiative
Please join us in praying this month for GFA World’s sanitation initiative and for those without proper sanitation facilities.
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Pray for Health
Help us pray for healing for the millions of people around the world who are suffering from disease. Some of the hardest-hit communities are in Asia, where poverty and destitution provide illnesses a way in.
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Pray for Impoverished People Who Need Empowering Gifts
Practical gifts, such as those given through GFA World’s Christmas Gift Catalog, are an important part of our mission to bring the love of Christ to those in need. These gifts include chickens, goats, pigs, cows and other items, including food, tin sheets, bicycles and sewing machines. These gifts generate income or increase families’ quality of life! Through these gifts, GFA missionaries show the true compassion of Christ to those in need. For some families, receiving a piglet means the start of financial
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Pray for Kids in Need
Poverty keeps millions of children across the world in a seemingly endless cycle of despair—around 356 million children live in extreme poverty, which includes 150 million pushed into poverty in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. With no way to afford education, proper health care or even food, many children suffer in destitution, often with no way out. Hope is a stranger to these precious children.
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Pray for Leprosy and Slum Ministries
Join us as we lift up GFA-supported workers and Sisters of Compassion ministering to the sick and downtrodden in leprosy colonies and in many slums throughout Asia.
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Pray for Literature and Bibles
GFA-supported missionaries never head out to share the love of Christ without Gospel literature in hand. They know the powerful impact a small tract containing God's message of salvation can have on so many lives.
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Pray for National Missionaries
GFA national missionaries have a special heart to share Christ’s love with their neighbors and face few cultural obstacles to do so. These dedicated laborers often serve where no one else is serving, sharing Christ’s love with people who have yet to hear His name. As a result, lives are being transformed and churches are being planted.
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Pray for People Who Need Blankets and Winter Clothing
In the regions GFA World serves, many people still live in poverty, and even a blanket or a winter jacket can be unaffordable for them. This puts lives at risk, and it makes it harder for missionaries to visit people who are waiting to hear of Christ’s love. Please join us in praying this month for those who need blankets and winter clothing.
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Pray for Poverty Alleviation
Please join us this month as we intercede for those caught in poverty and the various ways GFA is working to help them.
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Pray for Provision Through Sewing Machines
Please join us this month in praying for sewing machines and those with related needs.
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Pray for Sisters of Compassion
Let us pray with passion for this ministry as God equips these precious women to sow His unfailing love deep into the hearts of everyone they serve.
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Pray for Strong Families in Asia
Through various ministries, GFA helps nurture family units. Strong families impact communities as they shape generations and form worldviews. Through education, income-generating gifts, hygiene, basic medical training and care, Jesus Wells and, most of all, the love of Christ, many families are experiencing change today. Healthy families are important to the Lord’s heart and society as a whole.
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Pray for the Equipping of Missionaries
Unknown villages tucked away in the mountains, dusty roads and deep lush forests—these are only some of the places where GFA-supported national missionaries serve. Some travel on foot, while others have bicycles or motorcycles to get around.
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Pray for Those Who Need Bicycles
In many of the areas where GFA World serves, transportation options are limited. These rural places, in which many of the world’s poor people live, are isolated by distance and by challenging terrain. GFA workers may trek miles, often by foot, just to visit a remote village. The isolation also affects the people within those communities, hampering adults from reaching their workplaces and children from obtaining a proper education.
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Pray for Those Who Need Mosquito Nets
Malaria remains an ever-present threat to impoverished communities. In 2020, there were an estimated 241 million malaria cases worldwide, an increase from the previous year’s 227 million cases. The poorest communities often have no way to protect themselves, leaving many vulnerable to disease—or even death.
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Pray for Vacation Bible School
Squeals of excitement fill the air as thousands of children gather. Each one has a different story and background. But today, they get to set aside their differences and experience Vacation Bible School together.
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Pray for Vocational Training
Sewing, weaving and candle-making are most often seen as hobbies enjoyed here in the West. But for many women in Asia, these "hobbies" can be a genuine source of income.
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Pray for Widows
In places such as Asia and Africa, widows commonly bear the burden of stigma and discrimination, in addition to their grief. They may be blamed for their husband’s death and viewed as cursed. It’s commonplace for widows’ own families to reject them, leaving them to fend for themselves.
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Pray for Widows and Abandoned Children
Join us in prayer this month as we ask God to be the widow’s help and the safe refuge for children in need.
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Pray for Women
Abuse, illiteracy and poverty are but a few of the burdens challenging some women in Asia. In the face of such obstacles, GFA-supported workers help provide hope and freedom to these women. Various programs and initiatives, such as vocational training and literacy classes, are organized to give women the tools and skills they need to break free from whatever may bind them.
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Pray for Women's Fellowships
Christ-centred teaching and fellowship is precious to all believers, but it is especially valuable to the many women in Asia who are new in their faith or are the only believers in their family. Through GFA-supported Women’s Fellowships, women receive discipleship, encouragement and prayer support.
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Urgent: Pray for Afghanistan
With the Taliban regaining control in Afghanistan, the Afghan people face terror, rape and even execution. Girls are being taken as sex slaves. Men are being shot. You’ve probably seen the shocking images of people clinging to planes in a desperate attempt to escape the country. Some families have been wandering in the desert for more than a week in similar desperation. People are suffering.
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Pray for Myanmar (Burma)
Myanmar (Burma) is a country in crisis. Strategically located between India and China, the country is ruled by a brutal military junta. One of the poorest countries in the world, Myanmar has very little educational structure and a largely uneducated workforce. The people suffer from poverty, hunger, oppression and human rights abuse. Thousands live their lives on the run or in hiding due to decades-old civil unrest.
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Pray for Nepal
Nepal is a nation that needs your prayers. From over a decade of bloody civil conflict that claimed thousands of lives to ongoing political instability in its government, this picturesque Himalayan country has suffered greatly and bears deep wounds.
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Pray for Sri Lanka
On Easter Sunday in 2019, several churches and hotels in Sri Lanka were bombed, purportedly by suicide bombers. The death toll is up to 290 and includes many people who were attending Easter church services.
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