South America

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IFES

March 2020

Breaking New Ground project for students

Please pray for IFES national movement students and staff in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago and in one other country who are pioneering student ministry in new cities and on new campuses with resources from the IFES Breaking New Ground* initiative. Please pray that God would provide local Christian students who will get involved in this ministry and invite friends to study the Bible, and for protection and energy for staff and volunteers travelling long distances to support the new groups. *The Breaking New Ground project was launched in 2018 to support and resource pioneering ministry by awarding grants, by identifying and training people and by mobilising prayer across IFES’s global network.

Serving in Mission

Paraguay

March 2020

Recorded scriptures in heart languages

Pray for the unreached indigenous people of Paraguay. People belonging to most of the 19 distinct indigenous groups in Paraguay live and die with almost no access to God’s good news. Serving in Mission (SIM) Paraguay is addressing this by partnering with other missions to record scriptures and Bible materials in the heart languages of these communities. Pray that by sending ministry teams to disciple and train believers from indigenous communities, these indigenous believers will ultimately convey the gospel to other groups.

Latin Link

Brazil

March 2020

Challenging the practice of ‘jeitinho’

Pray for ethics: Brazil is the country of the ‘jeitinho’ (finding a way around things by bending the rules). In some cases this can reveal a sinful mentality which says it is fine to trample on others to get what you want and has led to an ethical crisis.

Lifewords

Venezuela

January 2020

Pavement Project counselling programme

Lifewords has taken Pavement Project, a counselling programme for children-at-risk, to Venezuela, which is in the midst of economic collapse and political turmoil; 94% of Venezuelans live in poverty, and four million people have fled to neighbouring countries in search of work and security. Alicia’s mother is one of these people. Alicia*, 11 years old, felt abandoned and alone, and was terribly afraid that her mother would forget her. She said “I feel like a notebook from which a sheet has been torn off, and then it is no longer the same notebook, a part is missing. My heart is broken.” Pray that more and more children would know God’s love for them through Pavement Project, and that it would help bring change to Venezuela. *names have been changed.

Emmanuel International

Brazil

January 2020

Ofaié idigenous group in Brazil

The Ofaié is a small indigenous group in Brazil. They have a history of hardships and fighting for survival. In the past, they were thrown out of the land that belonged to their ancestors, but now they are back to their area and that means a lot to them. The day-to-day life for the Ofaié families continues to be a challenge; please pray for them. Pray that they raise themselves in dignity, cry out to God for help in times of need, and open their hearts to receive God´s Word, preached by the Terena, a neighbouring indigenous group.

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