June Prayer Calendar Archive
Parkside Missions Prayer Calendar
Stay connected with and pray for Parkside missionaries around the world as prayer items are posted here.
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- Supported Worker: Mark & Patti Bean
- Country: Peru
- Details: Please pray for the reprinting of the Huamalies hymnbook in time for a big church convention the first week of this month. Pray that the print shop will finish it in time. Praise God with them that Patti was able to travel in May to meet their two youngest grandchildren and see each of their four adult children. She was also able to visit her sister and wounded-warrior nephew, as well as attend her 40th high school reunion dinner. | PHILIPPINES| Spiritual vitality does not always equate to biblical truth. Philippines is awash with sects and cults that blend Christian ideas ... more >
- Supported Worker: Joe & Brenda Ziska
- Country: Austria
- Details: Praise God for the women and men who came to the follow-up talk after the Ladies’ Breakfast. Their colleague Jonathan’s father showed beautiful pictures and talked about gardening and God’s care for the world and for us. This was the first time men were also invited to the meeting. Pray for growth in these relationships and that many will come to see their need of a Savior. | POLAND | There is a great need for witness in Poland, with 90% of municipalities having no evangelical church. Most Poles are resistant to the gospel due to either their cultural faith ... more >
- Supported Worker: Kathy Maenner
- Country: Bolivia
- Details: Praise God with her for a relaxing vacation and for time with family. Pray for the planning of her parents’ 50th anniversary this month, and that the celebration would be one that honors them and brings glory to the Lord for the way He has worked in and through them over these many years of their being together. She is thankful for the opportunity to honor them in this way. |PORTUGAL | Religious and political freedoms gained in 1975 have transformed the nation, but high religious affiliation and freedom does not translate into genuine faith. The religious freedom gained is taken ... more >
- Supported Worker: Jeffrey & Katherine Robinson
- Country: Germany
- Details: Praise the Lord with them for the smooth re-entry they have experienced since their return to Germany. Praise Him too that the 25th wedding anniversary church service was a blessing to many. The prayer they had asked for from Parkside was evident to Jeffrey as he prepared and conducted this service. Pray that the remaining re-entry details will be completed this month. | PUERTO RICO | Discipleship ministry is much needed. Pray for effective grassroots movements that will meaningfully transform the lives of ordinary believers. Missions vision is on the rise, but still needs nurture after decades of uninvolvement. Pray for effective ... more >
- Supported Worker: Mike & Cindy The Balkans
- Details: Pray for good closure to the semester at the language center for this season, so that most of the students will continue on in the Fall semester. Pray for the transition of daughter Elizabeth, who will be moving to live with Mike and Cindy in June. She will study her senior year at an international school in the capital city of the country where they are working. Pray for a 2-week day camp that teammates of Mike and Cindy are running in the end of June in a nearby village in the name of their language/culture center. Pray for ... more >
- Supported Worker: Mike & Joan Ross
- Country: Mexico
- Details: Pray for the graduation ceremony planned for June 7th for those finishing the fifth semester of Equipping Servants Internship (ESI) studies. Pray for safety for Edgar as he makes bi-weekly bus trips (14 hours round trip) to visit ESI groups in Pachuca, and for Neri as he makes monthly trips (20 hours round trip) to Oaxaca to visit ESI groups. Pray that each graduate and each ongoing class member will learn to apply God’s Word in their own lives and ministry. | REUNION | The dark legacy of slavery, abolished in 1848, still overshadows the present. The Creole population are descendants ... more >
- Supported Worker: Wes & Nancy Collins
- Country: Peru
- Details: Praise God with Wes as he has completed a good draft of his book on the Maya-Mam language and people. There are many details that still need to be tended to, so please pray that he will be able to see this project through to completion. It is hoped that this work will be published later this year. | ROMANIA | Church planting is still a vital ministry. Over 100 new churches are planted each year, but many more are needed. A consortium of mission agencies works across evangelical denominational boundaries to facilitate reaching the 19 cities and 9,500 villages (43 ... more >
- Supported Worker: Kep & Debbie James
- Country: Bolivia
- Details: Pray for Debbie and the team of committed women in the ILC church as they evangelize and disciple women in 2013. Pray for Sami and Heather working in the city of Santa Cruz in a Biblical counseling outreach to young people called Café Alfarero. Pray for Katie, working as a nurse at the Cleveland Clinic and serving God in a multitude of relationships. Pray for Andrew serving with Samaritan’s Purse in Bolivia doing pastoral training in Aymara communities on the Altiplano. He is more than half finished with his MA studies at Trinity Seminary. Pray for Angie as she ... more >
- Supported Worker: Bobby & Julie Puckett
- Country: United States of America
- Details: They are making progress with their search for a mission agency. Pray that God will use the mission agency to guide them to the people group, place, and team where God wants them to go. Pray that God will continue to direct all this according to his will. Pray that God will continue to show us as a church how he wants to use Bobby & Julie in overseas missions. | RWANDA | Thousands of spiritual leaders were murdered or fled and have not been replaced. The remaining often despair of being able to cope with the desperate physical, social, psychological and spiritual ... more >
- Supported Worker: Equipping Servants Internship (ESI)
- Countries: Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru
- Details: Pray for the ESI (Equipping Servants) participants. Pray that pastors in Latin America will spend quality time with their wives and children, and that God will transform marriages as pastors live this Biblical commitment of God’s priority for them. Pray that pastors and church leaders will build a strong community of Biblical friendship with people in their churches and with other pastors and church leaders in their cities, to build the unity of the body of Christ around Latin America. Please pray for God’s supply for the 2500 pastoral book sets needed between 2014 and 2018 as they ... more >
- Supported Worker: Truth For Life
- Details: Pray that unsaved men and women who are part of the third-party Truth For Life professional support team will discover the saving power of Jesus Christ through their affiliation with the ministry. Pray that God will use these connections to reach out to those who have yet to know Him and seek the lost as they work with Truth For Life side-by-side. Thank the Lord for the bountiful numbers of committed men and women He provides to the ministry as Truthpartners. They are grateful for the Father’s sustaining financial provision by moving thousands who listen to give monthly and ... more >
- Supported Worker: Scranton Road Bible Church
- Country: United States of America
- Details: Please pray for wisdom and courage to minister to their Scranton Road community in light of recent events on Seymour Avenue. Pray for good rest, refreshment and God’s guidance as Pastor Joe and his wife Debbie embark on a three-month sabbatical. Thank the Lord for the SRBC staff and ministry leaders as He guides them with their added responsibilities in Pastor Joe’s absence. Pray for many of the church and community kids to register for Parkside’s VBS program this month. Also pray for the continued planning for the AIS soccer camp the last week in July—that ... more >
- Supported Worker: Wes & Nancy Collins
- Country: Peru
- Details: Pray for their son Isaac and his fiancée Elizabeth as they prepare for their marriage. Pray for all of their plans as they desire to honor God in their wedding and in their lives. Also pray for wisdom and God’s guidance as they, along with Nancy’s newly widowed mother, consider a move of their US home from Ohio to a location closer to their kids and grand-kids. | SAUDI ARABIA| Saudis who come to faith in Christ face the death penalty if discovered; executions are definitely known to occur. Despite this, increasing numbers are secretly seeking and finding ... more >
- Supported Worker: Jeffrey & Katherine Robinson
- Country: Germany
- Details: Praise God for the warm welcome they received on their return to Germany from their ministry partners, volleyball group and a colleague Katherine works with where she teaches English. Pray that they will wisely discern how to move forward with some of the requests placed before them by their ministry partners. Pray, too, for wisdom and sensitivity as they “disengage” from some activities that no longer seem to be helpful or necessary. | SENEGAL| Young people. Of Senegal’s population, 55% are under age 20. Many of these are children in crisis; ministry among them is growing – drop-in centres, vocational training ... more >
- Supported Worker: Delhi Bible Institute
- Country: India
- Details: Please pray for the 20 missionaries raised up by Parkside: Arunesh, Balwant, Chhote, Dharmendra, Dhermendra, Dilip, Dinesh, Jai, Kamelsh, Lakshman, Mahendra, Nirmala, Punam, Rahul, Shiv, Suresh, Thoyphil, Vipin and Vishal for protection and boldness as they bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Northern India. Pray also for the leaders of DBI: Ramrajh, Abdul, Numgail, Abwan, Yogatah, Sheelah and Isaac that God would grant them wisdom as they seek to raise-up and train men to preach and teach the word of God. | SERBIA | Christian mission agencies find it hard to establish long-term ministry. Pray that openings may increase and long-term ... more >
- Supported Worker: The City Mission
- Country: United States of America
- Details: Pray for the Summer Internship Program as participants live and serve at both campuses through August. Also pray for the final planning and success of the Running with a Mission to be presented by the Sherwin-Williams Women’s Club on Saturday, June 22nd. They ask for continued prayer for all of the ongoing programs: (1) Crossroads Men’s Crisis Center—for their clients as they partake in the new front-loaded programming (LaunchPoint) and for the culinary and janitorial students. (2) Laura’s Home Women’s Crisis Center—for the women to truly embrace their 7 Keys for Spiritual Renewal class ... more >
- Supported Worker: Mark & Patti Bean
- Country: Peru
- Details: The training that was scheduled for school teachers at the beginning of May was postponed and therefore happened without Patti. She says that was actually better. Meanwhile, there are more opportunities to work with pastors in the Huamalies area to help them read better in Quechua. Pray for the team that goes out—Bernardo and Leoncio. | SEYCHELLES | The vernacular of Seselwa has a translated NT, but the shelves are empty – financial troubles and the inability to exchange local currency means a shortfall of NTs and all Christian literature. There is an OT translation team in place. Pray for a solution ... more >
- Supported Worker: Kathy Maenner
- Country: Bolivia
- Details: Pray that she will continuously seek the Lord and hear His voice in all areas of her life. She is thankful for the opportunity the Lord has given her to walk alongside a good friend from Bolivia as she continues to go through cancer treatments in Cleveland. She praises the Lord for the other sisters in Christ that He has brought into this friend’s life during this time to be an encouragement, especially as she is so far from home and family. | SIERRA LEONE |The lack of spiritual and biblically trained leadership is critical; disruption from the conflict crippled ... more >
- Supported Worker: Alternaterm Pregnancy Services
- Country: United States of America
- Details: Please continue to pray that the Lord will send the clients to the center who need to know of His Gospel and grace in their time of need. Pray for those who think that abortion is their only “choice”. Also pray that the volunteers now going through the new training materials will persevere through to the end and be able to put their training to good use with clients. Pray for new counseling volunteers that are needed to fill some gaps in the weekly schedule. Praise God that Leah, the sonographer on the mobile unit, has been recovering well after ... more >
- Supported Worker: Joe & Brenda Ziska
- Country: Austria
- Details: Joe & Brenda are thankful for the doors that remain open for them to visit the children’s home. Please continue to pray for these children. Pray for the play afternoon they have planned for June 22nd for the children, their friends from school, and children from the neighborhood. | SLOVAKIA| Slovakia is a nation in the midst of significant change. Economic reforms and EU membership both created as well as solved problems. Depression and suicide rates are among the highest in Europe; pray that many might seek for hope and truth, and find these in Christ. more >
- Supported Worker: Pastoral Assistants
- Country: Bolivia
- Details: Pray for the 13 Pastoral Assistants (PAs) with Kep in La Paz, that God will use the training in 2013 to help them learn to think and live and teach Biblically in order to reach the lost and build a Christ-honoring church in Bolivia and throughout Latin America. Pray for Ramiro Sanjinez and Juan Cruz as they study 16 hours each week in 2 Corinthians, and are involved in a variety of ministry training in the ILC church. Both report that God is changing their way of thinking and doing ministry through this intensive process. Pray for Gumercindo Coronel’s ... more >
- Supported Worker: Parkside Church Short-term Team
- Country: Mexico
- Details: Please pray for the Parkside High School team that will be working to help finish a new church building in Amoltepec during the last week in June. Pray for health and safety for the team and that each member will be blessed as they are an encouragement to the local Christians. Pray that all the logistics for the trip and the project will fall into place, in order to maximize their time in Oaxaca. | SOLOMON ISLANDS | Ethnic diversity and fragmentation as well as geography render the Solomons a patchwork of tribes and political groups rather than a unified nation. This ... more >
- Supported Worker: Jeffrey & Katherine Robinson
- Country: Germany
- Details: Please pray that their focus on evangelism and discipleship will not be hindered by needs they cannot or should not meet for others. Pray that their activity will be rooted in prayer, guided by the Spirit and confirmed by a sense of unity with their ministry partners. Pray that God would lead them to those persons truly seeking to know Christ—either by coming to faith or in growing deeper in their faith. Pray for spiritual awakening among those in Jeffrey’s volleyball group and in their not yet believing friends and contacts. | SOMALIA |The work of missions, always dangerous ... more >
- Supported Worker: Johannes Thaele & Children's Home
- Country: South Africa
- Details: Praise God for the new social worker at the Bolokanang Youth Centre. Please pray for three specific residents: healing for Ntsoaki, age 10, who has a lot of anger; for 10-year-old Gloria to come to know Christ; for the right Christian family to adopt the baby to be born to Puleng, a resident of the Centre. Pray for Johannes to be effective in his teaching as he works with the farm schools and uses the Wordless Book. Pray for Johannes as he prepares and delivers messages to the children, that many will come to understand the basic truths of the ... more >
- Supported Worker: Mike & Joan Ross
- Country: Mexico
- Details: Please pray for quick solutions to a number of different paper work issues which could put their ability to continue serving isolated communities with the airplane at risk. Pray for wisdom to use the resources God has blessed them with in a way that will glorify Him. Pray that several planned outreaches to the communities they serve will bear much fruit in encouraging the Christians and reaching the lost. | SPAIN | Leadership training. Few churches can afford to pay for a full-time pastor, let alone a team of them. As a result, churches must use bivocational pastors or be entrusted to ... more >
- Supported Worker: Chris and Leanne Harrington
- Country: United States of America
- Details: Please pray for them as they are prayerfully seeking the Lord’s direction on which country and agency through which to serve the Lord. Also continue to pray for them in the parenting of their three children: Mark, four, Lillia, two and Claire, five-months. | SRI LANKA | Tolerance and non-violence have historically been watchwords of Sri Lanka. However, this multi-religious, multi-ethnic country now sees religious extremism and persecution rising. Pray for: a) The disarming of the spiritual powers and principalities that heavily influence a very religious society. b) The exposure of Buddhist extremism as a hateful aberration. Pray that such extremism ... more >
- Supported Workers: Edgar Rivera, Neri Rivera
- Country: Mexico
- Details: Please pray for Edgar and Lety’s daughter Ana Gracia as she continues the application process for the college of her choice. Pray that God will open doors for her to study pre-med. Also pray for Neri’s first post-chemo check-up on June 26th. Pray that no new tumors will have developed and that none will do so in the future. Pray for Neri and Karin’s daughter Zuri as she applies to a local college in Chiapas. | ST BARTHELEMY | This island caters to the uber-rich, trading on its sophistication and isolation for its exclusivity. There is little interest in ... more >
- Supported Worker: Mark & Patti Bean
- Country: Peru
- Details: Please continue to pray for diligent attention for Mark and the team as they revise the five different Quechua New Testaments. Pray for wisdom in knowing how to handle concepts for which there are no words in the Quechua languages. | ST HELENA | The Christian heritage of St Helena is strong but islanders’ committed to faith are decreasing. Most Christians are nominal, and church attendance continues to decline. A critical mass of evangelicals on the islands is needed to generate spiritual momentum. more >
- Supported Worker: Kep & Debbie James
- Country: Bolivia
- Details: Please pray for Kep as he oversees the ESI ministry. Pray for Javier Soliz, that God will guide and give him wisdom as he trains pastors involved in 3 ESI groups in Santa Cruz and one in Cochabamba. Pray for Edwin Callejas (PA), as he and his wife Alicia and three children develop relationships with pastors starting ESI in Huanuco, Peru. Please pray for Freddy Choque as he develops the ESI ministry in the city of El Alto; and for Tomas Diaz (PA), as he works with 5 groups of ESI pastors in Loja, Ecuador. God is using the study ... more >
- Supported Worker: Joe & Brenda Ziska
- Country: Austria
- Details: Thank God with them that Joe has finally been accepted into the research project that is testing a new cancer medication. Although the pills seem to leave him tired at times, his reaction to them has been basically good. Please pray that he is receiving the real cancer medication and not the placebo. Praise the Lord that he has found a pain medicine that is effective, so that he is able to continue with his active ministry. | ST LUCIA | The majority of St Lucians speak a French Creole. The NT, recently translated into Creole, is being used for literacy projects ... more >
