The James Family
Kep & Debbie February 2022 Prayer Requests
• Pray for Kep and Debbie as they prepare to spend the month of April in Senegal, Chad and Turkey helping to train church planters. Please pray for the many students in the 15 training centers as they prepare to plant churches across North and West Africa and the Middle East. Pray that they will grow in their love for Christ as they study the Bible, that they will understand the Bible as they study it, that they will live in accordance with its truth in real gospel transformation, and that the will learn to teach it faithfully (2 Timothy 4:1-5).
• Pray for the 1,740 ESI (Equipping Servants – Disciples Making Disciples) participants in 162 groups meeting in 14 countries. Pray that these men and women will grow in their love for God and commitment to honor Christ by being true to His Scriptures with Jesus and His Gospel at the center.
• Pray for the 100 pastors and church leaders from East Africa, Nigeria and Liberia who plan to attend our first ESI Facilitator Training Retreat in Africa (in Tanzania) April 20-23 with an eye to start ESI in Africa.
• Praise for ESI expansion in Latin America in 2022. ESI Peru is taking ESI into British Guyana; ESI Ecuador is taking ESI into Central America, and ESI Columbia continues to oversee ESI expansion in Venezuela and just started 2 new groups in La Coruna, Spain.
• Pray for our ILC church in La Paz, Bolivia that members will be faithful sharing Christ with people around us, and that the Lord will bring much fruit that remains.
• Praise as Kep and Debbie in this 2022 transition year to relocate back to Cleveland. They are making this move in order to dedicate 50% of their time to the work in Africa, and the other 50% with ESI oversight and expansion.
• Praise that Debbie was able to hand her ILC Church women’s ministry over to her ministry team – this frees her to travel with Kep and work with women in Africa and in Latin America.
• Pray for Pastor Pepe and the elders of the ILC Church in La Paz, that they will be passionate about Jesus as they lead by example and with a gospel-focus in their preaching and teaching.