The James Family
Kep & Debbie May 2022 Prayer Requests
* Praise for the time Kep and Debbie were able to spend in Africa in the month of April. They taught students at 3 ministry training centers in Senegal, Chad, and Turkey. Pease pray for these 60 students as they plan to go out and plant churches across North and West Africa and the Middle East in the next months. Pray that they will grow as students of God’s Word in their love for Jesus to experience gospel transformation in their daily lives.
* Pray for the 1,825 ESI (Equipping Servants–Disciples Making Disciples) participants in 168 groups meeting in 14 countries, with 2,730 total graduates since we began in 2002. 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 120 pastors and church leaders from 14 African countries that Kep and Debbie met with in Tanzania April 20-23. Pray for some who are considering starting ESI in their African countries of origin.
* Praise God 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 into Venezuela and just started 3 new groups in La Coruña, Spain. One pastor in La Coruña made this comment: "This is what I have been looking for all my Christian life-how good it is to be studying Romans, seeing Jesus and experiencing gospel transformation in mutual discipleship together with other church leaders in our region."
* 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.
* Pray for Kep and Debbie in this transition year (2022) as they relocate back to Cleveland in order to dedicate 50% of their time to the work in Africa (they will continue the other 50% with ESI).
* Praise God 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 so they can lead the church in gospel transformation according to God’s Word.