The James Family
Kep & Debbie April 2023 Prayer Requests
* Pray for the ILC Church that Kep and Debbie planted in Bolivia, that its leadership will continue honoring Christ by staying true to His Scriptures.
* Pray for the 2,200 ESI participants in 200 groups meeting in 16 countries, with 2900 total graduates since beginning in 2002. Current ESI countries are USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Spain, Sweden, Kenya. Pray that these men and women will grow in their love for God as they study His Scriptures, that they will stay true to Jesus, and that they will keep His Gospel at the center.
* Pray for the ESI leaders in each of the above countries-Tomas Diaz oversees ESI in Ecuador and Guatemala; Edgar Mamani in La Paz, Bolivia and Sweden; Javier Soliz in Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Edwin Callejas in Peru, Neri Rivera in Chiapas, Mexico; Edgar Rivera in Oaxaca, Mexico; Russ and Heidi Smith in Chile; Andrew and Angie James in Uruguay; Freddy Romero in Brazil; Rolando Ruiz in Argentina; Boris Arancibia in Bolivia; Sebastian Moreno in Colombia and Spain and Venezuela; Miguel Ayala in Paraguay; and Jose Gutierrez in Los Angeles, USA.
* Debbie and I will be in Zambia April 10-19 to lead 2 ESI training retreats, and then in Burundi April 22-26 to lead an ESI training retreat, and then in Kenya to follow up on the ESI groups that started in Nairobi in January. Please pray that the Lord will use the study of His Word to help pastors and church leaders grow in their commitment to Christ and experience the transformation of the gospel in their own lives. Pray that they will see their need to preach and teach the Bible faithfully so that their churches will grow up in Christ on the African continent.
* Pray that the training students received from Kep and Debbie in Niger and Lebanon in March at the missionary schools will have a lasting impact in each of their lives. We spent time studying through the book of Romans, seeing that Jesus and the gospel is the message of the Bible. Pray that they will continue to study the Bible as their lifelong commitment – so they can understand what it says, and live what it says, and faithfully teach and preach what it says!
* Pray for the African church planting missionaries we have trained in North and West Africa and the Middle East, who are currently doing evangelism and church planting in difficult Muslim communities through that region.