Ethiopia: crisis for children
25 Mar 2021
UNICEF is underscoring the need for continual aid for children amid a worsening situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Five months since the conflict began, a picture is emerging of killings and sexual violence against women and children. UNICEF reports schools and health centres looted, vandalised, and occupied by armed groups. In addition, deliberate attacks of violence and looting have left 60% of health care facilities not operational. 57% of boreholes (providing water) in 13 towns are not functional, and a quarter of the region’s schools have sustained damage. Although UNICEF and partners give humanitarian aid to the needy, there are urgent needs for children’s protection. Fighting, media blackout, and government-imposed restrictions leave humanitarian organisations unable to provide adequate aid, and they have had difficulty accurately gauging the need. Basic service outlets must be protected and the safety and security of everyone working in and accessing those services guaranteed.
China: church in chains - Pastor John
25 Mar 2021
Just one of the Christian prisoners in China is Pastor John Cao (60), serving a seven-year prison sentence for ‘organising illegal border crossings’ between China and Myanmar. He made many trips from America to his native China to establish schools and work among the poor before expanding his humanitarian work into Myanmar. He was detained in 2017 while returning to China from Myanmar and sentenced a year later. His defence lawyer and his mother asked prison authorities to deliver a Bible to him. They refused. His mother writes Bible verses in each letter she sends. Please ask God to bless Pastor John and keep his faith strong, and pray for healing from his various health problems. Pray that he will be released early. Pray for his witness to prisoners and guards, and that others would continue his ministry to the poor.
‘Beyond the Pandemic: Is there any word from the Lord?’ by Rev Dr Clifford Hill
When a pandemic is unleashed, how should Christians respond?
Beyond the Pandemic provides a Biblical view of the contemporary world situation.
It focuses upon what the Biblical prophets called “the deeds of the Lord” – the historical evidence of the activity of God in the life and times of the leaders of Israel and Judah, from Moses to Malachi. This revelation of the nature of God is set alongside contemporary events, providing a prophetic view of God’s purposes in these troubled times.
After years of warnings to our society, which has turned its back on Him, who is both Creator and Sovereign over the world in which we live, we must either repent or face yet worse afflictions; Hill points us to the only effective remedy – God’s word spoken through Isaiah 45:22, “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is no other.”
The Rev. Dr Clifford Hill MA, BD, PhD, Sociologist and Theologian, is a lecturer, preacher and broadcaster who has written over forty books. He is an ordained minister in the Congregational church, has led multi-ethnic congregation in London and continues to exercise pastoral oversight of an inner-city church.
He is editor-in-chief of Prophecy Today UK, which seeks to apply God’s word in the Bible to current affairs and, with his wife, Monica, is joint director of Issachar Ministries which supports Christians in prayer and action.
Beyond the Pandemic is published by Wilberforce Publications and is available to purchase:
CLC bookshop - https://clcbookshops.com/Products/ViewOne.aspx?ProductId=131212&sq=beyond%20the%20pandemic
Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/191612111X/
Find out more at Wilberforce Publications: https://www.wilberforcepublications.co.uk/
Replays and Resources from Recent Events
23 Mar 2021
There have been numerous significant regional and international gatherings over the last few months. We would encourage our partner networks to continue to use these wonderful replays and resources that are available on the YouTube channels listed below. They are a hugely valuable resource!
World Prayer Together on 19th September involved 10,000 people from 123 nations.
The theme of the 4-hour gathering was ‘Repentance, Reconciliation, Revival and Reaching all with His Gospel.’
Watch the 30-minute excerpts video or the replay of the whole event. See the programme guides on YouTube or the IPC Website to quickly find specific items.
10 Days / The Return - 365 City Events and 155 Locations around the world took part in 10 Days. 4000+ people registered for the 24/7 Global Zoom Prayer Room and 4600+ took the Consecration Challenge.
Watch the Facebook Live Replays of 10 Days.
100,000 attended The Return in Washington and 10's of Millions watched the simulcast on TV and Online.
See Jonathan Cahn’s prophetic word for America.
Watch the REPLAY of The Return - Download a Return Prayer Guide and More!
The National Prayer Assembly drew together huge numbers worldwide to an online gathering to pray for America.
Let's continue to pray for His deliverance and destiny for the USA during this crucial election season. May the best days for America be in the coming months and years, serving as a blessing from the Lord, not only to its own citizens but to the rest of the world as well!
View the NPA Sessions and presentations replays on YouTube
CONTEND 2020 - Global Mission Mobilization Initiative
Contend! is a 21 day prayer campaign seeking God for breakthrough in His global Church surrounding an increase of mission mobilization vision across ministry structures, moving mission from the periphery in the Church to its rightful place at the core.
One of IPC’s key partners, Seed Company, has provided a new interactive prayer resource for you!
Learn 5 prayer habits to help you pray effectively for Bible translation. This 5-day devotional will enrich your spiritual walk and impact eternity through your prayers.
In what ways has the Bible changed your life? When life hits us hard, we find direction and solace in Scripture.
But what if the Bible was not in your language? That’s the reality for over 1 billion people today.
Join this 5-day plan where you can partner your Scripture reading with simple and effective ways to pray for people without the Bible.
It’s available in the YOU Version Bible App – or HERE
APP: Operation World
25 Mar 2021
Want to join the global prayer movement? Operation World (OW), the definitive global prayer handbook, has been used by more than a million Christians to pray for the nations.
Now as a mobile app you can receive reminders to pray for the “country of the day,” research statistics on each country and read the in-depth prayer request and praise reports given for each country of the world.
OW is widely regarded as the definitive volume of prayer information about the world and is the recipient of the ECPA Gold Medallion Award for Excellence in Evangelical Christian Literature.
Download on iOs: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/operation-world/id1181609244
Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.missionaldigerati.operationworld&hl=en&gl=US
This is an annual 40-Day call to prayer that provides a way to pray God's purposes for our cities with prayers of hope from scripture.
The prayers in the Seek God 64-page, full color prayer guide booklet will lift our prayers beyond our own concerns. As we seek God's face, we will ask Him to do things on a city-size scale--to bring spiritual awakening to our communities.
The booklet contains newly written topics and prayers to help unite and focus prayer through the 40 days leading to Palm Sunday. This booklet is a proven resource that unites and encourages churches in persistent prayer for breakthroughs in their communities. Quantity discounts make it possible to equip many in your church or ministry.
Some helpful features of Seek God For The City 2021
- Strengthens what you are already doing. No complicated program to organize or meetings to schedule.
- Unites prayer throughout your church. An attractive, easy-to-use tool that can help unite prayers between many churches throughout an entire community.
- Lifts prayer from private or trivial matters. Helps your people learn to pray for what matters most by directing attention toward what God is doing in the lives of people throughout your community.
- Builds the confidence of everyday believers to help them pray with clarity, authority and relevance as they learn to pray in keeping with scripture. Involves everyone in your church family, not just a “prayerful elite.”
- Opens a great way to pray toward Easter. For those of liturgical streams, it augments the Lenten season with a marvellous blend of repentance and intercessory hope. Those of other streams find that it lifts attention toward Christ’s visitation at Palm Sunday. The calendar concludes on Palm Sunday, leaving everyone prepared for Easter week without crowding the schedule with extra activity.
Order it here: https://www.worldchristian.com/product/sg21
GUIDE: 15 Days of Prayer for The Buddhist World
27 Mar 2021
The annual Buddhist World Prayer Focus is calling Christians and churches worldwide to take 15 days to learn about and pray for our world’s Buddhist friends between Jan 28th and Feb 11th, 2021.
The informative prayer guide booklets will help Christians to know how to pray for the people(s) growing up within this major and truly diverse world religion.
We recognize that Buddhism is an extraordinarily complex and often confusing worldview. At the same time, as Christians, we long that all the world’s people(s) will have an opportunity to freely see, hear and understand the grace of God incarnated in Jesus Christ.
To this end we inform ourselves, pray for and want to support opportunities to make that grace known also within the world’s Asian Communities.
The guide is available in these languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, German, French, Thai, Korean and Vietnamese
Get your copy of the 15 Days Buddhist World Prayer Guide now and join this global movement!
Guides available here: https://worldprayerguides.org/15-days-of-prayer-for-the-buddhist-world/