By Tom Victor

Shine! 24 Hours – Raising Up 2BC Champions

Tuesday 10 February 2026 | Praying with and for Indonesia

“Rise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.” (Isaiah 60:1)

Shine! is more than a 24-hour prayer event. At its heart, Shine! is about children and young people becoming 2BC Champions — learning to hear the voice of their Heavenly Father, discovering who they are in Christ, and confidently sharing God’s love with their friends and families.

This focus is shaping everything we do through the 2BC movement.

1️⃣ Shine! Begins with Children Becoming 2BC Champions

The first purpose of Shine! is discipleship and identity. Through child-led worship, prayer, creativity and Scripture, children are encouraged to:

• Listen to God’s voice
• Grow secure in their identity as God’s beloved children
• Step out in simple, faith-filled ways to share Jesus’ love

Shine! creates a safe, joyful space where children lead, families participate, and faith becomes something lived — not just talked about.

2️⃣ Praying for Children in the World’s Most Populous Nations

Each Shine! event also carries a clear global prayer focus.

On Tuesday 10 February 2026, we will be praying especially for children and young people across Indonesia — one of the most populous nations on earth.

Together, children around the world will pray that Indonesian children:

• Encounter Jesus personally
• Are surrounded by godly families and communities
• Grow up knowing hope, purpose and God’s love

This is children praying for children — heart to heart, nation to nation.

3️⃣ Praying for the Light of the World movie to Reach Families Everywhere

Finally, we will continue to pray for the global impact of the beautifully hand-drawn animated film Light of the World, created to share the Gospel of Jesus with children and families worldwide.

The film is being translated into scores of languages and released across many nations, with a clear Gospel invitation and free discipleship resources. It is a powerful tool to help children grow as 2BC Champions — knowing Jesus and making Him known.

Join the Shine! Zoom Call!

Shine! runs for 24 hours, with participation of children and young people across multiple nations, including:

• Online prayer hours
• Offline family, church and small-group gatherings
• Free Shine! resources including Prayer Guides, B.L.E.S.S. cards and worship songs

You can join for an hour, or host your own gathering at home or church.

If you are a child… love children… or were once a child — Shine! is for you.

See the extremely encouraging summary of recent feedback from Shine! Participants HERE

Find out more, access resources, and sign up:
www.2bc.world/shine

2BC — Every Child. Everywhere. On Mission. With God.

Prayer is at the heart of the Christian life — yet many believers quietly wonder if they are really praying effectively. Why do some prayers seem to shape history, while others feel unfocused or weary? How do we persevere in prayer when answers are delayed, opposition is strong, or the world feels overwhelming?

The 7 Keys to Effective Prayer podcast series is an invitation to rediscover prayer as God intended it: rooted in Scripture, sustained by faith, and aligned with His purposes for the nations.

Hosted by Dr. Jason Hubbard, Director of International Prayer Connect, this seven-part teaching series draws on biblical foundations, historic prayer movements, and decades of experience mobilising prayer around the world. Jason brings clarity, depth, and pastoral warmth as he explores seven essential principles that help believers pray with confidence, persistence, and purpose.

These teachings are inspired in part by the remarkable legacy of the Moravian community at Herrnhut, Germany, led by Count Zinzendorf — a movement where believers committed to continuous, day-and-night prayer for over one hundred years, sparking extraordinary missionary fruit across the nations. Their story reminds us that when prayer is anchored in God’s heart, sustained over time, and shared by a community, it becomes a powerful force for spiritual transformation.

Each episode focuses on one key, offering biblical insight and practical encouragement for personal and corporate prayer:

The Seven Keys

1. Worship Based Prayer
2. Abiding in Christ
3. Asking in Jesus’ Name
4. Praying God’s Word
5. Breakthrough Prayer
6. Desperate Prayer
7. Unceasing Prayer

The 7 Keys to Effective Prayer podcast launches on 1 March 2026, with new episodes released weekly. Listeners are encouraged not only to listen, but to reflect, apply, and allow the Holy Spirit to deepen their own prayer lives.

Our prayer is simple: that through this series, believers around the world will be freshly equipped to pray — faithfully, biblically, and expectantly — and to see God move in ways that bring glory to Jesus and advance His Kingdom.

Join the Global Family 24-7 Prayer Room: A Worldwide Cry for Revival and Harvest

What if your prayer life could join with believers from every continent, every denomination, and every generation in one unceasing, worship-saturated chorus lifted up before the throne of God?

That’s the heartbeat behind the Global Family 24-7 Prayer Room -  an online, around-the-clock, around-the-globe prayer movement inviting Christians everywhere to pray, worship, and intercede for the world.

Launched in January 2021, this virtual prayer room has been sustained by a network of committed prayer teams covering all 168 hours of the week — each hour led by intercessors praying in many languages and time zones. It’s a living expression of Jesus’ command to pray earnestly for the harvest, knowing that the fields are ripe but the labourers are few. ([Global Family Online 24/7 Prayer Room][2])

At its core, the Global Family Prayer Room is more than just a schedule of prayer times: it’s a tangible experience of the global Church becoming the global family. When you enter the Zoom room, you’ll find brothers and sisters worshipping and petitioning God together — sometimes in joyful praise, sometimes in deep intercession, always anchored in Scripture and the person of Jesus Christ.

This ministry is a collaboration of international ministries and volunteers under the umbrella of International Prayer Connect. The vision is simple yet profound: to see God glorified, nations transformed, and labourers sent into every harvest field as believers unite in continuous prayer.

You can participate in a way that suits your season and calling. Drop in to pray or worship, or go deeper by signing up with a team to lead one hour each week consistently. Whether it’s five minutes or five hours, your prayers will join a living, global chorus lifting up the name of Jesus before heaven and earth.

Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of something eternal — an unbroken prayer movement that reflects the heart of God for His Church and the world.

More info and Sign Up!

Adopting an unreached people group in prayer is God’s supernatural way for mission breakthroughs, in which all of us Jesus followers can and should participate! Not all of us are called to be field missionaries, but we are all called to engage in His Great Commission through prayer.

As Jesus commanded, "Pray the Lord of the harvest that He will send workers into his harvest field." (Matt. 9:37- 38). He also affirmed, "My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations"(Mk. 11:17), with "nations" in His Great Commission of Mt. 28:19 and elsewhere in the Bible, always referring to ethne, meaning ethnic groups and tribes in the original Greek text, not the modern geopolitical countries so often mistakenly substituted for the Biblical prayer and mission focus.

That is also the case in Matthew 24:14 when He said that "this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all "nations" (= panta ta ethne or all ethnic people groups), and then the end will come." If we engage in prayer for specific unreached peoples, we will be doing our part to bring about the climax of human history and the return of the King of Kings!

During the AD2000 and Beyond Movement in the 1990's, many Unreached Peoples conferences, seminars and other initiatives were held that resulted in hundreds of new interdenominational networks focused on specific UPGs in about 80 countries. Those of us forming the International Prayer Council in 2001 and 2002, now called International Prayer Connect (www.ipcprayer.org), also focused on mission for the UPGs as one of our main objectives when we were seeking to develop global and regional networks for the growing international prayer movement. The Lord was strongly emphasizing to many of us how crucial it was to integrate informed prayer with Jesus' mission for all the unreached ethne of our world.

Now, an increasing number of us in both the prayer and mission movements believe that we may well be in the run-up to the return of our Lord Jesus Christ! He told us to watch for the signs of the times to know when His second coming draws near. Perhaps the most important sign is that the ethne, the ethnic people groups, who were earlier mentioned in Matthew 24:14 and 28:19, are now within the possibility of being reached with the Gospel even by 2033, as several world evangelization and Bible translation efforts now predict.

What a time to be alive and to serve the returning King of Kings!

In this possibly short time window, we need to especially multiply both prayer and mission efforts to ignite movements for Him in every one of the Frontier People Groups. These Frontier People Groups are the least reached, with only one person on average per thousand or no known Jesus followers at all. According to the Joshua Project, which has faithfully researched and kept track of the status of the unreached peoples of our world, there are still 4700+ of these Frontier People Groups. They all have little or no Christians and make up about 2 billion people or a quarter of the world's population still needing to hear about Jesus for the first time ever.

The largest 272 of these FPGs, each over one million in size, hold the majority of these desperately lost and largely forgotten people, totaling about 1.6 billion or 20% of world population. What a tragedy that so much of Jesus Christ's world-wide Church does not even know what the Great Commission is! A recent Lausanne World Evangelization report reveals that a majority of the 1,500 global Christian leaders surveyed believe that less than half of the Christians in their region can even define the Great Commission. Unless we pray, how can they be moved to care about such enormous masses of fellow human beings living in abject darkness?

Unless we heed Jesus' call to intercede, they will continue without the salvation and hope He alone provides, not only for this life but also for the age to come?

The Joshua Project maintains the list of all the FPGs at this link: www.joshuaproject.net/frontier/interactive  

Missiologists affirm that these largest 272 are the most strategic people groups to adopt in prayer and reach first. As they respond to the Gospel, movements for Christ developing within them will likely overflow out to the smaller FPGs in their proximity, as the powerful momentum of disciple-making and church planting will be unleashed through our focused praying and resulting efforts by missionaries and mission organizations to reach them.

The interdependent prayer and mission movements need your urgent help! We are seeking to get churches, prayer groups, youth, and children’s ministries worldwide, through as many denominations and networks as possible, to systematically adopt each one of these FPGs - one per church, prayer group, or other ministry entity, as well as by all individual caring Jesus followers.

If you and those you know are willing to engage in ongoing, in-depth prayer, God's promised breakthroughs will occur. Please see these helpful websites:

JoshuaProject.net,  AIMS.org, and BlessFrontierPeoples.org. All have excellent resources about how to effectively adopt and pray for FPGs, such as prayer cards, profiles and videos. (More about that below.)

You can help bring back the King of Kings by using them yourself and sharing them with your church, prayer group or other ministry organization. Please help mobilize others to get involved and there will be synergistic impact beyond you can ask or think! (Eph. 3:20)

Jesus commanded that we His followers pray to the Lord of the harvest to send workers into His harvest field (Matthew 9:37-38). When driving the money changers out of the temple, He also exclaimed, “My house will be called a house of prayer for all"...., there's that Greek word again....ethne.” (Mark 11:17). Prayer is therefore the first order of business in reaching the unreached. It is the powerful, supernatural way in which missions will be enabled to happen, even in the most resistant people groups. When each of these FPGs are adopted for ongoing prayer that specifically focuses on them over time and preferably by multiple ministry entities, it will result in an explosive,

synergistic leap forward in seeing Jesus’ command to reach all the ethne accomplished in this decade.

The brief video HERE, "Understanding the Remaining Mission Task" provides a helpful overview on where we are in completing this all-important mission of the Lord.

Specific prayer cards for each of these largest FPGs are available at: https://joshuaproject.net/pray/cards/frontier/4

They can be enlarged to be placed on the wall of a church or prayer group’s meeting place  and/or printed to be given out as bookmarks for members' Bibles to remind them to pray regularly for the raising up of workers and movements for Christ in the people group or groups they have adopted.

Joshua Project www.joshuaproject.net has many wonderful resources to help you and others find out more about the people group you decide to adopt. A profile is linked to every prayer card with a QR code, having specific prayer points. Also, adopting entities can and should do their own further research and where possible seek to network with others who have adopted the same FPG as their focus.

In addition, a cellphone app called “Unreached of the Day” is also now available to help us pray for one of the Unreached People Groups each day (including the FPGs and those with a greater Christian presence of up to 2%). It provides a picture, profile, map where they are located, and sometimes a video.

 It is also available in many of the world’s languages. Please try it yourself and share it with others HERE

We in the Unreached Peoples Task Force would deeply appreciate your help in getting this challenge out to any churches, prayer groups, youth, and children's ministries you are in touch with. We have found that it is usually best to assign just one of these FPGs to each willing ministry entity or individual praying believer, giving them a particular FPG's prayer card. Don't neglect to share this challenge with children and youth, who can also be
assigned one to keep in their prayers. As they do, God may call them in the future to go as missionaries to their respective people group!

All 273 largest FPGs are available HERE.
(The rest of the prayer cards for all 4700+ FPGs are accessible on the Joshua Project website as already mentioned.)

Participants can be asked to pray for the coming year and then to renew that commitment, or shift to another people group after that if they like.

Please also ask each adopting church or other ministry entity to register your and others’ commitments to your chosen FPGs (or other UPGs) so progress can be monitored at https://joshuaproject.net/get_involved/adopt  

The Joshua Project team will help to track each adoption and hopefully as their team grows, connect adoptees with field teams where possible as well as communicate back how their prayers are being answered. AIMS.org can also assist you with adoption, research, prayer, and connection with those on the field seeking to reach these  FPGs and other unreached people groups.

A Remarkable Testimony!

Let me close with an amazing testimony about the power of praying for a Frontier People Group. At the beginning of the 1990’s, I asked two churches in my hometown to adopt a Central Asian people group of several million with only two known Jesus followers. All the rest, as far as we knew, were Muslims. One of them I was privileged to lead to the Lord myself in an evangelistic event in southern Russia.

The other I was able to meet on a visit to the country where their people group lived. The Adopt a People Clearinghouse which existed at that time had just printed a beautiful prayer card about this almost completely unreached FPG. Using that card, church people from both churches began to pray and we began to see God’s wonders. As declared in Psalms 77:14, “You are the God who performs miracles; You display your power among the peoples.” That is exactly what we began to witness!

Shortly after the believers began to pray, quite astonishingly, our city and their capital city began a sister-city program that enabled the exchange of musicians, composers, and other cultural programs. The symphony orchestra of that country then decided to do a concert the night before they separated from the Soviet Union as part of their independence celebration. The music of my grandfather, who had been Dean of Fine Arts at our university and a well-known local composer, was chosen to be performed. He had recently passed away and my parents could not go, so I was chosen to do so.

At the concert, in that Central Asian nation, the conductor asked me to say some words about my grandfather, so I told them about his search for God through his composing, and we read Psalm 23, his favorite Psalm. The conductor and all the musicians, as well as the audience that included some government officials, were all Muslims, yet they loved my grandfather’s music and Psalm 23 since they came from a shepherd culture!

I also found out that my remarks had been included along with the concert on national radio! In addition, a non-residential missionary who had a heart for that people group had come with me and through that experience was given an open door and office to bring in university lecturers and agricultural development experts who were all Jesus followers. They eventually led hundreds to Christ, thanks be to the Lord!

The favor God gave in answer to the prayers of believers back home was so amazing! After the concert, the conductor asked if I could come back the following year for another such concert of my grandfather’s music which I did. As we were sitting in the audience before the orchestra began to play, the conductor suddenly turned around and said. “Now, can we have John Robb come up to the mic and tell us about God?”

Talk about always being ready to share at a moment’s notice! I did my best to follow up on what was said the year before and again they seemed to be so open and receptive for being nominal Muslims. “What is this glory?”, one of the songs that was sung during that concert, was my granddad’s touching Christmas piece about the shepherds welcoming the birth of Jesus. It has been said that you can preach to Muslims, and they might kill you, but you can sing to them, and they will love you! That is what happened apparently since I am still alive and can recount this wonderful God-story to you!

What an illustration of the power of focused prayer to bring about breakthroughs among unreached people groups!

That must be the reason that Jesus stressed that prayer was the essential thing for mission breakthrough when He said:

“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field.” (Matthew 9:37-38)

God owns the harvest and the process of reaping it as its Lord. However, what He really needs and wants is our focused, persistent prayer, through which He will even cause people groups who are resistant due to demonic deception and bondage to become receptive to the Gospel. They will then experience dreams and visions, signs and wonders and receive those workers the Lord has specially chosen and gifted to reach that particular people group with its unique culture and worldview. Here lies the mystery and potency of prayer for the remaining thousands of people groups who have never heard the Gospel.

That is why the most strategic thing we can do, as instructed by the Master Missiologist Himself, is to pray and get others to do so also.

Therefore, in the run-up to His return, along with millions of other Jesus followers, let us now respond to His command, utilizing fully the supernatural power of intercessory prayer, so that all the Frontier People Groups will hear His Good News and have movements for Him.

Then, one day, perhaps sooner than we think, we will all together welcome back the Lord Jesus, returning in His awesome glory as King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

John Robb - Coordinator, Unreached Peoples Task Force

Chairman, Transformation Prayer Foundation

www.transformationprayerfoundation.org

Founder/former Chairman, International Prayer Connect www.ipcprayer.org

Former Unreached Peoples Track Coordinator, AD2000 and Beyond Movement

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For the prayer cards for the 273 largest FPGs, click / scan this QR code:

https://www.ipcprayer.org/images/2026/FPGs_273_largest_Joshua-Project-Prayer-Cards.pdf

FOCUS! – The Power of People Group Thinking – John D Robb

If you would like to read John's book, Focus: the Power of People Group Thinking which is a manual on reaching the unreached translated into 27 languages used by missionaries in various parts of the world, you can download it free of charge HERE or through this QR code: