PRAY FOR PARTNER COUNTRIES

"All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord; they will bring glory to your name." Psalm 86:9

We seek to keep the church informed and encouraged to pray for our partner nations and ministries through regular communication and leveraging corporate gatherings. We want people to gain a heart for the nations and exercise their authority in Christ through prayer.

How can you pray for our partners across the globe? A few ideas:

1. Get recent prayer requests, partner updates, and other information by signing up for the International Impact newsletter.

2. Pray through our partners' prayer requests.

3. Check out these additional useful links:

● The Voice of the Martyrs
● Prayercast
● Free Prayer Guide to pray for the Unreached

4. Join in prayer on these important 2026 prayer dates
● January 1 (1804): Haiti Independence Day
● March 6: World Day of Prayer
● March 26 (1971): Bangladesh Independence day
● April 27 (1961): Sierra Leone Independence Day
● May 7: US National Day of Prayer
● May 24: International Day of Prayer for the Unreached
● May 31: BreakThru prayer night (topic: Christ Community international partners)
● June 20 (1947): West Bengal Day
● July 4 (1776): US Independence Day
● September 7 (1822): Brazil Independence Day
● September 15 (1821): Nicaragua Independence Day
● October 28 (1918): Czech Republic Czechoslovak State Day
● November 1: International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church

Partners:
CSS (Christian Service Society): Mark Munshi | CSS serves the disadvantaged and underprivileged through humanitarian aid, relief, and ongoing programs and services including a hospital, child sponsorship, microcredit loan programs, schools, leadership and vocational training and fisheries.
House Church Movement (555 Church Planting Network) | Works to support house church-planting initiatives that aggressively brings the good news of Christ to rural villages.

● Elections in both Bangladesh and West Bengal are final, however continue to pray for peaceful transitions as new government leaders make changes in both areas.
● God’s favor with CSS and their engagement with the new government, and continued support for the programs that assist people in need.
● Pray for the kickoff meetings and next steps with leaders in the Church Planting Movement, who are planning to replicate the current house church planting model in other places and expand their ministry.
● The House Churches are providing care for widows (providing food and a source of income, like a goat or cow). Discernment is needed as our leaders begin to make plans to care for orphans.
● That the Holy Spirit continues to work powerfully through new believers in the house church ministry, and provides the persecuted believers with the strength to endure.

Partners:
IPM (Igreja Presbiteriana de Manaus - Presbyterian Church of Manaus): Sr. Pastor Francisco; Miguel Oliveira; Pastor Thiago Dantes | IPM is a large church totaling about 10,000-12,000 members located in the Amazon region of Brazil. IPM engages in church planting in small river villages, utilizing a medical boat, children’s ministry, sports ministry, evangelism training at its training center (CTM), and an annual English camp.

● For Brazilian food packs (similar to Feed My Starving Children manna packs but geared toward Brazilian culture) to be ready for use on River GO Teams, and for those teams to successfully reach people in riverside communities along the Amazon.
● Praise for the financial giving from Places Need Churches, which has allowed the construction of a kitchen at the Evangelism Training Center (CTM) and dormitories for travelers on mission trips along the Amazon and indigenous Brazilian missionaries who come to the center for training.
● Pray for favor in the construction timeline to complete work at the Evangelism Training Center for English Camp, for other teams to use this summer.
● That IPM will raise up new church planters and evangelists to advance into more remote areas of the Amazon and among unreached people groups, and to establish a presence in all 62 municipalities in the Amazonas state.
● For GO Teams that will travel to riverside communities along the Amazon, and for the English Camp, that they would serve the people they encounter and share the Gospel.

Partners:
Josiah Venture (JV) Dave Patty & Jakub Vejmělka | JV’s mission is to foster “a movement of God among the youth of Eastern Europe” and partners with the Czech Republic branch of JV called KAM or Křesťanská Akademie Mladých (Christian Youth Academy). KAM equips young leaders, churches, and youth pastors to reach the next generation through discipleship and evangelism. KAM and Josiah Venture partner to build youth movements through: Music and choir clubs, sports ministries, programs featuring experience-focused, thought-provoking games to engage students, and English camps designed to bridge local students with the church.

C.B. Frydlant Church: Jakub & Dagmar Guttner | Cirkev Bratrska Frydland reaches out to the region through initiatives such as English camps, arts programs, school programs, and personal relationships in the area.

City Church: Milan Michalko | An evangelical church-planting platform based in Ostrava. The City Church network focuses heavily on urban ministry, targeting diverse groups such as young people, artists, and families, and Ukrainian refugees.

M4 (Master, Mission, Multiplication, and Movement): Jiří Unger | M4 is a church-planting movement across Europe.

● That young adults from eight Eastern European Nations who attended the church planting conference that Christ Community supported in February would be encouraged to plant new churches in their hometowns.
● For Frydlant Church as they connect and engage with the local community following the outreach and networking during the recent GO Team that served in the local schools.
● For City Church leaders, Milan and Zdenka, as they go to Ukraine to support the local churches, comfort soldiers in the hospital, and feed the homeless. For the overall safety of our partners working in Ukraine to establish new churches for refugees, as they pray and care for those displaced by the violence.
● For our brothers and sisters in small churches across the Czech Republic to be bold witnesses, and for the summer English Camps that introduce young people to Jesus.
● That the Church leaders in the Czech Republic would continue to work across denominations to help support new young leaders, disciple them, and encourage new churches that are planted to thrive.

Partners:
Open Door Haiti - Wiljean, Wiljerry, and Wiljennie Compere | Open Door plants churches, operates a seminary school, clinics, and an orphanage to transform communities in Haiti spiritually, educationally, economically, physically, and socially to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

● Three new church construction projects in Haiti are being funded by the Places Need Churches Campaign. Construction is progressing well, and they are making good progress!
● Prayers for leadership development and new leaders to come forward beyond seminary students.
● Strategic planning with Wiljean for future activities.
● That stability and peace in Haiti would ensue, and for boldness and safety as Christians continue to share the Gospel with others.
● For new groups of graduating seminary students as they deploy to new churches being planted.

Partners:
Chosen Children Ministries (CCM): Guillermo and Gabby Morales | CMM plants churches in desperately poor areas of Nicaragua and seeks to impact families and create sustainable growth through humanitarian aid, child sponsorship, drilling wells, education, economic development, and more.

● Pray for the softening of the government regarding the number of guests that can be hosted each week at their locations and new approaches to support the ministry.
● Favor for the next 18 micro finance loans to start businesses through CCM and our giving.
● For the 60 pastor couples who attended the recent marriage conference GO Team, and that the couples will build upon the teaching at the conference to strengthen their marriages.
● For the expansion of church plants in the barrios (areas where people in need are provided a place to live) where Chosen Children Ministries serves those who are most in need across the country.
● That clean water would be readily available from the wells CCM has drilled. For the families who are recipients of the 100 new homes constructed annually in the barrios, may their new homes be places where their neighbors hear about Jesus.
● Prayers for the Bible college that teaches new church leaders, for medical clinics, food programs, and the child sponsorship program that provides food and educational opportunities to the 1,200 sponsored children & their families.

Partners:
New Harvest Ministries: Pastor Shodankeh Johnson | New Harvest supports over 500,000 small house churches and “Discovery Bible Studies” throughout west Africa, and brings hope and transformation to underserved communities in Sierra Leone through faith, education, and community development.

● For the completion of work at the Megafest Building (large conference center), and preparation for the Megafest event (a gathering of about 5,000 people from New Harvest churches from over 40 countries) in December 2026.
● For the impact of our GO Team training and conferences for nursing students, first responders, and government officials throughout the country.
● For our partnership with New Harvest and the hundreds of thousands of New Harvest house churches in multiple countries, as we work through the Places Need Churches campaign to provide audio Bibles to those who need them.
● Continued leadership development and training of new leaders in villages where New Harvest operates, and discipleship for believers in the thousands of small New Harvest house churches.
● For the newly opened Christian college, where Christ Community helped fund the construction of the Eric Hanson Building, and for the training of the first groups of students who are now passing through the campus.