Each month we receive prayer and praise updates from the churches with whom we partner across Zimbabwe and Zambia. Below are just a few of those updates. We hope you’ll take some time to pray about these requests and praises, and remember the work of our church projects in Africa. You can learn more about the projects featured here by visiting www.forgottenvoices.org/our-projects/project-profiles

Free Methodist Church Project, Magwegwe North

Pray that those who are farming will be protected from the summer elements as they tend to their crops by planting and ploughing.  Pray that the country of Zimbabwe would receive plentiful rain that would bring about a bountiful harvest.

Pray for those children who will be undertaking academic examinations in various subjects.  Ask that God would empower their minds with a discerning spirit in all of their scholastic endeavors.

Pray for the church to grow in spiritual and financial strength.  Pray especially for those who have recently committed to following Jesus as they encounter challenges to their new faith.

Pray for Secilo, a young boy who is caring for his HIV positive mother.  Ask that God would provide Secilo and his sister with daily patience and hope as they attend to their mother and provide food for the family.

Praise God for a multitude of local volunteers who are serving vulnerable children through administration and organization!

Hope Chapel Church, Ndola 

Pray that God would provide the needed financial resources to continue the feeding program that serves many hungry young children in the community.

Pray that God would provide families with multiple meals each day.

Praise God for Justine,  recent graduate of grade 12, who was once a vulnerable child supported by the church and is now giving back to the community by serving as a elementary teacher!

Vineyard Feeding Program Twapia, Ndola

Pray that municipal leadership will allow the church to acquire a plot of land to set up a brick making operation.

Pray for a specific adult guardian whose child went to be with the Lord.  Ask that God would grant this guardian peace in the midst of grief.

Pray for a young boy named Abraham whose father recently passed away.  Pray that God would provide for he and his mother that they might be rescued from a life of poverty and oppression.

Praise God that the maize is growing tall and strong in many gardens where the Foundations for Farming technique has been employed!

Praise God that one of the church pastors has successfully completed five years of theological and Biblical training to serve the community!

Brethren in Christ Church Orphan Care Project, Copperbelt

Pray that the pastor of the BIC church will strengthen his relationship with other local pastors as they together seek the mind of God.

Pray for church leadership as they work under new government overseers.

Praise God that in 2011, the church sent eighty-seven orphans to school who would otherwise have not been able to obtain an education!

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