This week please pray for the following:
1. Please pray for one of our BEST study partners who is travelling to Egypt on 17th July in order to study at the Alexandria School of Theology. Please pray for him that he will have safety in travel and that he will be granted entry into the country without a problem.
2. Please pray for Matthew who is back in the UK on leave at the moment and will be helping with international student work in Oxford and Cambridge over the summer. Pray that he will be build relationships quickly with the students and that he will have opportunities to share the gospel with them. Pray for him as he helps with a training session on communicating the gospel cross-culturally.
3. Please continue to pray for the country of Zimbabwe and for our partners there.Please pray that they will have wisdom to know if it is necessary to leave the country and that they will know God's provision and protection on a daily basis.
4. Thank God for the students who graduated from Msalato Theological College in Tanzania at the end of June. Please pray for them as they prepare to go and work in the parishes - some of them for the first time. Thank God for Carol Derbyshire and her team who teach English to the students, helping to equip them for their studies in English at the college.
5. Thank God for Doug and Ann Johnson in Butere, Kenya and the way they have settled in to their new home. Pray for AICMAR, the organisation with which Doug is working, as it undergoes some changes.
6. Please pray for Jirka and Keira Kralovi and their four children who went to go and work in Olomouc in the Czech Republic from the beginning of July. Please pray for them as they settle into their new home, and as they get to know people in the local church with whom they will be doing student work. Please pray for them as a family, that they will know God's peace and help at this time of transition.
7. Please pray for Simon and Lindi Banda, Crosslinks apprentices from South Africa, who are helping with a children's camp in Devon from 13th to 23rd July. Pray that they will be used by God in all that they say and do, and that many children will come to know Jesus and want to follow him, and that those who already know Him will grow in their faith.