Please pray for Iraqi pastor Ehsan Jaro and Syrian brother Jirair who will reach out to immigrants of the Islamic community (Iraqi, Syrian and Lebanese refugees…) in Canada with Vaughan Community Church. And Please pray for the Holy Spirit’s guidance over the specialties and difficulties in planting churches in the Arab community and for the abundance of good results under the Holy Spirit’s guidance.
Nepal Church Planting
Please pray for the non-Christian Nepalese to accept Jesus Christ under the co-ministries of Young-Nak Korean Presbyterian Church, serving in the Yonge Centre Plus located at Yonge and Finch, which is very convenient for sharing the gospel to the Nepalese who live in the GTA due to the demographic. And also pray for Nepalese who worship God in the Central Korean Presbyterian Church which provides a worship room for them.
2. Mosaic Ministry Discipleship School
(Jan. 28th – Feb. 25th, March 5th One Day Retreat)
Eaglesfield Community Church (Senior Pastor: Young Min, Ko) have the mission vision for reaching out to diaspora communities who live in the Burlington and Hamilton area. They had made an exclusive mission team to reach out to them. They also have been training for 6 weeks for a discipleship school (48 people had finished) with CMCA this year. Please pray for fruitful results under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and with the efforts of all members of the church in leading a senior pastor.
3. CMCA Pastors Retreat
Saturday, April 9th at Somang(Hope) Prayer Garden
Some pastors and layman leaders with their wives who minister in their own native languages and cultures are very exhausted in encountering many problems as they minister to their churches. Through this retreat, please pray for them to be encouraged and to have spiritual recovery by the Holy Spirit’s wisdom and power. Through this retreat, please pray for any obstacles or difficulties – the lack of worship places, leadership, internal conflicts, financial problems, educating the next generation, spirituality, bible study and prayer, theology, discipleship, preventative measures in the ministry – to be solved and for them to get His wisdom and encouragement.
4. Merciful Ministry for the Diaspora Communities
Jesus Christ was filled with love to care for the poor and the marginalized, and to care about their needs, as well as their salvation. Salvation of the spirit and caring for social needs are deeply connected and can be applied to in a mosaic cultural ministry. It’s like the heads and tails of a coin that cannot be separated from each other. Recently, some ethnic communities who are planting churches have been suffering from these difficulties as well as the Syrian refugee problems. Please pray for Jesus Christ’s love for those in need and suffering from these problems so that we must serve and help them accordingly in a timely manner with God’s love.
5. Mosaic Cultural Festival
(Sat. May 14th 6pm at Vaughan Community Church)
In Canada, there are over 220 tribes that live together with 340 languages but most of them are not interested in missions, assembling, or worshipping in the church. They are rather critical or judgmental about these meetings. Please pray for those people to participate in the festival with joy and with a volunteering mind, so that these festivals are the passageway in introducing Jesus Christ’s love and gospel to those who come to the meeting.
6. Prayer Request
1) Richmond Hill Christian Church had decided to start supporting the local mission to diaspora communities as well as the global missions. Please pray that God may use this church to reach out to the mosaic cultural diaspora communities as well as planting their churches.
2) Please pray for Pastor Emmanuel Mukendi and co-workers who prepares to plant the French speaking church in Congo community in GTA.
3) The Singhalese church in Sri Lanka community in GTA has been suffering from internal conflicts and leadership problems. Please pray that their church becomes stable by improving their leadership and being more centered on its congregation of the church and their continual growth.
4) Please pray that some highly spiritual leaders will be raised up in the Thai church and the church will continue to grow after Pastor Frank and Sue go back to Thailand as missionaries.
