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PRAY Every Day June, 2006

John H. Giesler

Pray for each church or event and the people involved!

1. 1895 – Rudolph, WI. Another new month in mission has come. Pray for all the people in your congregation in charge of mission promotion.

2. Ask your leaders to invite a person who has visited or worked in some mission area to encourage more interest in mission activity.

3. Ask how you can help your local mission society to promote your next project. Pray about it

4. SUNDAY Your pastor can secure audio-visuals about the needs in the world that our church can help. Invite interested people to attend. Be mission-minded.

5. 1898 – Willow Hill, Ararat, VA. Read ONWARD each month and share your interest with friends.

6. 1954 – Downey, CA. There are many opportunities to help repair and rebuild from the past hurricanes. If you can go, sign up now.

7. SUNDAY If you cannot go for some reason, you can help by making a generous contribution. In our abundance, relatively, there is a lot we can do by sharing.

8. But no matter what your situation you can support the work by helping in some way. But we all can pray, and those who can go or give a lot can and should pray a lot.

9. 1957 – East Hills, Bethlehem, PA. There are many things your Sunday School Class or Circle, or congregation can do. Contact the provincial mission office for a list of 2^nd Mile projects.

10. In your daily devotions, pray for all of the young missionaries serving under various para-church organizations. Begin with Wings of Mercy in Honduras, the George Goff family.

11. 1857 – Fry’s Valley, New Philadelphia, OH. SUNDAY Michael Brent and family serve with Campus Crusade working in a University with students.

12. 1905 – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 1943 – Fargo, now Shepherd of the Prairie, ND. 1955 – Battle Hill, Union, NJ continuing Elizabeth, begun in 1866. We need to remember the Charlie Brent family also working with Campus Crusade in Asia.

13. Celeste Handy, a Cherokee who graduated from Salem College and working with Indian youth for Intervarsity.       13.

14. 1777 – Arrival of 1^st Moravians to St. Kitts, W.I. Tony and Dora Bragg are working with Samaritan’s Purse in the Middle East.

15. Michael and Caroline Woo are working with OMF in Asia.

16. Robert and Anne Thiessen and Phil Raeford, III are working in Mexico with the Unity of the Brethren and others.

17. 1722 – Beginning of the building of Herrnhut, Germany by immigrants from Moravia. 1830 – Hope, IN. 1853 – Ebenezer, Watertown, WI. Lewis Sutton is the leader of WEC.

18. 1932 – Hopewell, W-S, NC. SUNDAY Neil and Anita are members of the Moravian Church in Dillingham, Alaska. Neil and Anita are going to France to support Bible Translation through technology and hospitality

19. We also support Steve Marx and family with MAF. Pray for the team of Moravian youth going to work in Labrador June 27^th to help youth there.

20. 1884 – Arrival of first Moravian Missionaries in Bethel, AK. Pray for the volunteers who are going from Alaska to help our people in Labrador.

21. 1621 – The Day of Blood, 27 martyred, in Prague, Bohemia.  Pray for the leaders of both groups in the Czech Republic to learn how to love those in the other group. In this way they witness to God’s love.

22. 1859 – Mamre, Watertown, WI. 1924 – Advent, W-S, NC. 1958 – Grace, Westland, MI. In Honduras there are signs of reconciliation. This is needed to forgive personal grievances from decades ago.

23. Pray for the Churches of the Southern Province who just went through a Synod of reconciliation. Signs are there that the forgiveness is there to do the Lord’s work in mission now.

24. Pray for the Cordero de Dios (Lamb of God) Church which is now in its third year of mission. The Pastor is Br. Enrique Alcantera.

25. 1742 – Central, Bethlehem, PA. 1747 – Nazareth, PA. 1876 - Fries Memorial, W-S, NC. SUNDAY Pray for the blended work at Bethabara as they reach out and draw in Hispanics in their neighborhood. Consecration of Sam Gray as Bishop.

26. 1988 – Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY. Bless the members at Holly Springs as they reach out to their neighbors in that new work.

27. 1895 – Bruderfeld, now Millwoods, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Today begins our new mission to Labrador. Pray for these people everyday. (See June Prayer Focus for details).

28. Pray for Labrador! A 19 year old resident of Nain was drowned near Nain in May when his snowmobile went through rotten ice off shore.

29. 1924 – Ardmore, W-S, NC. Pray for Labrador! Br. Chris Giesler of Bethlehem, Br. David Nanalook of Bethel, Alaska, and Br. Loren Jendro of North Dakota and a member of BWM, went to Labrador in May to help survey the needs and make preparation for the task force which is working now in Labrador.

30. Pray for Labrador! The team will be working on the variety of special needs among the youth until August 5^th. The number of disheartening suicides among Moravians and other people in Labrador is shocking. This task force is on a life or death mission.