Please pray…

…for a Muslim background believer (we’ll call her Nancy) in a conservative Muslim nation who is struggling with the dynamics of expressing her Christian faith among hostile family members in restrictive community. She is a prosperous businesswoman who presently feels the need to remain a secret believer, but she is very conflicted. Pray that God will grace her with a special sense of his presence and with the confidence she needs for the difficult path she walks.

…for the leaders of projects that Say Hello partners with in various Muslim nations. Pray that they will have strength, wisdom, and courage for their work, and that He will supply ministry needs in ways that add value to their presence in the communities where they serve.

…for businesswomen in the UAE, who creatively find means to undergird their nations’ progress with their good works. Pray that God would reveal Himself in their need and in their successes, so that these women of influence might find Him and invite others to know Him.

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Please pray…

…for Christian house workers in the United Arab Emirates—that their influence will pique the longing of families across the peninsula toward relationship with Christ, the Son of God, whom they know only as a special prophet.

…that Muslim women and girls in England will meet their Savior through friends and acquaintances who would shine the light of Jesus in their midst.

In recent weeks the government of Iran has increased pressure against the church at large and has forced the closure of that nation’s Central Assembly of God. Please pray for the underground church—in particular for female participants—as they continue to serve the Lord in increasingly restricted contexts. Pray that the government’s recent heightened persecution will fail to discourage the church, so that what Satan has intended for evil, God will make good. Pray that the church will be strengthened and that its growth will accelerate.

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Please pray…

…for Muslim women in Malaysia who hunger and thirst for God but are watched closely and remain painfully hindered in their faith walks. Pray that those who work among them would receive divinely protected blocks of time with them, so that they can be led to Christ and discipled in his love.

…for special women-specific graduate-level teaching that takes place in two separate Asian nations this week. The class, entitled “Approaches to Muslim Women,” will teach about the Muslim woman’s world and how she might be reached in specific, diverse contexts.

…for female student interns connected with American university programs as they travel to Muslim countries and minister among Muslim women this summer. Pray that they bless their host nations and that they learn with hearts wide open. Pray for the Lord to use these internships to brand these young women with his own compelling love for Muslim women and that they will draw courage for life-long commitments to missionary service.

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Please pray…

…that Muslim women in the Philippines will walk paths that lead them to Jesus.

…that women’s ministries groups in the United States will own the “Say Hello” challenge and find ways to reach the women in their communities. Group effort fosters a sense of community that is important to Muslim women. Pray that God uses community and unity as evidenced in the lives of Christian women in the U.S. to reach Muslim women in the U.S.

…for special women-specific graduate-level teaching that takes place in an Asian nation this week and next. The class, entitled “Approaches to Muslim Women,” will teach about the Muslim woman’s world and how she might be reached in specific, diverse contexts.

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Please pray…

…that God would give Muslim women who are caught in the sex traffic/trade industry in Muslim nations opportunity to know that they are valued daughters of Christ.

…for Christian women who teach English as a second language to Muslim women and girls — that they would have opportunity to share Christ with them.

…for Christian outreaches on Western university campuses to have open doors for ministry into the hearts of female Muslim students.

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Please pray…

…for Christian women who minister to Muslim women through salon arts/beauty outreach. Pray that these hairdressers, manicurists/pedicurists, make-up specialists, masseuses and beauty consultants will be anointed to touch their Muslim clients with the love of Christ in ways that make these women long for more of Jesus.

…that the prayers of Muslim women who attend mosque services this Friday will break through the hindrance of Islam’s works theology and move them to seek personal relationship with God who woos them to himself with personal revelation, truth in scriptures, and signs and wonders.

…that Muslim women in Europe’s cities would find Christ through literacy and language learning programs that are provided by Christians in these urban contexts.

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Please pray…

…for a Say Hello-sponsored outreach that takes place in Paris this week. Pray for a fruitful week of ministry to the mostly North African Muslim immigrant women among whom we’ll work. Pray for team members’ safety and good health.

…for the Christian women who will teach “Women in Islam” classes in academic settings to students who work/will work among Muslims in very restricted contexts. These classes will be taught at different sites over the course of the summe and will impact women in Asia Pacific.

…for Muslim women in Russia, most who are immigrant workers there, to find Christ amidst a culture with its own immense spiritual challenges. Pray that any emptiness they experience will be filled with a longing for Truth, so that they might seek and find the Master.

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Please pray…

…for a Christian woman who travels to some remote villages in a restricted access country this week to visit Muslim friends with the presence of Jesus. Pray that her family will enjoy safe travels, and for signs and wonders to validate her ministry to Muslim women on this journey. They always have prayer needs, and they pray with expectancy when their Christian friend visits them.

…for numbers of Christian Asian women who travel for a summer of training for outreach to Muslims. Pray for their safety, for their visions and passions to be enlarged, and that they would acquire useful skills for work and life among their Muslim neighbors.

…for Northwest China’s approximately 30 million females: that they will find their delight in Jesus, even as they seek to please Allah with deeds. Pray for workers to reap vast harvest among them.

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Please pray…

…for Muslim mothers worldwide, that the Holy Spirit will bless them with an extra sense of Christ’s presence this week—and that they would be compelled to seek God for the sakes of their families. Pray that they would find Truth.

…that Christian women in Australia would be blessed with opportunities for outreach to their Muslim neighbors. Pray that God would intensify their love and compassion for Muslim women as they reach out to them, and that their friendships would encounter favor from family and community members.

…for immigrant Muslim women who this week will spill over into European nations—particularly those who travel into Spain from North African nations. Pray that God will use their moves to help them find Christ. Pray that European believers will reach out to them with the gospel.

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