Pray for the 10:2 Prayer Trip to Greece

By November 2024 EFM had made a commitment to launch seven of the nine fields that were under exploration. Those seven fields are now moving on to the prayer and pre-launch planning phases. See more information here.

A 10:2 Prayer Trip is an annual trip to the mission fields where EFM has committed to sending missionaries. Teams are asked to pray for the soil (Matthew 13:1-23) and pray for the workers (Luke 10:2). Teams are sent or guided by sponsoring regions/yearly meetings of the new EFM fields that have been leading exploration. 10:2 Prayer Trips will target appropriate communities for prayer walking and interceding that “the Kingdom come, and God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven” in those places.

The next 10:2 Prayer Trip will take place in Greece from April 2 to 9. The team is comprised of five members from NWYM: Robert Garon, Josiah Muhr, Leisa Muhr, Jennifer Morin, and Jim Le Shana, and three members from FSW: Lisa Dirrim, Tyler Lemen, and Tracie Lemen-FSW.

The hope for this field is to plant churches among Islamic refugees who continue to flood into the country. In 2021, 9,000+ new refugees came into the country. Last year, in 2024, that number ballooned to over 62,000.

Team leader Jim Le Shana shared the following about the trip. The purpose of this prayer team is to serve as a kind of spiritual reconnaissance squad or an advance exploration group – to pray, listen, observe, and to pray some more. A couple of key phrases that we plan to pray about frequently are: 1) for workers for the harvest field, and 2) for the Lord to build his church. These come from key passages of scripture, which are: Luke 10:2 (and also Matt 9:35-38: “ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest field”) and Matthew 16:18 (“I will build My Church and the gates of Hades will not overcome it”). Thank you for your prayers for and with us!

Here are some ways you can be praying for this trip! Pray for good connections and meetings with the right people who can give the team fresh insights. Pray for effective times of listening to the Lord and each other. Pray for good health, physical safety, plane connections going smoothly, etc. Pray that the Lord will help the team to find and interact with the right individuals who can help to provide a deeper understanding of the need in the country, and a potential pathway forward for planting churches and ministering effectively with Islamic refugees.

The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to cast out more workers into his fields.

Matt Macy

Director of Mobilization

matt@friendsmission.com

To learn more about how you can join these trips or if you are interested in exploring missionary service, visit here.