Five-Year Goal | Pray

We’re excited to share the launch of EFM’s new prayer initiative: 7 Fields, 7 Calls to Prayer—a focused effort leading up to the Luke 10 National Think Tank in November and the final push toward our Five-Year Goal. Each month, we’ll highlight one of the new mission fields where we’re praying the Lord will send workers.

This month, we are focusing on Muslim refugees in Greece. We invite you to join us in praying for this region and the people God is calling.

Please enjoy this resource: A Prayer guide with specific requests, a field overview, and ways to learn more or get involved. You can download it here.

“He told them, “The harvest is huge, but the workers are few. So ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest field.” (NIRV)

May Prayer Gathering Prayer Points

• Workers for the Harvest Field. The fields are ripe for harvest, and we praise the Lord for those refugees who are coming to know the Lord. However, many more workers are needed to serve in a wide variety of ways, including evangelism, discipleship, relationship building, business as mission development (literally helping to create jobs), and creative collaborative church planting.  Demonstrating the love of God through kindness, spending time, relief efforts (food, clothing, etc.) and more are all important and vital, missional bridge-building tasks.  Specifically, please pray also for one couple who are ready to commit to the “next steps” in this process, but also pray for the Lord to raise up a harvester (church planter) “from the harvest field” (a refugee), and for two other missionary units to be raised up as team members.
• Continued good, cooperative efforts among the Christian missionaries in Greece. We know that Kenn and Lisa Dirrim helped to create a positive and collaborative environment among believers and missionaries in Greece. Please pray for this spirit to continue, and for Greek national churches to see more and more ways to partner with what the Lord is doing near where they live.  We believe that good relationships among all these missionaries and believers will provide a positive environment as we send our first missionaries there to be “partners in the gospel” (some of whom may be excellent initial mentors us).
• For the Lord to build His Church in Greece among Refugees. This was part of our constant prayer. We know that God is reaching refugees. We see Him working through the stories and testimonies we heard. But there is a need for churches of all kinds to be started among them, both ones that stay in Greece and those that are started and then replanted in other countries or locations. Robert suggested that we may need to “redefine what ‘church’ looks like.” It “may not always look like a building or a traditional church,” he wrote, “but it will always bear His fruit because God germinates the growth.”  Please join us in prayer that God will build His Church, and that we would be wise, timely, and relevant in the way that we join Him in what He is doing!

View Last Month’s Luke 10:2 Prayer Gathering Below: