At Los Arcos there are families from at least nine African countries (see map): Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Gabon, Congo, Uganda, and Gambia.
Alfred Varney, Keystone ministry partner from Liberia (you prayed for his family when the Ebola outbreak prevented him from returning home back in October) has re-joined the Houston Salem Oaks team with a vision to see a movement launched among these people.
These families come from a variety of religious backgrounds:
Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox, Pentecostal, and Seventh Day Adventist, among others. All of them struggle on some level with brokenness, both physical and emotional, memories from the wars that made them refugees, and the social, family relational, and economic pressures that come with moving to a new place and culture.
Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox, Pentecostal, and Seventh Day Adventist, among others. All of them struggle on some level with brokenness, both physical and emotional, memories from the wars that made them refugees, and the social, family relational, and economic pressures that come with moving to a new place and culture.
»» Pray with us for a movement to be launched among the African community at Los Arcos that will prepare them to go out as missionaries to their own people, both in the States and in their home countries.
»» Pray for insight into the spiritual barriers that prevent them from knowing and growing in the Lord.
»» Pray for the language barriers to be breached.
»» Pray for an African leader, head of household, to rise up to unite the African community under Christ and his mission.
»» Pray for Alfred to be led and empowered by the Spirit in ministry and here, and that he and his family would be guarded from the evil one as he had been away from them now for over a year.
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