Pray for the January 6-16, 2010 Mali Mission Team

At noon (Texas time) on Wednesday, January 6, Keith Arnett and David Johnson departed for Mali, West Africa.  They will pick up Mike Anderson (who left a day earlier) in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday morning.  Then they will drive across Senegal, spend the night in the town of Kedougou, and then cross over into Mali on Friday morning.  In Kenieba they will pick up Pastor Bart (our African partner and translator) and Silas, another African believer who will be going with the team to the Yalunka villages for the first time.  He will serve as a second interpreter, and hopefully he will share his personal testimony of walking on the Jesus road.  They will head into the Yalunka villages in southwestern Mali on Friday afternoon.

 

Here are some specific prayer requests that Keith Arnett (the team leader) asks you to pray for during this trip:

• Please pray that all travel will be smooth, safe, and timely.
• Please pray for divine appointments all along the way to the villages.
• Please pray that the river would be passable (there will be two crossing points on this trip).
• Please pray that other believers in Pastor Bart’s town will be spurred on by their brother Silas’ example to share their faith in nearby villages
• Please pray that the saints in the Yalunka villages will devour the stories, that they will be equipped and eager to share them, and that they will be encouraged with positive responses when they share the stories.
• Please pray that they will find strong churches in at least two of the villages who have been meeting together regularly for worship, prayer, and Bible study.  Also pray that these groups will be strengthened during the team’s time there during these days.
• Please pray that any distractions sent by Satan to prevent or disrupt the times of teaching would be thwarted or ignored so that nothing will prevent God’s word from being taught this coming week.
• Please pray that Keith, Mike, and David will each be holy and filled with the Holy Spirit continually and that the difficult physical and emotional conditions would not hinder them from being used by God as His clean vessels.