PRAY FOR SONLIGHT MISSIONARIES
Pray for Health and Safety
Missionaries face the same health problems people face at home, plus several others. Political instability, travel, and other issues can be major dangers.
Pray for Adjustment
The missionary’s first term requires learning to adjust and cope in the new climate and culture.
Pray for Language Skills
Learning a new language can be difficult, but it is essential. This time of seeming inactivity (language classes) can frustrate a person accustomed to accomplishing a lot each day.
Pray for Relationships
It takes time for mission worker to develop genuine one-on-one relationships with the national people and to be accepted by them.
Pray for Encouragement
Missionaries go to the field with high expectations, but discouragement is a real problem. Pray that the missionaries will be encouraged.
Pray for Families
Missionaries make tremendous sacrifices that affect their extended families. They miss weddings, birthdays, funerals, and anniversaries. Pray for adjustment and that the missionaries can find other ways to draw close to family and friends abroad.
Pray for Balance, Spiritual Refreshment, & Growth
Like any ministry, missions work can be a demanding and stressful occupation. Missionaries need to find a harmonious balance between rest, work, recreation, and family. They need times of retreat, alone or with others, for times of refreshing. |