DR Congo: rebuilding schools

In Goma, Ngangi Primary school is currently undergoing extensive work including the rebuilding of 12 new classrooms, an office and toilets. The 1,000 students have now returned to school and mission partner Martin Gordon asks for prayer for the school teachers as they start the school year in challenging conditions.

Please also pray for the 50 school chaplains – that they would have a clear vision for serving the schools and preaching the gospel. Finally, please pray for continued funds to rebuild and rehabilitate the schools in the Diocese of Goma.

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Bangkok, Thailand: Ongoing effects of flooding in the slums

Mission partners Elise and Jon Fletcher report that parts of their slum community in Bangkok are still under water following extreme flooding last month. There has been much disruption to work and school which has affected those without a regular income in particular. Please pray for the floods to drain, aid to get to those who need it and communities to care for their most vulnerable members at this time.

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Ecuador: Handing over of the Orchid Project

Sharon Wilcox is on her way back from Ecuador to the UK and officially retires as a CMS mission partner in April 2027. Sharon has been working at the Orchid Project in Santo Domingo. The project works with people with learning disabilities, teaching them life skills and seeks to enable them to become independent.

Please pray for Sharon as she enters this new phase of life and settles back in the UK. Please also pray for Mary (pronounced “Marry”), the new project coordinator, that she continues to flourish in the role and that the Lord will guide her.

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Israel/Palestine: Ongoing prayer for peace

This week marked three years since the 7 October attacks in Israel. As we consider the lives lost on that day and in the three years since and the ongoing suffering in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, we pray for comfort for all who have suffered and for peace to come. Would you please join us in praying for God to have mercy on the people in this volatile region of the world.

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Europe, Middle East and North Africa: CMS conference

Please pray for a gathering of staff and people in mission working across the Europe, Middle East and North Africa region that is taking place this week. Pray that their time together would be a chance for refreshment, encouragement and strengthening relationships.

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North Africa: persecuted Christians

Prayer is needed for Christians across three different countries in North Africa being persecuted for their Christian faith. One Christian has been sentenced to death in one of these countries and prayer is requested that they will be released at an upcoming hearing.

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AI is rapidly reshaping our world, this Conversation Day will explore what it means to be in pioneering mission in an age of AI.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the ways we work, learn, communicate and participate in community. For Christian communities, this moment presents more than a set of technological challenges. It is an opportunity to ask deeper questions about mission, vocation, human flourishing and how we are joining in with what the Holy Spirit is doing.

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Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the ways we work, learn, communicate and participate in community. For Christian communities, this moment presents more than a set of technological challenges. It is an opportunity to ask deeper questions about mission, vocation, human flourishing and how we are joining in with what the Holy Spirit is doing.

This Conversations Day brings together theologians, scholars, practitioners, pioneers and Christian leaders to explore the emerging landscape of AI through the lens of mission and pioneering. Rather than asking only what AI can do, we will ask what this new technological context means for mission and pioneering.

Through keynote contributions, interdisciplinary conversation and practical engagement, our Conversations Day will explore the opportunities and challenges AI presents for Christian mission.

At the heart of the day is a conviction that pioneering is not simply about keeping up with change. It is about cultivating the imagination, courage and discernment to explore new possibilities, experiment with new forms of community and mission, and ask where God might be at work in the midst of profound cultural change which may seem unsettling and even threatening to some.

The conference will therefore create space not simply to respond to developments in AI, but to imagine, discern and begin to try to shape the future. What new forms of mission might emerge? What might pioneering look like? And how can Christian communities bring wisdom, hope and human connection into a world which is increasingly shaped by AI?

Join us for a day of theological imagination, pioneering practice and forward-looking conversations as we explore how Christian communities can not only navigate the age of artificial intelligence, but also thrive in it.

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Argentina: impactful short term mission

This week, CMS office staff received a visit from Liam Kearns, who recently served as a short termer in northern Argentina. Praise God for the way he has been working through Liam to bless communities and share the gospel in northern Argentina in recent months.

Give thanks also for the way God has worked in Liam’s life and pray for Liam as he considers his next steps. Pray, too, for God’s leading for others who may be considering short or long term mission with CMS.

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DR Congo: tragedy amid ongoing conflict and Ebola epidemic

Please pray for friends and family of CMS-Africa partner Etsegeri Emmanuel, who tragically died this week following a road accident. Pray for God to comfort and strengthen his family, colleagues and others who are mourning his passing.

Please pray for peace and stability for people in areas of DR Congo affected by conflict and insecurity.

Pray for the population as a whole and for healthcare workers especially as the DR Congo continues to battle the deadliest Ebola outbreak in the country’s history. The disease continues to spread rapidly and the death toll is now close to 4,000.

Pray for the disease to be contained, for those affected to receive the care they need, and for healthcare workers to have the resources to respond effectively.

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Ethiopia: conflict in Tigray

Lift up people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, where clashes broke out last week and at least 52 civilians lost their lives during three days of heavy fighting around the town of Alamata. It is believed that government troops have taken control of the town and are heading north towards the main city in the region. Pray for hearts on both sides of the conflict to be turned to peace, and for God’s comfort for all those who are mourning the loss of loved ones killed in the fighting.

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Nepal: landslides

Pray for people in Nepal, where around 30 people have been killed as a result of a wave of landslides and heavy rain. According to Nepal’s national disaster management authority, more than 1,900 families have been affected, more than 240 homes have been damaged and roads, buildings and bridges have been swept away.

Pray for people as they seek to rebuild after this fresh tragedy and continue to recover from the flooding in August, which left 1,400 dead and thousands more missing.

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South Sudan: conflict

CMS-Africa ask for prayer for peace and reconciliation following recent clashes between Arab Misseriya and Ngok Dinka groups, which left 40 people dead and 76 injured.

Pray, too, for families who have been displaced due to conflict, many of whom are living in the open without food or shelter.

Pray for God to provide for their immediate needs and comfort those who have lost loved ones. 

Pray for churches, local authorities and humanitarian partners as they respond to the crisis, and for an end to the conflict.

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