International Prayer Focus

Pray for India Western Territory

Praise and thanksgiving:

• We praise and thank God that the territorial candidates council selected 17 young people as candidates for the sessional year of 2025-2027. Candidates contact classes are already taking place.
• The territory has taken steps to encourage and prepare future candidates by connecting with them and giving them guidance for their preparation. More than 40 future candidates were already dedicated for the mission of The Salvation Army. Please join with us in giving thanks to God.
• We praise and thank God for the opening of new places/new extensions.

Prayer requests:

• Pray for the territorial strategic priorities for 2024-28: ‘Empowering People, Equipping Systems and Engage in Mission’. After much discussion and prayers in various levels, the territory set twelve strategic goals and circulated throughout the territory to move forward with their action plans.
  • EMPOWERING PEOPLE: Every corps, centre, division and territorial headquarters prepared their strategic action plans to empower children and youth, men and women, officers and local officers, employees and all the stakeholders. Kindly pray for our mission of empowering people.
  • EQUIPPING SYSTEMS: This year various assessments, upgradations and some property re-developments will take place for the good of the territory. Please pray for various leadership teams to seek God’s guidance and his wisdom in taking right steps for the future of the territory.
  • ENGAGE IN MISSION: The territory is focusing on mission and evangelism. We thank God for the extension work in Sangli, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Kapparada and Dharampur. Last year we opened The Salvation Army in Goa. This year we sent officer couples to Nasik, Aurangabad and Baruch to open the work. Please pray for our extension work and for the officers and their safety, health and resources.
• Kindly join with us and pray for the forthcoming visit of General Lyndon Buckingham and Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham in February 2025. Please pray that the outcome of the visit will be the deepening of the spiritual life of children and youth, women and men, local officers and officers. The prayers are requested for the preparations and planning for the General’s visit.

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Pray for Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands Territory

Prayer requests:

• Reviewing of the territorial strategic plan. As the territory's current strategic plan spans five years, with next year being the final year of this cycle, it is crucial to evaluate our progress before moving forward with the re-development of the next five-year strategic plan.
• Territorial theme 2021–2025. The theme, ‘Rebuild, Restore, Renew’, has guided us from 2021 through 2025. As we enter 2025, the focus shifts to ‘Revival’. With the theme officially launched during the 2024 Territorial Leaders Conference in July, all divisions, districts and centres must embrace this theme fully, ensuring that the territory experiences a spiritual revival across all areas of ministry and mission and in the lives of Salvationists.
• Spiritual growth of soldiers and officers. Please pray for our soldiers and officers to be embedded in living holy lives, remaining deeply rooted in their faith, and growing in their love and commitment to God.
• Health issues in officers. Please pray for the health of our active officers. Two active officers have been promoted to Glory during 2024, so please pray that good health will be maintained for all our officers.
• Ongoing support for territorial funding. Please pray for stewardship at all levels within the territory and the boost of local income-generating projects.
• Prayer needs for the Solomon Islands:
  • Making it Happen Project – a project for construction of officers quarters in the village churches in the provinces.
  • Mission travel – safe travel to village churches to follow up on new mission opportunities.
  • District quarters repairs and maintenance.
• Ordination and commissioning. Please pray for the cadets of the Champions of the Mission Session as they are ordained and commissioned at the Port Moresby campus on 1 December and the Kainantu campus on 8 December.

Thanking God:

• We praise God for the territorial theme of ‘Rebuild, Restore, Renew,’ ‘A Year of Reclamation’. Souls have returned to God through evangelism, outreach programs, crusades, congress, men and women’s camps, youth councils and Sunday School rallies, and we continue to see more and more lives experiencing a ‘turnaround’. Corps activities and programmes that have gone inactive, have been reclaimed and revived.
• We praise God for the prayer cells rising amongst officers and soldiers, throughout the territory. And for prayers being answered.
• We praise God for his mission that continues to spread throughout the territory. All to the Glory of God.

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Pray for Zambia Territory

Prayer requests:

• Pray for God’s provision and sustaining grace during the current drought in Zambia and that ministries of The Salvation Army will continue to meet increasing individual and community needs. Pray for a good rainy season to resolve the national hydro-energy crisis. Pray for wisdom for government officials to manage this challenging situation to minimize loss of life due to malnutrition.
• Pray for the spiritual growth of salvationists and that the mission will expand to areas of Zambia where there is no Army presence.
• Pray for the financial sustainability of the territory, allowing the mission of the Army to flourish and the officer and infrastructure needs to be adequately met.
• Pray for the social ministries of the territory, including the Chikankata Mission, Mitanda Home for the Aged and various health services, schools, pre-school groups, community work and community development projects in the country.
• Pray that officers and salvationists will be ‘Mobilized to take part in Building a Vibrant Modern Territory, Obedient to God and Relevant in the 21st Century’, the theme of the new Territorial Strategic Plan (2024-2028). Pray that the territory will have the necessary resources to implement the strategic plan.
• Pray for the Officer Training College staff, the newly commissioned officers of the Defenders of Justice session (October 19) and the accepted candidates for the next session, beginning in January 2025.

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Pray for South America East Territory

Prayer requests:

• The awakening of vocations in young people who wish to accept the call to become officers of The Salvation Army.
• The implementation of the new strategic plan that will guide the actions in corps and institutions in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay for the upcoming years.
• That each of the Salvationists in our territory, involved in the privilege of serving God, will be salt and light in their communities, bringing the gospel to children, young people, ladies and gentlemen of all ages.
• We trust that growth in membership is the only way to sustain our mission over time. And at the same time, we ask God to help us find the best strategies to raise funds and sustain the work throughout the territory. We pray for the Lord's blessing on the charity shops, our main source of funding, and for each appointment to make the most of its potential in the community.

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