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Prayer Calendar
FEBRUARY 2022
All Field Countries
We thank God for using Mission Without Borders - its
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staff, volunteers and supporters - for His Glory during
2021. We thank him for the lives that have been
changed and for the generosity of our supporters. We
pray that the ministry will continue to grow under
God’s blessing and protection.
As with December and January, February is a busy
34 month for the field staff. Please pray for our teams
who continue to coordinate, prepare, transport and
deliver Operation Winter Rescue boxes.
Please pray for the children who attended Christmas
56 parties in December. Pray that the news of Jesus will
continue to work in their hearts and that they will
understand and experience God's love and
compassion.
Please pray for our Field teams: that in 2022 they will
78 grow in unity of purpose to effectively address the
many challenges that arise because of the nature of
their work. And that they will continue to grow in their
concern and care for one another, as well as in faith
and Godly wisdom.
"Rejoice in hope, be
In the harsh sub-zero temperatures and challenging
patient in tribulation, be conditions of the Eastern European winters, many
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constant in prayer." struggle to survive. Praise the Lord for His provision as
we continue to assist families, children, and the
Rom 12:12
elderly by supplying life-saving blankets, warm
clothes, winter shoes, firewood, coal and fuel through
our Operation Winter Rescue programme.
All Field Countries Albania
Please pray for more supporters in our 12 fundraising Please pray for job opportunities and hope to return to
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countries to partner with us in sharing the Gospel and many who consider leaving the country to move
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practical help in Eastern Europe. This is a largely abroad for a better life.
forgotten mission field but has opportunities to see
lives changed and families given the dignity of Please pray for fourteen-year-old Esmeralda, who
becoming self-sufficient. 21 22 suffers from acute leukaemia and is in hospital
undergoing Chemotherapy. Please pray for God’s
Please pray for all our partner Churches who offer us so healing and mercy in her life and for her parents
13 14 much support during this time of the year. We are (Behar and Rajmonda) for strength and peace.
blessed to have these partners, and we pray that God
may reward their faithfulness and commitment to the Please pray for all the school children who faced
communities they serve. 23 24 many challenges with online classes in 2021. This
created a deficit in their learning. Please pray that the
Please continue to pray for all our drivers and children will study hard and remain motivated in the
15 16 coordinators - for their safety and protection as they new academic year. Please also pray for the
travel to make essential and sometimes life-saving increased impact of our after-school classes.
deliveries to those in need. They often travel in snow
and icy conditions and in reduced light, making driving
treacherous. Bulgaria
Last month, 42 000 Christmas Love parcels were Please pray for the homeless taking refuge in
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distributed to needy families; the elderly and the Municipal shelters in Sofia. Pray that God will
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disabled. Many Christmas outreaches were held in strengthen them to endure the cold winter months
local Churches, State Homes for children and and resist the temptations they will face there. Pray
Community Centers where all the recipients heard the also for the Gospel of Christ to spread in those
Christmas message. Pray that the Lord will work in the shelters through those who have already received it.
hearts of all who heard the Good News of the Gospel of
Christ. Please pray for Ani, Yulia, and Anna our dedicated
27 28 Street Mercy volunteers, one of them has Covid-19
and the other two have been diagnosed with cancer.
Please pray for the Lord’s healing and peace in their
lives.
Bulgaria Please pray for a full recovery of our Communications
34 Manager Matea's Mum and Blazenko, our Senior Care
Due to torrential rains in several Municipalities in
27 28 South-west Bulgaria, where MWB works, disaster has Coordinator's Mum as they both had a stroke at the
struck many homes and severe flooding has caused end of December.
many to be evacuated and become homeless. Some of
our sponsored families have been affected including Please join us in prayer for Zenica our soup kitchen
our local coordinator. Please pray for God's mercy. 56 cook who has had surgery after they found cancer.
27 28 Please pray for healing and the Lord's presence and
The Todorova family are being helped through our peace to be with Zenica and her family at this time.
Street Mercy program after they were kicked out of a
shared apartment. The family now take shelter in an
abandoned café. MWB has helped them with food,
shoes, clothes, blankets, and backpacks with school
Moldova
supplies for the children. “These were all greatly
appreciated, but most valuable of all is the friendship, Please pray for the children who just lost their
78 Mothers a few days ago, Daniel and Alexandru from
care, love and hope we’ve received that brings us
closer to God”, said Stefka. Please pray for this family. Palance and for Ionut from Leova. Please pray for
these precious children and their families.
MARCH 2022 Please join us in thanking the Lord for the opportunity
09 10 our coordinators had to attend a four-day premarital
and marital counselling seminar at the end of last
Bosnia-Herzegovina year. The workshop equipped coordinators to better
support the families we serve – dealing with conflict,
Please join us in thanking the Lord. Our partnerships financial problems, violence, and emotional
12 with the local churches in Glamoc and Mostar have challenges.
facilitated a tremendous yield of potatoes through
agricultural initiatives last year. Together with church Following recent elections, when a pro-European
volunteers, we have harvested more than four tons of 11 12 party won the majority, Russia has raised prices for
potatoes, of which one ton was given to vulnerable gas. Please pray that the government finds an
families in dire need of assistance. In addition, the alternative source of gas and electricity to meet the
Soup Kitchen in Glamoc, which feeds more than 90 needs of the country. The poor suffer the most.
people every day, has greatly benefited from this
harvest.
Romania Ukraine
Please pray for the Neagu-Podus family enrolled in our
13 14 sponsorship programme. Horatiu, the father, is the sole Please pray for God's protection for our Children's
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breadwinner and works as a seasonal day labourer in Ministry team as they visit communities and share
construction. Although this large family share a two-room God's love through plays and puppet shows.
house with their frail and aged grandfather, their small
house is a welcoming home, one where their children can Please pray for Volodymyr as he presents our
grow up feeling safe and cared for. Praise the Lord for 21 22 Christian Radio programme in Sarny. We aired more
supporters who make it possible for us to journey with than 40 programmes for adults and children last year.
families, investing in their wellbeing, modelling God’s Please pray for Godly wisdom and perspective as he
love and care to them. tackles vexing topics and answers questions from
listeners.
Many families and the elderly are having great difficulties
15 16 keeping warm this winter. Please pray for resources like Please pray for God’s provision and blessing for the
firewood and briquettes as they look to different future of the Nikolayenko family, now supported
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disposable items which to make fire. Please pray that God through our family sponsorship programme. They had
will provide the resources they desperately need so they
to sell their home to pay for surgery necessary to
don't freeze.
save the life of their youngest child. We thank the
Lord that the surgery was successful.
17 18 Please pray for Alexandru Danilenco, Manager at Mission
Without Borders in Romania, as he and his team of 34
We are privileged to serve nearly 500 families in
staff and 125 volunteers who minister to thousands of
beneficiaries each day. Each with their own needs. Please 25 26 Ukraine. Please pray for one of these families where
pray for Godly wisdom and guidance for each situation. the Father cannot find employment and has small
children in which one of them has a serious heart
condition and needs hospital treatment regularly.
Please pray for this family and many more who
struggle daily with financial and health challenges.
Please pray for Olena, the daughter of our Manager
27 28 Volodymyr Khomych in Sarny. Olena has recently
been diagnosed with cancer. Please pray for both
Olena and Volodymyr to have faith, peace and
strength at this time, and for a good report that the
cancer has gone.
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