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Before he left for India, missionary William Carey told his friend, “I will go down…if you hold the rope.” Like the person holding the rope for a mountain climber, the sender of missionaries plays a vital role in helping their friends succeed. Please join the YWAM family in prayer this month for those people who hold the rope for missionaries, who serve as senders. In particular, please pray for senders from the Two-Thirds World.

Listen to this month’s letter here.

Last month YWAM’s monthly prayer day, called The Invitation, focused on the encouraging realities of how God is transforming the missions field into the mission force!

But there is another side to this unfolding story. In many locations both in and out of YWAM there are hundreds if not thousands of amazing men and women from the Two-Thirds-World who are called to go the lost. They have proven character, they have a clear call, often they have been equipped for cross-cultural work, but what they lack are senders.

Senders are any believers intentionally focused on sending and supporting missionaries. In his book Serving as Senders, Neil Pirolo identifies six different ways we can serve as senders: moral support, logistic support, financial support, prayer support, communication support, and re-entry support.

The apostle Paul highlighted the crucial role of senders in his letter to the church in Rome. He wrote, “How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’” (Romans 10:14-15, NIV).

Let us join together to pray for both more senders and more leaders (mobilizers) who will focus not only on launching the Two-Thirds-World missionaries but also on equipping the Two-Thirds-World senders. More believers serving as senders in the Two-Thirds-World will release another wave of amazing missionaries from the Two-Thirds-World.

Please join with The Invitation during the month of March to pray with us about sending Two-Thirds-World missionaries. You are particularly invited to pray during our prayer day, March 14. If you only have a few moments to pray we ask you to pray for a Two-Thirds-World sending country that God puts on your heart (for example, Brazil, Nigeria, South Korea, or India). We would love to receive stories from you regarding how God touched your heart through this prayer. You can email us at prayer@ywam.org.

Prepare to Pray:

Watch this video from Bevin Ginder that explains why praying for senders from the Two-Thirds-World is so important at this time: https://globalcastresources.com/2018/11/07/new-missionaries-from-new-sending-nations/

Pray for Two-Thirds-World Senders:

• The mobilization of many more Two-Thirds-World believers willing to serve as senders.
• More leaders who will focus on equipping both those called to go and those called to send. These leaders could be pastors, business people, church leaders, community leaders, or family leaders.
• A renewed emphasis on maintaining and developing good relationships and partnerships with local church leaders.
• A change of identity in Two-Thirds-World churches from mission field to mission force. Pray for the discipleship process. Missions mobilization includes the long-term efforts necessary to shift how both individuals and whole communities perceive themselves, the Bible, and God’s mission.
• The continued development of relevant models for funding missions from the Two-Thirds-World. There is still a huge need for wisdom on models for funding missions that do not stunt the growing capacity and responsibility of the local believers send out and sustain their own workers.
• More missions mobilization resources developed by and for national leaders, mobilizers and trainers.
• More principle-based training for leaders with a heart for missions.
• The integration of topics such as Biblical basis of missions in the training of pastors in new sending countries.
• Specifically pray for African missionaries and people to send them. In response to last-month’s prayer focus, Sunday Adewumi, a believer from Nigeria, wrote us and asked us to pray for the African mission movement: “I did my YWAM Discipleship Training School in South Africa in 2016, against all odds, in terms of immigration issues. I did my outreach with a group of five in South Africa. Thereafter, I applied to join staff but I was not accepted due to immigration issues. I love missions and my heart is in it. I still do it here in Nigeria. I’ve discovered that some missionaries from some Africa countries and less developed countries are confronted with immigration issues, finances, racial discrimination, and other issues. I hope we can pray for African missionaries on the points mentioned above.

Take Action

• Learn: Read an article or book or watch a video from the resources below.
• Pray: Commit to pray for more Two-Thirds-World leaders focused on equipping both “goers” and “senders.”
• Give: Begin supporting a Two-Thirds-World missionary!
• Create: Ask God for next steps in developing more missions training and mobilization resources in the language of your region.
• Article from Brazil: Miraculous Provision to Launch Teams https://www.ywamfm.org/miraculous-provision-new-teams-brazil/?fbclid=IwAR35b12nDis5gsf-Mj-soFc9DNyPZWg1dWNF-zZ1avj3JxC33TQ1j_XEhYc
• Article from a Caribbean mission leader: https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/cjet/01-1_52.pdf
• Article: Mobilization – The Key to World Evangelization
• Article: Who Will Hold the Ropes: A Plea for Great Commission Pastors and Churches
• Article: Serving as Senders: Six types of support every missionary needs
• Article: Everyone Can Do Missions
• Article: Goer, Sender, Mobilizer, and Welcomer
• Article: Mobilization – The Key to World Evangelization
• Article: Missionaries to Mongolia
• Article: Mongolia – As a People Movement to Christ Emerges, What Lessons Can We Learn?
• Video: What You Don’t Know About Christian Missions.
• Video: When Should Mobilization Begin for New Disciples?
• Video: The Value Of Understanding That Mobilization Is More Than Recruitment
• Podcast: Why Majority World Mobilization Matters
• Book: Missions from the Majority World
• Book: Serving as Senders
• Missions Course: Kairos Course
• Missions Course: Perspectives Course
• Mobilization Resources: The Center for Mission Mobilization
• Mobilization Resources: Create International
• Mobilization Resources: Momentum
• Mobilization Resources: GlobalCAST Resources
• Share on facebook.com/youthwithamission, post a picture and add a comment about how you prayed.
• Go to twitter.com; search for #praywithywam and tweet about your prayer time/post a picture. You can also post a photo on Instagram and use the same hashtag, #praywithywam.
• Send an email to prayer@ywam.org letting us know how you prayed and what God revealed to you.

How We Prayed:

February 2019 – Two-Thirds-World Missionaries

• Several people showed enthusiasm on Facebook to pray for this topic: “Praying with great expectation!” and “Agreeing in prayer. (Psalm 67)”
• One on Facebook asked: “Any mobilization for 2020 Olympics in Japan?”
• International House of Prayer featured praying for Mobilization of Two-Thirds-World (Majority World) Missionaries in the “Prayer for YWAM” guide they distributed to their prayer partners.
• We received an email from a woman in Nigeria asking God to grant the Two-Thirds-World missionaries safety and protection in all their lives and remove humiliation, killings, and maltreatment.

Future Topics:

• April 11, 2019: YWAM Foundational Values 16 – 18
• May 9, 2019: The Muslim World
• June 13, 2019: Central Europe

Don’t Miss The Invitation:

• Sign up for prayer updates. Go to ywam.org, find the “Stay Connected” box on the home page, put in your email address and click “Sign Up.”
• Download prayer updates in a specific language. Go to ywam.org/theinvitation. (Currently available in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Indonesian, Korean or request other languages.)
• Join the conversation about how God is leading in these prayer times. Comment on the Facebook page on the second Thursday at facebook.com/youthwithamission or on Twitter @ywam, hashtag #praywithywam. You can also post a photo on Instagram and use the same hashtag, #praywithywam.
• You can now listen to The Invitation as a podcast. To sign up or listen to past episodes, go to: ywampodcast.net/prayer.
• If you sense God giving you a word or a direction for YWAM’s prayer, please contact us: prayer@ywam.org.