Strategic prayer 2: Courage

Have you ever sung the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," where each verse adds to the verses before it?  Well, perhaps you can pray through our strategic prayer points like that too!  Last week I started a series of blog posts on our "strategic prayer points".  Today's new point is: 

2. Courage to step into opportunities, even if we don't know exactly how it will all work out

Dancing in a traditional way!

One way God answered this prayer since October was the courage he gave us to continue partnering with the Nigeria Bible Translation Trust (NBTT) in planning a major Scripture Arts Festival, to be held in the capital this coming June.  Thank God that as a result, together we put on an EthnoArts workshop where speakers of a few languages learned to understand their own cultural arts and create Scripture songs.  Please continue to pray for boldness as we plan for a Scripture Arts Festival that is a bit bigger than any of us are really ready to pull off.

Here are some of the current opportunities of other things we might step into:

• A closer partnership with Calvary Ministries (CAPRO) a Nigerian-founded missions organization
• Partnering with local bookstores to make print and audio Scriptures more accessible
• Sending some of our staff to a conference in Thailand to learn about how we
• Partnering with OneStory to bring some teams to reach oral communities through retelling Bible stories in a natural way.  (Pray for me as I talk with one of our partners about this Tuesday this week... perhaps right as you are reading this!)

These kinds of opportunities are exciting, but they all require us to step out and try something that may not work.  Pray that God will give us wisdom to know which opportunities to follow, but even more the courage to step into them, even when we don't know if it will work.

By the way, want to hear an example of an oral retelling of Creation from OneStory? Try this:
Creation


Now you can continue praying with the first prayer point:

1. Clarity and direction for us as an organization as our Nigerian Missionaries look for new Ministry Partners to pray for and support them financially. Related to this, pray for each member of our team to have all the ministry partners and the full support level they need. (Here is the blog post with more details)