NEW YEAR’S DAY

May God be pleased to grant the Independent Board family His richest blessing for this coming year.  By His grace, may we all remain faithful in doing His will concerning reaching the lost around the world.

MISSIONS

Stir me, Oh! stir me Lord–I care not how, But stir my heart in passion for the world; Stir me to give, to go, but most to pray, Stir, till the blood red banner be unfurled, O’er lands that in heathen darkness lie, O’er deserts where no cross is lifted high. —...

HOME OFFICE

Please pray for the headquarters, which will be understaffed during January as Bonnie Leithmann will be with the SOME Team in Kenya.  Pray that the mail will still go out in good time.

USA/BRAZIL/CAMEROON

Rev. and Mrs. Olson praise the Lord that the Spring edition of The Fundamentalist has gone out all over Brazil.  Granddaughter Leah’s second operation to take out cancerous lymph nodes went well; please pray that the radioactive iodine treatments will take out the...

INTERCESSORY PRAYER

Living far from their families at this holiday time, your missionaries can be as susceptible to depression and doubt as anyone else.  Please keep your missionaries in earnest prayer that the Lord would anchor them in His love, that they would grow in faith, and all...

ANDES MISSION

The Bjurs ask us to pray for the Venezuelan believers and contacts, for the conversion of some, the growth of others, and provision for their needs.  Pray for Michelle and Dessiret, who will graduate from high school this month. Pray for plans for February’s VBS, and...