The parable of two houses, one built on rock and one on sand, is tellingly vivid about the importance of a firm foundation. Often these prayer notes have referred to training of leaders. As we work and pray toward a national-led church planting movement, nothing could be more critical.

After conversion, the worldview of the heart needs to be changed.   For the Hmong grace is difficult to understand; their lives before conversion were based totally on fear.  A lifetime of placating spirits in order to be blessed can transfer into the “new life” as doing good works to solely to have material blessings or a good life in heaven.

Because they never had a “relationship” with demons and ancestors, new Christians tend to transfer this distant, not-relevant-to-daily-life attitude to Jesus. A new Hmong Christian—without a firm foundation-- can easily become simply a deist.

For many months doors to leadership training in some countries have been closed.    We’ve prayed about that together. Now those doors appear to be opening again along with totally new opportunities.

Pray:

• Thank You, Jesus, for renewed contacts for training.   Protect both teachers and students as they travel.   Keep them invisible to hostile outsiders so that training can continue.
• Bless them with a powerful sense of Your presence, a melting together of spirits, a passion for the lost.  
• Help each one to grasp, not just with head but with heart, the foundational truths of the gospel.   Enable them to clearly teach those truths to others.   
• As Your church grows among the Hmong, make it strong, healthy, a tribute to Your wonderful grace. 
• Create divine appointments with individuals and groups during an upcoming survey trip to new areas.
• Squelch the harmful slander being spread about the radio broadcasters.   Cause those who have stopped listening because of the false rumors to again hear Your word.   Defeat every scheme of Satan to destroy the spread of the gospel among the Hmong.