Mayo April Update

April Prayer Request

Dear Praying Partners,

Here are the April Prayer Requests. Thank you so much for praying!

We appreciate you!

Jonathan and Lisa

How you can be Praying for WGM Uganda…

Please pray for the physical & spiritual health of the missionaries & their families…

• Southern Uganda Missionaries:
  • Jonathan & Lisa Mayo (Jordan & Ethan)
  • Kenneth & Delight Hopson (Kaleb, Austin, & Emilee)
  • Michael & Angela Kelley (Abby & Ashley)
  • Lisa Fish
  • Keith & Donna Bourne (Haley & Rachel)
  • LeeAnn Owen
• Northern Uganda Missionaries
  • Billy & Joanna Coppedge (Elsie)
  • John & Erica Rinehimer

Personal Prayer Requests for the Field:

• You prayed for a place to live for the Mayos because their landlord is not renewing the rent contract. They asked for a place within walking distance of the school where the boys attend and Lisa teaches. God has provided land and a partially built home at a reasonable price. Please pray that the house will be finished before their current contract expires.
• Pray for the Heritage High School Youth Retreat, April 26-28. We have about 50 people participating, including counselors. Pray for the sessions, safety, and for spiritual growth or awakening for the youth attending.
• Pray for the 1^st official pastoral training in Yei, Sudan, April 4-6. Also, please pray for protection and peace for Joanna & Elsie Jayne, as they will be alone in Arua while the rest of the team heads to Sudan.
• Please pray for the Hopson family that they will seek Jesus in all decisions and matters that come their way and that they will show the love of Him in all things.
• Pray that the remaining time slots for the 24-7 chain to be filled.
• Praise that construction on the Coppedges house was completed in less than 2 weeks, and their time living with the Rinehimers was a blessing to everyone involved!
• Praise that the Coppedges successfully got baby Elsie Jayne’s immunizations in Arua.

Ongoing Prayer Requests for the Field:

• Please pray for land to build a house/office or to purchase land with an existing house for the field to have a permanent office and house.
• Please pray for the monthly pastoral trainings taking place in 10 different locations including 1 in Sudan. Over 180 pastors are being trained at 3 different levels.
• Please pray as we continue to look at new areas to expand the ministries. New ministries have already begun in South Sudan. We are now looking at ministry opportunities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and 5 strategic locations within Uganda.
• Please pray for the Lord’s provision to purchase needed printing equipment. Specialized equipment will enable the ministry to not only print materials for the pastors training and youth ministries, but also to expand the ministry to help other Christian organizations.
• Please pray for land to be purchased to build an Urban Center or to be able to purchase land with an existing building for multi-purpose ministries in Kampala. This Urban Center would be a place for the 600 plus students from 11 African countries in the University Ministry. It would be a multi purpose building for a church to reach professionals, a place to begin businesses or to rent out to other businesses to help fund the ministries of the church.
• Please pray for the mission teams that will be coming in the summer, as they begin to meet and prepare for their trips and as we prepare for projects for them.
• Please pray that we would all have the attitude of Christ, that we would keep Him the center focus of our lives, marriages, families, & ministries, and that we would be a light to Uganda.

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