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Friday, October 11, 2013 To hear an mp3 recording of the PrayerLine, click here. http://media1.imbresources.org/files/185/18533/18533-102737.mp3 “The Lord helps and delivers them; He will deliver them from the wicked and will save them because they take refuge in Him.” (Psalm 37:40, HCSB) Hi, this is Eleanor Witcher of IMB’s prayer office, asking you to pray for refugees. Over the past two-and-a-half years missionary Gail Davis has been ministering to refugees in Cape Town, South Africa. Registered asylum seekers number approximately 500,000 and they can become lost in the bureaucratic system. Gail began her work by teaching English using the Book of Mark. After two years of teaching almost 70 students, two have learned enough to go to a university, 14 have acquired jobs, and three have started high school. With the opening of each new class site, an English-language Bible is given to each student. Sometimes the Bibles are welcomed with joy and sometimes with reluctance. A few of the students are from a non-Christian faith. Each week, students read their Bible story aloud before the lesson begins. At the year’s end, a celebration service is conducted and each student is given the opportunity to read a passage during the service. People clap, laugh, and experience joy during these times.  “Each week, Jesus Christ gives us the strength to live from Friday to Friday, until we can come to fellowship and study God’s Word with you. Sometimes we cannot come because we must work so much just to have food and a place to sleep, but we always praise God for you.” These words were spoken by refugees in Thailand who can no longer live in their own Islamic homeland. The Central Thai Team is seeing the Lord’s power at work in bringing some very ‘unexpected’ sheep into His fold--unexpected by us, but surely not unexpected by God.  * Please pray that more refugee students in South Africa will learn not only English, but also about God’s love for them.  * Intercede for new believers in Thailand who may struggle for their daily needs but rejoice in their new-found home in Jesus. * Ask the Lord to continue opening doors to the hearts of refugees.

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