Matt & Caitlin Windsor
Wycliffe - Kingfisher Lake First Nation
Since 2018 Matthew and Caitlin Windsor have been serving with their family in Kingfisher Lake Nation, Ont., where local church leaders are spearheading a Bible translation in the Oji-Cree language. As a linguistics/translation facilitator, Matthew gives ongoing training to Oji-Cree translators, advises on the Bible translation, and helps the community plan how to keep their language strong. Together, the Windsors aim to serve God on mission faithfully as a family of six.
Prayer Needs
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Pray for the Windsors and for local Christians as they try to follow God's lead on transmitting their faith to the next generation.
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That God will lead the right people in Kingfisher Lake to join the team as Bible translators.
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Pray for the Kingfisher Lake Bible translators, that God will continue to give them wisdom and insight as they translate His Word.
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Pray for the spiritual healing of Indigenous communities in northwestern Ontario.
Jared Mortley
Toronto - Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Canada
Jared is a High School Campus Minister and Camp Director with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, serving in Toronto high schools and at Pioneer Camp Ontario. He loves playing music, spending time outdoors and going on adventures with his wife and two children.
Jared loves to help youth understand God's love for them, and to see them grow in their gifts and in leadership in the Church and at school. Jared's ministry involves helping students to run Christian clubs in their schools, equipping the student leaders to share Jesus with their friends and to help them see how they can follow Jesus in every part of their lives. At camp he directs the Leaders In Training (LIT) program for grade 11 and 12 students. The focus is to help them learn to lead by following the example of Jesus as humble, servant leaders.
Prayer Needs
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For this summer's LIT program: for great staff, that God would clearly show us what we should focus on in the curriculum this summer, for many students to apply and be impacted by the program.
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For access to schools and good relationships with administration and teachers.
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For more partnerships with local churches.
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For students to know the love of Jesus and to be transformed by their relationship with Him.
Kathy Gooch
South Africa - Youth With A Mission
Kathy ("Mama K" to the young people in South Africa) was born and raised in Ontario, and she joined Youth With A Mission as a full-time volunteer missionary in 1996. Most of her ministry has been with young people, including leading YWAM Discipleship Training Schools and taking students on short-term overseas missions trips. While living in Zimbabwe for ten years, Kathy helped to launch a prayer movement at her church centered around the spheres of society. She has also pioneered and developed an ECE diploma programme through her church’s college, taught up-and-coming leaders, travelled and taught on various Biblical topics in Southern and East-Central Africa, mentored and discipled young people, and has been a spiritual mother to many. She also served as a lay pastor for a church plant in Cape Town for a few years.
Kathy now ministers to University of Cape Town students who attend her church. She has written a book to help young people on their journey with Jesus, organizes day events and weekend retreats for young women, teaches, preaches, provides lay counselling, and serves as a spirital mama to a multitude.
Prayer Needs
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That Kathy won’t become weary of doing good; that she would remain connected to the Vine (Jesus); remain in fellowship with others; remain strengthened and energized; remain hopeful in prayer- for her personal desires and God’s promises and for the healing and salvation of those she prays for.
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That Kathy would raise the poor and needy out of the ash heap in practical ways and through teaching and prayer so they will inherit a seat of honour (1 Samuel 2:8; Psalm 113:7). That those she ministers to will receive God’s love for them and choose to journey with Jesus through their ups, downs and all arounds. That their sad but sacred stories would be used to inspire others not to give in or to give up.
Richard Long
Ottawa - Together Canada; One Way Ministries
Richard Long is a former senior pastor of Runnymede Community Church. Richard is the Pastoral Liaison at One Way Ministries, which is based in Ottawa. In his role, he serves, connects, and equips pastors, providing support for city-church efforts across the country. His passion is to see the Church in each city come to greater unity across denominational lines in order to make a large impact for the Kingdom of Christ.
Richard wrote a book! The City-Wide Church: Unity That God Blesses goes deep into the biblical imperative of unity to stretch your imagination for what is possible here and now.
Prayer Needs
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Pray for the passing of the torch to the next generation of leaders in Ottawa and in cities across Canada when it comes to the unity of the Church.
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
-Matthew 28:19-20