DECEMBER
 Mission pARTNER prayer requests

When Shane and Jessica Booker first considered planting a church in New Orleans, they knew that this unique city would require a creative approach to sustainable church planting. Using an entrepreneurial church plant model, Garden City Church aims to engage people through the marketplace and then utilize those relationships to disciple people and start a church gathering. “The marketplace gives us the ability to love people well and to stay there long enough for them to realize it,” says Shane. During neighborhood canvassing, the Bookers were surprised to discover one common desire among their neighbors — a coffee shop. These conversations sparked the idea for Telltale Coffee & Creams, a neighborhood coffee and ice cream café where people can share their stories. “You want to tell us your tale, and we want to hear your story and share ours. But ultimately, we want to tell you the greatest story ever told” says Shane. Please pray for relationships to grow and for there to be many opportunities to tell the best story of them all!

KHC has been praying since 2020 that God would allow 50 people over 5 years to either be strategically sent to Boston or strategically stay in Boston post-grad. So far, they have 28. Please continue to pray for the college students in the Boston-area and for those God will call to grow in the area for Him!

Lottie Moon was sent as a Southern Baptist missionary to China from 1873 to 1912. She saw firsthand the world’s greatest problem — lostness. Meeting so many people who had never heard the gospel compelled her to write letters to American churches describing the need for a greater missionary presence. She pleaded for increased prayer and financial support to send and sustain more missionaries. This challenge became known as the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Please pray for the 2023 LMCO and those that will be touched by these funds. An eight day prayer guide can be found here.

Continue to pray for the families that our team is getting to know - their neighbors, Arabic language teachers, and English language students - that they would turn to the Lord.

* Names changed and location left vague for security reasons

Over 26,000 children have experienced the transformative love of Jesus at MCF. For many of them, this Christmas will be the first one where they have food to eat, a bed to sleep in, and the knowledge that they are loved so deeply by God Himself. You and the precious children of MCF have at least one thing in common: having been adopted as children by the living God through Jesus. Please explore the MCF 2023 Christmas Wishes and prayerfully consider sharing the love of Jesus through your gifts to MCF children here.

Please pray for the kids that received Christmas gifts through CFC’s 2023 Giving Tree. We are praying that all will one day know the love of Christ.

Please pray:

• That God will open doors of ministry, blessing partnerships and friendships.
• That those who serve will be led by the Holy Spirit and recognize open‑door opportunities.
• That God will lead his people past barriers to hearts ready to receive his Word.

In 1983, eight local churches came together with a common goal to help families facing poverty in North Fulton. Together with Mary Drake, the director of Economic Opportunity Atlanta, they established North Fulton Community Charities, a nonprofit  providing financial assistance and food to residents in need. Please pray for those that are receiving assistance today, 40 years later. 

Please pray for a 19-year-old patient of ABOH’s. She is depressed and suicidal. She is partly homeless and partly living with her boyfriend and boyfriend's dad. She was about 18 weeks pregnant when she decided to follow through with her surgical abortion but is feeling intense guilt and other emotions around it. She has been connected with our Post Abortion Care program, so please pray that she accepts Christ's healing and love!

CFC’s Women’s Retreat collected many makeup bags for Camp Lighthouse. Please pray for those receiving these bags and for God’s peace in their lives.