• Praises: Praise Jesus for faithful volunteers serving at the various ISF Home Groups. Ask the Spirit to continue helping grow relationships and providing opportunities for natural conversations about him. • Praise God that one of our local churches is planning to host a women’s event focused on international outreach. Intercede for the leaders and speakers to honor God trough their testimonies. May Spirit touch many lives and raise up women passionate for the nations. • Praise the Lord that Sandeep has successfully completed his master’s program in Marriage and Family Therapy.

Pray that we will demonstrate committed love to our students. Pray that we would demonstrate that love through committed prayer, time shared with students, and working to see needs met. May we remember that living in a strange culture is arduous work. Let us encourage students with our care and share the Jesus who taught us to care.

Prayer Requests from Ward Ballard Director of ISM for the Navigator Ministry: 1. We are very focused on building up our younger generation of ISM staff. Our main Strategy is the place new staff into Healthy Teams we call HTTVs(Healthy Team Training Venues) currently we have five locations and hope to expand to ten. 2. We are also giving much focus to recruiting and training Volunteers. We began with about 300 volunteers and are seeking to develop 300 more. In this category we are trying to improve our connections with 1080 alumni scattered around the globe. Thank you for praying for the Navigators!

Lord, We praise You and thank You for who You are!! You are such a great and mighty God and You are always on Your throne! We praise for the way You are working all over the world and in ISI right now! We praise You for Your Sovereign Grace in all of our lives - all of the staff and students that You have called by Your Name to follow You, to live for You! Hear our prayers as we come to You - totally dependent on You to work in every aspect of this ministry, in every place that You have called us! Pour out Your Spirit on us as we seek to follow You with all our hearts and on our volunteers and on our students that they may come to know You and walk faithfully with you! We pray all this for the Glory of Your Great Name! We pray in the Name of our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ, amen!

Please pray for a spiritual breakthrough in my immediate family. I can see that God is at work and long for more in His perfect way. Thanks so much!

Please pray for God to be glorified during our Prayer Walk tomorrow, Wednesday 14, at the University of Delaware. We are especially praying for revival and are promoting the book, Longing for Revival: From Holy Discontent to Breakthrough Faith with many copies to give to campus ministry leaders. Thanks!

Pray for more ISI/ISM staff to come to UMBC to help with the international student ministry. Pray for the Holy Spirit to move mightily across the campus and local churches to draw students and volunteers to walk with him and be a blessing. Ask the Lord to direct devoted Christian students to join our club and reach out to nonbelievers around them. Thank you!

• Pray for incoming students this fall semester to have softened hearts to hear about Jesus and receive his love. • Please pray for one of our students, *Claire, and her family. Her home country of Bangladesh erupted in violence (stemming from the political party in control of the government) that resulted in shutdowns, chaos, and many deaths. Praise God that she made back to the States, but her father in still there and in danger as a member of the opposition party. Please pray for peace for this nation and the Lord’s word to go forth and bring change.

Prayer request from Randy & Jan Babcock - ISI Staff CSU Fort Collins: Our STUFF Giveaway is this Saturday, August 17th. Please pray for the giveaway to draw many students. That students we meet will be open and ready for follow-up and deep relationships with our team.

Pray that we can see new students and ones we already have relationships with desire to study the Bible.

Pray that we would see significant spiritual breakthroughs with the Persian students and scholars at KU MED.

Pray for ISI KC a has we make a transition over the next several months to Sandeep Thomas taking on he position of City Director, and Carol focuses primarily on student and scholar relationships.

Pray for ISI KC that we will have more than enough volunteers to help with our Home Goods Giveaway for both the 2 1/2 days of setup and during the Giveaway itself.

1. That I can love God more and have deeper intimacy with Him. 2. That I have committed core families and more Chinese student Christians at Temple University to join my volunteer team. 3. That we will have a fruitful welcome BBQ for new Chinese students in University City of Philadelphia and a new semester with qualitative and quantitive breakthroughs. 4. That I can efficiently balance my full time ministry and my part time theological studies to greatly boost my spirituality and ministries. 5. God's abundant and amazing provision in fund-raising.

1. That I can love God more and have deeper intimacy with Him. 2. That I have committed core families and more Chinese student Christians at Temple University to join my volunteer team. 3. That we will have a fruitful welcome BBQ for new Chinese students in University City of Philadelphia and a new semester with qualitative and quantitive breakthroughs. 4. That I can efficiently balance my full time ministry and my part time theological studies to greatly boost my spirituality and ministries. 5. God's abundant and amazing provision in fund-raising.