Prayer Requests and Prayer Points

Here are prayer requests and prayer prompts to help you with your prayer. You may want to bookmark this page so when you do pray, you can reach it easily. Also, please share ISM related prayer requests by clicking “add prayer request.” All prayers are screened by the prayer team so it won’t show immediately but hopefully it will show less than a couple of hours after your submission. Also, let people know you are praying for them by clicking on the “Pray” button. Thanks all!

  • From Sandi King - Ask the Lord to open the doors to relaunch ministry at the Broadmoor hotel to love and serve the international interns working at the Broadmoor. Pray for a good meeting with leadership at the Broadmoor as Sandi takes one of the former interns who was deeply blessed by the ISI ministry in the past. Pray for favor with the Broadmoor leadership.
  • For Bob Culver iFace - That God will bring new younger staff to the iFace ministry. That several staff nearing retirement will be blessed with younger staff coming alongside them to be trained and prepared to take on leadership in the days ahead. Lord of the harvest bring forward new laborers for the iFace team. We ask in Jesus name, Amen!
  • -For ISI, KC: Ask God for a new Friendship Partner Coordinator to revitalize that part of the ministry as the person who connects American volunteers with international students and scholars. Pray also for God’s calling on future friendship partners. Pray for God to stir the heart of a woman to lead the restarting of the International Wives Connection in KC. At least 4-6 other American volunteers are needed as well to revive this ministry.
  • Father God in your mercy grant XM the opportunity to finish his PhD studies this fall semester. Please grow his tiny seed of faith into a life that would bless many; please give his wife as a young Christian peace during this crisis. Help this family Lord as they trust in you for a good outcome.
  • Long term prayer ministry over international students and international student ministry in Pocatello, Idaho. For the ministry here in Forest Grove, Oregon to continue strong For local Msm students' salvation.
  • Please pray for Sunni and her young daughter from China that she would come to know Jesus.
  • Pray for August 16 Orientation at Southeast Missouri University where ISI has filled classrooms at the International Village with give aways of household items, and small furniture. Our QR code will be used for students to sign up for furniture and beds lottery. Pray we find helpers to deliver furniture, and for us to make good connections with new students for M-28 and English Conversation.
  • REMove the veil in Mansur, Shareen, Saif, Kasra, Ali that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ should shine on them. Turn their zeal for Islam to zeal for Jesus
  • Please pray for Miu , a new believer in Sendai Japan as she seeks fellowship near her home and place of work.
  • Pray for A and her husband Y and daughter H of Nigerian Muslim background who are starting to engage more with ISI and show a bit more interest in spiritual conversation. Pray also for her Muslim friend (also A) from Ghana who has also reached out wanting to build a friendship.
  • Please pray that Y from China would re-engage in Bible studies. She has studied for several years and made a confession of faith a few years ago. But in the past 6 months has pulled away. I pray that she encounter multiple believers, draw closer to the One who saves, and more fully commit her life to Christ.
  • Pray that God would bring us new staff and churches to build international student ministry in cities where there is currently none.
  • Pray for God to lead strong, mature leaders to join our staff team.
  • - NGO GO - Pray for the outflow of NGO GO, with 10 participating students (all from Africa). Pray that the Lord would advance His Kingdom through the entrepreneurial efforts of these students. - Youth Mobilization - Pray for wisdom as we begin to look at starting pilot programs for churched youth to empower and equip them for ISM. - SoCal Mobilization - Pray for wisdom and discernment as we develop plans for wider scale mobilization in Southern California, beginning with a staff prayer day in September and a mobilization working day in January 2024. - Digital Library - We are moving towards the launch of this resource for all staff. Please pray for the various aspects of this project - testing, onboarding librarians, launch, adoption by staff.
  • 1. Pray for new and existing collaboration and partnerships with other ISMs, churches and other ministry organizations. 2. Pray for the ISI Board of Trustees as they provide oversight to the ministry. Pray for additional board members to join in the next 1-3 years. 3. Pray for several foundations currently reviewing grant proposals for ISI. 4. Pray for several potential team members currently seeking R1 Religious Visa status. 5. Pray for the senior leadership of ISI to continually listen to the Lord's leading as ISI looks to expand our tents. 6. Pray for several home office team members needing miraculous healing for loved ones.