Pray the Lord will help local ministry as many are wanting to start 40 Days of Prayer for this semester. Pray they will be able to start even when things are already very busy. Lord help us to make 40 Days of Prayer a key priority as we move into this new semester. .

Praise God for His sovereignty to put each of us ISI staff exactly where our LORD GOD wants us. Our job is to be the light of Christ's love shining to all whom God gives us. Please pray for Holy Spirit stirring amongst our ISI-connected churches in Santa Cruz to bring the people God is calling this year to volunteer with ISI at UC Santa Cruz. I have only a remnant of active volunteers now, Pray for God to bring us people who have a servant's heart, willing to be part of a team,e to serve what Christ is doing, to serve the needs of the internationals, not to accomplish their own goals and dreams of glory. Pray God opens the right doors of communciation in our local churches to bring, even a few people who are willing to obey the Lord in our ISI ministry here. . Jeremiah 42: 1-12 Stay here in this land. Then all the guerrilla leaders including Johanan son of Kareah and Jesaniah son of Hoshaiah and all the people from the least to the greatest, approached Jeremiah the prophet. They said “Please pray to the LORD your God for us. As you can see we are only a tiny remnant compared to what we were before. Pray that the LORD your God will show us what to do and where to go.” Whether we like it or not, we will obey the LORD our God to whom we are sending you with our plea. For if we obey him, everything will turn out well for us. Ten days later the LORD gave his reply … “Stay here in this land. If you do I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you. For I am sorry about all the punishment I have had to bring upon you. Do not fear the king of Babylon anymore,” says the LORD. “For I am with you and will save you and rescue you from his power.”

"God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne. The nobles of the nations assemble as the people of the God of Abraham, for the kings of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted." Hallelujah! Ps 47:8-9

1. Please pray for the ministry at NOVA Annandale and its leadership team to be like living stones into God's temple, so that they will effectively show the goodness of God to international students. (1 Pet. 2:4-9) // 2. Please pray for a potential new IS ministry at the NOVA Manassas campus. Pray also for God's guidance in our meeting next week with James K. and Linda H. who are exploring outreach opportunities there. // 3. Please pray that God would raise up more financial partners for the NOVA IS leadership team in their Partnership Development. // 4. Please pray for CCI students and all other international students who will come to our various activities in the Fall semester, that God will open their spiritual eyes to see they need Jesus, and that the Holy Spirit will stir their spiritual hunger. Pray that some will surrender their lives to Jesus. // 5. Please pray for the Missionary Emphasis Week October 18th to 23rd at our local church. Pray for God's guidance for those organizing, teaching and for the right people come and participate.

Join us in praying for a 24/7 Prayer Movement to be raised up in Colorado Springs. There are 539 Christian organizations including churches in Colorado Springs. If 24/7 Prayer becomes a passion for these ministries it will most likely spread all over the world through the extended reach of many of these ministries. Lord we are asking you to give birth to a 24/7 Prayer Movement in Colorado Springs that will become contagious and spread to all the nations of the earth. Awake in your people a holy passion to pursue you in prayer. Keep this movement grounded in a first love for Jesus and to love our neighbor as ourselves. We ask this in Jesus mighty name, Amen!

Proverbs 10:11 "The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life..." Lord, may the words of our mouth be fountains of life to those we interact with daily...at home, with students, with co-workers, at church, at work.

Lord, grant each of us faith to embrace your call to expand our tents (Isaiah 54) and show us what that means in each of our local settings. Give us sensitivity and obedient hearts as we seek to listen to the Holy Spirit in the weeks and months ahead.

Pray for God's provision of drivers for taking new students shopping on August 27, for effective advertising among new students, for a great turn out, and for many of these students to come to our Welcome Party on Sept 2, and then to start getting connected to us weekly or more.

Praise God that we have secured a venue for our Welcome Party on Sept. 2. Pray for God's leading as we work out all of the logistics of getting food, advertising, volunteers, registration, etc. Ask God to raise up a good group of new students to come to our Welcome Party. Thanks.

Pray with me as I seek the Lord's wisdom and discernment about starting the first home group with our students at Lamar. Ask God to raise up a core team of people from my church who will catch the vision and take on the mantle of leadership. Pray that He would use home group as a launching pad for deeper spiritual conversations and truth discovery with people of peace!

For Y. In Shanghai who is struggling with despair and has heard the gospel but is afraid to commit to the Lord. I pray Lord that you would reveal yourself to her in a powerful mighty way! Deliver her from her darkness & give her true hope in You! Our eyes are on You! You alone can save!

Praise for some small answers to prayer for our welcome party at Florida Polytechnic! But continued prayer for more volunteers and someone to truly commit to the vision of this work in Lakeland and be willing to take responsibility for the local ministry! We praise you God for what you are doing even when we cannot see!

Pray for A a student who is experiencing great success in her studies and career. May she see that it is empty and that only Christ can bring fulfillment and true joy. Only in Christ will she recognize her value.

Pray that our weekly ISI Regional Prayer times will be Spirit-filled times of both delight in His Presence as well as impassioned prayer for the students and each other.

Pray for wisdom & God's clear orchestrating as my wife and I hope to facilitate a 10-week Soul Care group with our ISM partners. Pray that we will see God work mightily in this group as we get started in September. Pray that we will have at least 3 men and 3 women join us.