Pray for team member Tim G as he partners with his home church in seeking to get a new campus work started at Villanova this year.

For Lakeland, FL- Pray for new steadfast, committed volunteers to add to our numbers including the 4 who came to our recent training. Pray also for new staff leadership to help as I have moved an hour away from Lakeland.

Pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send new laborers to Philadelphia to join our team in reaching international students with the love of Christ. Pray that as Lyn teaches several Prospective Courses this fall that I will have the opportunity to talk with several people about opportunities to serve international students.

Pray for God's favor and for divine appointments as we seek to meet new international students during NSO and that we will be able to serve many of them through our shopping trips (Aug.27), our Welcome Party (Sept 2) and our Furniture Giveaway (Sept 3). May God provide us with a strong new group of students who are spiritually open and begin to participate in our weekly Friday Night Connection.

Pray for God's clear leading as we plan a 7-week Fall Bible study series on "What the Bible Says about Leadership". Pray also for God to raise up 7 godly "Marketplace leaders" who come share their testimony each week and interact with the students.

Pray that the Lord will raise up 5-6 international students eager to serve on our Fall Friday Night Connection Student Leadership Team.

Pray that the Lord would bring us people of peace and open the doors wide for us to start M28 discovery groups this semester!

Pray for me as I prepare to train student leaders of Chi Alpha in how to engage in ministry to international students on Wednesday, August 17th. Ask God to stir these believing student's hearts to join Him in ministering to international students!

Pray for our new international student orientation this Wednesday, August 10th. Pray that God would orchestrate divine appointments as we meet new students. Pray that genuine connections and friendships would be built as a result, all for the sake of the gospel.

Pray the Lord will open a door at Denver Seminary, for seminarians to become volunteers and interns joining the ISI ministry along the Front Range.

Pray that we will see the Lord fill each hour of this Week of 24/7 Prayer. Also pray for many ISI ministries that are doing 40 Days of Prayer together with their local teams. Pray God will give them great unity and joy in prayer and they will see the mighty hand of God at work in each ministry. Lord, teach us to pray!

Pray for Sheldon Jantz (ISI National Office Team) and his wife Pam in a very unexpected death in their family. Also pray for Kimberly Daniel Colorado Springs City Director who lost her dad a few weeks ago. Pray for God's comfort and grace for all who have experienced the loss of a loved one.

Praise God that all the R1 Visas we were praying for have now come through. AJ and Laura from Brazil got their Visas a few days ago. God is opening a new door for our former students to join the ISI family as full-time staff. Please pray for all these new staff members to be able to see all their funding come in quickly.

Pray that all of us, from home office staff, field staff, international staff, the leadership team be walking in the Spirit, keeping in step with the Spirit so that even as we are often stretched thin with the large number of needs and opportunities, that we walk in unity as one in our diversity (of gifts, thought, styles, scope, experiences, etc.). Even when we disagree, that we can rumble with vulnerability so that students can see how special the Body of Christ is "even when hard pressed, perplexed, persecuted, struck down, carrying the Body of Christ in his death so that the world can see the life of Christ lived out in our bodies." ( paraphrase 2 Corinthians 4:8-10)

Pray for favor with university officials all over the country. Pray that we can be wise about finding those no matter what department or role they are in at those universities to open up doors to meet and touch international students this year. Help us to be flexible in our methods but unmoving in our mission and values which will be critical in changing times like these. Pray for workers for the harvest both at a staff level and volunteers. Pray that God puts us in places where we an find those who he has pre-disposed to ministry to international students.