“ABC Kids”
“ABC Kids” is a weekly television program, produced and aired by “Radio Television Caranavi,” in Caranavi, Bolivia. The program serves children of all ages with “Amor” and “Bondad” en “Cristo” — “ABC Kids.”
It is a cooperative effort. Local children and television staff collaborate in imagineering each week’s hour-long program, featuring music, drama, puppets, games — and loads of fun.
GoMissions
“GoMissions” is an innovative partnership in mission. From its base just above “Radio Hill” in Caranavi, “GoMissions” teams serve churches here and there around the country in short-term disciplemaking outreach programs. Prayer League colleagues Nick and Shannon Kraft are on loan to this partnership — and its founders.
“GoMissions” represents a collaboration between the Prayer League, CEC, Iglesia “El Redentor,” and other Bolivian friends interested in “going in mission.” The team looks to the possibility of international teams with a base in Bolivia — and outreach elsewhere in the world.
CALA
“Publicaciones CALA” refers to the “Comisión de Alfabetización y Literatura Aymara,” founded in La Paz, Bolivia, in 1957. The organization celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2007.
“CALA” has been a significant partner since the early days of our life and work in Bolivia. Several of our team have served the organization directly — including Shel and Sharon Groff as “vocales” on its board of directors. All of our team has benefitted from the organization’s provision of Biblical evangelistic and discipleship materials in the Aymara, Quechua, and Spanish languages.
The mission of the mission is straightforward:
“Publicaciones CALA tiene la tarea de servir al pueblo evangélico de nuestro medio, tanto boliviano como en los países vecinos por medio de la producción de literatura en Educación Cristiana, Alfabetización, evangelización, vida cristiana, ministerio pastoral y liderazgo de acuerdo a las necesidades y particularidades de la iglesia. Además, continuar apoyando la publicación de literatura bilingüe aymara-español y quechua-español para el mantenimiento de los valores culturales del pueblo aymara y quechua.”
[Translation: "CALA publications has the task of serving the evangelical public in our midst, in Bolivia and in neighboring countries, by the production of literature treating Christian Education, Literacy, evangelization, pastoral ministry and leadership, based upon the needs and particularities of the church. In addition, CALA continues to facilitate the publication of Aymara-Spanish and Quechua-Spanish bilingual literature in order to maintain the cultural values of the Aymara and Quechua peoples."]
Projects and Partners
The World Mission Prayer League is an entire community of “projects” — and partners. Our “projects” take us around the world, living out the Good News of Jesus where we find an opportunity. Our partners, however, make the projects go. If our projects are fruit, our partners are the vine that produce and sustain them.
Our most significant partners are our own committed and praying members. Membership is the doorway into our community. Members pledge themselves to join us in prayer. Together, our prayers take us into the entire world.
If you are not a member already, please consider joining our praying community. You can fill out a brief application here. If you are a member, why not invite a friend or family member to join you in our community? You may send a personalized invitation here.
We have many additional partners, as well. In fact, our little community is hard at work in eighteen countries around the world — from the jungles of Bolivia to the shores of Lake Baikal in Central Asia. We began our work in Asia in 1891, as the American Board of the Santal Mission. Our first American Board missionaries were sent in 1904 — to India. In 1937 we began our involvement in Latin America, beginning in Bolivia. This was the South American Mission Prayer League (SAMPL). Since then our community has found involvement in service and outreach projects in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the United States and Canada. We have become the World Mission Prayer League (WMPL).
You will find some of our projects described in the menu to the right — like fruit on a vine.
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Membership Forum
Members may participate in our online Membership Forum. The forum represents an online discussion of the history and current issues, challenges and opportunities facing our community around the world.
Members in positions of leadership in our community — including our Home Council, Mission Directorate, and ordinary staff — will find special “boards” dedicated for their use.
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Church and agency partners
The mission of God commands the entire people of God. We are not in the effort alone!
You will find below a bunch of our partners in mission — church partners, agency partners, Bible Schools and Seminaries, etc. — including links to sites that will help you research Christian missions around the world.
If you feel that your church or agency should be listed below, please propose a link. We will be happy to participate!
What are the benefits of Membership?
There are many “benefits” enjoyed by our members. Some of them are quite practical, even material. Others may be less tangible — yet, in the end, more deeply satisfying.
Here are a few satisfying benefits:
- Members make a difference: they enjoy the satisfaction of participating with the Lord of lords in the transformation of the world through prayer.
- Members belong: they appreciate their participation in a Christian family and praying community that spans the globe.
- Members support one another: they encourage one another in living out the Christian life.
- Members share the Good News: they hear the Good News, trust the Good News, and share the Good News as they have opportunity.
There are other benefits, too:
- Members receive our monthly Newsletter. We call it “Together in Prayer.” Members may choose to receive the newsletter electronically, if they prefer.
- Members may participate in our Annual Business Meeting — held every year in Minneapolis, and in Camrose, Alberta, for our Canadian fellowship — and to vote for members of our governing boards.
- Members receive travel counsel and orientation should they visit one of our ministry partners around the world.
- Members are eligible for discounts in several Prayer League-related guest house facilities around the world.
- Members may participate financially in the support of selected missionaries or service projects around the world. Members receive tax-deductible receipts acknowledging their support.
We hope that you will want to join us! You may sign up here.
What does Membership mean?
“Membership” is the door into our community.
We are a praying fellowship, first and foremost. Members pledge themselves to join us in prayer. This is the first and fundamental meaning of membership. Prayer, in fact, is the only obligation required of our members.
But prayer is no small thing. When Jesus saw the needy crowds that surrounded him on every side, he did not organize a task force or study group to analyze the situation. He did not launch a funding campaign. He did not hire a marketer or authorize a direct mail program soliciting tithes and offerings. He urged his disciples to pray. (See the story in Matthew 9:35-38.)
One of the early lights in our community said simply, “Prayer is our working method” (Ernest Weinhardt). We encourage our members to pray.
Yet pray-ers often become involved in other ways, as well. Sometimes they will hear the voice of Jesus to go — as the disciples did in the verse following the passage referenced above. (See Matthew 10:1-15.) Sometimes they will be moved to give. We hope that all of our praying members will evaluate their lives and daily involvements in the light of our Lord’s gracious and compelling commission — to make disciples of all nations and peoples, everywhere. (See Matthew 28:18-20.)
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Peace Rehabilitation Center
Peace Rehabilitation Center is committed to the rescue and rehabilitation of Nepali young people who have been stolen or sold - “trafficked” - in South Asia’s burgeoning sex industry. The community is located in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Multi-purpose Training Centre
The Northwestern Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church is based in Jharkhand State in northern India, with headquarters in Ranchi. The church is comprised, for the most part, of sisters and brothers of Oraoan background.
Recently the NWGELC has undertaken a significant new project for the training of lay leadership within their fellowship — a Multi-purpose Training Center, near Ranchi. The Church hopes to offer training for ministry within its fellowship — and training for missionary outreach among the diaspora Oraoan community in the region.
In February 2005, the World Mission Prayer League entered into partnership in this important project.
Urban Ministries Serving God
“Urban Ministries Serving God” is a network of ministries in urban Nairobi, aiming at researching urban Africa and imagining initiatives for serving urban situations with the gospel of Jesus. The Prayer League has collaborated in the ministries of UMSG since the turn of the century.
Joint Christian Services
The World Mission Prayer League participates in the ministries of Joint Christian Services, in Ulaanbaatar. The organization serves the people of Mongolia with holistic development ministries, from a Christian perspective.
International Nepal Fellowship
The World Mission Prayer League was a founding member of the International Nepal Fellowship. At present, no Prayer League missionaries are assigned to the fellowship — though many needs remain unfilled.
Read more by clicking here.
United Mission to Nepal
The World Mission Prayer League has cooperated in the ministries of the United Mission to Nepal since the very beginning of that organization, more than fifty years ago.
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Open Doors Medical Clinic
Open Doors Medical Clinic was founded in Bucharest nearly a decade ago, in innovative service to the people of Romania. The Clinic proposes to serve the medical needs of the poor, while providing training opportunities for Romanian medical students and residents in the area of family practice medicine.
The Clinic proposes something deeper, too — to “open the door” to the Gospel of Jesus Christ for everyone touched by the Clinic and its ministries. You may read more by clicking here.
Achkiy
“Achkiy” is a community oriented development project, aimed at empowering artisans in the production of Peruvian crafts and connecting them to markets in North America.
Hundreds of artisans — especially women — have found new hope in this innovative program. They have grown in their skills and abilities — and many have grown in their Christian faith.
Pastoralist Project
Thirty years ago the World Mission Prayer League undertook a pioneering outreach project among the pastoralist peoples of northern Kenya — the Samburu people, in particular.
Today, the Mission collaborates with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya in service and outreach activities in and around Arsim and Ngilai, in the heart of the Samburu district.
Unidad Educativa Bilingüe Interamericana
The Interamerican Bilingual School is a ministry begun by the World Mission Prayer League nearly forty years ago. Since its earliest days, the ministry has grown to serve some 1200 students on a lovely campus in downtown Cuenca.
Today the School belongs to “Eduluteranos, Cia. Ltd.”, an independent Board of Governors.
LAMB Medical Project
The LAMB Medical Project is a a ministry of the World Mission Prayer League, in tandem with several international partnering agencies.
Its mission is “to serve God through serving the poor or under-privileged people, especially women and children, of Bangladesh.”
The vision of the organization is to see people living as God intended in spiritually, physically, socio-economically, and emotionally healthy communities with the capacity to develop and utilize sustainable, holistic and reproducible health and development programs.
LAMB hopes to build capacity using the institution’s diverse personnel, resources, and expertise in integrated community and hospital programs, networking with communities, churches, NGOs and the Government of Bangladesh.
You may find more information about LAMB by clicking here.
Radio Television Caranavi
Radio Television Caranavi is a project of the Liga de Oración en Misión Mundial, and is located in Caranavi, Bolivia. The ministry serves the peoples of the Yungas Valley, the high Altiplano, and beyond — including areas in Brazil, Peru, and Chile.
The ministry dates to 1969, when construction began on a site overlooking Caranavi — what has come to be known as “radio hill”. The project has grown in outreach and sophistication since those early days. In 1979, RTC added an innovative “quad” antennna system, that greatly increased the quality of its radio signal. In 1992, a ten KW transmitter was added. In 2004, the project began television broadcasts for the first time — so becoming what it is today, Radio Television Caranavi.
From its website, we read the ministry’s Vision Statement:
We are dedicated to knowing and working for Christ, praying for the advancement of the Kingdom, sharing the word of God to those who don’t know Him, and building up and edifying the body of Christ.
You may contact Radio Television Caranavi by clicking here.
Other
The Prayer League is involved in “tent-making” and partnership ministries in countries “closed” to a traditional missionary presence.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World".
Romania
The population of Romania is approximately 24,000,000. Almost 10% live in Bucharest, the capital city. Romania is predominantly Orthodox Christian. (Johnstone, 1993)
In 1993 the World Mission Prayer League accepted its first missionaries to Romania. Two Prayer League missionaries are involved in medical and disciple making ministries from their headquarters in Bucharest. In 1998, they organized the "Open Door Medical Foundation." The Foundation hopes to train medical residents in family practice medicine, while sharing the Good News and providing care to the poor.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World" .
Philippines
The Philippines are comprised of 7,250 islands, of which 700 are inhabited. The largest of these is Luzon, home of Manila, the nation’s capital. Mindanao, in the far south, is the second largest island and home to 43 tribal people groups. (Johnstone, 1993)
The World Mission Prayer League participates in a cooperative evangelistic and church planting effort among the people of the Philippines.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World" .
Peru
The population of Peru numbers more than 25,000,000. Over half are Ameri-Indian; almost 90% of the entire population are Roman Catholic. (Johnstone, 1993)
Since 1985 the World Mission Prayer League has engaged in literacy, health and development, and pioneer evangelism and church planting ministries along the northern coast.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World" .
Pakistan
Pakistan is comprised of nearly 150,000,000 people in over 170 ethnic groups and six major langauges. Pakistan is an Islamic republic. Almost 97% of the entire population is Muslim. Christians are approximately 2 percent. (Johnstone, 1993)
Colleagues and workers within our community have served in Pakistan for nearly fifty years, in medical, educational, and agricultural projects.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World" .
Nepal
Nepal is the world’s only Hindu Kingdom. Some 90% of its population count themselves Hindu. Buddhism and animism, however, are intertwined significantly in much of the country. Nepal’s population numbers approximately 20 million. Approximately 7 million more live in "diapsora", outside the country. (Johnstone, 1993)
The World Mission Prayer League cooperates in several international ministries in service to the people of Nepal, including the United Mission to Nepal and the International Nepal Fellowship.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World".
Mongolia
By some estimates, Mongolia has been—until very recently—the least evangelized country on the face of the earth. In 1990 Mongolia renounced seventy years of communism, and established a multiparty democracy. Since then the country has been open to the presence of outsiders—including Christians. By recent estimate, approximately 50% of the population are practicing animists; 26% are Buddhists; 20% are non-religious; 4% are Muslim. Christians may number 0.03%. (Johnstone, 1993)
For over forty years the World Mission Prayer League has prayed for the people of the Tibetan Buddhist world—and among them, the people of Mongolia.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World" .
Mexico
Mexico is home to approximately 100,000,000 persons—with more than one fifth in a single city, the "Distrito Federal," the largest city in the world.
Approximately 95% of Mexico’s population describe themselves as Christian. It is estimated that 5% are evangelical Protestants. (Johnstone, 1993)
For over fifty years the World Mission Prayer League has served in Mexico. Today the League cooperates in the ministries of a national Lutheran church—the Apostolic Lutheran Alliance of Mexico. Prayer League missionaries are engaged in evangelism, church planting, and leadership development ministries in three widely separated areas—Nogales, Mazatlan, and Puebla.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World" .
Kenya
Situated along the eastern coast of Africa, Kenya is a mosaic of peoples and cultures. The population is approximately 31,000,000, scattered among 117 distinct people groups. Kenya has the highest natural birth-rate in the world (Johnstone, 1993).
Most Kenyans — more than 80% — describe themselves as Christian. Approximately 12% of the population, however, belong to people groups little affected by the gospel.
The World Mission Prayer League has cooperated in the ministries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kenya since 1968. Prayer League missionaries are currently involved in medical and educational programs, literature translation, curriculum development and church planting ministries.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World" .
India
Nearly 16% of the world’s population is Indian. By some projections, India will become the most populous country on earth within 20 years—with 1.3 billion people.
India’s population today is incredibly diverse. A recent survey identified 4,635 distinct people groups. Hindi, English and 16 regional languages are "official"; more than 1600 are spoken around the country. Nearly 80% are Hindu; 12% are Muslim. Christians may number 3 or 4 percent.(Johnstone, 1993)
The World Mission Prayer League’s presence in India dates to 1891, when the American Board of the Norwegian Santal Mission was formed in Minneapolis. In 1904, we sent our first missionaries to join the work of our European partners among the Santal people. Later, in 1941, World Mission Prayer League missionaries established a ministry in Darjeeling, near the border of Nepal. And in 2005, the Mission undertook a new partnership with the Northwestern Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church, centered in Ranchi, in Jharkhand State. The Prayer League partners today with the NWGELC, as well as the United Church of North India and the Darjeeling Hills Bible School with particular attention to minstries of leadership development.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World" .
Eritrea
Following the collapse of Ethiopia’s Marxist government—and many years of intense fighting—Eritrea emerged as its own independent country in the spring of 1993. It had been a part of Ethiopia for thirty years. Independence was declared on May 24.
Nine major people groups include Christians, Muslims and tribal peoples. The Tigrinya people are predominantly Christian, and number almost two million. Muslims are predominant among the Tigre, Afar, Beja, and Saho peoples, while large numbers of Kunama are Muslim as well.
Tensions remain quite high along the border with Ethiopia. Eritrea struggles to reintegrate more than one million refugees who had fled the country during the many years of war. Tens of thousands of Eritreans have been deported by Ethiopia in recent years, some of whom had been living in Ethiopia for generations.
The World Mission Prayer League has one missionary family stationed in Asmara, in service to the Evangelical Church of Eritrea.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World".
Ecuador
Along the Pacific coast of South America, Ecuador is characterized by coastal plains, high "cordilleras", tropical jungle — and the distinctive Galapagos Islands. Approximately 40% of Ecuador’s peoples are Amerindian, mostly Quichua speaking.
Ninety-eight percent of Ecuador’s population are affiliated with the Christian church. Far and away the majority are Roman Catholic. It is estimated that 20%, approximately, are practicing animists. (Johnstone, 1993)
The World Mission Prayer League has served in the highlands of Ecuador since 1951, establishing centers of operation in Cuenca and environs and the province of Loja along the border with Peru. Prayer League missionaries — including two on loan from sister agencies — cooperate in evangelism, church planting, leadership development, Bible translation and education.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World" .
Bolivia
Bolivia is characterized by the high "altiplano" in the south and west, and tropical lowlands in the north and east. It is one of two landlocked republics in the Americas.
The institutional Church is well-established in Bolivia, with nearly 90% affiliation. By some estimates, however, 58% of the population are practicing animists. Ten percent overall are evangelical Protestants. (Johnstone, 1993)
In 1938 the World Mission Prayer League established its first Latin American missionary conference — here, in Bolivia. Since then a strong Lutheran national church has emerged among Aymara, Quechua, and Spanish speaking peoples — a testimony to God’s faithfulness throughout the years. Prayer League missionaries serve in evangelism, church planting, leadership training, radio and education.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World" .
Bangladesh
The People’s Republic of Bangladesh formerly known as East Pakistan, occupies the delta and floodplains of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers. One of the world’s poorest nations, Bangladesh is also one of the most crowded. 135,000,000 people occupy 144,000 square kilometers—an area roughly the size of Wisconsin—representing more than 50 people groups. (Johnstone, 1993)
Bangladesh is officially a Muslim state. Few nations in the world have such a large number of people who remain largely untouched by the Gospel.
The World Mission Prayer League’s presence in the Indian subcontinent dates to 1891, when our predecessor organization — the American Board of the Norwegian Santal Mission — was formed in Minneapolis. In 1904, we sent our first missionaries to join the work of our European partners among the Santal people. In 1972, the American Board merged with the World Mission Prayer League.
The World Mission Prayer League is today involved in a variety of projects in Bangladesh — principal among them, the LAMB Medical Project, in Parbatipur. We are involved as well in a pioneering creative media ministry in service to a wide cross-section of people in need.
For further information and specific suggestions for prayer, see "Operation World" .
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