Requests We Are Praying For
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Voice of the Martyrs Korea PARK TAE-YEON - 70 YEAR OLD MISSIONARY ARRESTED DAYS BEFORE RETIREMENT NOW FACES UP TO 17 YEARS!
SHE SPENT 33 YEARS LOVING RUSSIAN CHILDREN. THEY ARRESTED HER ONE WEEK BEFORE SHE COULD GO HOME.
PARK TAE-YEON spent 33 years in Russia, ministering to children through Child Evangelism Fellowship and describing herself as someone “married to Russia” because of how deeply she loved the people there. At 69 years old, she’d finally decided it was time to retire and return home to South Korea. Her plane ticket was already purchased. One week before her flight, on January 15, Russian authorities arrested her in Khabarovsk.
Officials charged her with immigration violations, but state-affiliated Russian media quickly ran a very different story, claiming Korean missionaries had “brainwashed” children and forced them to copy the Bible for hours, with one city official alleging the goal was to take children to Korea for “final zombification.” Missionary Park now faces up to 17 years in prison across three immigration-related charges. In July, Russia officially designated Child Evangelism Fellowship USA as an “undesirable organisation.” Her trial, which opened July 28, was expected to reach a verdict by August 10, but the judge rescheduled, meaning a ruling may not come until late September.
Voice of the Martyrs Korea has delivered a petition with more than 4,000 signatures to the Russian Embassy calling for her release, and reports that she remains in good spirits, reading her Bible daily in detention. This is a story still unfolding, with no verdict yet and real uncertainty about what comes next for a woman who gave three decades of her life to loving other people’s children.
Do you think the global church should be doing more to advocate for missionaries facing charges like this?
#PersecutedChurch #PrayForMissionaries #FaithUnderFire
sign petition for her release
https://vomkorea.com/en/petition-2026/
Anonymous · August 23, 2026
Pray needed for Pastor Safdar Masih
Pastor Masih lives in Sahiwal Pakistan pouring out His life in his devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ.
He had a heart attack at 5 am this morning.
Please pray he recovers and the Lord would restore His servants health fully and quickly, as he must work to support his family.
Safdar is in surgery today. Please pray...
Daughter writes...From Sania, daughter and Mrs. Safdar, I wish you peace. As you know, Safdar Sahib is undergoing heart surgery. One stud has been placed and the other will be placed on Sunday. Now pray for him. May God be with you. May God bless you. May God continue to grow in this way.
Brother, may God bless you. I am Sania Safdar and I am very good. May God bless you. Papa has undergone a heart surgery. Papa will have two starts. One has been completed. Please pray for him especially.
Please pray for the next surgery. Papa has had one surgery and the other is still pending. Please pray together. From me, from my mother, from my younger siblings, I send you my greetings. May God be with you.
May God bless you. I am Sania speaking. Papa will have his second surgery at 8 am. Please pray for him. May God bless you. Amen.
pastor Shawn · August 24, 2026
Prayer request
That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. 1Th 4:6
Forgive me, Lord if I am ever defrauded, my brother, I cannot remember, but have mercy on me. Have mercy on me Lord. forgive me, forgive me, Lord if I have ever defrauded a brother bring the memory to me that I may make restitution for we have a ministry of reconciliation.
Anonymous · August 28, 2026
Costa Rica
While the evangelical movement in Costa Rica has grown rapidly—making up roughly 19% to 28% of the population—churches face distinct organisational, social, and political hurdles’
There are many prayer needs.
Many ministries excel at initial evangelism and attracting "converts," but struggle to provide deep, long-term discipleship. There is a distinct push within the country for better theological education to counter shallow, distorted, or heavily diluted gospel. There is a need for spirit filled teaching as Believers frequently drift between different congregations or fall away entirely during personal hardships due to lack of good teaching and understanding.
A vast majority of pastors survive on very low financial resources, making it difficult to maintain a full-time ministry. Many local congregations are led by a single leader with very little administrative or pastoral help, accelerating burnout.
Churches face an uphill battle ministering in communities heavily impacted by missing father figures and systemic familial breakdown as well as skyrocketing addiction and local drug trades require churches to move past traditional services and invest in heavily demanding social recovery programs.
David Meade · August 28, 2026
Dosi Gospel Missions
We purchased land today to build a church in a brick kiln village that has no church. please pray for resources to build the church now,
David Meade · August 27, 2026
Pastor Shawn
For Pakistan.
In the Islamic Democratic Republic Pakistan, The last census indicates there are 3.5 million Christians, 1.5% of the population most being historically generational faith passed down generation to generation.
Christians are treated poorly, most in Bonded labour situations.
Pakistan is a nation with unenforced Judicial laws and little to no accountability for their actions against minorities.
Under this kind of oppression the Children pay the price. Christian girls, still children, are daily kidnapped, raped and forced into Islam. Jesus is the only one who can help them
Jehovah Shalom
Pastor Shawn · August 8, 2026
Pastor Shawn
For Reeha in Pakistan -
She has health issues, she has Kidney stones, abandoned by her Husband once they knew she was with child and now pregnant and cannot work to care of herself due to pain.
Pakistan sits squarely in the global "stone belt," a geographic region with a high prevalence of kidney stones. Contributing factors include chronic dehydration from a hot climate, diets high in sodium and low in protective calcium, inadequate fluid intake, and regional hard-drinking water.
Pastor Shawn · August 8, 2026