Prayer, Ministry Reports, News & Highlights
Moldova & Romania: Ministry to Refugees
Updates from Moldova and Romania on their work with Ukrainian refugees.
Prayer
Prayer, Inspirational, Appeals, Ministry Reports, News & Highlights, Stories About Staff, Stories of Young People
Humanitarian Help for Ukraine – EMENA Update
Youth for Christ’s Europe, Middle East, North Africa (EMENA) Area office provides an update on the current situation of YFC in Ukraine and in the surrounding countries: Slovakia, Romania, Moldova and Hungary.
Prayer, Announcements, News & Highlights
Update from Tonga
We received a phone call from Florian in Tonga this morning, to let us know he and his family – and everyone at the radio station – are okay. However, food and water supplies are running low and the air is polluted with toxic ash.
Prayer
Africa Prayer Update (November)
A prayer guide to help you pray for Youth for Christ nations throughout Africa during the month of November.
More 2021, Prayer, Initiatives
Wakeup Deborah: Praying for Children & Teenagers
Parents on their knees, Children on their feet. WakeUp Deborah has the aim to inspire women and men from different churches and backgrounds to pray for (their) children, preferably for children they know.
More 2021, Prayer, Events, News & Highlights
A Month of Saturating Youth for Christ in 24/7 Prayer
For the month of October, we want to see every hour of every day filled with prayer by someone in the Youth for Christ movement.
Prayer, Announcements, Initiatives, News & Highlights
Wake Up Deborah Celebrates 10 Years in Europe
The Wake Up Deborah celebrates 10 years of prayer ministry in Europe.
Prayer, Inspirational
On Prayer and Holiness
An examination of prayer and holiness in preparation for the Global Day of Prayer and Fasting.
Prayer, Events
ePray: Global Day of Prayer & Fasting
A look at the Prayer & Fasting devotional from Lyndal Walker’s new book “Intimacy, Intercession and Increase.”
Prayer, Events
Global Day of Prayer and Fasting
We are committed to praying and fasting for the salvation of lost young people and for the empowerment of God’s Holy Spirit in taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ to them.
Prayer
A Prayer for the New Year
Dear God, Thank you that you make all things new. Thank you for all that you’ve allowed into our lives this past year, the good along with the hard things, which have reminded us how much we need you and rely on your presence filling us every single day, as well as our appreciation for … Continued
Prayer, Initiatives
Wake Up Deborah – What is it?
An introduction to the prayer ministry of Wake Up Deborah
Prayer
Africa Prayer Needs: August
Read and pray through the prayer needs submitted by our African brothers and sisters in Youth for Christ as we lift them up in prayer.
Prayer, Inspirational, Appeals, Stories of Young People
Praying Mothers Lead Gang Member to Christ
Praying mothers in Brazil lead a gang member to Christ.
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ePray: A Place to Go
Nowhere to go, the words he said kept ringing over and over in my mind.
There is somewhere to go, always. God has been my somewhere to go most of my life and I would never be where I am without it. I wouldn’t have made it…
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ePray: Strategies From Heaven
On Pentecost the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples and life as it was known took a radical shift…
Prayer, Inspirational, Stories of Young People
God Answers Prayers
I wanted my friend to have the same encounter with Christ that I had…to experience the new life I had. I prayed for her a lot, but I felt totally confused.
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ePray: Clear Vision
Busy ministry lives and the ‘drum beat’ of the world try to keep us from intentional communion with God, but He’s inviting us to ‘sit down’ to be with Him.”
Prayer, Events
Women’s Camp Mobilizes Praying Mothers
In June, YfC Namibia organised a R.E.A.L. Women’s Camp where mothers prayed for young people.
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ePray: Praise the Lord
“The Psalms instruct us to PRAISE the LORD. It calls all creation and all people to praise the Lord. Why? He is the creator, and He strengthens His people. God is worthy of praise.”
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ePray: Relationship With God
We all are called to ministry, we all would like to be successful in His field. Unfortunately, we often tend to love His ministry more than we love Him.
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ePray: Live Fully In The Light
Pray for Youth for Christ Italy as they help teenagers discover Jesus at their Myspace program. Myspace is a weekly club designed for teens to grow in their understanding of the Kingdom of God.
Prayer, Inspirational, Announcements
ePray: Daily Time With The Lord
Prepare yourself and your team for our upcoming Global Day of Prayer and Fasting.
Prayer, Ministry Reports, News & Highlights
YFC Romania Newsletter
Read the latest ministry news from Youth for Christ in Romania.
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ePray: Unity
Pray for Youth for Christ Ecuador, which just signed their paperwork and submitted it to the government to become a legal youth ministry in Ecuador. Pray for God’s favor in this process.
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ePray: Surrender
Adam Shepski, Youth for Christ Global Prayer Catalyst, shares about the Global Prayer Retreat that took place in 2018 and what God has been stirring in his heart.
Prayer, News & Highlights
A Call to Prayer in the Wake of Cyclone Idai
Youth for Christ contacts throughout Africa are reaching out, asking us to mobilize prayer for parts of Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe that have been devastated by Cyclone Idai, which hit hit the region on March 14th.
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ePray: Mechanics of Prayer
Youth for Christ Germany regularly hosts African iThemba teams who share the gospel with German youth through creative arts. Youth for Christ Germany also sends many international volunteers to other Youth for Christ ministries around the world. Pray for our German team as they empower and train many leaders who serve globally.
Prayer, From the International Director
Devotions With Dave: The Mind of Christ
International Director of Youth for Christ, Dave Brereton, challenges us to humility with a short devotional from Philippians 2.
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ePray: Leading On Our Knees
Seeking Him above all else, as our first priority, is a must if we want to see a generation changed.
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ePray: When God Opens Eyes
Next Monday is the Youth for Christ International Day of Prayer and Fasting. Alem from Ethiopia shares how reading the Bible transformed a young boy’s life.
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ePray: Jesus is the Answer
“The Lord of the harvest is going after them with earnestness and intensity; and they are seeking Him” – Rodney McCauley, Youth for Christ USA
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ePray: Friendship with the Holy Spirit
Praise our Father for nine young people in Burundi who recently accepted the Lord as their Saviour. Ask the Spirit to enable them to grow spiritually strong and that they will channel the Gospel to other young people.
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ePray: Let the Holy Spirit Lead
“I know God, I have a relationship with him, and he speaks to me. And because he loves you so much, he wants you to know that he knows what’s going on in your life.”
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ePray: Conviction in Prayer
If I believe the word, promises and nature of God, I see that by prayer there is something for me to inherit and receive.
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ePray: All Things New
Do we ask outside of what we think we could make happen or do we truly ask for anything? It’s scary because the big ask means you really have to lean into God to come through.
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ePray: The Light Has Come
Pray for Project Moses, which is a Youth for Christ ministry in Russia. Project Moses equips young people to share the Gospel on the streets and in their lives and seeks to call people out of darkness and slavery into God’s light.
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ePray: Breaking Discouragement
“…of the seventy YFC staff and volunteers present, fifty felt overwhelming discouragement due to persecution and intense spiritual warfare.”
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ePray: Christ Alone
In 2019 Youth for Christ Canada hosts three regional retreats to equip and empower their staff to reach lost teenagers with the gospel. Pray for the power of the Holy Spirit to move through these retreats.
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ePray: Praying Protection
How do we better position ourselves in Him so that we don’t just pray for victory, we pray from victory?!
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ePray: Moving Storms
Schools in Hong Kong are amazingly open to the Gospel. Youth for Christ is able to go into many secondary schools in Hong Kong and openly share the Gospel and then actually ask for young people to respond! Pray for many youth to respond as they hear the Gospel!
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ePray: PRAISE the LORD
Pray for Alem, the National Director of Youth for Christ Ethiopia, who recently was in Canada for a prayer leadership retreat. Alem is looking to mobilise and train others in prayer for the many lost youth across her region of Africa. Pray for a great move of prayer and evangelism in eastern Africa.
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ePray: Faith, Prayer & Teenagers
Saskia Van Helden of Youth for Christ Netherlands has developed a book called Faith, Prayer & Teenagers. This resource unpacks the power of daily prayer for teenagers and provides simple tools to pray effectively.
Prayer
ePray: Core Components of a Prayer Meeting
Do you desire to strengthen the prayer meetings you give leadership to? Joel Martin, the Youth for Christ Canada Prayer Coordinator, shares some key components to leading and strengthening a prayer meeting.
Prayer, Events
YFCI Global Day of Prayer & Fasting
On Monday, August 6, 2018, the international Youth for Christ family will pray and fast for lost young people in every nation.
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ePray: Praying Scripture
Christians who understand their right standing with God in Christ, pray with boldness and prowess.
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ePray: Thanksgiving in Prayer
Read how thanksgiving in prayer fostered faith and is key to hosting a powerful prayer meeting.
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ePray: Waiting on the Lord
Have you ever struggled to wait on the Lord? Listen to Peter Reid in this brief audio clip recorded during the 2017 Youth for Christ International General Assembly. Peter masterfully shares teaching on how to wait on the LORD when making decisions.
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ePray: Identity in Christ Fosters Prayer
Using the parable of the prodigal son, Mark Greenwood of Youth for Christ Australia asks if our prayer life reflects the younger or older son. Mark unpacks how our identity in Christ will foster confidence before God.
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ePray: Does Your Team Pray Weekly?
Pray with Dima, a staff member of Youth for Christ in Ukraine, who is coordinating a number of youth camps this summer. Dima asks that we pray that the Holy Spirit will change lives when hundreds of lost youth hear the Gospel this summer in Ukraine.
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ePray: Protecting Time with God
Do you protect your personal time alone with the Lord? Learn from a friend and intercessor who arranges her life so nothing interferes with her connection (her place of abiding) with Jesus.
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ePray: Praying for the Lost
Pray for the Youth for Christ ministry that is being pioneered in Papua New Guinea. Pray for the leadership team of this ministry as they seek to pioneer and strengthen the ongoing ministry to lost young people.
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ePray: Our First Call
At the Youth for Christ International General Assembly in 2018, Peter Reid shared about our first calling – a calling to Christ. In this seven minute excerpt, Peter shares how to abide in our first calling.
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ePray: A Fresh Wave of Evangelism
History belongs to the intercessors who believe that His Kingdom should reign supreme in ours.
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ePray: Who Prays For Your Youth?
“We are all aware that our youth are at risk…I also see that God is calling people like you to be His voice and His arm to reach.” ~ Silvia Brynjolfson
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ePray: Moravians and John Wesley
“If you want to make history, you need to have history with God in secret prayer.”
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ePray: Make a Prayer List
Pray for the Youth for Christ International Board Meeting this week. Pray and ask God to give supernatural wisdom and courage as they meet and plan on how to serve every youth, in every nation.