Prayer Journal

Pray for the launch of our new outreach website: www.afghan.media. This website will be for seekers want to know more about Jesus, who have questions, and want responses. Pray that many Afghans would find answers to their questions.

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Please pray for Samir as he is preaching at a local church on “Nicaea in Light of John 3:16”. Pray that the Lord would use this time to help His people be feed by His Word.

Pray as we work on a brand new Afghan worship song. The composition and the lyrics sound beautiful, but there is still much to finish. The music must be produced, the vocals recorded, postproduction completed, and then turned into a video. We are grateful and excited for this new worship project. Pray that every step goes smoothly so it can be ready for Christmas.

Please pray for our team as they travel in September to various conferences. Pray that the Lord will work through them as they teach and take part in these gatherings.

Please join us in prayer as we enter the final stages of our theological course that tackles the issue of shame. Shame is the primary lens by which Afghans interpret their lives and it haunts many. This course is a groundbreaking journey into discovering how Jesus takes away our shame and honours us. We are thrilled to launch this course in early July 2025.

We are thankful for everything the Lord did in 2024 among Afghans and in Afghanistan. Please read our Kingdom Impact Report to rejoice with us! Thank you for all your prayers for our team and the unreached peoples of Afghanistan!

Please pray for the Afghan believes inside Afghanistan as there is increased persecution, especially in the past few months. Please pray that the Afghan church would endure and that the Lord would sustain them through this very hard time.

Please pray that the Lord would provide for all our needs, mental, spiritual, and financial, in the year 2025!

In the midst of this busyness, please pray for rest. Pray that we may find moments of peace to recharge our bodies, minds, and souls, and that God would grant us the wisdom to balance our responsibilities with times of true stillness.

Please pray for Samir and his family as they return home after months of ministry abroad. Pray for their safe travel and much-needed rest.

We are currently in another country for a conference and to film some teaching videos. However, our entire family is dealing with sore throats and severe jet lag.

Could you please pray for our health and a quick recovery? I’m scheduled to teach for several hours tomorrow, and we have several days of filming ahead.

Please pray for unity among Afghan believers, particularly those in ministry, so we may stand as one for the sake of Gospel among the unreached peoples of Afghanistan. May our hearts be aligned, our mission clear, and our love for one another be a testament of Christ’s grace. Pray that unity may be the mark of the Afghan Christians and the Afghan church. Pray that, together, we can reach those who have yet to hear the Good News.

Please pray for some of our team members who are traveling to a closed country. Pray for their safety and protection. Pray that their journey may be fruitful as they are teaching in a conference on discipleship. They are also producing some short videos, sharing the message of hope of the Gospel.

Thank God for bringing a new volunteer who has joined our ministry! Please pray that they feel welcomed, equipped, and encouraged as they serve the Lord alongside us.

Please pray for one of our team members who has just returned home after nearly two months of ministry overseas. He became quite sick toward the end of the trip, so pray that the Lord would grant him rest and a speedy recovery.

Please pray for wisdom as we film a course on the book of 1 Corinthians. Please pray for clarity in delivering the message, and for God’s power to work through every aspect of this production. Our hope is that this course will help the Afghan church encounter the love of Christ in new and profound ways.

Please pray for our ministry among Afghan refugees. This week, a colleague will join our partners in a refugee camp, leading worship, meeting with Afghan families, praying for their needs, and sharing Christ’s love. Pray for God’s protection, guidance, and the Holy Spirit’s presence, that hearts may be touched and lives transformed by God’s love.

Please pray for our team as we are preparing to film a course on the book of 1 Corinthians in the next month. We have been working for months on studying the text and preparing to film it.

Please pray for wisdom, understanding, and creativity to film in a way that will be effective in helping the Afghan church grow deeper in the Word of God. Please pray for everyone involved in the filming process, specially Samir as he will be teaching the course.

May this be a new step in the development of more theological resources that is grounded deeply in the Word of God for the unreached peoples of Afghanistan!

Please pray for our team as we are meeting for annual team meetings. Pray that this will be a fruit time of getting to know each other better, plan and pray for the year ahead, and unity in vision for our team.

Please pray for the Afghans who have been affected by severe floods in the province of Baghlan and at least three other provinces in Afghanistan. Pray for those who have lost loved ones and pray for those who have lost all their livelihood.

Praise the Lord since the launch of our afghanschool.org website less than two weeks ago, it has been seen by over 800 Afghans and 12 of them have reached out to us to either begin a conversation or join a small group to learn more about Jesus! Praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord, we were able to launch our Afghan School of Theology website. You will be able to find our teachings, preachings, Gospel-centred short responses, Afghan worship songs, Old and New Testament stories for children, and the Afghan Journal of Theology.

Please pray that the Lord uses this website to reach many Afghans with the Gospel!

While most of the content is not English, you can find a lot of descriptions of what each video is about to help you share it better with your Afghan friends! You can check our website at: https://www.afghanschool.org. Thank you for your continued prayers for us and for our ministry!

https://www.afghanschool.org

Please keep us in your prayers as we are in the process of developing a new website for our ministry's Afghan branch. Since we lack a dedicated website developer, we are putting in extra time and effort into this project. We seek your prayers for the Lord's guidance and help in this crucial work.

On this day, when the whole world celebrates International Women's Day, please pray for Afghan women, who continue to be more and more marginalized and pushed out of society into their homes by the Taliban. Please pray that in the midst of all the oppression, pain, and poverty that the women of Afghanistan experience, that they would come to know true freedom in Jesus. Please also pray for the tens of thousands of Afghan women are leaving Afghanistan. Pray for their safety and that the Lord would be their provider.

Here is an article to read a little bit more on the situation: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2024/3/8/why-afghan-women-are-leaving-afghanistan

On behalf of the whole Lumens of Truth team, we want to say happy International Women's Day to all the women who read this. We value you and you have infinite dignity, being made in the image of the God of the universe. May the Lord bless today and may you feel loved and cherished.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2024/3/8/why-afghan-women-are-leaving-afghanistan

Please pray for two members of our team as they are heading to the US to share about what the Lord is doing among the unreached peoples of Afghanistan through Lumens of Truth. Please pray that as Hasib leads in worship and Samir shares from the Word, that the Lord would encourage and build His church for the sake of His mission among the unreached. Thank you for being prayer warriors for the Gospel!

Please pray for our team and families as February has been a month of multiple people in our team getting sick. Pray for quick recovery and protection so that we can continue strongly in our ministry! Thanks for your prayers! 🙏

It was our joy to be a part of the missions week celebration at a local church. Our brothers and sisters from multiple countries shared delicious snacks and foods, celebrating the diversity of the body of Christ. We shared some Afghan cookies and jelabi. We also had the privilege of sharing a Dari worship song in the worship time led in multiple languages.

It really felt like a little piece of heaven on earth! It was breath-taking to know that one day before the throne of God there will be Afghans singing as well. Thanks for praying with us and standing with us to see more Afghans come to know and worship our King!

As we are compiling all the data for 2023, we are so grateful and are celebrating the fact that our videos on TikTok have been watch over a quarter millions times. It is incredible to see that more and more Afghans are getting access to the Gospel through our ministry! Please pray that the Lord meets the Afghans, who do not know him yet, through these videos!

Please pray for Samir as he has restarted a Live Show, where he teaches through the different books of the Bible and has live conversations with Muslims who have questions about the Christian faith. This show used to be watched by 200-300 Afghans simultaneously on TikTok, and so many Afghans heard and engaged with the Gospel through it! Pray that the Lord would use these teachings and these conversations for his glory!

Please pray for two of our team members who are in a two week, full-time theology class with some other Afghan. Even some brothers and sisters are attending this class from Afghanistan! Pray that these classes would be effective in helping all the students know Jesus better, grow in their knowledge of the Word, and, finally, to become effective servants of the Gospel.

Please urgently pray for the 4 million Afghans, including 840,000 pregnant and nursing women, facing acute malnutrition. Please pray that the different NGOs working to bring aid may be able to do so swiftly and without much interference from the Taliban. If you want to help an Afghan family during these hard times, please connect with us.

You can read the Human Rights Watch Report here.

Human Rights Watch Report

Please pray for the Board of Lumens of Truth as the board overlooks the whole ministry. We are so excited to have a new board member join, whose focus will be overlooking the spiritual health and care of the team. Please pray for wisdom, compassion, courage, and everything that is needed for this role!

Blessings!

Samir

Please pray for the people of Iran that experienced a horrible bomb blast that killed more than 84 people. Pray for peace and comfort for those who lost loved ones!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67888283.amp

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67888283.amp

Please pray that 2024 would be year where the most number of Afghans come to know Jesus and their lives are transformed by the message of the Gospel! Please pray that His light would shine brighter through Lumens of Truth and other ministries serving the Lord among Afghans. Finally, please pray for more workers among the unreached peoples of Afghanistan.

Please take a moment on this Christmas Day more Afghans would come to know the love of God through Jesus! Pray that He would make our ministry a means for the many unreached peoples of Afghanistan to come to know Him!

Please pray for two of our team members who are heading to the USA to attend a gathering of Afghans, who have recently immigrated to the West. Please pray for safe travels and for the opportunity to build some meaningful relationships. Thanks!

We are really excited to begin publishing a video series we filmed called: "Why am I a Christian?". We have a group of Afghans, who share why they are followers of Jesus. This is very important because Afghan Christians are accused by others of changing their faith because of money or getting a visa to come to the West. In this series, they will have a chance to give their own reason for their faith! Please pray that this series would be effective and would touch the heart of Afghans watching these videos!

Please pray for the collapsing Afghan economy as unemployment has drastically increased, humanitarian help is halved, and women can no longer work. Furthermore, over 400,000 Afghan refugees have been kicked out of Pakistan to return Afghanistan. With a weak economy, domestic violence increased. Please pray for us as we connect with many Afghans who are suffering both economically and psychologically. There is a lot of trauma. Please pray for the Lord to have mercy in this situation.

To read more about the current situation, please read this report from the United States Institute for Peace: Afghanistan’s Economy Once Again Nears the Precipice

Afghanistan’s Economy Once Again Nears the Precipice

Please pray for us as we are in the process of producing a series of videos responding to Zakir Naik, who is a Muslim apologist that is watched by millions of Afghans. Zakir Naik misguides many Muslims regarding the message of the Gospel and the identity of Jesus. Please pray that God would open the eyes of many Afghans as they watch these videos!

These videos are in Dari and you can share it with your Afghan friends. Here is the link:

https://youtu.be/u_0w-99VgMk?si=4qOP3cVb_R0Fciw1

https://youtu.be/u_0w-99VgMk?si=4qOP3cVb_R0Fciw1

Please pray for the tens of thousands of Afghans refugees who are being deported from Pakistan back to Afghanistan. Many of these Afghan refugees are there because there are no jobs in Afghanistan, and they just want to make a living in Pakistan. Some of them have lived in Pakistan most of their lives, and were even born there. Please pray for the Lord to have mercy in this very dire situation!

Here is an article from Washington Post if you would like to read more on this issue:

Pakistan opens 3 new border crossings to deport Afghans in ongoing crackdown on migrants - The Washington Post

Pakistan opens 3 new border crossings to deport Afghans in ongoing crackdown on migrants - The Washington Post