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Apr 10 GPD Inside Pages-German.Indd www.globalprayerdigest.org GlobalApril 2010 • US Center for World MissionPrayer • 29:4 Digest Berlin: City of Many Colors, Cultures and Peoples Day 11 Unity under Christ, Diversity in Culture Day 18 A Place Where Muslim Kids Can Be Kids Day 19 Jewish People Quickly Returning to Berlin Day 25 Buddhism with a German Flavor Day 29 Ganesh Goes to Berlin Editorial April 2010 RECORDS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS U.S. Center for World Mission 1605 East Elizabeth Street Dear Praying Friends, Pasadena, CA 91104-2721 Tel: (626) 398-2249 As we enter a new decade, there is an awareness that many of the MANAGING EDITOR Keith Carey world’s key unreached people groups are coming to the cities. ASSISTANT EDITOR Paula Fern In past years the GPD has pub- lished monthly prayer guides for WRITERS Kolkota, New Delhi, Mumbai, Patricia Depew Patti Ediger Los Angeles, and New York. Glenn Culbertson Th ere are many other cities that we should be covering in Chris Hansen prayer, mainly because they include dozens of unreached eth- Margery Harrison Wesley Kawato nic groups. Arlene Knickerbocker Christopher Lane Since we cover Western Europe in April of each year, it Annabeth Lewis seems fi tting that we focus on the unreached ethnic groups in Ted Proffi tt their key cities. I hope to cover Paris next April, and London Jeff Rockwell Jean Smith in 2012 when the Olympics will be there. Jane W. Sweska Nancy Watta Th is year we will cover Berlin, Germany. Many of the facts in this prayer guide are based on information given to us by DAILY BIBLE COMMENTARIES Dave Dougherty, Director of Plans a team of German missionaries who work in Berlin. Th ey and Training, OMF Intl. wrote the background article, and told us what people groups Keith Carey, Managing Editor, GPD would be best to cover. Th ere are about 180 ethnic groups CUSTOMER SERVICE represented in Berlin, but we have room to cover only 27. I Dan Eddy, Marjorie Clark was surprised to fi nd that there are Cubans in the city that came to work in East Berlin when it was still controlled by GRAPHICS Amanda Valloza the Communists. Th ese Cubans are not Roman Catholic. You will fi nd many other surprises in this issue. Read, and RESEARCH ASSISTANT Abigale Riffl e pray on! PRINTER Diversifi ed Printers , La Mirada, CA In Christ, WEB SITE www.globalprayerdigest.org ISSN 1045-9731 Contents of the Global Prayer Digest © 2010 U.S. Center for World Mission 1605 East Elizabeth Street Pasadena, CA 91104 Keith Carey, managing editor, GPD Contents of this booklet may be reproduced if appropriate credit and subscription information are given. For subscription information, call (626) 398-2249. For comments on content, call (626) 398-2241. 2 Feature of the Month Pray For a Fellowship For Every People Group in Berlin DENMARK North Sea Berlin NETHERLANDS POLAND BELGIUM GERMANY CZECH REPUBLIC FRANCE AUSTRIA SWITZERLAND 3 To Help You Pray Better Berlin: City of Many Colors bronze chariot pulled A by four prancing steeds and held aloft by the six pil- lars of the Brandenburg —by Kerstin Hack Gate guarded the most famous dividing line in In many ways the world: the Berlin Berlin is a Wall. Facing towards forerunner of the eastern sector, the chariot watched over this heavily guarded new ideas. checkpoint, one of a handful that allowed traffi c between East and West Berlin. Th en came that miraculous November night in 1989 when the Wall was pounded into oblivion by euphoric crowds. Th e smashing of that wall accelerated the implosion of Commu- nist regimes all across Eastern Europe. Today the chariot looks down on crowds of camera-toting tourists walking freely between the gate’s pillars. Th e concrete slabs of the wall have long been pulverized into small souvenir pieces sent around the world. A line of bricks in the roads and parks now traces the site of the former wall through the city, inlaid here and there with a bronze plaque reading: ‘Berlin Wall 1961-1989’. Close to the Western side of the Branden- burg Gate a row of white crosses reminds passers-by of those who died attempting to escape to the West. A City of New Ideas In many ways Berlin is a forerunner of new ideas. Th ings that happen in this city inspire and aff ect the whole of Germany Continued on page 41 4 Background Become a Daily World Christian What is the Global Prayer Digest? Loose Change Adds Up! Th e Global Prayer Digest is a unique devotion- In adapting the Burma Plan to our culture, al booklet. Each day it gives a glimpse we have simply subsituted loose change of what God is doing around the world for rice and have added this educational and what still remains to be done. Daily and inspirational Global Prayer Digest. One prayer for that still-unfi nished task is at person’s loose change will average about the heart of the Adopt-A-People move- $100 per year exclusively for frontier mis- ment. Condensed missionary stories, sions! When the national goal of one mil- biblical challenges, urgent reports, and lion Adopt-A-People Prayer Partners is exciting descriptions of unreached peo- reached, that will mean $100 million more ples provide a digest of rich fuel for your per year for the frontiers! own times of prayer for the world. Become a Daily World Christian Th e Global Prayer Digest is a key tool in a Devotional Ideas movement to help fulfi ll Christ’s com- How can you make the most of this prayer digest: mission to make disciples of all the peo- ples of the earth. Th is movement involves • Some people use it as a a daily discipline of learning, praying, and supplement to their regular giving to help reach the world’s nearly devotional time. 10,000 unreached people groups. Un- • Others enjoy reading and reached peoples are those groups which praying around the dinner table do not yet have a strong church in their with the entire family. own cultural and social setting. • We encourage you to gather Myanmar, Mothers and the monthly with other Christ Frontier Fellowship Movement friends who are involved in this Th e Frontier Fellowship Movement movement. is an adaptation of a custom among • Join the “Frontier Fellowship tribal Christians in Burma (now called movement” (left), a version of Myanmar) and elsewhere. As the the Burma Plan, to fi nancially mother in each family prepares meals support frontier missions. for her family, she sets aside a hand- Every day at the top of the page ful of rice in a special container, and you’ll fi nd the name of an unreached prays for their church’s missionaries to people group for which to pray. Th e unreached people groups. Rice from small maps will help you locate the families in the church is sold to support day’s feature. their frontier missionaries. 5 Day 1 Psalms 32:5b Flor-Missionary Biography I said, “I will confess my sk yourself if you are qualifi ed to do any of the following in your city: taking people to transgressions to the A the doctor, providing phone counseling, teach- Lord”—and You forgave ing German, translating documents, teaching hand the guilt of my sin. crafts, or swimming. If so, you can do some of the As we prepare our hearts same things as Flor, a Kurdish Muslim-background for Resurrection Sunday, let believer in Berlin. us think about why it was For over 16 years, Flor has used the humble skills necessary for Him to be slain. God has given her to help Kurdish migrants who are We know that He has vic- struggling in their new homeland. In doing so, Flor has demonstrated the love of Christ to people who tory over death and the sole are often not wanted or appreciated. By building on power to forgive sins because love and trust, Muslim Kurds have joined Flor in at- of His death and resurrection. tending a monthly fellowship meeting and a weekly Because of His sovereignty and prayer meeting. Each month Flor has a ladies break- mercy, He has both the power fast meeting where she shares the Word of God. and the will to forgive sinful Some of Flor’s Muslim friends will pray in the Name mankind. But what can others of Jesus with her, and attend all the meetings. One do that don’t know of His sav- has secretly been baptized. But most of them are ing power? Will it be enough afraid to openly confess Jesus to their families. on the Day of Judgment for them to call on the mercy of Pray for Kurdish women to have the boldness to speak out for Christ to their Muslim families. Pray for more Buddha or the power of Shiva? workers who will lovingly serve with the skills God has Is it right for us to enjoy His given them. Pray for the small group of Kurdish be- forgiveness while others look lievers to grow in numbers and in the fruit of the Holy for truth and righteousness in Spirit.—KC the wrong places? Pray for the unreached nations to know that only Christ has power to forgive sins. Thank the Lord for the work of Christ’s ambassa- dors like Flor, who are calling people to repent before the Risen Savior. 6 Day 2 Zaza Alevi Kurds in Berlin Psalms 33:8 erwan looked at his watch, and it read 2:00 Let all the earth fear the PM; another day wasted in the local teahouse D Lord; let all the people of with no job, no direction and no future.
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