Praise God for His great majesty and sovereign power over all things. Pray for God to reveal to us sin in our lives of which we need to repent and areas of our faith we need to strengthen. Thank Him for His gracious patience with us. Pray for God to renew our commitment to love, serve, and obey Him above all others. Ask Him to help us not only live faithfully to Him but to effectively teach and demonstrate that faithfulness to emerging generations.

This week we are praying for Serving You Ministries (SYM), a Christ-centered non-profit organization serving as a ministry arm to local churches and corporations by partnering with them to reach a lost and hurting world through crisis relief and benevolence ministry. SYM shares office and ministry space with WorkFaith Birmingham and partners with Brook Hills to serve those in need who come to us for help outside of our faith family. Visit servingyou.org for more information. We are also praying for North Park Baptist Church and Pastor Bill Wilks.

DAY 1: Pray for the SYM Food Pantry ministry. Pray families are fed and pantries are full through this ministry and that those who are served may come to know and understand that Jesus is the Bread of Life.

DAY 2: Pray for SYM’s Financial Assistance Program. Pray for the Holy Spirit to guide the staff and give them wisdom to know which clients to assist. Pray as clients receive assistance, God gets all the glory.

DAY 3: Pray for Financial Peace University Classes at SYM. Pray for clients to learn how to be good stewards of what God has given them and to recognize that all good gifts come from above. Pray their relationship with Christ will continue to grow throughout the course of the program.

DAY 4: Praise God for the blessing of the building being donated to SYM. Pray for this building to serve as a hub for many Christian ministries to help the community find resources to break cycles of poverty. 

DAY 5: Pray for the faithful volunteers that have been giving their time for weeks, months, or years. Pray as they pour themselves out for the good of others, their spirit would be refreshed. Pray for God to prepare the hearts of new laborers to join the work that He is doing through SYM.

DAY 6: Pray as the staff prepares to do God’s work and serve our city each day, the Holy Spirit would renew and guide them, giving them wisdom, discernment, compassion, and kindness. 

This week we are praying for an unreached people group called the Hui. There are around 15 million Hui in China and only a handful of believers. There is no known Hui church, and access to Hui communities can be challenging. The Hui are an ethnically Chinese Muslim people group. To be Hui is to be Muslim – it is the core of who they are. Even if they don’t fully understand it, or even follow it, the same as some other countries do, it has been hidden deep inside of them from the time they were very young. Mandarin Chinese, both spoken and written, is the heart language of the Hui. Their spiritual language is a mixture of Arabic and Persian. Close to 99% of the Hui population is Muslim. It is estimated that .006% are Evangelical Christians. Join us as we pray for the Hui. For more information, visit pray4hui.com. 

DAY 1: Although there are 15 million Hui scattered throughout China, very few (including the Chinese church) are intentionally planting their lives among the Hui to tell them about Christ. The Hui are in desperate need of more laborers to boldly proclaim the gospel. Pray for God to send thousands of workers into the harvest among the Hui.

DAY 2: Most Hui are hostile towards the gospel and reject it at all costs. Pray for God to stir within the hearts of Hui men and women a desire to know more about Christ. Pray for God to open their eyes to see their need for a Savior.

DAY 3: The church has grown exponentially among the majority, the Han people, and they have visions of taking the gospel to other nations. Pray for God to give Han church leaders a vision to reach their Hui neighbors.

DAY 4: Pray for many Hui to hear the gospel, to repent and believe in Christ and for God to use Han believers as agents for accomplishing this mission.

DAY 5: Many Hui believers experience isolation and loneliness. Ask God to help Hui believers find one another so they might grow together and encourage each other. Pray for the Hui believers to boldly share, even though it will cost them greatly.

DAY 6: Thank God for the Brook Hills Church Planting Team we currently have working among the Hui. Pray for the relationships they have with their Hui friends to bear fruit, as we long to see the first convert and the beginning of the Hui church.