Pray
The part we cannot do.
We can put a team in a school. We can teach English properly and tell the story clearly. We cannot make a single one of those seeds grow. If you want to be part of this work and you never send us a penny, this is the part that matters most.
How to pray
Five specific things
We would rather give you five real things than ask you to pray for “the work” in general.
The children who came this summer
Camps ran through July and early August. For most of the children in them, that week was the first time anyone had told them who Jesus is. Pray that it stays — that in fifteen years, when the question finally matters to them, it is not the first time they have heard the answer.
The twenty-one million
More than twenty-one million people in Taiwan are not Christians. For most of them the gospel has not been weighed and refused — it has simply never come up. Pray that it comes up: in classrooms, at work, across dinner tables, and through the Taiwanese believers already living among them.
Parents, and what it would cost them
In Taiwan, following Jesus can look to a family like turning your back on your own grandparents. That is a real cost, and we should not pretend otherwise. Pray for the parents who send a child to us for the English and get back a child who is singing about someone else’s God.
The churches that stay behind
We are in a town for a week. The local Taiwanese church is there for the rest of that child’s life. Pray for those congregations — most of them small, most of them stretched — as they follow up children we will never see again.
The teams who come next
Every camp is run by volunteers who give up a week of their own year, fly to a country most of them have never seen, and spend it explaining the gospel to children in a language those children are still learning. Pray for the next set of them — and if you think you should be one of them, that is a prayer with an obvious next step.
Why we ask
We are not the ones who make it grow
Our name comes from the Parable of the Sower. A sower scatters seed widely, does not choose the soil, and has no power at all over what happens next. That is not false modesty about our work — it is an accurate description of it.
So we scatter, and we ask other people to pray, because the growing was never ours to arrange.
