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Thank you for joining us this month as we take up “The Invitation” and join together with thousands of YWAMers from around the world as we pray and hear from God. This month we will be praying for Greenland.
Topic suggested and written by the Greenland team at YWAM Nordland, Norway. Photo of YWAM Nordland’s Trail DTS 2024 outreach team in Greenland. Photo from TheNatalieGallery.
Greenland is currently receiving more attention than it has had in the past ten years combined. Greenland is the largest island in the world and has around 56,000 inhabitants. In the 1980s and 1990s YWAM ran Discipleship Training Schools (DTS) and King’s Kids programs in Greenland but since then there hasn’t been a permanent YWAM presence in Greenland. Greenland’s spiritual condition has shifted over the years. In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s there was a great surge of Greenlanders turning to God. There was joy and emotional healing all over the island, and many of these Greenlanders are still following the Lord. The need now is a greater focus on this generation of youth. They need to be evangelized and offered a place to be discipled in following Jesus. This kind of ministry is what YWAM is called to. We believe it is time for us to have DTSes and other ministries again in Greenland. Pray with us for Greenland as we move forward with this refreshed vision.
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Please take a moment to pray right now and please also pray with us on April 9, the prayer day for YWAM’s prayer initiative called The Invitation.
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Please contact us if you desire to send an outreach team or extend your ministry to Greenland. We desire to connect the different teams and ministries. Contact the Greenland team at YWAM Nordland: [email protected].
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Watch the Letter on YouTubeThank you for joining us this month as we take up “The Invitation” and join together with thousands of YWAMers from around the world as we pray and hear from God. This month we will be praying for YWAM Mongolia.
Topic suggested by a participant in The Invitation’s survey; written by Jungmi Park in Mongolia. Photo from YWAM Mongolia of The Send in Ulaanbaatar in 2025.
Mongolia has a young church history of only 35 years. Despite its youth, churches have been planted throughout the country and have grown into a vibrant body of Christ. Mongolia has also become a missionary-sending nation, with a vision to reach all nations. However, the majority of the population still follows Tibetan Buddhism, with only 1.4 percent identifying as followers of Jesus. Thankfully, Mongolia is entering a great harvest season with many opportunities to share the gospel.
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Please take a moment now to pray for more workers for the harvest and for a powerful move of God in this nation. Please also pray with us on March 12, the prayer day for YWAM’s prayer initiative called The Invitation.
Take Action
To get involved in Mongolia with YWAM, go to ywam.org, type “Mongolia” in the search box, and look through the opportunities. Get involved in an evangelism ministry, join a YWAM campus as a volunteer, or support YWAM Mongolia financially and in prayer.
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Thank you for joining us this month as we take up “The Invitation” and join together with thousands of YWAMers from around the world as we pray and hear from God. This month we will be praying for Iran.
Topic suggested by E. in Greece and written by H. in South America and D. in Armenia. Photo of an Iranian protest in London by Ollie Barker-Jones on Unsplash.
The people of Iran, numbering approximately 92.8 million, are facing a national crisis. Protests about runaway inflation and lack of freedom have been met by a brutal crackdown that has reportedly resulted in the deaths of an estimated 5,000 people and the detention of many more.
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Although the state claims that more than 90 percent of Iranians are Shia Muslims, independent surveys suggest a very different reality: only about 40 percent identify as Muslim, 32 percent report having no religion, and roughly 8 percent identify as atheists. Apostasy laws criminalize conversion from Islam—punishable by death—yet despite this, underground Christian communities are estimated to number between one and two million believers.
At this crucial time, please join us in prayer for Iran. Please pray right now and also pray on February 12, the prayer day for YWAM’s prayer initiative called The Invitation.
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Thank you for joining us this month as we take up “The Invitation” and join together with thousands of YWAMers from around the world as we pray and hear from God. This month we will be praying for Muslim-Background Believers.
Topic suggested and written by Pam Wilson in the USA. Photo from 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World.
For more than thirty years, the YWAM-birthed prayer movement called 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World has sought to educate, enable and encourage Christians worldwide to pray for Muslim peoples as an act of love. And God has heard our prayers.
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The focus of the 2026 guide is on Muslim people, from whom there are now radiant believers, sharing the gospel with their own or nearby Muslim people groups. We can celebrate that bringing the good news to Muslims is not just something done by foreigners from faraway countries; it is now the believers from Muslim backgrounds themselves who are key to transformation in their countries.
Please rejoice and pray with us right now. Also, please join us in prayer on January 8, the prayer day for the YWAM prayer initiative called The Invitation.
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Go to pray30days.org and order the 2026 30 Days Prayer Guide for yourself, your family, your ministry, your YWAM location, or your church. The guide is available in digital or print versions, and in many languages. There is also a children’s edition. The 30 Days of Prayer correspond to the 30 days of Ramadan, which are from February 18 to March 20 in 2026.
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Thank you for joining us this month as we take up “The Invitation” and join together with thousands of YWAMers from around the world as we pray and hear from God. This month we will be praying for The Send Events in 2026.
Topic suggested by Andreas Nordli in Norway and written by Nathan van de Graaf in Norway and Bryan Bishop in the USA. Photo from The Send.
What if the only thing stopping us from reaching every community, campus, and nation with the gospel was our willingness to act?
Watch the Letter on YouTubeThat’s the penetrating question asked on the website for The Send (thesend.org), a ministry of mission-centered gatherings that partners with YWAM. In just a few years of The Send, thousands have made pledges to go.
Please pray with us for upcoming gatherings of The Send in 2026 and beyond. Please take a moment to pray right now and please also pray with us on December 11, our prayer day for the YWAM prayer initiative called The Invitation.
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Join an event for The Send and help promote one. Go to thesend.org.
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Sign up for prayer emails and find translations in many languages at ywam.org/theinvitation. Please contact us at [email protected] to let us know how you prayed, to recommend a prayer topic, or to request an advance copy of the prayer guide.
Thank you for joining us this month as we take up “The Invitation” and join together with thousands of YWAMers from around the world as we pray and hear from God. This month we will be praying for the COP30 Outreaches in Brazil.
Topic suggested and written by the Creation Care Hub team at YWAM Paisley, Scotland. Photo of a prayer time with students at an elementary school run by YWAM Belém. Photo from YWAM Belém.
In November, the world will travel to the Brazilian city of Belém, and YWAM will be there ready for the nations!
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The occasion? The massive annual United Nations climate talks known as “COP30,” which will have around 50,000 participants from almost every nation. In Belém, YWAM is organizing outreach events to present the gospel in all its richness to the colorful cross section of humanity who will be visiting. Please pray with us for these outreaches and for the COP30 event. Please take a moment to pray right now and please also pray with us on November 13, the prayer day for YWAM’s prayer initiative called The Invitation.
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Learn more from YWAM’s Creation Care Hub about how God intends us to relate with His creation. Attend their online Forum in January, or come to their in-person Foundations of Creation Care seminar. Find out more at ywamscotland.org/creation-care-hub.
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Sign up for prayer emails and find translations in many languages at ywam.org/theinvitation. Please contact us at [email protected] to let us know how you prayed, to recommend a prayer topic, or to request an advance copy of the prayer guide.
Thank you for joining us this month as we take up “The Invitation” and join together with thousands of YWAMers from around the world as we pray and hear from God. This month we will be praying for Arts Ministries.
Topic suggested by Daniel Leones in Mexico and written by Jimmy and Elizabeth Huertas in Colombia. Photo from a dramatic performance created by an arts ministry at YWAM Cartagena, Colombia.
In the Bible we see artistic acts being done as prophesies to warn and correct a nation. For example, Ezekiel was told to draw the city of Jerusalem on a clay tablet and then create siege works against it (Ezekiel 4:1-2). Today, Christian artists and arts ministries also seek to bring God’s revelation to society. Christian artists face the challenge of ministering in a sphere that often contains a lot of impurity. Like the prophets of old, Christian artists also are often misunderstood.
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Please pray with us right now as we lift up arts ministries in YWAM and in the body of Christ. Please also pray with us on October 9, the prayer day for YWAM’s prayer initiative called The Invitation.
Take Action
YWAM has many opportunities to pursue arts ministries and to get training in this area. You can search these options on ywam.org by clicking the Explore button at the top and then selecting arts-related passions like performing arts, fine arts, cinematography or music. To search in Spanish, Portuguese or French, click on the globe icon on the top right.
Also, you can browse about arts on the site for YWAM’s University of the Nations: uofn.edu.
In addition, you can contact the writers of this prayer focus:
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Thank you for joining us this month as we take up “The Invitation” and join together with thousands of YWAMers from around the world as we pray and hear from God. This month we will be praying for More Laborers.
Topic suggested by a participant in the survey for The Invitation; written by Bryan Bishop in the USA. Photo of a YWAM Bible distribution outreach in South Asia.
In a recent talk to a group of YWAM staff, Darlene Cunningham, co-founder of YWAM, said, “We’ve had a wonderful past, but it’s just a drop in the bucket of what God wants for us.” She said YWAM is not in a time where we can pat ourselves on the back for what we’ve accomplished, because “the job is nowhere near done.” She urged her listeners to keep on being obedient, and ask like Elisha for more, for a double anointing. “God wants to use us like never before,” Darlene declared. YWAM continues to grow, but there is so much more to do. Please pray for YWAM at this time that more young people will come to us, and more people of every age will join the mission, so that we can see more and more transformation around the world. As Jesus challenged his disciples to do in Luke 10:2, please join YWAM this month as we pray for laborers.
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Please take a moment to pray right now, and please pray with us on September 11, the prayer day for YWAM’s prayer initiative called The Invitation.
A YWAM medical ministry in South America
A YWAM family on a mission in Asia
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A YWAM medical outreach in Papua New Guinea
How We Prayed
Prison Ministry (August, 2025)
From Almena C.: Please also pray for YWAM’s prison ministry in Puerto Princesa, Philippines. They conducted a Discipleship Training School inside the prison. They have a weekly service inside the prison. Pray for provision for the YWAM staff to continue the work.
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Thank you for joining us this month as we take up “The Invitation” and join together with thousands of YWAMers from around the world as we pray and hear from God. This month we will be praying for YWAM’s Prison Ministries.
Topic suggested by a participant in The Invitation’s survey. Written by Joanna Parada in South Africa, Cris and Nando Rosa in Bali, and Nicolas Rojas in Colombia. Photo of YWAMer Cris Rosa at a women’s prison in Bali, Indonesia. Photo by YWAM UofN Bali.
Prisoners come in many shapes and sizes. One of YWAM’s prison ministry workers says he meets old and young, male and female, foreigners and locals, beggars and professionals. YWAM’s ministries to prisoners also come in many forms. They share the good news of forgiveness and restoration in Jesus. They provide vocational training, teaching skills like barbering and starting businesses. They provide books with inspiring Christian stories. And they help men and women after they are released. Please pray that these ministries among prisoners will flourish. Pray that it would be true that “God…leads out the prisoners with singing” (Psalm 68:5-6).
Please take a moment to pray with us right now, and please also pray with us on August 14, the prayer day for YWAM’s prayer initiative called The Invitation.
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To reach the prison ministry in Bali, please email [email protected]. For the South Africa ministry, contact [email protected]. For YWAM Publishing, go to ywampublishing.com.
Also, consider if God might be leading you to prisoners near you. Nicolas, who has worked for many years in YWAM prison ministry, said, “Many biblical figures, such as Joseph, Paul, Jeremiah, Peter, Silas, Samson, John the Baptist, and Jesus were in jail, but there was a purpose for their lives. God had a plan to use them. In the jail nearest to where you are reading this, there are people whom God wants to redeem and use, because He has a purpose for them.”
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Thank you for joining us this month as we take up “The Invitation” and join together with thousands of YWAMers from around the world as we pray and hear from God. This month we will be praying for Turkmenistan.
Topic suggested and written by H. and A. in Central Asia. Photo by YWAM Central Asia of a man in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
Please join us in interceding for Turkmenistan, one of the least reached and most closed nations in Central Asia. Though the borders officially reopened in 2023 after a prolonged closure, the country remains difficult to access and spiritually resistant. Yet even here, we believe God is quietly at work. In recent years, doors have opened for small numbers of people to visit and pray, often forming surprising connections. One such relationship is with a local man who has repeatedly crossed paths with people of faith. He is respected in his community and has welcomed conversations about spiritual things. Those who have met him believe God has placed a unique calling on his life.
Watch the Letter on YouTubePlease take a moment to pray for Turkmenistan right now, and please also pray with us on July 10, our prayer day for the YWAM prayer initiative called The Invitation.
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As you pray, we invite you to listen to God’s voice about this nation. Please share any impressions with us at [email protected]. We believe God is speaking and calling many to stand with this nation in prayer and purpose.
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Thank you for joining us this month as we take up “The Invitation” and join together with thousands of YWAMers from around the world as we pray and hear from God. This month we will be praying for South Sudan.
Topic suggested and written by Denis James in South Sudan. Photo of members of the YWAM team in Juba, South Sudan.
Since the beginning of 2025, South Sudan has experienced increasing violence. Many in the nation are afraid their country is sliding back toward civil war. That civil war, from 2013-2018, claimed the lives of more than 400,000 people. For YWAM Juba, South Sudan, the unrest has meant they have not been able to run their Discipleship Training School (DTS), but they hope to begin again with a DTS in July of this year. They continue evangelism, mercy ministry, working with children, women’s ministry, and showing the Jesus Film. Recently they shared the gospel at a camp for displaced persons.
Watch the Letter on YouTubePlease take a moment to pray for South Sudan right now, and please also pray with us on June 12, the prayer day for YWAM’s prayer initiative called The Invitation.
Jesus Film showing
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You can contact YWAM South Sudan at [email protected].
Pastors’ meeting that YWAM facilitated
How We Prayed
Myanmar (April, 2025)
Praise God that YWAM teams have been able to help many people suffering from the Myanmar earthquake. Those teams have provided shelters, dug wells, have given trauma counseling, and have fed many people. Please continue to pray for the situation as the rainy season is starting and many still do not have shelter or clean water.
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Sign up for prayer emails and find translations in many languages at ywam.org/theinvitation. Please contact us at [email protected] to let us know how you prayed, to recommend a prayer topic, or to request an advance copy of the prayer guide.