Josh & Deb Wong

Prayer Requests

Both of us, at a young age, having grown up with a Christian home, made a simple acceptance to have Jesus be our Lord and Saviour.

For Josh, while attending the University of Calgary, he joined P2C - Students to study the bible on campus, and upon graduating in 2000, joined staff with P2C to help launch the campus ministry in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

For Deb, she always knew ministry would be a significant part of her life. She assumed it would come later in life after she had established a career. However, when she witnessed a different reality in P2C at her time at Dalhousie University in Halifax. So in 2003, she graduated and joined staff with P2C, ministering alongside Josh in Halifax.

Our Current Role at P2C - Students
Josh, as director of Strategy and Operations team, helps students take their next step towards Jesus by coordinating the strategic planning process of the ministry and creating and managing infrastructure to effectively and efficiently deliver ministry objectives. As a member of the National Leadership Team, he helps to implement change management processes to help the ministry achieve the desired outcomes of our plans and goals.

Deb, as director of the Creative Communications team, helps students connect with opportunities that help them take their next step towards Jesus. Through communication spaces like our p2c.com/students website, social media (insta: @p2cstudents), and resourcing in-person conversations, we design, create videos, write, inviting students to get involved with a local community, go on a mission trip, consider internship, and more. She also helps her team members in fund-raising.

About Power to Change
Starting at the University of British Columbia in 1967 (as Campus Crusade for Christ), Power to Change has been steadfast in helping people know Jesus and experience His power to change the world for close to 60 years. Throughout the years ministry expanded beyond post secondary students to other domains of society including families (FamilyLife), athletes (Athletes in Action), the marketplace (LeaderImpact), those living in vulnerable communities and in the margins (Connecting Streams), and those needing humanitarian assistance (Global Aid Network). Today, Power to Change has 10 ministries across Canada and belongs to a network of global ministry partners through Cru International to help people know Jesus and experience His power to change the world.

Sam and Colleen Yim

Read more about Christ-honoring transformation https://www.christar.org/cycle-of-transformation and why we share the gospel with least-reached people. https://www.christar.org/why-we-share

[email protected] 517-732-4353
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  • Greetings,

    We just wanted to get out a quick prayer list as we have just started Christar’s two week training program in Muslim evangelism and would appreciate your prayer power for the students, teachers and the interaction and outreach students have with our contacts and the contacts they may make on their own while here. The training consists of daytime classes and afternoon/evening outreach. We will be teaching some of the sessions, helping in the kitchen and taking them on outreach. Pray we can give our best in all areas.

    ESL classes will end after this week and the students, thankfully, are very disappointed. So, I will be having “informal” classes this summer and we will be reading through Lewis’ “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”. They are excited about coming together for a book club during the summer and I’ll be making the connections between the text and the gospel. We will all be taking turns hosting in one another’s homes so are also getting closer in our personal relationships. We pray this leads to deeper trust to be able to share the truths of the gospel.

    I will also be leading a book club for our church this summer and we will be reading “The Sermon on the Mount” from John Stott. It is a great book and thick book that is very deep. Pray we can gain God would have for us from this resource as we study the Sermon on the Mount.

    Lots going on this summer that has already started, so thank-you for praying for us.

    Sam and Colleen

    Pray:

    -ESL summer “informal” class. Good participation, connections from the book to gospel, seeds and salvation.

    -Justice, whatever that looks like, for the Middle East.

    -Jiran outreach: for the Muslims who come to hear the Bible stories and all the story tellers.

    -Manarah, C*’s training program for Muslim Evangelism, has begun. Pray for students and teachers as they teach, learn and interact in outreach to the community.

    -Leaders from Arab service have decided to pause this ministry. Pray as they go forward to consider if we continue.

    -Friendship Friday: The joyful friendships made with these contacts will allow for deep conversations at other times.

    -Continue to pray for Afghani friend and her daughter. Very thankful for her citizenship and the arrival of her American passports. She has begun to be anemic, is taking medicine for depression and is shaking a bit. Pray for her health in all areas.

    -We will also be helping with Christar’s North American Annual conference this August. Please pray as we are currently trying to get a teach of child care workers.

    -Our discipleship class will produce lasting fruit and growth.

    -Sermon on the Mount summer book club.

    -Along with our regular Saturday coffee days, we are planning outings for our students this summer. Again, pray for opportunties to share the gospel.

    Praise:

    -We are completing another year of ESL and have made lasting friendships.

    -A discipleship group with my Iranian student and a few other younger women from my church has begun.

    -Manarah has begun and we look forward to the next two weeks of training and seeing what these eleven students will do as they take up the baton.

    -We will welcoming Sam’s family for a visit the first week of July.

    -A former student from Iraq will be getting married in July in Toronto and we are very happy to be attending his wedding. Between ISIS, losing his home and career, and having to put off marriage for many years, we are so happy to be celebrating with him.

Sam: I was raised in a Christian home and I followed my parents when they went to church. When I was a teenager, I attended a Billy Graham’s evangelistic meeting and I made decision to follow Christ. When I was a high school teacher, I felt I need to be equipped to reach out to to high school kids, so I decided to go to seminary. During the mission course, I found there are many unreached people groups in India. At that time, I knew I would like to go to India to share the gospel with them.

Colleen: While working for the Department of Natural Resources in a rustic park, while working, my boss would always share the gospel with me. After a couple years of sharing and praying, I finally really understood what the scriptures he was sharing meant, and on June 10, 1981, I repented and started following Jesus.

My Current Role in Christar
We are ministering in Dearborn, MI, home of the largest Arab Muslim population in the US. We work along with a church in Dearborn teaching ESL during the week, hosting a Friday night outreach, visitation, and participating in another city wide outreach called Jiran, a time of Arab/English singing and Bible storying. We also give on-line training for an organization in HK called Oasis, who train Nepalis in HK for pastoral work.

Alliance Seminary HK: Sam just completed mentoring 2 D.Miss students and they have us both as second readers for their D.Miss program.

Writing is also a continuing ministry. Sam continues writing for Christian Times from HK.

Columbia International University: Sam continues to teach as an on-line professor to students in the mainland.

About Christar
Christar workers PARTICIPATE by planting churches in these LEAST-REACHED communities, where He is yet to be worshiped. The vision of Christar is to cultivate Christ-honoring transformation in communities where He is yet to be worshiped.

Christ-honoring transformation speaks to the process as well as the outcome. In the establishment of indigenous churches, we pursue a Christ-honoring influence on the community at large. As workers who partner with God in His work, we are a part of the transformation process that God is bringing about. God’s promise in Revelation 5:9 is clear. People from every tongue, tribe, people and nation will worship God in eternity.

Our vision is to go to those people who are not accounted for in the eternal roll call of nations!

Shirley Unger

Address: 304-25 Ivybridge Gate, Winnipeg, MB, R3W 0L5 Canada
Email: [email protected] or [email protected].
Website: https://gemission.org/

prayer requests

I became a Christian when I was a child. I grew up in a Christian home, learning about Christ at church and in Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. I was asked by a friend at a birthday party if I had a personal relationship with Christ. I went to my room, took out my little Bible that my parents had given me for Christmas and invited the Lord into my heart.

I had never considered going overseas to serve as a missionary in my earlier years. I went to Bible College and then got my teacher's degree at Brandon University. My goal was to teach elementary age children, but the thought of doing it outside of Manitoba didn't cross my mind.

After teaching on First Nations schools for four years, which was kind of a mission field of its own, a Greater Europe Mission (GEM) rep was at my parents' home for lunch and asked me to consider serving. That led to going to Spain on a summer mission trip. During the wrap-up time in Germany, opportunities to teach at Christian schools in Europe were mentioned. I applied, looking to serve for a year or two and the Lord expanded it to become a long term ministry, eventually with more than just teaching.

My Current Role at GEM
My current ministry is as an administrative assistant to both GEM Canada and to GEM Teams, where I served in person for over 16 years. My role with GEM Teams is to interact with teams and individuals who are wanting to serve on a short term team (1-3 weeks) and walk them through the GEM application process. I also read through their evaluations after a project and make our mobilization department aware of those who may want to return or consider longer term ministry. I meet with GEM Canada staff virtually once a week and with my supervisor also weekly. I meet with GEM Teams staff once a month and with that supervisor about once a month. I travel to Germany to be with the team in person once a year.

About GEM
Greater Europe Mission (GEM) began in 1952 because of a desire by Bob Evans to train leaders in the Bible. 22 Bible schools were established in the first 30 years, many that continue on. The ministry spread to include church planting. Today the mission has a wide variety of ministries, including Creative Arts, Business as a mission, sports, camps, children/youth education, justice, refugees, church planting, disciple making and so much more. GEM has over 700 missionaries from North America, Europe and beyond.

GEM's mission is to reach Europe by multiplying disciples and growing Christ's Church.