- Supported Workers: Ruth (& Artis) Powell, Emily (& Blake) Ackerson
- Countries: Australia, United States of America, Zambia
- Details: In Australia, local Christians are hosting international students in their homes during the Easter season. Pray for those hosting as they share the love of Christ and for many students to respond by taking steps toward Jesus. Pray for their South Asian outreach this Easter. Their community is growing, and they are hoping to have an event to help explain the significance of Easter. They are also inviting students to hear a story of Jesus' life leading up to Easter. Please pray for open doors for the gospel. Pray for these students, who are mostly Hindu, to continue to feel connected as Bridges personnel take steps to share Jesus. Pray for their son Nathaniel as his transition to kindergarten has been challenging. Ruth is thankful for small differences that God is making in the lives of people in the village in Kasempa, Zambia. Since they hired the doctor last month, many people's lives have been saved. He checks blood pressure and blood sugar, and he treats people with malaria, fever, and other diseases that easily kill people in the village. Since Zambia is a Christian nation, the doctor can pray with patients and give them real hope. He is operating from a small shelter until the Lord provides the $2,900.00 that is needed to build a small clinic building. Land is already available, and the workforce is ready. Pray that God will provide the needed funds for the clinic. Spain (Europe). Population: 47,473,373 Believers: 1.0%. Few churches can afford to pay for a full-time pastor, let alone a team of them. As a result, churches must use bi-vocational pastors or be entrusted to full-time foreign missionaries, who end up pastoring instead of church planting. There are at least 15 seminaries and Bible schools. Some newer, larger churches provide in-house leadership and theological training. Pray that these schools would be filled with young Spanish future leaders, shaped by solid instruction in the Word of God. From Operation World DVD-ROM 2010 and www.operationworld.org
