WPNow 7•4•2025

Special Prayer for the SHIFT Conference
The Missionary Church General Conference will gather in Fort Wayne July 7–10. The Missionary Church family will come from all over the United States and the world to fellowship, pray, share testimonies, and conduct organizational business.

Please pray specifically for:

• All to be encountered by the Holy Spirit and hear what the Lord is speaking 
• A spirit of oneness to prevail as we worship, pray, share, and conduct business
• Christ alone to be glorified and pleased in our words and ways together this week
• Any critical decisions to be made in love and truth with maturity and wisdom
• A spirit of joy and expectancy as learn and share time together
• The Lord to deliver us from any evil plans of the enemy

Special Prayer for the World Partners Staff Retreat
Be praying for our World Partners missionary staff retreat, which follows SHIFT on July 14–17. About 60 missionary team members, staff and children will gather at a retreat center to refresh and renew during their heavy Home Ministry Assignment schedule.  

Pray specifically for:

• A remarkable spirit of peace and renewal to mark our time together
• Impromptu conversations between missionaries that encourage and edify one another
• The children of missionaries to be poured into and to feel at home with one another
• The worship leaders, speakers, and prayer times will be rich and anointed
• Traveling mercies as people travel in from different locations
• A sense of deep belonging together from the Lord as we gather for the week

Continue to pray for all World Partners staff around the world. Ask the Lord to work through them in all the messy, complicated situations they encounter. Pray God will continue to bring blessings in the midst of ministry. Pray that marriages and families would grow stronger as they follow God’s leading in their work.

"One of the things I love most about Ventura Missionary Church’s heart for global missions is the deep sense of partnership we have with our global ministry partners. They aren’t just “sponsored missionaries doing ministry over there,” they are a vital part of our church family doing ministry together."

— Pastor Doug