Operation 10/40 Lift-UP 2009
Safe Harbor Presbyterian Church

Please join us in praying for the world's 40 largest unreached people groups during the 40 days before Easter. The "10/40 Lenten Lift U.P. 2009!" prayer calendar features a countown of days to Easter, highlighting a different unreached people group each day from the largest group, the Shaikh peoples of Bangladesh, listed on March 3, to the smallest unreached people group, the Arabs of Morocco, listed for prayer on April 11.  Easter will be a day of rejoicing in Christ's victory over sin and death and asking the Lord of the Nations to bring the knowledge of His salvation to the ends of the earth, fulfilling His Great Commission through His people for His glory.  "Come Lord Jesus!"

According to the U.S. Center for World Mission, an unreached people group is an "(ethnic) group among which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize their people group." All of the unreached people groups featured in the "10/40 Lenten Lift U.P-2009!" prayer calendar are less than 1.5% Christian.

New for 2009

First, there are prayer cards describing each unreached people group which can be downloaded in pdf format and printed.  The cards are a good way to remind you each day to be in prayer.  Second, there is also another prayer calendar, the Lift UP & UP 2009.  This calendar directs you to pray for the 40 largest Unengaged People groups.  Unengaged Peoples are unreached peoples with no existing missions or church planting efforts being made to reach their people group with the gospel.

As a general guideline for prayer, please ask the Lord of the Harvest to glorify His name by:

* Sending laborers into His harvest field among these peoples and providing all the resources they need to minister.

* Binding the powers in the heavenly realms that are in opposition to these peoples knowing about the beauty of our Messiah, the Lord Jesus, and the salvation He alone brings.

* Opening doors for the gospel for these people groups in their localities and nations.

*Opening of the hearts of the peoples who hear the good news to the glory of Christ Jesus.

* For translation and distribution of the Scriptures and godly literature into the indigenous "heart" languages of all these people groups.

* For the physical protection of all believers and the courage of all believers in these lands to persevere and shine for Jesus despite persecution.

*For strong, Christ-centered indigenous churches to be established that will be both loving and sound in doctrine, with a heart for missions both inside and outside their culture.

* For the physical needs of the poorest among these people groups to be met to the glory of the name of the Lord Jesus.