All of the following information comes from Operation World by Jason Mandryke and is in no way my own work.
Country: Aruba
Aruba is a small island off the coast of Venezuela and is now a self governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Almost their entire economy runs on tourism ( so maybe we should go visit!) and they practice full freedom of religion.
What to pray for:
1) While there is a large amount of churches and evangelical believers, the ethnic split is uneven. Aruba has many immigrants from Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia, but there are few Asian churches. Pray for an impact to be made on the Asian population and for churches to arise.
2) Unity among believers
· There’s been a fad growing of a televangelist- type preaching style of alien theology that honors the whole prosperity message of the church. Pray that this doesn’t pin one church against another, but that the church as whole would pull together to fight against the high numbers of teen drug abuse and illegitimate births.
What God put on my heart:
A heart for the people of Aruba. A heart of compassion, not a heart of competition. That they wouldn’t grow stagnant and bored and begin competing against one another for numbers, but that they will see the hurting and lonely of the island and reach out to them. Not as potential to grow THEIR church, but to grown the Kingdom of God.
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