From the Bagasao Children:

Every week we learn about a different country or group of people needing prayer. We study their situation and then pray for them throughout the week.

Please join us in prayer for the Egyptians:

The Prayer Club

Egypt is in northeastern Africa. It has a population of 68,469,695 people.  The capitol is Cairo, the largest city in Africa and the Middle East.  It has a lot of people.  There are a lot of poor people in Cairo who live in the slums, some in an area called Garbage City.  It is full of garbage which the people collect to sort and sell to recycling places; that’s how they get a little bit of money.  Although there are a lot of poor people, there are also a lot of millionaires.  It is probably because their chief export is oil.  Desert covers 96% of Egypt.

Acts 2 in the Bible tells us that Egyptians were among those in Jerusalem who learned about Jesus from Simon Peter and the other apostles at Pentecost.  (Finally Peter’s loud mouth came in handy!)  The Egyptians became Christians and taught other Egyptians about Jesus.  Egypt was a Christian country until Arab Muslims invaded in 642 AD and forced Egyptians to become Muslims. They even martyred many Christians.  (To be martyred is to be killed for your faith.)  Now more Egyptians are Islamic, but about 12% (9 million) are Coptic (Egyptian) Christians.  Christians need permission form the president of Egypt to repair and build churches.  Often they are still persecuted for their faith.

Please pray that the Egyptians will return to faith in Jesus and that they will stop being persecuted. Pray that God would help the Coptic Christians to share their faith with their neighbors, friends, relatives, and anyone else they can get to.  Thank God for those Islamic people who have taken an interest in Christianity due to the Islamic terrorism acts of 9/11/2001 and the 2004 movie Passion of the Christ.

Following are some sites that might interest you:

• God’s hand in Egypt
• Muslim seeks Christian ID

There is a lot more information available for Egypt than for the other countries we have told you about, so if this interests you, you will have no trouble searching for more information.

Thank you,

Hannah, Marissa, Elisabeth, Emily and Elijah

I Timothy 2: 1, 3: I urge then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone. This is good and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.