{"id":14912,"date":"2026-11-05T09:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14912"},"modified":"2026-11-05T09:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:08:04","slug":"north-africa-equipping-the-nations-to-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14912","title":{"rendered":"North Africa: Equipping the Nations to Pray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: One Way Missions, October 28, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe know the only way God is going to move in power in our country is through prayer. But we don\u2019t understand prayer very well. Can you help us?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, an underground church leader in North Africa asked Chris Ruge, OneWay\u2019s Vice President of Global Prayer Mobilization and Strategy, this heartfelt question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a country where Muslims who leave Islam to follow Christ face the death penalty, believers are longing to see God move\u2014but they need help in strengthening their prayers. An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 believers follow Christ in this nation, where few are willing to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris spent seven hours a day training underground church leaders in the foundations of prayer, continually asking the Lord to direct their time together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most impactful moments came when Chris felt prompted to introduce a simple but powerful strategy: prayer walks around places in need of prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI live right next to the main prison in the country,\u201d one leader said. \u201cFor the rest of my life, I am going to go on prayer walks around that prison regularly!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owm.org\/post\/equipping-the-nations-to-pray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story<\/a>&nbsp;to hear how God is using this ministry in other parts of the world, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OWM is the parent ministry of Prayercast and kept this summer\u2019s interns busy updating 200+ of its <a href=\"https:\/\/prayercast.com\/topic-category\/nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prayer videos about different nations<\/a>. Take a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You might be interested in a recent update from another prayer ministry. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/De7cPtPoX3q\/?exln=Njlza3pwejN2NnJv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don\u2019t believe everything you hear about Europe<\/a>,\u201d wrote 24\/7 Prayer\u2019s Pete Greig in a short Instagram video sharing good news about what God is doing in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: One Way Missions, October 28, 2026 \u201cWe know the only way God is going to move in power in our country is through prayer. But we don\u2019t understand prayer very well. Can you help us?\u201d Earlier this year, an underground church leader in North Africa asked Chris Ruge, OneWay\u2019s Vice President of Global Prayer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14912\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">North Africa: Equipping the Nations to Pray<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14913,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912\/revisions\/14913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}