Pray When you pray for missionaries, you are making room in your heart for God to work, extending your care beyond your world and experience. Praying will change you, and is of the greatest importance to the missionary's work. More than anything, our missionaries need your prayers. Missions is more than missionaries serving God. If God isn't at the heart of the work, then nothing eternal is accomplished.
Prayer is the life blood of missions.
By praying for our missionaries, their work, and the people they are serving, we recognize that God is at the center of our endeavor. We also need to pray for those people who oppose our missionaries. Henri J.M. Nouwen in the book Compassion describes prayer as a hospitable gesture by which we invite our neighbors into the center of our hearts. Prayer converts the enemy into a friend and is thus the beginning of a new relationship. There is probably no prayer as powerful as the prayer for our enemies.