Thank God for delivering this young woman from her depression and saving her. Pray that many would come to Christ through her witness. The rate at which people are dying without hearing the gospel and the heartbreak those deaths cause missionaries have led one Southern Baptist worker to issue an urgent call for prayer. The region accounted for 70 percent of 1998 s 5.8 million new infections. Southern Africa is plagued by AIDS, said IMB missionary D. Ray Davis.
Urgency is the climate in which our missionaries work.
A report in The Herald of Harare, Zimbabwe, noted that about 240 people die of AIDS-related diseases every day in that country. The paper estimated 80,000 Zimbabweans will have been lost to AIDS alone by year s end. This crisis extends across our region of southern Africa and calls for urgent prayer support, Davis said. The situation is overwhelming for missionaries. It is heartbreaking.