FAMILY PRAYER SERIES
Welcome to the last (of four!) family prayer guides for the lost around the world! Use this as a tool to help engage your kids in global intercession. Utilize components that work well for your family and don't worry about the rest! This shouldn't feel stressful but an adventure into family prayer for the world!
This month we are unpacking what it means for someone to be minimally reached.
What is a Minimally Reached People Group?
Minimally reached (or least-reached) means a people group has a small number of Christians but heard the gospel from someone outside their own culture. Least-reached people groups don't have enough resources or community to share the gospel without help from those outside their own culture yet.
Some countries with large populations of minimally reached people groups include: Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Sri Lanka.
How Your Family Can Pray for the Minimally Reached
Prayer Prompts
Carve out a few minutes–on the drive to school, during breakfast, before bed–and lift up UPGs using the following prayer prompts (and add to this list with your own prayers!):
1) Pray for a strong and vibrant church to grow among the minimally reached.
2) Pray for the minimally reached to be wise and bold in their witness to others in their community.
Activities
Below are some activities to learn more about the minimally reached.
1) Using Wycliffe Kids' Adventure to Africa guide, learn more about the country of Cameroon. Find about the Bible translation work in Cameroon, two specific ways to pray for people there, and make a sweet drink for special occasions called foléré.
2) Play Gato Mia (Cat Meow), a favorite kids game in Brazil. To play, the catcher is blindfolded and the lights in a room are turned off. The other players hide. The catcher tries to find the others. The players try to stay quiet. But the catcher can tell jokes to make the others laugh and try to find their hiding spot. If a catcher finds someone, he says, "Cat, meow." The caught players says, "Cat, meow." If the catcher can guess who the player is, the player becomes the catcher. If the catcher is wrong, a new round is started!
When you finish playing, take a couple minutes to pray for the minimally reached in Brazil.
3) Make kottu roti, a popular Sri Lankan dish, for dinner. Then pray for the minimally reached in Sri Lanka.
4) Visit your local library and check out books from a country where the minimally reached live. Consider using Wycliffe Kids Travel To Another Country printable worksheet to guide your research.
To keep digging deeper, here are resources to grow our understanding of the minimally reached. As we increase our understanding, we can better pray for others.
1) Psalm Prayers for the Nations: Engage Your Family with 40 Scripture-Based Prayers: This book by Sarah Keeling walks families through 40 prayers to use when interceding for the lost around the world.
1) Psalm Prayers for the Nations: Engage Your Family with 40 Scripture-Based Prayers: This book by Sarah Keeling walks families through 40 prayers to use when interceding for the lost around the world.
2) Explore the World with Wycliffe Kids: Travel through the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific as a family. Learn about each region, participate in an activity from that part of the world, and discover ways to pray as a family.
As you go about this month, remember to pray for the minimally reached! Stay tuned for a new world family prayer guide series this fall.