How Prayer Created a Mission Agency
Have you noticed that we have a prayer tab on our website where we update prayer requests weekly? Maybe you hadn’t noticed, but now that you know, we’d love for you, your family, bible study and/or church to help us in praying for Reflejo staff and projects advancing the Great Commission.
Prayer is super important to us! How important, you ask? It’s someone’s responsibility in Reflejo to reach out to all the different areas of Reflejo weekly and collect, compile, and translate prayer requests. We do this because your prayers matter to us.
When we started Reflejo, we considered making prayer one of our values, but prayer isn’t a value, it’s a need. Like food. Without food, you and I eventually die; without prayer, Reflejo does.
So why do we believe this so strongly? Because prayer created Reflejo.
Before Reflejo started, a group of us in Latin America started praying for the unreached, specifically for Pashtuns. We prayed every week, for years. Over time the group grew and now there is a whole network in Latin America praying for Pashtuns, we call it RAP.
One of the things we were praying for was for more workers to be raised to reach the Pashtuns, and as it often happens, it worked. Over time, dozens of people approached us, sharing that they’d heard God call them to the Pashtuns. We tried to connect them with other organizations, but none seemed ready to process that many candidates wanting to go to complex places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Eventually, God challenged us to start Reflejo. We knew we’d need a specialized team able to mobilize, train, send and care for those who would go. We’d need systems and technology and finances and much, much more.
So, what did we do? …what could we do? Pray.
Over time, one day at a time, God figured it out.
Here’s what I’ve learned since we started prayer groups in 2017:
We expand God’s kingdom on our knees and then see it unfold on our trips.
All this brings me back to one simple question: will you pray for us?
