- Find out all you can about the missionary for whom you are praying.

- Pray regularly. Do not wait for some heart-tugging story to stimulate you to prayer. A woman in Iowa has the pictures of missionaries for whom she prays on the window sill over her kitchen sink. She prays while she washes dishes. One family pastes the pictures on 3x5 cards. These are put into a box on the table and each day one is pulled out and passed around. Then, prayer is offered that day for that missionary or missionary family.

- Be specific in your prayer. “Lord bless the EMI missionaries” is not enough! Write to each other and make request of specific needs. Often you may be able to meet them. We should be able to share with each other the more intimate problems that characterize the mission field. It is difficult to write home about personal defeat or discouragement, impossible to write about government obstacles lest they be expelled from the country. Make yourself available for such information, by letting them know that you do not consider any request for prayer too small or too large.

- Try to anticipate needs. Think of the spiritual problems that plague you. Perhaps they are bothering the other missionaries. If you wait until you hear of a need, often it is already past.

- Be persistent and persevering in prayer.

- Every once in a while, get off the beaten tract. Pray for the following:

- Victory over mental stagnation caused by lack of time for reading and study.

- Freshness in prayer and Bible teaching in the absence of an inspired preacher of the Word nearby to offer a spiritual refresher.

- Guidance in how to present the Gospel to some person with whom the missionary may have fleeting contact.

- Deliverance from the temptation of pride, as the national looks up to the missionary as “the last word” in knowledge and Christian example.

- Wisdom in relationships with other missionaries.

- Strength to overcome the tests of loneliness.

- Understanding in dealing wisely with the nationals, many of whom are assuming the leadership of the church.

- Ask all of your supporting churches to pray fervently for EMI, the missionaries, their workers, the fields, and our staff at the home office. God will continue to bless Evangelism Missions Incorporated to the extent that Christians are faithful in the ministry of intercessory prayer. This, then, could be your greatest contribution. Remember the Words of our Lord when He said, “...ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full” (John 16:24).

- Ask them to send for our newsletter, “Mission”, or they may send a love offering in honor of friends and/or relatives in order that their names may be added to the mailing list and receive this quarterly newsletter! The prayer requests and needs of our missionaries and EMI as s whole are frequently listed in this publication in order to let others know what we need them to join us in prayer for.