By Lisa Flake and Dave Imboden

The US Center for World Mission’s Global Prayer Digest and Ethne are partnering together to provide a year’s worth of daily prayers for the least-reached peoples on every continent from June 2006 through May 2007. Joshua Project is teaming together with Ethne to identify the unreached people groups (UPG) and least-reached peoples of the earth within 12 geographical regions–one for each month of the year.

The launch—June 2006--of this unprecedented year-long prayer initiative for is strategically aligned with this year’s Global Day of Prayer (GDOP) on Pentecost Sunday, June 4. The GDOP is preceded by 10 days of prayer and fasting and followed by 90 days of local outreach. Similarly, the Ethne effort works to see strategic harvest outreaches to the least-reached in each region of the world for the 90 days immediately following the global day of prayer. United prayer will open doors and fuel effective outreach efforts throughout the earth.

The following are some suggestions for getting your church involved in the world’s largest harvest-prayer effort in history:

1. Pray for these unreached people groups in church services, small groups, families, and individually.
2. Video clips, audio clips, and bulletin inserts on a monthly basis are available to download from www.ethne.net.
3. Network with your church’s mission outreach and those you know who are working among UPGs throughout the world. Let them know that a major prayer concentration is coming to their part of the world! Get them to spread the word and also make requests for them to send stories about preparations and results from work that is coordinated with the prayer emphasis to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .
4. Place a high profile announcement or banner on your church’s home page, linking it further to a page just for recruiting involvement for this year’s GDOP and Ethne’s Year of Prayer.
5. Provide links on your web page to the Global Prayer Digest so they can pray each day . . . or have them sign up for a daily email version at: http://www.global-prayer-digest.org/dailydata/getdaily.asp?which=today.
6. Send out prominently placed news with your regular church e-mailings, linking them back to your web page for more information.
7. Make announcements whenever possible reminding your people of the year-long emphasis.

In addition to the above, let Ethne know how you plan to be a part of this emphasis. This in turn has the potential to increase momentum as more and more people realize this is a truly global effort. All correspondence should be emailed to: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

In closing, the current worldwide stresses and strains of human and natural disasters may remind one of Habakkuk’s complaint in Hab. 1:2-4, therefore, may our prayer be that God would grant us grace to pray for and reach out to the least-reached and unreached peoples of the world—in full expectation of the Lord’s answer:

“Look at the nations and watch – and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.” (Hab. 1:5).

Lisa Flake is the missions prayer director at Harvest Prayer Ministries. A stonrg missions advocate, Lisa is available to do missions prayer semianrs in churches.

Dave Imboden serves with ACMC as communications manager and prayer coordinator. Previous to ACMC, Dave served four years as a missions-active pastor and eleven years with the US Center for World Mission, where he helped facilitate the Adopt-A-People Campaign and edited the Missions Mobilizer’s Handbook and Vision for the Nations curriculum.