Please pray for:

The staff:

• Chris Hawthorne the Principal who is on leave from 1st June - 31st August 2020 in the UK. Pray for them as they consider returning to Zambia, flight tickets etc.
• Tryson Mtonga who has been appointed as Acting Principal during Chris Hawthorne's leave of absence from the college.  Please pray for Tryson in this role
• Andy Symons and the other staff and workers.   Please pray that all staff will be kept safe from the coronavirus

Pray that they will all know God’s peace and guiding during this time

The Trustees:

• Guidance for the Board in Zambia as they look to God to find and appoint a Vice-Principal
• Wisdom for the UK trustees and PIZ  ​to how best carry on the work for the glory of God and the furtherance of the gospel

The students:

• Doing exams - they go on break from 14 August to 7 September. Pray for peace as a good rest.
• It costs £3,400 to train one student per year. £90,000 to keep the college running per year

Please pray for regular sponsors - £5, £10 etc. a month and for churches in the UK to be open to partner with us.

• The college management has started to recruit students for 2021. PIZ has the capacity to take 26 students, please pray that 26 new students will be recruited for the 2021 class year
• Andrew as he writes to Trusts and Foundations for funding.  And also as he engages with individuals and churches at a distance and some in person now, seeking support for the college

 
The 72 Alumni:

• That those already in gospel work would remain faithful to the teaching received; that God will be glorified as he leads them to work for His Kingdom sake. And for those seeking work will know God’s leading as they wait on Him.  
• PIZ as they seek to develop the Alumni programme. We need partnerships with churches to send the students to plant churches

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• Infrastructure for the site and the Farm Enterprise

That an experienced farm manager will be found.
That the sales of produce and chickens will go well and patience and wisdom when the electricity is switched off for long periods due to load shedding.​

• There is a need at the college to build (i) extra toilets on site (ii) houses for general workers (iii) a guard’s hut at the entrance gate. Please pray that God will provide the needed resources to put up these buildings this year (website: Buildings)
• Give thanks that the toilet block has been fully funded. Please pray the work will go well and be completed on time
• The solar project - phase two

​We praise God for the raising of funds for phase one of the solar project to be completed in February 2020
Pray for funds to be raised for the completion of Phase two - for the whole PIZ site to be Solar powered. Project Solar

• The USA support group

That Trisha will have wisdom as she leads the process of setting up the group of supporters in Arkansas, USA. Pray as they travel to other churches to highlight the work and for God to lead those spoken to. 

• UK Costs

​Andrew will be on his travels again around the UK highlighting the work at conferences etc. and as we any organisation we have overheads, administration costs as well as UK salaries to be paid. Please pray funds would be raised for this essential work.

THANK YOU