Please pray for:

The staff:

• Chris Hawthorne the Principal. Pray for the family too and all their commitments to the local church,  the children's learning and spiritual growth. For energy and wisdom. 
• Henry Mukonda is the Vice-Principal. Pray for him and his wife, Catherine living on-site.
• 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. Give thanks that no-one has caught the virus.

The Trustees:

• Wisdom for the UK and PIZ trustees ​to how best carry on the work for the glory of God and the furtherance of the gospel
• Pray for them as they look to the future of PIZ and how best to carry on the good work
• We have new board members in 2021, please pray their expertise will help all at PIZ and PZ
• Pray for new trustees to come forward for both the boards.
  

The students:

• We have 18 signed up for 2022. Please pray they will be able to travel and arrive safely.
• Pray for the staff as they await the arrival of the 2022 students
• It costs £3,400 to train one student per year. £85,000 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.

• 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
• Pray for churches to have open doors

 
The 95 Alumni:

• Please pray for their onward work for the Lord.
• The class of 2021 students are now 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
• Pray that the Alumni training days for church leaders in various places and various times will be used by the Lord to advance the gospel

For more information and prayers for the Alumni visit our PIZ Alumni page

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The Farm Enterprise

• Prayer for the new farm manager, Ali Kapesa.
• That the sales of produce and chickens will go well and patience and wisdom when the electricity is switched off due to load shedding.​
• Pray for the farm team to keep ploughing on, especially the farm horticulture, to improve the production of crops

Infrastructure for the site

• There is a need at the college to build houses for general workers. Please pray that God will provide the needed resources to put up the houses this year (website: Buildings)
• Give thanks for the funds that have come in to complete some houses already started on site. Visit the buildings page above to see the progress
• The solar project - phase two

​We praise God for the raising of funds for phase one of the solar project that was 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 has been on his travels around the UK highlighting the work at a few churches, he will continue to attend conferences etc. once the go ahead is given from the government. As with 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