One Tokyo team returned last week and our Tokyo JSI team returns home today. Three teams were at Base Camp last weekend and flew out earlier this week and are getting settled in and engaging the work.

Which means that we don’t always have fresh and amazing stories to share with you when Friday rolls around.

But the work goes on and the work still needs your support. Pastor John Piper wrote these words regarding the armor of God in Ephesians 6:

“So I do not tire of saying to our church, The number one reason why prayer malfunctions in the hands of a believers is that they try to turn a wartime walkie-talkie into a domestic intercom.

Until you believe that life is war, you cannot know what prayer is for. Prayer is for the accomplishment of a wartime mission. It is as though the field commander (Jesus) called in the troops, gave them a crucial mission (“Go and bear fruit”), handed each of them a personal transmitter coded to the frequency of the general’s headquarters, and said, “Comrades, the general has a mission for you. He aims to see it accomplished. And to that end he has authorized me to give each of you personal access to him through these transmitters. If you stay true to his mission and seek his victory first, he will always be as close as your transmitter, to give tactical advice and to send in air cover when you or your comrades need it.

But what have millions of Christians done? They have stopped believing that we are in a war. No urgency, no watching, no vigilance, no strategic planning. Just easy peacetime and prosperity. And what did they do with the walkie-talkie? They tried to rig it up as an intercom in their cushy houses and cabins and boats and cars – not to call in fire power for conflict with a mortal enemy, but to ask the maid to bring another pillow to the den.”

So on this day when we have very little “news from the front lines” will you still pick up that walkie-talkie and engage the work? Pray for our JSIs in Madrid (pictured) as they get to know the city and prepare to lead our first-time teams coming in a few weeks. Pray for the Group Trek team in Canada as they serve alongside an iGo alum now pastoring a multi-cultural church in a multi-cultural city. And pray for our team in northern Africa as they begin to build relationships with people that have been blinded to the Truth.

Finally, please pray for the first Launch Box of 2015 a s it begins on Monday. The Launch Crew and other leaders arrive in Plano on Sunday to begin setting up and preparing. Thank you!