Opportunities

• Working class church planting: Enthusiastic, creative people to form new teams in unreached townships. Teams need vangelists, disciplers, theologians, children’s and youth workers.
• Children and family outreach: After-school activities for “at risk” kids. There are opportunities for ministry to both the kids and to their dysfunctional families - often victims of social injustice.
• Shop-worker outreach: Ministry to service industry personnel, takes place late at night after the stores and restaurants close. It needs those who can evangelize and disciple these people. This ministry has been very successful in Taipei, so we hope to duplicate it in other areas.
• Prostitute outreach: A new outreach to prostitutes needs female missionaries who can befriend and help hurting women find freedom in the gospel.
• Missionary Interns: Interns join our ministry teams for one to two years. We train them, incorporate them into our teams, and help them process long-term possibilities.
• Guest home hosts: A couple to manage Oasis, OMF’s retreat center. A place of spiritual renewal for many missionaries.
• Support staff: MK teachers, finance and media personnel.

How to pray

• Taiwan’s political future is a matter for intense political debate and international diplomacy. Pray for wisdom and guidance for leaders.
• Pray for the removal of barriers preventing the growth of the church:
• Resurgence of Buddhism and Taoism and subjection to the spirit world. Few Chinese want to give up ancestor worship.
• Disillusioned young people are turning to crime.
• Taiwanese society is very materialistic. There are many Pachinko parlors, lotteries and other forms of gambling.
• Taiwan is the only major Chinese society where there has not been significant church growth this generation.
• Pray for a nationwide prayer movement to unite the church.
• Pray for a breakthrough among the working class. Taiwan’s Christians are generally highly educated and do not find it easy to reach out to their working-class neighbors.
• Pray for more missionaries to go to Taiwan and that those who are called may be encouraged and willing to stay.
• There is a lack of pastors and full-time workers. Many experienced pastors emigrate to Western nations. In small churches the congregation expect the pastor to do all the work.
• In big cities there are some large vibrant churches that are flourishing. Pray for relevant, spiritual training and more effective lay training.
• The witness among students is encouraging and students are now permitted to form Christian groups in schools.
• Pray for an awakening of interest and commitment to pray and send out missionaries.
• Pray for sales of Christian literature in the secular book market.
• The creative use of video/DVD, music and the internet in evangelism.