"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, November 29, 2005
LAMB OF GOD, give us favor and support from the churches, community groups, government, the general public and the mass-media both here in the United States but also in India and everywhere we go on the mission fields. We especially pray that we will have such favor right here in Columbus, Georgia and that it will radiate out from here to the rest of the world. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, November 28, 2005
LION OF JUDAH, in the eight days left before we fly to India with the Tsunami Media Mission please do many personal miracles for the Brays. Provide the $630 travel expenses still needed for Dr. Bill and son Jon to go on the mission....plus give great strength and focus to Dr. Bill and Rob to get all the copy processed and deadlines met for the Communications Division...and pour out personal planning skill and strength on Ivy to handle the work alone for both the development and communication departments...and finally provide the special, personal funding to get the house furnished before Christmas when the family will reunite. All this we ask in your strong name, AMEN!

"Prayer Priority" Request for Sunday, November 27, 2005
RESURRECTION AND LIFE, use Dr. Samuel Thomas and the Hopegivers team to reinvent children's outreach ministries for the next generation. Use us to bring about the Million Orphan Vision and by so doing mobilize tens of millions of people to raise children for Christ in every nation . AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday, November 26, 2005
BEGINNING AND END, by your Holy Spirit, use the new website ministry for years to come to attract millions upon millions of people to join the next generation of Hopegivers from all nations, cultures, castes and creeds. Help us to speak to the next era of your disciples and add the right handles to this site to help them make the choices that will pour your grace upon their faith. AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, November 25, 2005
MY LORD AND MY GOD, help Silas Partners, Dr. Bray and the editorial advisory board as they review the first version of the new Hopegivers Web Ministry site this next week and make changes so that it can premier early in December. May everything they do make this site a refreshing adventure in both apostolic action and spirituality for those attracted to You and the Hopegivers lifestyle you showed us how to live when you walked this earth. AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, November 24, 2005
ALPHA AND OMEGA, guide Ivy's words as she writes her annual family newsletter this Thanksgiving weekend for release in the Advent season--and guide Bill as he writes the Advent Call to Prayer letter that will feature prayers for the Tsunami Media Mission itinerary. Bless be the ties the bind and bring us all closer together in your love and service through holiday communications. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, November 23, 2005
LORD, purge us from our sins, guide us in all we do, and chastise us quickly when we stray from your will or loving harmony and especially bless the communications team today as they edit the final copy for the most important appeal letter of the year for Hopegivers International. We pray that this letter will capture the urgency and need for additional emergency funds for the mission in the New Year. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, November 22, 2005
GOOD SHEPHERD, add the staff and skills that Dr. Bill needs in the communications and development ministry of Hopegivers, especially TV people and raise up the support needed to cover their living allowances. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, November 21, 2005
LIGHT OF THE WORLD, take note of Bill and Ivy's personal seed gift to support of the Tsunami Hope Home staff pastor in Tamil Nadu and multiply it a thousand-fold to meet their personal needs here in the United States and for their missionary travels overseas. AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Sunday, November 20, 2005
SON OF MAN, use our new Executive Director Michael Glenn in a special way to manage and improve the Columbus Leadership Center and all our operations in the USA. Give him favor, grace, knowledge, and wisdom. AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday, November 19, 2005
THE DOOR, open wide the gates for us as we make our travel plans to India for the Tsunami Media Mission in December and to Malawi for Operation Africa Child in January and Hopegivers Philippines in February and March. Send us a flood of funds and use our support team contacts this holiday season to raise the extra funds needed for travel expenses. AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, November 18, 2005
MASTER, be with the Bray Family as they take the next week to retreat spiritually into the Pennsylvania hills for prayer and thanksgiving, support team development and writing. Reveal yourself and your will to them, strengthen their faith and vision, and bond them with their support team. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, November 17, 2005
SEED OF DAVID, help us all to stand firm as our faith and obedience is tested again this day. Be with Dr. Sam and Paul Moore as they dare to believe you to extend the Operation Africa Child Malawi program into another year. Be with the Hope missionaries of love as they face jihad terrorists on the frontlines in Kashmir and Pakistan to pioneer a Hope Home for Kashmiri orphans. Be with each of us here in the United States, France and the UK and give us the courage to say no to our doubts and the temptations of the flesh to play it safe. Come to our rescue dear Lord and help us to faithfully do our work today on the next magazine, the new website ministry, and especially for Barnabas Partners as they work on the Tsunami anniversary book. Lord honor our faith and meet every need as we ask all this in the Name of Jesus, Seed of David, AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, November 16, 2005
LIVING BREAD, feed us today with wisdom from Kenny Russell on how to analyze our data base and develop better ways to communicate and fund the vision for Hopegivers which you have entrusted to us ... and be with Dr. Sam as he is on the air doing radio and TV interviews today. Supply all our needs for new database and accounting software as well as our personal and ministry needs for audio-visual software and hardware to better convey your message. Be with all the staff and volunteers as they work today and guide them into success and accomplishment. AMEN and AMEN!

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, November 15, 2005
I AM, we pray always for Dr. Samuel Thomas that he in particular will have courage and wisdom in making strategic, high-impact decisions today affecting the future of Hopegivers. Strengthen his body, heart and mind in the face of temptations, persecutions, slanders and every kind of attack both from the demonic and temporal worlds. May he have power today to get through the moment and to finish the race set before him. Give Dr. Sam leadership skill beyond his years and may every staff person, family member, friend and advisor also have the will to submit to his direction. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, November 14, 2005
BREAD OF LIFE, we look to you to provide a miracle Boaz to help Ivy complete the furnishing of personal quarters in Columbus. We pray for $3,500 needed to finish the kitchen and living room. In Jesus Name, AMEN!

"Prayer Priority" Request for Sunday, November 13, 2005
JESUS THE PROPHET, help us today and all this week to pray for the suffering, persecuted churches and indigenous missionaries we serve throughout Africa, India, Pakistan and South Asia. Use our radio/TV interviews, news releases and publications to turn the spotlight on the martyrs and help us to send more aid to their widows and children. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday, November 12, 2005
LIVING WATER, bless and use Dr. Sam and Bishop M.A. Thomas as they travel and speak this weekend along with all our efforts to raise up the 10,000 Hopegivers needed now to pledge $1/day to rescue orphaned or abandoned children from the streets. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, November 11, 2005
LORD JESUS, help Dr. Bill and Mike Glenn and the whole Hopegivers team to learn from their visit to Voice of the Martyrs and apply the communication and growth principles they are learning from Tom White and the VOM team--and Lord renew the strength of Bishop Thomas and Dr. Sam as they return to the USA today and speak in local churches this weekend. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, November 10, 2005
THE CHRIST, use Dr. Bill and Michael Glenn as they fly to Tulsa today for a series of very important meetings with our Hope Program Partner Voice of the Martyrs. Help us to learn a lot about ways to work more successfully and closely with them -- and bless the work we are doing together to rescue the three million homeless victims of the earthquake in Pakistan. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, November 9, 2005
RABBI, use Ivy's Filipino network around the world to help start up a Hopegivers program in Palawan both to honor and memorialize the love of Tia Filomena -- and may we soon be enabled to travel to the Philippines to help facilitate it. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, November 8, 2005
OUR GOD AND TEACHER, use Dr. Bill Bray's skills as an editor and writer to exhort, prophecy and teach your people through many books, and particularly through the new Hopegivers Website whose writing is complete today -- and then bless those who publish his books, particularly the Silas Partners group as they do design and technical support day after day. Lord, may this website lead to the salvation of millions of souls and the rescue of millions of Children in India and Africa through the millions of Hopegivers who will visit there in years to come. Speed it's completion in time for Christmas giving this year. AMEN and AMEN and AMEN, Hallelujah!

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, November 7, 2005
KING OF ISRAEL, thank you for the assurance that we are blessed with health and healing, especially for Kati Bray and Becki Bray, but for all of us. May we take care of ourselves, eating right and losing excess pounds as well as keeping fit with daily excercise. Give us wisdom and guidance to avoid dangers both known and unknown. Bless those traveling for Christ as they face special temptations, challenges, diseases and health risks. AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Sunday, November 6, 2005
SON OF GOD, we thank you for our happy families. Give peaceful and harmonious marriages to all of us, both those married and those single who feel they are being called to marriage. Particularly bless Tom and Becki who have asked for healing prayer for their marraige and family. We also pray for those Christians who are unequally yoked or in difficult marriages that they might have the power to persevere and minister successfully to their spouses. Thank you for the promise of strife-free family relations in the Bray Family clan and send harmony to wherever there is discord or disobedience to your word. AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday, November 5, 2005
ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER, give a creative burst of divine imagination to Bill, Rob and John Lindner this week as they concentrate on the New Year winter's edition of Hopegivers Journal and also inspire all our other creative advisors and vendors as they plan by faith for the 2006 communications and growth program including budget-making. AMEN and AMEN!

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, November 4, 2005
LORD JESUS CHRIST, bless our supporters as the November newsletters are arriving in their homes daily now. May they take time to sit down and read over the requests and respond with open hearts and minds to the needs presented for this year and into 2006. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, November 3, 2005
THE WAY, please bring a Boaz or two into the Bray Family Support Team and Development Ministry Support Team who will underwrite our big needs both personal and in the development program. Lord, you know how important it is that we be as free as possible from the pressures of support-raising so that we can focus on the ministry which we are called to accomplish. In Jesus' Name we pray, AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, November 1, 2005
LIGHT OF THE WORLD, use the Bray Family Call to Prayer and the Hopegivers newsletters this month in order to help raise up the funding needed for the Tsunami Media Mission Team. AMEN

(Note: $16,000 of the $52,500 needed has already been received!)