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COMIX35 PRAYER BLOG
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With prayer requests from
COMIX35 President Nate Butler
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Please consider subscribing to this Prayer Blog or bookmarking this page so you can return to it and check for prayer updates. (Nate Butler also posts these COMIX35 prayer updates on TWITTER and Facebook.)
Please do write to us at
and let us know you are praying for these concerns and requests. It's a great encouragement -- Thank you!
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| For our Francophone Africa Comics Project... |
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The first issue of our new comic book for Francophone Africa is almost ready for publication. Our partners at PJA (Publications pour la Jeunesse Africaine) will be sending us a mock-up soon. This is an anthology magazine entirely written and drawn by Africans for Africans (just like the English-language comic for Africa that we helped produce in 2008).
Please pray for COMIX35, our partners at PJA, the comics writers and artists, and for the people who will be reached in French-speaking countries in Africa through this new comic book.
Thank you.
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| For our travels in Asia... |
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Lord willing, José Carlos will be joining me in Japan after I finish teaching at the School of Cartooning & Animation for Missions in Chiang Mai, Thailand. In addition to our meetings in the Tokyo area, we plan to attend Comiket, where over 30,000 small comics publishers display their manga materials to over 500,000 attendees at every show. Since 1999 COMIX35 has been encouraging Japanese Christians to see Comiket as a great mission field for comics evangelism.
Please pray for José Carlos and his wife Soraya as he prepares to make this important ministry trip with me.
Thank you.
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| For up-coming school in Thailand... |
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Soon I'll be teaching for a week at the School of Cartooning & Animation for Missions in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Please pray for me as I prepare my classes, for my health to hold up well during the long travels, for protection and peace-of-mind for my wife Susan while I'm gone, and for the students and staff at the school.
Thank you.
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| For our Mexico seminar... |
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Please pray for our upcoming seminar in Mexico City, from June 23rd to 26th. Pray for our teachers Nate Butler, José Carlos Gutiérrez, Iván Emilio Tapia and Rubén Curiel. Pray for our students and our hosts at Milamex and Prisma Magazine. Pray especially for the people who will be reached for Christ by the works from this seminar.
Thank you.
Por favor oren por nuestro próximo seminario en la Ciudad de México, que se llevará a cabo del 23 al 26 de Junio. Les pedimos que oren por nuestros maestros Nate Butler, José Carlos Gutiérrez, Iván Emilio Tapia y Rubén Curiel. Por nuestros asistentes, nuestros anfitriones de Milamex y la revista Prisma. Especialmente oren por las personas que serán alcanzadas para Cristo a través de los trabajos que aqui se produzcan.
Gracias.
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| For our Board, staff, volunteers, and families... |
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We have several prayer requests related to our Board members, staff, volunteers, and families:
• Melissa David, wife of volunteer John David who serves on our ministry's Audit Committee, has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Please pray for our sister Melissa's complete healing.
• Gerald Burch has resigned from our Board of Directors as of this month to take on an assignment as Interim Pastor of an English language church in Bangkok, Thailand. Please pray for our brother Gerald and his wife Brenda as they resume their work in Southeast Asia.
• My precious wife Susan is continuing with her chemotherapy treatments. Please pray for Susan's complete and miraculous healing.
• My own health issues of the past year were not solved by my surgery last August, and the doctors have been unable to locate the source of the pain and stop it. Please continue to pray for my healing as well.
Thank you.
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| For our work in Québec... |
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José Carlos and I were in Québec in April, along with Alain Auderset of Switzerland, a two-time winner of the International Prize for French-language Christian comics. We were there to inspire the production of Christian comics by and for the Quebecois people. We were able to make new contacts, renew earlier connections, generate interest and excitement, and discuss follow-up including a possible COMIX35 seminar next year.
As I've noted before, the comics-loving Quebecois have been labeled "the most unreached people group in North America," so please be praying for our efforts in Québec. Please pray, too, for those Quebecois brothers and sisters who are already laboring in this harvest field.
Thank you.
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| For our Inmate Tract Project... |
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Recently José Carlos and I attended the latest Operation Starting Line (part of Prison Fellowship) face-to-face meeting in the Washington DC area, where we gave away 2,000 copies of our new "Heart of Stone" tract to ministries in attendance. In addition to being an evangelistic tract for inmates, it also provides the details for our Christian Comics Tracts for Prison Inmates Project on the back.
We have also shipped 1,000+ copies to Bill Corum, the subject of the tract, for use in his ministry.
Please pray that this tract would touch the hearts of prison inmates and at-risk youth throughout the USA. Please pray, too, that it would help us to connect to more Christian prisoners who will be able to produce their own personal testimonies in this comics format.
Thank you.
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| For health & healing for José Carlos Gutiérrez & family... |
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Please pray for my health, and the health of my wife and 3-year-old son, because we have been afflicted with constant throat and lungs complications. Please ask that our Lord may re-establish our health so I can continue with upcoming ministry events.
Thank you.
Por favor oren por mi salud, la salud de mi esposa y de mi hijo de 3 años, porque hemos padecido reciente y constantemente de las vías respiratorias. Les pedimos que oren para que Nuestro Señor restablezca nuestra salud y que pueda continuar trabajando en los próximos proyectos y eventos del ministerio.
Gracias.
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| For our Francophone Africa Comics Project... |
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Last year we helped Christian comic creators in Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, and South Africa produce their own comic in English, and your prayers helped us through that challenge (see below).
Now we plan to publish a new issue in French for Francophone Africa in partnership with PJA (Publications pour la Jeunesse Africaine). This will also be an anthology magazine entirely written and drawn by Africans for Africans.
All the information was posted on our site today in both French and English.
Please pray for COMIX35, our partners at PJA, and for a great response from Christian comics creators in the French-speaking countries of Africa.
Thank you.
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| For the people of Quebec... |
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I continue to be moved by the statistics I have read about the Quebecois people of Canada. They have the lowest rate of church attendance in North America. They have the highest percentages for divorce, abortion, couples living together outside marriage, and out-of-wedlock births in Canada. They have Canada's highest suicide rate – reportedly one of the highest suicide rates in the entire industrialized world!
Outreach Canada, a church-planting and church-growth ministry, has labeled the Quebecois "the most unreached people group in North America."
As with other Francophone cultures, the Quebecois love comics (or bandes dessinées, as they call them). COMIX35 wants to inspire one or more French-language comics with a powerful "return to the Lord" message for the hurting, empty hearts of the Quebecois.
Please pray for these precious people and for COMIX35's plans to reach them. Thank you.
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| For our Mexico plans in 2010... |
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Please pray for the new P.I.C.S. Projects in Mexico, such as the "Today's Parables" series and Juvenile Prison tract, as well for the next seminar in June.
Thank you.
Oren por favor por los proyectos P.I.C.S. en Mexico, tales como la serie "Parabolas de Hoy" y el tratado para el Tutelar de menores, asi como el próximo curso en Junio.
Gracias.
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