Prayer Goals - Our Friends need bridges Jesus

Our Goal is to pray for the Lost to come to know the Lord. Here’s a great example of how to do this effectively - Dr. Newman

During their final year of schooling, Ralph Davis, home director of the Africa Inland Mission (AIM), spoke at the annual missionary conference. Both Peter and Edythe separately searched their hearts and decided independently to apply to the Africa Inland Mission. Both were accepted. They planned to sail soon after marriage in 1939, but World War II broke out and their journey was postponed for six months.

During their first years in Africa, Peter and Edythe moved five times. Finally they were assigned to the work at Adi, and they expressed to their field director the hope that they would not be moved again. Their field director told them that they could stay in Adi if they mastered the local language. Fortunately, Peter had an unusual ability with languages, and he learned to speak fluently in five languages.

In spite of the field director’s promise to leave the Brashlers in Adi, only two years later they were asked to move to Blukwa and take charge of a Bible school. That ministry was theirs for the next 12 years. While teaching Systematic Theology, Peter Brashler found that much of the African folklore, passed on from one generation to the next, closely resembled ancient historical accounts in the Bible. He encouraged his students to use them as a bridge in explaining the gospel in the context of the various African cultures.

Pray for today’s missionaries to learn how to use the local cultures as bridges to the gospel message.