Pray for the Middle East
Thirty days. Thirty unreached and frontier peoples. One Gospel.
Send Me the Prayer Guide
Why a Prayer Guide, and Why These Thirty Peoples
The Lord Jesus did not begin His charge concerning the harvest with a recruitment slogan. He began it with a prayer assignment. "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few; therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest" (New American Standard Bible, 1995, Matthew 9:37–38). The verb is an imperative. Beseech. Ask. Press the request before the Father.
This guide places the request in your hand and gives it specific names. For thirty days, you will pray for thirty distinct peoples across the Levant, the Gulf, Turkey, and Iran. Twenty-one of them are classified by Joshua Project as Frontier People Groups, which means fewer than one in a thousand among them confess Jesus Christ. Nine of them are Unreached People Groups, which means a small but real Christian witness exists and now needs to be supported, multiplied, and sent. Together they represent a substantial portion of the Arab, Turkic, and Iranian peoples who have not yet entered the new covenant.
Read the entry for each day before you pray it. Speak the names aloud where it helps you. Then ask the Lord of the harvest the question He commanded you to ask: send a worker into this field. Some of the workers He sends will be national believers we have not yet met. Some will be readers of this very page. Pray with the expectation that the Father is moving, and that prayer is the front line of every movement He has ever begun.
Pray. Give. Go.
Every great mission movement in the history of the Church has rested on three legs: Pray, Give, Go. This guide is a support for specific prayer.
Pray with Specificity
Instead of a generic prayer for "the Middle East," let's pray with specifics and expect specific answers. This 30-day guide identifies one people group, one country context, one set of needs, and one scripture anchor. Let's expect together to see our faith made sight!
Give Where You Pray
As you pray through the thirty days, ask the Lord what your part is. Each of us has a role and part in His Great Commission. Predictable funding builds the training that produces the workers we are asking the Father to send.
Go When He Sends
The Lord will send some readers of this guide to the very peoples named here. If the Holy Spirit stirs you toward the field, write to us. We host, train, and place workers alongside national leaders in Beirut and across the region.
The Levant
Lebanon · Syria · Jordan · Israel · the Palestinian Territories
Levantine Sunni Arab
Syria
Unreached People GroupAlawite
Syria and Lebanon
Frontier People GroupDruze
Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan
Frontier People GroupYazidi
Northern Iraq, Syria, and the Diaspora
Frontier People GroupLebanese Shia Arab
Lebanon
Unreached People GroupPalestinian Arab
Palestinian Territories and Israel
Unreached People GroupBedouin Arab
Jordan and the Negev
Unreached People GroupNawar (Dom)
Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan
Frontier People GroupThe Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia · United Arab Emirates · Kuwait · Qatar · Bahrain · Oman · Yemen
Najdi Arab
Central Saudi Arabia
Frontier People GroupHijazi Arab
Western Saudi Arabia
Frontier People GroupYemeni Arab
Yemen
Frontier People GroupSoqotri
Socotra Island, Yemen
Frontier People GroupMahra
Eastern Yemen and Oman
Frontier People GroupEmirati Arab
United Arab Emirates
Frontier People GroupKhaleeji Bedouin
Kuwait, Qatar, and the Gulf Interior
Frontier People GroupOmani Arab
Oman
Frontier People GroupBaluch
Oman, the UAE, and the Gulf Diaspora
Frontier People GroupTurkey
The land of the seven churches of Revelation, now home to one of the largest unreached populations on earth.
Anatolian Turk
Turkey
Unreached People GroupNorthern Kurd (Kurmanji)
Eastern Turkey
Unreached People GroupZaza
Eastern Turkey
Frontier People GroupLaz
Northeastern Turkey and Georgia
Frontier People GroupCrimean Tatar
Turkey and the Diaspora
Frontier People GroupPomak
Western Turkey and the Balkans
Frontier People GroupIran
The Persian heartland and the lands of the Medes, Elamites, Bakhtiari, Lur, Baluch, and Qashqai.
Persian
Iran
Unreached People GroupAzerbaijani Turk
Northwestern Iran
Frontier People GroupIranian Kurd
Western Iran
Unreached People GroupLur
Western Iran
Frontier People GroupBakhtiari
Southwestern Iran
Frontier People GroupIranian Baluch
Sistan and Baluchistan
Frontier People GroupQashqai
Southwestern Iran
Frontier People GroupNo man is greater than his prayer life.
Leonard Ravenhill Why Revival Tarries (1959)
Thank You for Standing in This Gap
Julie and I do not take your prayers for granted. The work that the Lord is doing across the Levant, the Gulf, Turkey, and Iran rests, in part, on praying believers in places we will not visit and may never see. The Apostle Paul wrote to the believers in Rome that he longed to come to them so that he might impart some spiritual gift to them, and then immediately corrected himself, "that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine" (New American Standard Bible, 1995, Romans 1:11–12). Your faith, working in prayer for these thirty peoples, encourages our faith here. We are grateful, and we are not finished.
Pray with the expectation that the Lord of the harvest will answer. He commanded us to ask. He intends to send.
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Population figures and people-group classifications are drawn from Joshua Project and reflect data current to the most recent quarterly publication. Mobilization framing references the Pray, Give, Go model articulated by AIMS (Accelerating International Mission Strategies). All scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible (1995), The Lockman Foundation, biblegateway.com.
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