National Anthems

Would you like a new prayer tool to strengthen your prayers for the people and/or country which tugs your heart? Then you need to visit AnthemWorld.com,* which includes a special link for National Anthems from Countries in Africa,**  and download the country's or your people's national anthem to your computer and listen to it again and again!

How about a special prayer reminder on your phone?  The national anthem of many countries can also be saved to your phone for use as a RINGTONE.  For this special prayer reminder, simply do an 'internet/web search' of Free Ringtones .... national anthem, replacing the dots with the name of the country that God has placed on your heart!  

* http://www.anthemworld.com/ 
** http://www.anthemworld.com/C_Africa.htm

Africa Time Zone Map

View of a missionary's desk - the top clock is
set for the time zone where her kids live, the
the bottom, the correct time where she serves!

Have you ever read a missionary's prayer item with a specific day/time and questioned when you should be praying in your part of the world? Have you wanted to pray in a 'timely' way for volunteers serving in another part of the world? Then you need a World Time Zone Map.*  You can also easily link to time zone maps for continents, including the Africa Time Zone Map.**
* http://www.worldtimezone.com/
** http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-africa12.php.

Mission Whiteboard

Would you like to join others in learning and sharing best practices for missions? Mission Whiteboard,* a collaborative space for joining or beginning a discussion with others with a heart for doing missions, is for you. Mission Whiteboard is a great place for sharing and viewing pertinent resources, finding opportunities to act, and discovering equipping events!

* http://www.missionwhiteboard.com

News Offering Nudges to Prayer for Africa

“WHY HAVE WE HEARD NOTHING IN THE AMERICAN NEWS ABOUT THIS????”  

This question is often asked by missionaries as heartbreaking incidents occur in their countries, among their peoples, and the news does not become widely known.  The following links are a few which can be used to learn the news from Sub-Saharan Africa of the country that has touched your heart, the peoples which God has led to your prayer list. 

BBC News Africa: http://www.bbc.com/news/world/africa/  COUNTRY PROFILES found at the bottom of this site shares added information (Overview, Facts, Leaders, Media, Timeline) which shares added nudges to prayer for a country.  

allAfrica: http://allafrica.com/  Clicking the COUNTRIES tab, followed by clicking the CENTRAL, EAST, NORTH, SOUTHERN and WEST AFRICA tabs leads to current news for countries.

The New York Times – Africa: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/africa/

CNN AFRICA: http://edition.cnn.com/AFRICA/

World-Newspapers.com: http://www.world-newspapers.com/africa.html News from African newspapers is shared by country.

REUTERS AFRICA: http://af.reuters.com/

AFRICA.COM: http://www.africa.com/news/ Latest headlines is shared by country.

Stories, Lots of Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa

WARNING:  Some stories shared by  Sub-Saharan African People/ IMB connecting  may leave you praising God.  Your response to other stories may be crying out to Him with a broken heart.

ADDED WARNING: The stories shared will likely nudge you to action for the peoples of Sub-Saharan African, nudge you to prayer and possibly even to coming as volunteers or as a career missionary as you learn how the Gospel is being spread among unreached peoples and how this affects their hearts and their lives! Stories found at  http://subsaharanafricanpeoples.imb.org/stories.