September 1, 2026
The Water Keeps Rising
From inflatable pools in Iranian living rooms to a Texas lake, believers on three continents stepped into the water this season. A report on baptisms, new beds at the children's home, and a church that will not stop multiplying.
Baptized, wherever there is water
This season the reports came in from every direction, and they kept saying the same thing: people are stepping into the water. In Iran, where no public building can mark the moment, new believers are baptized in homes — often in nothing more than an inflatable pool set up for the occasion. In Syria, our team finished building a baptism pool at their renovated ministry center this year, and new believers are already using it. And in North Texas, a man from the Academy was baptized in a lake — the prisons-to-nations pipeline writing its newest chapter in the free world.
Room for 73 more
At Freedom Life Children's Home in North India, 77 children are home — safe, fed, schooled, and loved by staff families who raise them as their own. And the next chapter is coming: a new home with 73 beds available, ready to welcome children still living on the platforms of the railway station. Pray for the beds to fill.
Across the border, the church grows anyway
Among Afghan refugees in Pakistan, believers are trained in the Gospel alongside practical trade skills — embroidery, rug-making, education — and out of that foundation, house churches are being established. New believers were baptized this year, each one at real personal cost, and they are already discipling others in turn.
How to stand with them
Every baptism in this letter happened where following Jesus costs something. Pray for the newly baptized by joining the Prayer Movement, or put your hand to the work through the Mission Fund — every gift multiplies through a freed person who frees others.