Global Prayer Initiative

Let me introduce my friend Pe [Fay]. She is a Baka woman, mother of five, strong believer with a servant heart—and, on Easter Sunday, she was appointed as a deaconess in her local Baka congregation. For years, as a young married woman, Pe and her husband lived as close neighbors to the cross-cultural workers who were actively sharing the truth of the gospel with the Baka people of Cameroon. Over time, after hearing the Bible stores, Pe came to believe the truth and chose to follow Jesus. As her faith grew, her heart for others grew as well.

When sick Baka folks came for medical treatment, my nurse and I often called Pe to come pray for them. Her sincere concern was evident as she lifted them before God. When I began teaching women how to read in Baka, Pe was my star pupil. She was very excited when we learned to read simple Baka verses in class.

I remember a time when she came to me the day after class, ecstatically telling me that the Lord had brought the verse we studied to her mind as she counseled her sister whose had just been beaten by her husband.

Pe has a hard life by our standards. Her husband has battled addiction for years. She lives in a scrap wood shack with a dirt floor, cooking over a fire, often with little food for her children. When her husband is sober, he is a good husband and father, but there have been many times he has treated her horribly—both physically and emotionally. Pe has faced accusations of sorcery, dealt with the gang-raping of her disabled sister, and received pressure from her husband’s grandmother to abort her baby because she was pregnant too soon after a previous birth. 

Now… Pe has been appointed as a servant leader.

She has been faithful to pray for the sick, visit new mothers, clean the church each week, and work diligently at the training center. She is also the only woman on the translation team. This official role recognizes what she is already doing. 

In Baka society, there are certain tasks that are gender-specific, and now the Baka church at Mayos has a woman designated to serve the women of the community. Church planters have long-term prayers for national leaders who are true servants and growing believers. Without national leaders, new churches will not thrive or reproduce. Pe is an answer to those prayers. 

Please pray for Pe: for physical and spiritual protection, for stamina in a rocky marriage, for wisdom in raising her five children to follow Jesus, and for continued humble dependence on God in her difficult daily life.