“Together for His Glory: Advancing Prayer in 2026”

As we come to the close of another year of God’s extraordinary grace, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your faithful partnership in prayer and for your steadfast encouragement. I’d also like to update you on some recent highlights and invite you to consider sowing into the IPC vision. 

Your partnership truly strengthens us all to keep pursuing the vision God has entrusted to International Prayer Connect - to help raise up 1 billion people to walk with God in prayer!  It is our desire to exalt Jesus, catalyzing united prayer that will result in the transformation of peoples, cities, and nations.

2025 - A Year of Expansion and Connection

Because of your prayers and support, IPC has experienced one of our most fruitful years ever. We have seen a supernatural widening of the global prayer family and a deepening of unity across nations, denominations, and generations.

Here are a few highlights:

1. Building Global Prayer Infrastructure

• Established 24 regional prayer councils – led by leaders in those regions.
• Started raising up national prayer leaders in 150 nations, including new partnerships in China and North India.

2. Global United Prayer Initiatives

• Facilitated four Global Days of Prayer with more than 100 million people joining in united prayer.
• Focused prayer for Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, and Jewish People to have an authentic encounter with Jesus Christ by the power and presence of the Holy Spirit.

3. Expanding 24/7 Prayer

• Helped launch 55 new 24/7 Houses of Prayer in 10 nations.
• Completed five years of continuous 24/7 prayer in the Global Family Prayer Room - day and night, unbroken.
• Hosted key prayer gatherings in Indonesia, Thailand, South Africa, Finland and Kazakhstan.

4. Discipleship and Prayer Resources

• Launched a 365-day prayer plan on the YouVersion Bible App to help believers pray daily for workers in 110 global cities.
• Jason finished a Prayer Course called 7 Keys to Effective Prayer and published two books, Pray the Word and Foundation of the Foundations – Praying together for Israel

All of this is part of our mission to:

1. Pray: around the throne, around the clock, and around the globe
2. Inform: believers on strategic prayer needs
3. Equip: people to pray effectively
4. Connect: people to pray together across nations, denominations, and generations

This work is possible because people like you stand with us in prayer and generosity.

Two Testimonies of God’s Power

1. A Global Underground House Church Movement

For the past five years, we have prayed consistently with leaders from one of the largest underground church networks in the world. Since 2021, they have grown by 22% per year. Today, they represent 8.4 million house churches with 154 million followers of Jesus. This is the fruit of united prayer. God is moving behind the scenes in places where the Gospel is most costly - this year, 1,905 believers from this movement were martyred for their Gospel witness.

2. A Move of God Among Former Muslims

During this year’s Global Day of Prayer for the Muslim World, the Holy Spirit moved mightily in a region of the Middle East. At a gathering of tribal leaders and refugee families, one leader boldly proclaimed that Jesus Christ - the

Prince of Peace - is the only way to peace in the Middle East. After hours of questions and sharing the Gospel, 8,026 former Muslims became followers of Jesus.

They renounced Islam, committed their lives to Scripture, and today they are in house churches being discipled to reach their families and tribes for Christ.

One man named Abdul received the same dream four nights in a row: women and children carrying light through his village. On the fourth night, he waited outside—and saw them coming.

“We have come with a message from God,” they told him, opening a Bible he had never seen before. “Jesus the Messiah sent us to find someone named Abdul.”

Now, 18 households in his village follow Christ, and a new house church has been planted in a nation with few known believers.

A Call to Resource IPC's Vision for 2026

As we look toward 2026, the opportunities before us are extraordinary. Across the world, God is opening doors for united, strategic, Scripture-anchored prayer like never before. Nations are shaking, harvest fields are ripening, and the global Church is awakening a longing for deeper connection, collaboration, and breakthrough.

IPC stands at the heart of this movement - linking leaders, networks, and generations together so the Body of Christ can pray with clarity, unity, and Spirit-led authority.

Your year-end gift will enable us to:

• Strengthen and expand IPC’s global prayer infrastructure - supporting regional prayer councils, national leaders, and prayer networks in more than 150 nations.
• Mobilize united prayer at scale through Global Days of Prayer, digital campaigns, and strategic intercession for unreached peoples, cities, and nations.
• Equip the next generation with new training resources, prayer courses, and discipleship tools to help children, youth, and families grow as intercessors.
• Advance 24/7 prayer by assisting Houses of Prayer, prayer networks, and new initiatives seeking to establish ongoing worship and intercession.
• Increase our capacity to inform and connect the global Church through media, communication, translation, and timely prayer alerts.

Would You Prayerfully Consider Partnering with Us?

As we step into a new year of mission, we need friends who will partner with us financially so we can keep building IPC - one prayer meeting at a time - until the vision of 1 billion people walking with God in prayer becomes a reality.

Would you prayerfully invest in IPC with a generous end-of-year gift?

Your giving helps us continue expanding global prayer, upholding persecuted believers, and equipping the next generation.

HOW TO GIVE...

To sow in your end-of-year gift, please visit www.ipcprayer.org/donate or scan the QR code.

Alternatively, please mail a check payable to ‘International Prayer Connect’ - to The Treasurer, IPC, 313 E Wiser Lake Road, Lynden WA, 98264 USA.

Whether it is a one-time gift or becoming a monthly partner, your Kingdom investment makes an eternal difference.

The value of Regular Patronage…

We would hugely value more regular supporters at this time - regardless of whether it’s $5 or $5,000 a month - it would mean a lot to us.  If you can sow in this way, please use the PayPal regular donation option or contact us for our bank info.

You can give online at: www.ipcprayer.org/give

Thank You

As you plan your year-end giving, take a moment to remember stories like Abdul’s - moments when Jesus Himself breaks into a village, a family, or a heart through dreams, visions, and the faithful prayers of His people. These are the kinds of breakthroughs your partnership helps make possible as united prayer rises across the nations.

Thank you for standing with us, for holding the rope, and for helping prepare the way for countless others to encounter the living Christ. May your generosity this season strengthen the global prayer movement and help us bring the nations to the feet of Jesus through united, persistent prayer.

For the Supremacy of Jesus in all things,

Dr Jason Hubbard
International Prayer Connect (IPC)

(IPC’s Council Members)

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