Week of Prayer for North American Missions
March 1-8, 2026
National Offering Goal: $80 Million
The North American Mission Board (NAMB) serves a diverse and complex region comprised of the United States, Canada and U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.Here, the North American Mission Board sees a mission field that needs the hope of the gospel. With your partnership, we’re committed to taking this hope to cities, small towns, and college campuses.
Each year, churches observe the Week of Prayer for North American Missions by praying for missionaries, their ministries, and their families. This year, the official dates are March 1–8, although your church can participate any time during the Easter season. Your prayers and gifts to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering® provide support for more than 3,000 missionary families serving across the United States and Canada. They depend on your prayers to open hearts and help them disciple new believers.
Resources for the Annie Armstrong Week of Prayer and Offering can be downloaded here. In addition to downloading these items, if your church needs additional prayer guides or envelopes, please contact the BRN Helpdesk at helpdesk@brnunited.org.
Thank you for praying and giving to what the Lord is doing through these missionaries in North America!
Week of Prayer for North American Missions
The Week of Prayer for North American Missions is annually observed by SBC churches to pray for missionaries, their ministries and their families. This year, the official date for the Week of Prayer is March 1-8. Your church can choose this date or another time during the Easter season to participate. To follow the daily prayer requests, use this page or download NAMB’s prayer guide.
Day One: Higher Education | West Lafayette, Indiana
According to Jordan Adams, Purdue University, home to 41,000 students, is “the perfect place to plant a church.” Jordan and his wife, Jessamy, helped start a new work at Purdue that not only baptized 81 new believers in its first year but is now sending students to help plant more new churches in other campus communities.
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Thousands of students to meet Jesus at Purdue
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God to send mature adults to the Adams’ church plant who can disciple new believers
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God to equip and send graduating students to other communities where they can help plant more new churches
Day Two: The Fix | Tappahannock, Virginia
In a previous life, Fred and Casey Weymouth were drug addicts living on the streets of Richmond, Virginia. But when they found Jesus, Fred says, “something got rearranged inside us.” Now, they’ve planted a church called The Fix that ministers to those in recovery, their families, and the local community.
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Individuals in The Fix’s recovery and discipleship program to grow in their walk with Christ
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More encounters on the streets of Richmond that lead to gospel conversations
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Opportunities for Fred and Casey to start similar ministries and church plants in other cities
Day Three: Where There’s a Will | Tappahannock, Virginia
Will Buchanan, who is now the pastor of Hillcrest Baptist Church in Hanover, Virginia, is one of Fred Weymouth’s favorite success stories. They met several years ago when Will was at his drug addicted worst. Fred, who leads a church plant and a residential recovery program called The Fix, took in Will. Now Will is not what he once was.
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God to thoroughly equip Will so he can lead his new church well
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The men and women at The Fix to discover God’s gospel purpose for their lives
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Fred and others at The Fix to build witnessing relationships with people who need healing and hope
Day Four: Frequently Asked Questions | Montreal, Quebec
Andrew Mark and Petra Adil got strange reactions when they went onto the streets of Montreal and shared Christ with people. That was to be expected in a place where less than 1% of the residents identify as evangelical. And yet God used those downtown gospel conversations to grow a new church in one of the most unchurched cities in North America.
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More fruit to come from Friday night on-the-street gospel conversations
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God to call and equip church planting interns out of Andrew Mark’s church who will help plant more new works
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More Christians to come and share Christ with the 99% of people in Quebec who are lost
Day Five: Raised from the Dead | Marrero, Louisiana
The timing was perfect. Ames Boulevard Baptist Church was just a couple of months away from closing its doors, and Troy and Chanel Gause had just planted a church that was looking for a place to meet. Troy and Chanel’s new congregation and Ames Boulevard’s remaining members replanted a new work—Cross Community Church. Now, it’s clear to everyone that God’s not done changing lives in Marrero, Louisiana.
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Humility and understanding as members of Cross Community Church face change
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The new believers Troy has baptized to grow in their faith
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Growth and a gospel witness that the surrounding community will see and be drawn to
Day Six: A God-Sized Story | Marrero, Louisiana
Leon and Javon Every hadn’t been to church in years. They were just the kind of people Troy Gause had in mind when he and the struggling congregation of what had once been Ames Boulevard Baptist Church replanted a brand new work in the Every’s neighborhood. Now, seven baptisms later, “the rest,” according to Javon Every, “is history.”
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Leon and Javon to grow close to the Lord and close to each other
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More of Leon and Javon’s family to hear the gospel and give their lives to Christ
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God to draw more unchurched families from the surrounding community to the new church
Day Seven: Dream Big | Rio Grandé, Puerto Rico
Rio Grandé, Puerto Rico, is home to over 46,000 people, so when Oscar and Wendy Ortiz started a church there, they knew just one new congregation wouldn’t be enough. Now, volunteer mission teams with Send Relief are helping their still-small church plant lay the groundwork for another new plant in another unreached community.
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Send Relief teams to connect Oscar and Wendy to more people who are open to hearing the gospel
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God to raise up leaders in the church plant who can help start and grow a new work in the community of Loiza
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Doors to open in other nearby communities that need a gospel presence
Day Eight: More than a Gift
Annie Armstrong featured missionaries know better than just about anyone else that the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering is more than a gift. Every one of these missionaries has stories to tell about the unexpected and miraculous things God does when you pray and give.
See How Annie Armstrong is More than a Gift
Pray For:
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North American missionaries to reach more lost people who need the hope and love of Christ
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North American missionaries to have the resources and encouragement they need to plant churches and meet needs
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God to call and equip more missionaries to make Jesus known in North America
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