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Prayer for Northern Portugal

December 2008

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Please pray for:

Missionaries, pastors and Christian workers in Northern Portugal.  Pray for courage, endurance and encouragement.   Portugal isn't an easy place to work - the evangelical church is small and the members not always very committed.  The Protestant reformation didn't reach Portugal, therefore Catholisism is very strong and traditional Catholics are often very suspicious of Protestants.  Having said that, the situation is changing gradually and the evangelical church is being recognised more and more, and is growing.

For the Penafiel church:

• For the challenges ahead - for the Porto church plant, for all the work needed on the newly aquired  premises, and for the church in Vila Real (which the Penafiel church is responsible for) which has been through difficult times.

For the Mondim church:  

• For strategy in making contacts and seeing local people converted in Cabeceiras de Basto.

• Vila Grande: for a deeper understanding in those who come, of the claims of the gospel on their lives, and for conversions.

• For growth and division of cell groups.

• For finding new premises for the church in Mondim as the present hall is reaching its full capacity for the Sunday meeting.

• For training up leaders and establishing a leadership team.

• For employment for church members.

• For the future of the language school.

• For opportunities with students to share about the Lord.

• For complete healing for Carol's ankle.

For the Ermesinde church:

• For the new people attending the meetings in Vizela.  That they will truly be converted and committed to the church.

• For the person coordinating the storing and sending of the items collected for Africa.

• For the money needed for the new church building project.

For the Famalicão church:

• For numerical growth of the church they are planting.

• That the new believers will grow in maturity and responsiblity as they are being discipled.

• For commitment of all the believers to the work of God.

• For an outpouring of the Spirit in Famalicão.

Church-planting situations - Vizela, Fafe, Celorico de Basto, Famalicão, are a few of the  towns where Christian workers are currently seeking to see churches planted.   

The towns and cities that still have no Evangelical witness.

Christian workers to help in the various church planting ministries and to reach out to the unevangelised towns and villages.  A few couples have left the area recently and the number of workers are small for the task.

A moving of the Holy Spirit to bring conviction of sin and a realization of the need to get right with God. Many are Catholic by tradition, pray to Mary and to saints, and have little understanding of what the Bible teaches about God.  Some of the younger people have rejected the Catholic church and are materialistic.