With the coming summer, our ministry will welcome many visiting teams as we share about human trafficking and our anti sex-trafficking work. Together, we visit areas of prostitution to pray for those working there. Join us in praising God for those willing to learn more and pray with us rather than turn away from suffering. Pray for wisdom as we try to present the reality of prostitution truthfully while protecting people’s dignity and avoiding sensationalising their stories.

Please join us in praising God for our son's (Shaun) successful operation for oesophageal cancer. He continues to make progress in his recovery, but it is often two steps forward and then one step backwards. It will be a long recovery journey for him, but we are hoping he will be discharged from hospital in early June. We are very grateful for the wonderful care he is receiving from the medical staff.

We look forward to some holiday time in the first and second week of June. It has been good to see some new people and families come along to church and kids club recently and we pray for more of the church members to help out and take on some more of the duties within the church. Pray too for a man, Tony, who has been diagnosed with leukaemia and is getting treatment in Galway hospital.

Please pray for the ministry partnership development that we have recently started. We are hosting a second information night to present our missionary project. It will take place today, 9 June, at 7:30pm in the T3 Conference Centre, Lisburn. This will be a presentation event with a music band, and we’ll have guests speaking from ECM, Exodus España, and the Batec church plant. We will share our vision and the project details with everybody!

Please could you pray for us to sell our land in Portugal; it would be such a weight off our minds.

Pray for the Church Conference which starts today, 7 June, at Camp Timok, for great encouragement for the believers in the south of Serbia by renewing fellowship together. Conference theme: The mind focused on the Spirit leads to life and peace, but the mind focused on the flesh leads to death.

From today, 6-12 June, is another Spiritual Transformation Week in Spanish. Due to the lack of male caregivers, this week will be women only. Thank God for placing it on each person's heart to come for a week and give Him access to deep parts of their lives. May each one have times with the Lord that allow them to experience the truth of His word through all their senses and emotions. Pray that God would lead men into formation as caregivers and for church leaders (often male) to continue their own healing journeys and to be emotionally and spiritually healthy leaders.

Ask the Lord if He would have you invite a team from Liberty University for short-term service. Many students are eager to discern, develop, and deploy God’s call to missions. Pray for Ron and Brenda as they provide guidance, build fruitful partnerships, and help connect students with opportunities that advance the gospel.

Our young architect friend R lost her job suddenly and you prayed. God provided a new job in Mallorca. Ongoing prayers for her complex work visa are appreciated. Last month a colleague of Jane’s confided she is reading a Christian book as they shared a room on school camp. Pray for fruit from that. Finally, give thanks for J, our home church youth worker, who raised money through the Kilt walk to enable 4 youngsters to attend SU camp this summer. Pray for God to work in the lives of these and many young people this summer.

The British Workers Retreat happens in the UK today from 3-5 June. Our title is 'Time to reflect and recharge'. Many of our missionaries will be attending, along with staff/trustees. Please pray that fellowship, worship, sessions and devotional talks (led by our own Pete Benest) will be an encouragement to all. Pray that God will speak to each one of the participants such that they will leave refreshed and recharged.

Please pray for Sofia. She is a Roman Catholic from Brazil who came to the GBU Coimbra international Bible study last week. Please pray for Sofia to understand the true gospel, and that I would have wisdom to lead the studies in a way that will encourage her to keep attending without endorsing her Catholicism.

Thank God for the relationships developed over the year through Spanish classes and other activities. Praise God for those who have accepted a Bible and pray that they will come to know Him as he reveals Himself through scripture. Pray for the sustaining and building of relationships during summer and while we are away. Please keep praying with us for Rincón de Luz, a space we hope to open for migrants, for God’s provision of prayer partners and supporters.

Praise God that I arrived safely in Europe and was able to attend the ECM OZ/NZ retreat. Please pray for me as I settle back into life in Timisoara after 16 years and start a refresher course in Romanian. Please continue to pray for the paperwork to be gathered for the long-stay religious visa and for the application to go smoothly. This will be done in the UK.

Praise God with us for an excellent trimester at Spain's Evangelical School of Theology! The Doctrine 2 students did well, and the consistent feedback was that this was a fruitful time of drawing closer to God. Pray as Dan improves class materials and seeks an adjunct to help with the grading so he can give more time to engaging with the students. Pray also for Anna's language exchange with an incoming teammate.

Praising God for M who I (Andy) met 5 months ago who has become a Christian and who is getting baptized in May. Also praising God for the successful ‘launch’ of the new Vineyard Barcelona site in Sant Feliu de Llobregat.

Praise that around 80 Arabic and Persian speakers came to our Easter party, heard the Gospel and went home with a gospel of Luke in their language. Pray for two Iranian young men who were baptized on Easter morning and for growth in discipleship of young Persian believers. Many love Jesus but don’t know who He is. Also for the two weeks we’ll spend as a family serving Afghan people seeking asylum on Samos Island. That the four of us can be a blessing to the ministry and those attending the programs.

I'm thankful for a good time in the UK and Ireland in March-April. I had to practice driving on the left, which after one week started to go quite well, which is great. I had the chance to practice thoroughly, as I visited several ECM teams in both the UK and Ireland. It was really good to hear how and what the teams are doing, praise God.

Praise the Lord for all of those who prayed for our travel to Romania! We have safely arrived! Even though we had two different plane tickets cancelled due to the war in Iran we were able to make it to the ECM AUS/NZ conference in Italy. Pray as we begin to adjust to life in Romania; it is a lot of change for the whole family. Pray as we look for a good, reliable car for our family and are also needing to furnish our new place.

Give thanks for new small groups starting in our Madrid church. Pray for wisdom for the leaders as they navigate how to plan for the summer and God to speak and guide. Edgar works with BJ and R in an executive team leading ECM Spain. Pray for protection and wisdom as they support local teams across Spain with varying personal and mission work needs.

Pray for wisdom for Marc as he is looking after 5 local churches (Tours, Loches, Chinon, Langeais, and Saintes), training their councils and leading the congregations through challenging times. Pray too for safety on the road as he visits these churches. We are grateful for our 2 boys who are doing well. Pray for guidance for Jan-Willem, 23 years old, as he is starting his M.Th. in seminary and is considering ministry possibilities. Pray for guidance for Jack, 20 years old, as he has to decide where to do his master’s in history. Pray too for his witnessing to his classmates that it will be Christlike. Pray for Jody for good health and a good Christlike witness to her Chinese Buddhist friend.

Today, 23-24 May, we are taking our teenagers and young adults to another church for the weekend. Pray that they would make friends and it will be a great opportunity to grow their faith.

Please pray that our 13-year-old daughter, Annabelle, will attend the ECM Teens Camp in July, because she hears that other ECM teen friends are going to this Camp. Praise the Lord that now there are several new Bible Study groups for women. Please pray that men in the church will begin to want to be part of a small Bible Study group.

Please pray for clarity with future ministry opportunities, rest during busy season, contentment and joy in this season and visible impact on lifestyle changes.

Please join with us in praying that the refugees we meet in the area here would open their hearts to God.

Thank God for an encouraging collaboration with a small church plant in Moșnița Nouă, the village that we have recently moved to. Pray for relationships to grow between our family and members of this small but growing group.