Please join us in praying for the week of prayer in Wageningen, from today until 25 January. May many churches take part and may there be an openness to one another and a holy seeking of God together for society.

Please pray for the launch of an inter-church youth event today, 17 January, for Christian young people across Brittany from this denomination. For good speakers to be found, for youth to be encouraged to live out their faith in their everyday contexts where they won't have many Christian friends.

Both ECM Australia and ECM New Zealand have moved their finances to the ECM International office. At the same time as we began the move, the database that both offices used was decommissioned suddenly, so we have both had to transfer to a new database. Please pray for Peter Irvine as he learns each of our systems and processes (thankfully they were both very similar). Pray also for the rest of the ECM Australia and NZ teams as they adapt to a new database and the change in systems this has necessitated.

Praise the Lord for the constant stream of visitors we are getting at the church in Pozoblanco. Pray people would join our small groups where they can be discipled and together share their faith with others.

After more than five years, Ina was able to visit Marseille in May 2025 despite limited mobility. We had many touching moments, and the marketplace ministry in two locations remains vital for Ingrid. Back in Holland, Ina continues to share the Gospel through her daily travels by train and bus. Give thanks for many meaningful encounters. Pray for the spread and impact of the literature. Pray that those we know would come to a living faith in the Lord.

Thank God that after nearly 13 years we’ve been able to move from our old home into a new place just 15 minutes away. We’re grateful for the practical help of many people—we truly felt carried by their love and for the opportunities we’ve had to minister to individuals, groups, and churches and receive encouragement through it all.

Please pray for an evangelistic open small group that we're launching this month. Our hope for this small group is that it might be a place where Christians and non-Christians can become friends, experience deep, regular community and be changed by reading in God’s word. We pray that this format will be fruitful and that these groups can keep multiplying. Please pray for people to be open to join and for a blessed start.

The Mobilisation Leadership Team (MLT) meets at the beginning of each month. During our monthly meetings we discuss procedures, policies and actions that ensure we are all aligned well together and working together. Please pray for ongoing unity and collegiality.

We give thanks to the Lord for the past year, which has been a time of transition. We are truly grateful to have finally secured a home in Spain. Please continue to pray for our language and culture studies.

Thank God he is working in Schwerin-Lankow. Two more women want to get to know more about God and Jesus. Pray that they open their hearts for Him and see Him as their Saviour. Pray also that we can accompany them the way Jesus wants us to do.

Give thanks for the growth in our local English-speaking church. Families and particularly young people are coming on Sundays through word of mouth. Pray for Edgar as part of the leadership team for God to guide this year for what is ahead.

Please pray since here Christmas is today, 7 January, in the Julian Calendar. Christmas is a great opportunity to present the Gospel to the young people, with encouraging message of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thanks to Samaritan Purse for sending Christmas parcels for these children, first in the church in Zajecar and in local institutions working with children with disabilities. Will have a Christmas program with songs and the story of the birth of Christ. Also, will give parcels with Christmas program for children in the Roma church in Bor; these children come from Muslim families.

We give thanks for Christmas events in our new building and as we celebrate the start of a New Year with the church in Claremorris. Please pray as we seek to reach out into the community around us. Pray also for the ministries this year as we start back. Nicola would like to develop the Ladies ministry as we have built up with many Ladies, some from different countries.

At ECM Britain we are encouraged by the recruitment of some new workers in the past year and some strong interest in short term trips by 3 young people. Pray for more workers for the harvest field and for wisdom as we process applications.

Please pray for the protection. There is one woman who got very angry on us, and started telling other people bad things about us, which are not true. That is very difficult in the small town where everyone knows each other.

Please pray for the Christians who do not attend church anymore because of deceptions in church leaders and religious teachings. We see that this is a big issue in Sevilla. Pray that we are able to teach and show through our lives a healthy biblical way of living the gospel. Pray for the couples of the marriage counselling; some are so deceived. Pray for miracles, healing, encouragement as they are setting steps.

Pray for Colin who will take sabbatical from church and ECM ministry in January and February. He hopes to read, write, rest and rejoice. Pray for gracious restoration – 1 Peter 5:10 – that will bless Ally and the kids also.

For January, we are praying for provision for heating logs. There are some families in our church and community who are struggling during the cold months. We’ve decided to carry out this activity in January rather than at Christmas, so that it’s seen simply as a practical expression of care, not connected to holiday giving. Please keep this need in your prayer.

Pray for the final resolution of the residence visa renewals for Madalena, Beatriz, and Isabela, which

We have started something called the Greenhouse in our network. This is a vision that has been on Pyry’s heart for quite some time and now the first plans are laid and the work has begun. The goal is to create a community and a shared space where we can learn and grow together, so that teams are strengthened and multiply, so that new teams would be birthed. New teams mean new and mature disciples who are growing in leadership. This Greenhouse will continue until the end of next year, allowing for deep and lasting commitment. Please pray with us that all of this will come to pass.

Praise God for the blessed children and young people camps last summer at Kamp Timok. There were 8 different camps with 350 participants and two church conferences with 160 believers present. Pray for children who brought the Gospel to their homes, whose parents are not believers, that they will start going to local churches. Pray especially for Roma children whose parents are Muslims, for Roma churches in the towns of Bor and Prokuplje.

We have made the hard decision to move back to England for various reasons, but especially to be more involved with our grandchildren. Please pray for a quick and fair sale of our land – this would be an actual miracle!

We give thanks that Gabriel, our elder son, started a job in finance in the heart of Madrid in November. It gives opportunities for learning and mentoring and growing. Pray he will know God’s hand in his life as he moves through these months ahead.

We recently hosted a Women’s Christmas Wreath Workshop, which began with a personal testimony. It was a wonderful opportunity for women to come, enjoy creating together, and spend a few hours making decorations while sharing meaningful conversations and fellowship. Thank you for praying for everyone who attended — many of them do not yet know the Lord. We are grateful for the ways God worked and for the open hearts that heard the Gospel and experienced His love during our time together. This event was also a great opportunity to invite all these ladies to our special Advent Sunday worship services.

Give thanks with us for another year of God’s blessings in the Portuguese mission field. We have witnessed many miracles of His provision! Please pray with us this Christmas season that we may have many opportunities to share Jesus with the Portuguese people and for the continued growth of the church in Mora.