Please pray as we return to the field mid-2025 that God will open the right doors for service and for the kids’ schooling.

We thank the Lord that in our hostel, Casa Camino Antiguo, in 2024 we have given hospitality and the love of Jesus to 170 Pilgrims of the Camino de Santiago. We thank the Lord for His provision: we already paid the rent for 2025 and the deposit for the purchase in November. Pray with us that we can give hospitality with the love of Jesus to more pilgrims in 2025.

Please join us in praying for God’s guidance as we search for a new Director for our Mobilisation Office. May He grant us wisdom and clarity to discern His will and lead us forward in each step of this important process.

Praise to the Lord for the privilege of serving Him as a member of the International Board of ECMI and pray for wisdom for the members of the Board as they serve the mission in this way.

Thank the Lord for 5 years of our family on the missionary field in Portugal which we completed on January 1, 2025. The Lord has helped us so far! Pray that our missionary motivation will always be renewed; for new evangelistic strategies for the new year that begins; for the salvation of lives in the Portuguese nation. Pray for our daughters Beatriz and Isabela in their music studies at the conservatory and for their musical ministry in the Kingdom of God.

Please pray for the team of five people that will be running a Missions booth at Festival One (Christian music festival) from today, 24-27 January. Pray for many good conversations with those that God is calling to Missions.

Please pray that I (Jared) would be able to find a good German language helper that will be able to take my German to another level.

Please pray as I prepare to head to Romania in April 2025, God willing. Pray for the various churches that I am approaching to see whether they would be willing to partner with me in the work God has called me to.

Pray that people we serve on a regular basis (e.g. through English classes) come and respond to the gospel. Also pray for 2 teenagers – Adam and Maya, (we met them at a school outreach) that they will move over fear and any other barriers (like parents not allowing them to come) and become the followers of Jesus and part of our church community.

ECM Ireland is running a 'Love Europe?' event on 3 evenings to raise the profile of ECM – from today, 20-22 and 25 January. Pray for good connections with Churches in the areas we are visiting.

From today, 19-26 January, at Acueducto: pray for this week's Spiritual Transformation Retreat, this time running in English; for physical and spiritual protection; for people to have healing encounters with Jesus from deep emotional wounds so that they may experience more of His freedom and abundant life; for energy, unity and discernment for us as a team and for the longer-term ramifications of this week in people's families and churches and workspaces. Praise God for his constant faithfulness.

Please pray that we find enough helpers who can speak the needed languages. Praise God that many people have already registered for the upcoming Biennial Conference! Please pray that everyone signs up soon so that the planning committee can prepare well and that everyone who wants to come will have the finances needed to come. Pray too that many give generously to the bursary fund to help people be able to come.

We have taken the decision to relocate our base of ministry to the USA. Pray for us in this regard as we go through the process of transitioning. While our plans are to leave after the Biennial, we will be having several gatherings with friends to say goodbye. One of these gatherings will be with a group of long-time ECM Córdoba friends and will be held in Añora, Córdoba today, 17-19 January.

Give thanks for the relationships Kypseli Church is building with diverse families through the weekly playgroup for Mums, Dads and Tots and the monthly 'MomCo' meet-ups. The MomCo is where non-church mums can come for good coffee and company (child-free!), discuss deeper topics related to their lives, and hear a brief biblical perspective. Please pray for Rachel's and the team's conversations to be 'seasoned with salt' and for open hearts.

Please remember our ECM workers in Lviv and Irpin in prayer; they have lived in a state of war for almost three years. The disrupted rhythm of life, with air alarms, power cuts and long periods of living in a heightened state of awareness during the attacks are something the rest of us cannot comprehend. Please pray for Simon Marshall and Doug Gotcher who will be visiting the team in mid-January.

Please pray for the different events and all the travelling taking place this month. Please pray for Giorgos’ discipleship group and for Luciana’s involvement in the youth group of our church.

We are thankful for the Shalom House journey into the second year while we had a few people passing by. We finally got a new member who is absolutely fascinated by Jesus, and Bible reading became a new habit. Please pray for God to bring more curious people about Jesus.

Please pray that God will move the hearts of those around me to be willing to partner with the work to share the Gospel in Europe (Poland). Please pray for my stress around my last assignments as I'm not good with essays and I'm finding it very difficult. I have two left and need the Lord’s power and wisdom to finish them.

We would value prayer as in the coming months we are going to be helping International Christian Fellowship, Wageningen, develop safeguarding further.

We are settling in and becoming more involved in ministry here. We are enjoying building relationships with our young people. Please pray especially for the highschoolers group, that they would want to know God more, and see their lives transformed by Him. We've covered a series of challenging subjects lately as we've worked through 2 Samuel. We would also love your prayers for what is needed to continue pursuing plans for developing a social enterprise here.

Praise the Lord for more opportunities to teach on Intercultural worship and equip others and for the courage of Iranian believers who are sharing their testimonies at the monthly Persian gathering. Please pray for Suzi to have more opportunities to disciple Persian women and for families who have been placed in temporary accommodation after receiving refugee status. This is often far from their community, church and school.

This month we are celebrating the 13th anniversary of our church plant. Continue to pray that we would go deeper in relationship with our Lord and one another. That we would grow in maturity and be a strong light in our local community. Pray for unity and protection that we would continue to go as one body gazing upon Christ’s beauty.

In January we will follow up and visit those who we meet in the Christmas rally. Praise the Lord that Adile is feeling a bit better healthwise. Thank you for your prayers.

Please pray for us as we host our annual brunch for around 30 neighbours today, 6 January. Praise the Lord for the great opportunities that we had during 2024 to share Christ's love with these friends including some witnessing a baptism in the local lake and conducting a wedding for one couple in our garden, with most of the other neighbours present. Please pray that the Lord would bring the fruit.

In January we will start to plan our events for the year. Since bureaucracy makes our life always more difficult and complicated, we pray for the right ways to deal with for all our events. We try to meet every two weeks in our home with people who live around our town, but it is still hard. Often there are problems that people can’t attend, and we pray that the enemy cannot win the battle.