We're grateful for God's blessings on our summer activities among refugees in Karlsruhe. We organized Volleyball, Cricket, and special events sharing the Gospel message. Instead of vacations, we invested our summer in supporting and helping migrants. Please pray for our refugee contacts living in fear of deportation. This year has seen unprecedented deportations. Amidst struggles, may they find Christ as their living hope.

David preached in September. The title was Faith, Hope and Love – They Are for Life, Not Just for Weddings. The sermon was well received with lots of positive feedback. Praise the Lord that Maria, who was only in church for the second time, gave her life to the Lord!

Please pray for the ECMI Board as they meet online on 13 November. Please pray for the Trustees to have wisdom, clear discernment and to develop trust and relationship one with the other, despite the challenge of being geographically spread. There is a need for new trustees, as some trustees approach the end of their term of office. Please pray for the recruitment working group, for discernment and that the right people will come forward with a strong Christian faith, commitment to Christian mission and the motivation, skills, and experience to serve in the governance role.

Please Pray for M, one of Andy’s Catalan classmates, who is joining our house group this week after her dramatic conversion.

Thank you so much for praying for the Kick bike Race held in October. My team raised over 2,700 euros for the printing of the Jesus Messiah picture book in three Saami languages! Praise God for this; it is a large part of the money needed to print this book, which will hopefully bring Jesus closer to people's hearts.

We praise the Lord for the modest Celebration of the 25 Anniversary of our church. We invited especially those who for one reason or another are not coming to church meetings. We visited them during the whole month of October. For November we are planning and praying for Evangelism events in the centre of town with literature and Bibles. We will invite people for the Services during the month of December as we prepare for Christmas. Thank you for praying with us against opposition from so many Muslims around us.

Thank God for N, a grandmother whom we got to know on the playground. She wants to help us with the street work! Please pray for her daughter (the mother of three small children), who has a cancer.

Today, 8 November, ECM Britain Trustees and management team are meeting for an away day. Please pray that the Lord would lead them in all of the discussions, strategy planning and decision making, as well as encouraging them through the fellowship of being physically together.

Please keep praying for more workers to be sent to our rich harvest field in order for an ECM team to be established here. Also, I would like to meet rich Christians who are creative and missional and who‘d be willing to think outside the box for the sake of the Kingdom of God.

Praise God for a successful training seminar at an Evangelical Chinese church in Lisbon. We focused on discipleship and the critical role of Scripture. Pray also for the freshly started Doctrine 1 class at Spain's Evangelical Theological School. Eleven students have enrolled, and they are spending this month on the Doctrine of God. Pray they grow in their love for Him as they study His Word. And thank God with us for continued good health for the whole family.

Since December 19, 2024, we have begun meeting in our new church hall. We are very thankful that the Lord provided this place after 18 months of renting space at the Meeting Centre. Praise God for His wonderful provision! There is still much work to be done—please pray that the people living in the nearby apartments will come and join our meetings. Many church members faithfully serve in different tasks, and I’m grateful to see them doing so with joy. The women of our church also gathered for a “Mums of Prayer” meeting which went well.

Please join us in prayer this month for two refugee families that have been attending the international church here in recent weeks. May they be strengthened by God as they navigate the legal process of applying for asylum, whatever the outcome.

I will be in Christchurch from today, 3-17 November, and hope to be sharing in churches about ECM on 9 and 16 November. Please pray for good connections and responses. We will then travel to Nelson on 18 November, where I will be based until mid-January. I hope to share in churches on the remaining Sundays in November and early December, so please pray for the opportunities to do so.

Please pray for our MCE members in Madrid. It is a growing group and we would like to be able to look after each other and be an encouragement to each other’s ministries. Please pray for Edgar in his role as an elder in our local church in the northwest of Madrid. The church has grown in the last few months putting the team to work hard and find the best way to provide care and encouragement in a growing community. Pray for our son Gabriel. He graduated last Summer and has been looking for his first job as a professional. Pray the Lord will lead him to the best option to grow as a person and as a professional.

Our number 1 prayer request at the moment is that the Lord would provide us a place in Tübingen. It is extremely hard to find anything. However, we know that the Lord often provides in the 11th hour.

We give thanks as we celebrated our 9th Birthday with Calvary Church Claremorris. We are nearing our final stages with the building and hope to sign off soon with the legal phase. Pray as we get to know some new people who have come along to church. For the ladies as Nicola meets up with many of them from week to week.

Mid last month there was an after-church picnic for the sister churches at Rovereto and Trento. It has been a long time since we have done something together and it had to be postponed twice in the past year due to bad weather or other commitments. Give thanks for the wonderful time of fellowship together, catching up with old friends and meeting new ones, and pray that we will be able to repeat it in Spring.

Please pray for the home office staff working for the ECM Britain section as they have a team day together today 29 October. As the majority work park-time and/or remotely, we are trying to have a day together every quarter to get to know each other better, to build on the unity of the team, and support each other in prayer. Please pray particularly for Astrid with her ongoing cancer treatment.

This month we are running workshops to help enable our church members to tell their story with Jesus to non-Christians in a relevant and authentic way. Please pray for us to run these workshops well and that what people learn might bear gospel fruit.

Pray for us in the Varaždin, Novi Marof and Sesvete churches, that we minister well (preaching, leading worship and encouraging everybody), that new people come and become Christians. Pray also for our neighbours, especially 4 couples who we visit and witness to, that they open their hearts to Jesus.

We give thanks for our Mental Health Seminar in September with church. The title was Finding Peace Amidst Anxiety. It involved a psychiatrist and psychologist from church as well as Colin as pastor. Pray that those who attended might know real help for their anxiety and real hope in peace of Jesus, including those who may be searching spiritually. Pray for wisdom for other topics.

We are praising the Lord for the restart of week meetings at the church. Children and youth ministry on Fridays will continue regularly. Pray for less pressure against children and teenagers because of their coming to the meetings. A special prayer is needed for the teenagers to come to Sunday Services. Peer pressure and hindrances from the families are quite strong. Pray for young adults to continue going to churches wherever they go out of Kosovo, as they leave the country for "a better life".

We are starting a new season at Shalom House with a new member. We are thankful for the past year’s spiritual growth and answered prayers. Please pray for boldness and stepping out in ministries, leading and sharing God’s story with our friends.

From today, 23-26 October, it’s the Spanish Field Prayer Days. Please pray for this large field (about 60 missionaries plus children), held in Valencia. May we leave having encountered Jesus in a very real way.

Please pray for the health of my body and the strengthening of my emotions in Christ.