Tue, 22 Oct 2024
SLOVENIA: Sarah Deacon in Ljubljana
Thank God for a good summer with encouraging times on camp together. Please pray for a good
Mon, 21 Oct 2024
ITALY: ECM Italy Team
In September, the Italian cluster doubled in size! Pray for Silvio and Tatiana Bizzo from Brazil, now at
Sun, 20 Oct 2024
GERMANY: Christiaan and Kseniya Kooiman in Hagenow
We just moved to the town where we do not know anybody. Please pray for our children as they adapt to their new schools, that they would find friends and that we as adults will also find some friends.
Sat, 19 Oct 2024
SLOVENIA: Frank and Angelika Bosch in Umag
We are very thankful for several family meetings this summer and God’s protection on all trips. We
Fri, 18 Oct 2024
AUSTRALIA: Bea Wickham in Perth
Praise God for the new Mission Hub group that has formed in Perth, with around 10 individuals meeting together to discuss whether a future in missions is right for them.
Thu, 17 Oct 2024
October
PORTUGAL: Eberson and Madalena David in Mora
Wed, 16 Oct 2024
NETHERLANDS: Roland and Carolien Smith in Renkum
International Christian Fellowship Wageningen: Please join with us in prayer as we continue visiting people from the church and having them round for meals, that God's will and wisdom would be sought and known in each situation of need for care and support.
Tue, 15 Oct 2024
ROMANIA: Adi and Jennifer Grocott in Timisoara
Please pray for our ongoing integration with AMEC (Child Evangelism Fellowship) here in Romania. Please pray for our relationships within our local team and with local churches as we seek to encourage and equip local churches to reach out to children in their communities.
Mon, 14 Oct 2024
GERMANY: Martin and Anja Teubert in Ribnitz-Damgarten
Please pray for our entire family. We had some very exhausting months (emotionally) and are in the process to get new strength (especially Anja). A huge answer to prayer: one boy from Martin’s boy group made his first steps in faith and got baptised.
Sun, 13 Oct 2024
SPAIN: Edgar and Jane Álvarez in Madrid
Give thanks for God’s provision for increased health care support for Jane’s dad as we go into the winter. Pray too for our sons G in his final year of university here in Madrid and A our youngest in his second year in Exeter, UK. New families have arrived this autumn to join the Spanish team, and we celebrate our national prayer weekend at the end of October.
Sat, 12 Oct 2024
GERMANY: Patchwork Centre, Schwerin
Please pray for Sandra, Sven, Inna, Anna-Leonie and Theophil – the new leaders of Patchwork Centre. Anna-Leonie and Theophil are ECM missionaries, Inna comes from Ukraine, and Sandra and Sven are young believers. Please pray that God would give them lots of wisdom and energy and that they would be a strong team together. Please pray for one woman who really messed up lots of things in her life and also did a very bad thing to Patchwork Centre. May she find God and be able to fix some of the things she broke.
Fri, 11 Oct 2024
HUNGARY: Vincent Whiting in Budapest
Today 11-13 October, our international university student group will be having a retreat. Pray that students may deepen their relationships with one another, that the group’s culture may form and that they grow in both love and knowledge of God during the weekend away.
Thu, 10 Oct 2024
KOSOVO: Gani and Adile Smolica in Peja
We praise the Lord for the good restart of all meetings in September. Let's pray for more regular continuation of the Women's and Men's meetings and the children/youth ministries after school. Sometimes the parents prevent them from coming straight after school classes. In October, we are making the Church membership official with all those who are baptised believers. Pray for some of the church comers who are not baptised to understand why they have to wait for membership.
Wed, 09 Oct 2024
PORTUGAL: Shane McGloin in Coimbra
I arrived in Coimbra on the 2nd of September; please pray for a fruitful ministry in a new city. I am currently living in the apartment of other ECM missionaries but by the end of the year I will need a more permanent place. Please pray for the Lord to provide.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024
CROATIA: Stephen and Tabita Bell in Varazdin
Please pray for the 3 churches we work in – Varazdin, Novi Marof and Sesvete – for encouragement, God's presence and new Christians. Pray for a great visit from Stephen's brother David, and his wife Enid, from 4-9 October. Pray that God would mobilise missionaries from revival countries (Brazil) to Europe. Thank God for the Indian and Nepalese brethren coming for jobs who are helping us greatly in our churches.
Mon, 07 Oct 2024
October
USA: Dan and Anna Julian on Secondment, Serving in Spain and Latin America.
Sun, 06 Oct 2024
ITALY: Susanne Stoehr in Macherio
Please pray for my preachings and journeys due to furlough. From today, October 6 and also on October 13, I am in two different regions of Germany preaching with two paintings of mine. Continue to pray for Eleisa and her family in really challenging situations.
Sat, 05 Oct 2024
ITALY: Erwin and Almut Buschlen in Montichiari
From 3-6 October, as church in Desenzano we will have an exposition in the city centre near the lake. The topic will be “inner freedom “, with craft activities for the children and an interactive board for adults. Please pray for new coworkers in the church and all the changes we need to face in the next years.
Fri, 04 Oct 2024
NEW ZEALAND: Féy Cotter, National Director
This month I will be following up on a busy month of meetings in September, so please pray for ongoing conversations with a few interested people. I am also hoping to connect with church leaders in the Queenstown area following on from a Cotter family reunion in Arrowtown from today 4-6 October. Please also pray for a refreshing holiday from 26 October-3 November.
Thu, 03 Oct 2024
FRANCE: Jack and Sarah Winterburn in Tours
Today is the meeting between local pastors and missionaries. I’m hoping to run an inter-church safeguarding training (getting in an outside speaker from the CNEF) in the new year. Please pray that the churches ‘catch the vision’ and see the benefit of such a training. From 11-13 October we are visiting another church for their weekend away; it’s one of the churches we could move to serve in longer term from summer 2025. Please pray
Wed, 02 Oct 2024
ECM Ukraine Team
Please continue to pray for Ukraine and the ECM teams there. David and Linda James and Sharon Graves joined Roman Matviyiv to facilitate a team building and train-the-trainer course for the Baptist Union in August. Roman, David and Linda then introduced Flame International (a UK Mission to people traumatised by war) to the Baptist Union Chaplain Department. We are grateful that the Lord was with us as we met people with some tragic stories and significant injuries, and as we came much closer to the war ourselves.
Tue, 01 Oct 2024
FINLAND: K in Finland
This is the second day that all fieldworkers from Sweden and Finland have come together for our prayer days. Simon Marshall has been with us so please pray for the last couple of days that we would be an encouragement to each other.
Mon, 30 Sep 2024
ECMI: Biennial Planning Committee
Please pray for more helpers for the Biennial kids’ program. Pray also that everyone will have the finances they need to be able to come and enjoy the conference. Thank God that He is able to provide!
Sun, 29 Sep 2024
SPAIN: Edgar and Jane Álvarez in Madrid
This term sees 2 new missionaries arriving to Madrid, Spain from mixed culture families. Paperwork and legalities need finishing in both sending countries and Spain. One family have a 15 year-old who will be starting school mid term. Pray for a calmer year at school for Jane after 2 very challenging years back-to-back. Asier begins his second year in Exeter in October and Gabriel is into his final year of university here in Madrid. Pray he finds a placement for January as he searches.
Sat, 28 Sep 2024
NETHERLANDS: Roland and Carolien Smith in Renkum
Today, 29 September, we'll be speaking at Barnoldswick Gospel Mission in Lancashire, after camping in Wales. We thank God for this opportunity to thank people there for their generosity and prayerful support over the years.