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.

Please pray for the pre-Christmas evangelistic programmes today, 24 December, in Varazdin. Pray that it will be an encouraging time, as we remember the birth of Jesus.

Give thanks to God for a good time away with my parents, and for the spiritual refreshment of ECM Spain prayer days. Please pray for continued focus and discipline with language learning, and for wisdom to know what opportunities to say yes to, and where to invest my time in the coming months.

Praise the Lord for His faithfulness, meekness, and patience in our lives. Please pray for unity, protection, and clear direction for our family and ministry. Ask God to meet every spiritual, financial, and practical need as we move forward. Pray for growth, maturity, and lasting spiritual fruit in the church and in Maribor—that many would come to know Jesus and grow in faith.

Today, 21 December, we will have a children's Nativity Play during our normal church service for the kids in the church, friends and family. Pray that many will come along to these special times and will understand the true meaning of Christmas.

We are praising God for the study opportunity for Yaella, our daughter. She is doing a professional training in cooking; it is hard working but she likes it. Keep praying for her as she struggles sometimes with fatigue. God brings men on our path. Please pray that they will grow spiritually and emotionally and that they enjoy learning how to be a man after God’s heart, a godly husband and father.

From today, 19-20 December, Pinuccia has organised a two-day course for couples, with some speakers coming from Switzerland. The participants will mainly be from the church at Rovereto, with some from the Trento church and some from elsewhere in northern Italy. Pray for Pinuccia as she prepares all that is necessary, and that the participants will grow in their relationships with their spouses.

Please pray that the Christmas period could be evangelistically effective. As I engage with non-Christian students and as my local church seeks to reach out with a Christmas event which is 21 December, please pray the people will be putting their trust in Christ and finding true hope during the Christmas season.

Today ECM Ireland Office Staff are having a thanksgiving and planning day. Pray for direction as we seek God regarding plans for 2026.

Please pray for the pre-Christmas evangelistic programmes in Novi Marof and Sesvete, 19-20 December. We will also be handing out shoe boxes to children and their families from a non-church background. We are regularly meeting our neighbours and friends and trying always to evangelise. Please pray for openings and conviction of sin. Pray they sense their need of Jesus.

For the last two weeks of December, we are planning to have an open-air evangelism to explain to people what the real Christmas is. Very few people know what Christmas is and that is what Catholics do. Muslims do not know and do not want to know more about Christmas. This will be a good opportunity for us to invite them to our Christmas Service. We will distribute shoe boxes to children around our church for Christmas. Pray with us for these activities.

Today, Sunday 14 December, we’re celebrating our Christmas service and sharing our first Christmas dinner with an evangelistic message and children’s activities. Pray that everything comes together, that many invite loved ones, and that hearts are opened to begin a relationship with Jesus.

Today, 13 December, we are going to celebrate the birth of Jesus with our neighbourhood during a Christmas market. We will take the opportunity to tell people about the real reason we celebrate Christmas. Pray for people to help, come and get to know Jesus.

As a church we look forward to celebrating the birth of Christ and having some outreach events from our new building. The Ladies will be having a Christmas coffee and get together tomorrow, 13 December. We will have a Carol Service on 14 December at 7.00pm to invite people from the town and neighbouring houses.

The international student church has the Christmas service on 14 December here. Please join with us in praying for the students organising it, and that their friends would come and discover new life in Christ.

Pray for Rachel as she helps coordinate the MumCo Christmas event at Kypseli church. Please pray that many neighbourhood mums attend and experience the love of the Lord this Christmas.

You can pray for our Christmas service and outreach event, which is Sunday, 14 December, for a joyful time, not too stressful preparation, for people to hear the good news of Jesus.

Please continue to pray God's Spirit would speak to our friends F and W and their two teenagers. That they would enter the narrow gate and take the road that leads to life.

Pray for good health as a family as we head into winter and that we would know the presence of Christ in the midst of the dark season. Please pray for housing in Tübingen; we have been discouraged and we are very tired of looking at places only to be turned down. Praise God that the BERG church in Tubingen is growing. Pray for a long-term venue where we can meet for worship.

Please pray for the Doctrine 1 students as they finish their final papers by mid-December. Praise God for the opportunities students have told us about where they have already been able to turn around and train others in their churches with what they have studied this trimester. Please also pray as Dan prepares for Doctrine 2 to begin in mid-January, that the students who will register will find it edifying for their faith.