Please also remember missionaries from the middle east in your prayers
Charities
Jim and Christine Memory
Gloucester, UK and Cordoba, Spain
Jim is the Vision and Strategy Group Leader for the field ministries of ECMI in Europe and is a member of the International Leadership Team of ECM International. He is also Co-ordinator of a collaborative church planting project with the Fraternity of Evangelical Pastors in Córdoba, Spain and is the Course Leader and principal lecturer of the MA in European Mission and Intercultural Christianity at Redcliffe College, Gloucester. Christine is helping with the Administrative Support of ECMI.
Barry is director of the Carazo Christian Academy (CCA) - a Bilingual Christian School located in Nicaragua offering classes at the Preschool and Primary level. The goal of the school is to further the kingdom of God – with Bible classes, teacher prayer meetings and similar other activities.
The school is currently progressing well – the long term aim is for the school to become independent of Barry and Susana’s input, so they are pleased when things go well in their absence.
From Matt and Jude: “We’re here mainly because we’ve been inspired by God’s honour, the gospel and Japanese people we’ve met. There are many wonderful aspects to Japan but like all nations the Japanese suffer because they do not know and worship the King of all the world. We want to share “the boundless riches of Christ” the King who offers forgiveness, love and life in all its fullness.”
Matt and Jude have been in Japan since 2013. The plan: The first two years will be full-time language study and then we will have a period of training with a senior missionary or Japanese pastor before joining a church planting team somewhere in Northern Japan.
Lindsey Capper
Gijon, Spain
Lindsey is looking to share the gospel in Gijon, NW Spain. She is engaging in the community, joining courses and language groups to get to know people and make friends, getting stuck into a local church, and working with the believers in Gijon in an evangelistic Bible study.
Pray for Lindsey that she would have opportunities to share her faith, that she would form strong friendships and that she would get the support that she needs to continue growing in her faith.
Tudor Price
Southampton, UK
Tudor is spending the year as a UCCF Relay worker, working alongside students at Southampton University in sharing the gospel, with the aim to encourage students to want to live out the gospel and share it with their friends, as well as taking the opportunity to learn and grow himself. He'll be involved in Bible Studies, International Cafe's, lots of 1 on 1s to look at the Bible with individuals, together with prayer meetings, weekends away, team days and opportunities to speak at meetings of the Christian Unions.
Pray for Tudor that he would grow with God over this year, and rely on Him for everything he needs for the many upcoming activities, that God would prepare the hearts of both the students he will meet with and the Christian students looking to reach out to them, and that he might develop positive relationships with both groups.