Recently I was sitting in a Missions Conference and I was hearing another missionary present his field. As I sat there, my mind started to think about how to present the need of Portugal and our ministry there. I began thinking of things I could say that would make my presentation more appealing than the […]
A Sad Number
In conversation today with a friend of ours that is preparing to go to Portugal as a missionary (Praise the Lord for that!). I was made aware of the number of people that die every day in Portugal without Christ. Today about 330 people will die in the country of Portugal. Of these, 327 will […]
November ’13 Prayer Letter – Thanksgiving Edition
“So… how is the support coming along? Do you have any new supporting churches?” This seems to be the question of the hour every time we talk with pastors, missionaries and believers in Portugal. The truth is, we have been in the U.S. for three months now and we have three more supporting churches than […]
[Book Review] The Rights of Missionaries
Recently I read the little book “Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the “rights” of missionaries”, by Mabel Williamson. This book is written from the perspective of the China Inland Mission, so many things are illustrated with their own methods of conducting missions work. Nevertheless, it was a very good read and […]
Exciting News From Portugal!
Lord willing, later this week we will be sending out our November Prayer Letter. But I want to share, in a short post, some of the things that have been going on in Portugal. Our teens are excited about inviting their friends to church. Our teen group on Friday nights had gone from 8 […]