Project Southwest Europe

Is God’s plan to use cross-cultural missionaries or nationals? The simple answer is… Yes!

My brother-in-law, Mark Pereira, is a national pastor in southern Portugal, and they have a real need for someone to come on a short-term missions trip to help them set up a more effective media ministry and train some of his church members to continue it.

This video will make you hold your breath. ‘Castellers’ in Spain are people who create incredibly tall human towers in a sea of… more humans.

Our parents took us to church every time the doors opened, and sent us to every youth activity. They made sure we went to good Christian colleges. But they forgot about our hearts.

My daughter is addicted to Dora the Explorer. I know that is a weird way to start a blog post, but I’m weird, so its allowed!

Well, my sweet wife has made me feel like a bum. I was sitting and thinking about what to write about her on Valentine’s Day when she walked up and handed me her computer, and said: “Here, can you put this on your blog please? I want people to know how much I love you”. [...]

It absolutely thrills me because God’s plan for reaching Barcelona is so much bigger than me. I know that He is planning on moving in big ways, and whenever He does He includes His people: not because they are just so special, but because our God is a gracious God who loves letting us in to see His power and glory at work.

I find it truly disturbing that so many of God’s people are not illiterate but they are aliterate. They have the ability to read, but lack the desire or habit of reading!

The following is an update from my brother in law, Mark Pereira who pastors Living Hope Baptist Church in Portugal. Please be in prayer for their ministry, and thank you to everyone who has been praying for Mark as he recently lost his father. I want to thank all the people that prayed for us [...]