Media Need in Portugal

My brother-in-law, Mark Pereira, is a national pastor in southern Portugal. He is doing a fantastic work for the Lord, and the ministry is growing both in number and spiritually!

I was talking to him the other day about the next steps they are praying about in getting the Gospel to more people, 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.

We will be trying to help him raise some funds to bring someone over, and also to purchase a quality video camera as well as some other equipment. If you would be interested in helping with this need, please contact me! The following is from pastor Mark:

I believe we should be willing to reach the lost in our area with any communication means that we can. We are very involved in door-to-door visitation, tract distribution and recently we started an evangelistic news letter that we have been distributing. We believe that we could reach many more people if we started a serious media ministry that also included the areas of audio, video and the internet.

We are praying for the capability to start recording our services in good quality audio and video. This way we can start burning CDs and DVDs to use as evangelistic tools and also for the edification of the believers. Recently, missionary Allen Newton (my father-in-law) has started a radio program that is broadcast in the area where he ministers. I know that at least another missionary in the north of Portugal is trying to get on the radio as well. These sermons and services can also be used for the radio programs that will be starting in Portugal. We would also like to have the ability to stream the videos on a good quality website.

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