Souls Saved, Outgrowing Building

Dear Pastors and Churches,

I want to start the letter off by praising the Lord. He has blessed over and abundantly what we could have even asked for. It’s a blessing that God would even allow us to have such a small part in what He is doing in Portugal. God has opened the door for us to meet and talk with multiple people, and to go through the Bible with some over salvation and other topics in the Word of God. We can see a hunger for the Lord and a desire to learn and know more from the Word of God.

At the beginning of the year, we set on our calendar a “Friend Sunday” for July 19. I told the church to start praying for God to work in a mighty way. We started praying and seeking God that He would fill our building and start to work on hearts. We put out 2,000 flyers around our area and invited friends and family and paid for some Facebook ads to run for a month. We also had a small competition that whoever brought the most visitors, won a Bible. I started to thank God weeks ahead of time for filling our church with people, so we prepared. We bought a large tent to put outside in anticipation of many guests, and set up more chairs and prepared food for after the service. God blessed more than we expected! God brought us many guests and visitors! We had 48 visitors, with a total of 84 in that service! WOW! We ran out of room! We moved the kids and the nursery outside under the tent and put up more chairs in the second room for people to sit. We had four people put down on the visitor card that they would like learn more about salvation, so we set up times to meet with them. As I am writing this, none of the meetings have taken place yet so please pray God opens their hearts to the Gospel.

At the beginning of July, after the morning service, I was able to lead a lady to the Lord and she was baptized a couple weeks later! Praise the Lord! It's been exciting to see what God is doing in the hearts of those around our area. Please pray for those I will be meeting with about salvation. I know they have soft hearts and that God has been working on them.

With how great it is that we have been filling our building, it has shown us the need of more space sooner rather than later. We have had three Sundays in a row of over 50 in the service and we can seat 55 at the max, making it very close and uncomfortable. We have looked at what we can do in our building to make more space, but there's not much. We are in constant prayer that God will give us a building. We have our prayers set on a building down the road from us. I've asked the owner if he would consider selling us the building. He said yes and that he would look at getting itappraised. It's a building I've shown on our Facebook before. It would need A LOT of work before we could even move into it and use it. My guess would be months to years, depending on the finances too. Will you make this a matter of great prayer? That God would give us that building or show us what He wants for us.

We are looking forward to September 7th–14th. We will have a group with Wings Bearing Precious Seed coming to help distribute John and Romans. We are excited about the opportunity to put those in people's mailboxes and show them Christ. Please be in prayer for the group that's coming and that God would use them to further the Gospel in Portugal. We need more labourers in His harvest. Pray God uses them to show many to Christ. Please pray for our church here that God continues to use them to fulfill the Great Commission by reaching, going, and sending others.