SERVING OTHERS IN EUROPE
Thanks to your help, we are able to carry out many projects accross Europe.
From helping refugees in Greece, to translating a NT commentary into Romanian, organising summer camps in Croatia... and much more!
See below our active projects. Small seeds can bring much fruit...
We are Comunidade da Graça Coimbra, a church plant launched in 2023 in Coimbra, Portugal. Boasting one of Europe’s oldest universities, Coimbra is home to a multicultural community that we want to reach with the gospel of Jesus. Last year, we rented a centrally located space near the university and football field. Since then, the church is growing in unexpected ways!
We invite you to join us in two key ways: through prayer—for boldness and gospel impact—and by considering a financial gift to cover essential needs such as Bibles, AV equipment, air conditioning, chairs, and Sunday school materials.
Helping Spanish students talk about Jesus (without putting their foot in it!). This project aims to raise the necessary funds to cover the translation, publication and distribution of a new book written for the church on how to talk about Jesus in a natural and engaging way.
Our hope is that by reading about new and simple, yet profound, ways of engaging with those who don’t yet know Christ, university students in Spain would be encouraged to step out and share the gospel with those around them. We need €4,000 to cover the costs. Would you consider partnering with us?
This camp is an incredible opportunity to share the gospel in Croatia. For many, this was a turning point in their lives and the moment when they met Christ and were baptized, or after the camp they started coming to youth gatherings or Sunday services.
Many young people or families with whom we are in contact do not have the financial means to pay for the camp, so every year we try bless these people by helping them to cover the costs. Please support us in the organization of Camp 2024!
Meco is a town of 14,000 people on the outskirts of Madrid, with no Evangelical church. Our team of 4 families has been praying about this, meeting together for worship and ministry, and now God has provided a meeting space that would be ideal as a ministry center, for worship meetings, for outreach like Alpha, and for a reference point in the town.
What we need is funding to help furnish certain dreams we have for ministry in this locale: a youth room, kitchenette, and a wheelchair accessible bathroom that we have to install to bring things up to legal code.
In Schwerin, Germany, many people struggle with financial or social/relational problems, like loneliness or the feeling that they have become useless. In this atheistic part of the world, our workers are starting a Community Centre to shine the light of Jesus in a very dark place.
“We see a place where God is glorified in a language that fits our context. We see a place that is a blessing for our neighbourhood and infects the people around us with a message of hope. € 220.000 is needed for the renovation. Will you join us in this?”
Our church began in Claremorris, Ireland, in 2016 and good progress has been made. For 7 years we have hired rooms in Claremorris Town Hall Theatre, located in the town centre. As our church has grown, we are beginning to outgrow the available space.
We are seeking a building in a central, visible location, large enough to accommodate future growth and facilitate the development of our ministry. Would you partner with us?
Novi Marof is a town of 13,000 people in northern Croatia. The Emanuel Baptist Church of Varaždin (16 km away) is planting a church there. They have already evangelised there and they have some converts.
The Varaždin church will be renting a hall at Novi Marof for services and evangelistic activities, and are looking for others who will want to contribute to this new church plant.
Currently there is a need to reach the masculine heart in Spain like never before, and we are seeing that God is beginning to wake leaders in the church up to this need. There are few resources for men in Castillian Spanish, and even fewer ministries and retreats for them. The vision is to reach men’s hearts in Spain through providing resources, training and retreats for men, using the materials and approach of Wild at Heart, contextualised for Spain.
ECM missionaries in Spain have opened the "Casa Camino Antiguo" (“Ancient Way”) Guesthouse in Las Encartaciones, Basque Country, Spain. A place to stay for pilgrims walking the Camino de Santiago and share the gospel with them, to offer activities for the local community and a meeting place for their local church, planted in 2019.
They are praying for €280,000 to purchase a property. Watch their video here.
Since the pandemic, educational institutions in Greece now have to offer remote learning, making all students and faculty totally reliant on internet access. The problem for the Greek Bible College in Pikermi, a respected and renowned Christian College, is that the infrastructure in place is very old and badly designed, and they need help to set up their network.
Would you join with us to raise the €5,450 still needed to connect students and faculty in this institution?
The church at Varazdin in Croatia is very active in evangelism and church planting. This summer, like every year, the church is planning on holding an evangelistic event in the town.
“Pokreni se” (“Let's Go!”) is a three day evangelistic campaign/festival that takes place in Varaždin with a package of evangelistic cultural events. Can you help the church in Varazdin carry out this ambitious and visionary event?
This project is an annual event in collaboration with a Christian ministry from Northern Ireland. Coaching for Christ provides us with professional football coaches who use their training to reach young people with the gospel through Christian football camps.
We are looking for €2,000 to be able to hold this project. Are you able to help us raise this?
One of the needs ECM workers in Romania identified was the need for theological and Bible study materials in Romanian language for pastors and seminary students. They have since worked to meet that need and so this 10-year project was born, to make the whole 20 volume NT commentary series available in Romanian.
This worthy project now needs €4300 ($5000 USD) to expand capacity by engaging an extra translator and desktop publisher designer. Let's help this excellent initiative advance to completion.
The Baptist church of Dugo Selo, Croatia, is the first evangelical church in the city of 25,000 inhabitants. It was planted in 2014. Even though it is small, this church has a great influence in the community, we are doing evangelistic activities in the region, and the city is soon accepting us.
We need your help to pay the rent for the next 3 years. In the first year we need €200/month, the second year €130/month and then €70/month for the third year.
The Patchwork Centre is an evangelistic community center with café, workshop, second hand, music, etc, located in one of the most atheist regions in the world: East-Germany. One of our goals is to offer our ministry to interns who take their first steps in the missions field, and we are in need of additional funding for their housing situation.
We're praying for €500/month during one year, a total of €6000, to rent a 3-room apartment big enough to host up to 4 people.
Two ECM missionaries, together with a Brazilian pastor, have written a book to encourage a new generation of church leaders to work together with their brethren across denominational barriers.
The book is already available in Portuguese, and the desire is to translate and edit the book into English. This will cost about €2,500, with the aim to publish the book in Spring 2023.
By giving to Accelerating Church Planting you can help ECM develop National Church Planting Platforms and accelerate the multiplication of new churches. The long-term impact will be a substantial increase in the number of disciples and Churches all across Europe.
The total we hope to raise through ECM is: €10,000 each year.
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