October
2012
Dear Praying Friends,
A year and a half ago, when Pastor Mark Pereira asked
me to help him restart the Bible institute in the city of Albufeira, it was a
small beginning. We had two men who
consistently studied with us and we are thankful for their faithfulness. Last semester, we had four who began studying
at the institute and this year, we have seven adults who meet with us each week.
Pastor Pereira has also set up a live streaming video
feed on Ustream where others, who cannot be there in person, can tune in and
study with us. At any given time, we
have five or six students in other locations tuning in to our classes. If their schedules prohibit them from watching
the sessions live, they can watch them later as all of our classes are recorded
and saved. We have students from other
parts of Portugal studying with us as well as the African nation of Cape Verde
and hopefully soon, Brazil.
Pastor Pereira and I have a great burden to see faithful
men and women properly trained and able to minister to the almost 300 million
Portuguese speakers on our planet. Technology is a great tool that we are using
to try to evangelize the lost. Please
continue to pray for this growing and vital Bible institute ministry. It is our hope and prayer that in the coming
years, we will see hundreds trained and serving all over the Portuguese
speaking world and reaching people we could never hope to meet.
Thank you for making this possible!
Mark Hale
