The Alliance church in France is building a new vision for the future and has just started a grassroots movement among its churches to develop that vision. Please pray that God will provide clarity and bring the Alliance churches there closer together for His glory.
The ministry of THE ALLIANCE MANCHESTER (TAM) is growing with new workers joining from the Alliance World Fellowship family. This growth requires finding a new venue. Philip Margesson and Juan-Carlos Parodi will journey to Lima, Peru in April to report on the ministry in Manchester and promote TAM projects to current and potential partners. Please pray that God will protect them as they travel and continue to bless the ministry at TAM.
Amid a secular, agnostic society, the Christian and Missionary Alliance of Uruguay faced many challenges and obstacles before it truly came to life. This article tells our brothers’ and sisters’ story, from its first moments to its present, successful reality. We have only God to thank for the amazing things that were made possible through His church in Uruguay.
The Middle East is the cradle of Christianity but nowadays is dominated by the strong presence of other Abrahamic religions. Europe is the birthplace of the Western Church but nowadays is a secular post-Christian society. Proclaiming Christ in this region has been a great challenge but the Alliance churches there are sensitive to the opportunities that arise. Please pray for the requests sent by our representative from the EMERALD (Europe and Middle East) region.
Please pray for the critical situation that Venezuela continues to experience: hyperinflation, lack of security, food shortage (and even when one finds food it's very expensive), and political uncertainty. The picture is very complicated and critical.
Rev. Andy Chi is the new President of the Taiwan Alliance Church Union. He grew up in a Christian setting, but it wasn’t until later that he and his wife, Mary, decided to dedicate themselves entirely to God’s work. He wants to share a little bit of his story, his journey with our Lord and how he became President.
Rev. Edward Kwong and Rosa Chan are reaching out to the Chinese community around the Cambridge campus in Great Britain. Their work goes from teaching English, to classes about everyday matters, like marriage and parenting. Their ministry is blooming and far from over.
The Blockhouse Bay Community Church of the Alliance New Zealand has organized a Vision Trip to India from September 29th to October 13th, 2018 under the leadership of Rev. Andrew Marshall, National Director and Senior Pastor of the Alliance in New Zealand. The team will travel to Hyderabad-Mumbai-Delhi. Pray for God's outpouring of blessings for a fruitful ministry, financial abundance, unity, protection, and good health for the duration of the trip.
On March 27th, Rev. Roland Lumawag will meet with the leadership board of the Evangelical Church of North Vietnam for the final briefing of the missionary couple to Thailand, finalizing the budget, and signing of the memorandum of agreement. Please pray for God's covering and success of the meeting.
The Alliance in France had its Annual General Meeting on March 10th and it was a time of blessing and encouragement for all those involved. The Alliance in France has grown from four churches to 39 churches in 40 years, and three new Chinese churches are seeking to join in 2018. Please pray for wisdom and renewal of the national leadership in France as they seek to guide the church through continued growth.
A group of approximately 200 women travels around 300 km, about 185 miles, to pray in another city. Why? To prepare it to receive the missionary couple commissioned by the Evangelical Churches of Vietnam North and the forthcoming ministry.
The Evangelical Churches of Vietnam North (ECVN) will send its first missionary couple to plant churches among the Vietnamese-Thai people. The couple will be sent in April 2018 to the Nakhon Phanom province and will reach around 60,000 people in the 5 provinces along the area of the Mekong River.
The C&MA Jabal Amman church in Jordan has been working with these people since the 1990s and offers assistance to around 1000 families.
One of the founders of C&MA Angola has a Paul-like testimony of radical transformation, from killing to saving, leaving a legacy that our AWF President testifies to on his most recent visit.
AWF is pleased to announce that Daniel Fanderwud has been appointed as the new Alliance President of Argentina.
After 6 years of learning the culture, scouting out locations, preaching at local churches and planting seeds, the Daleva family celebrated their first public church service in Portugal this year.
This year FATELA received “University” status by the state of Florida and has begun its process of accreditation
Preaching Christ in the midst of red hot irons; that is what Héctor Peñafiel, an Ecuadorian evangelical pastor, master welder, husband and father of five children, and resident of Tione di Trento, a region of Trentino’Alto Adigio, does daily by his example.
The Executive Committee of AWF (ExCom) held its annual meeting in March in the city of São Paulo, with the Board of Directors of C. & M.A. (MEMBERS) and participated in the AWF Missions Consultation.
Boma, the central city of the National Church of the Alliance in Congo-Kinshasa, was hit by the worst flood in history, news agencies reported at the time that at least 50 people died.