Prayer Initiative - Spain
by Paul Cox
For the past six years, Spain has been the blessed beneficiary of a special prayer relationship with Men for Missions. And God has blessed that relationship with fruit.
In 2004, a Spanish pastor was on the edge of burnout and ready to turn the lights out on his career of faithful service with One Mission Society.
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| A prayer team led by Dick and Judy McLeish praying over Cobeña, Spain. |
Little did he know that Dick McLeish was already headed to Spain for the first time with a small prayer team. Dick and his group met with that pastor for encouragement and prayer, and they spent time with him at a retreat he attended. That Spanish pastor left the retreat recharged and excited about a new season of ministry. Today, hundreds of believers and non-believers are benefiting from the fruit of those prayers.
In 2006, Dick returned with a team that desired to pray over each missionary, national worker, church planting team, and the One Mission Society ministry. A special prayer workshop was held at a local church. Dick and the MFM team challenged the members to prayer-walk the neighborhood for the first time. The next day, which was Sunday, six non-Christian Spaniards from the neighborhood attended the local service. To watch them enter the church door one-by-one was a historical event, because a majority of Spaniards are not interested in entering the door of an evangelical church.
Fast forward to 2008. Two prayer champions were found after a long and prayerful search. More prayer teams have gone to link arms with the Spain team, and the hardness of spiritual soil in Spain is covered once again by faithful prayer warriors.
One of my last assignments as Field Coordinator was to put together an annual field report of what God had done in our midst during the previous year. There were more decisions and more baptisms in a three-month span during the summer of 2008 than there were in the previous six years combined!
