Steve Goss writes:
Zoe and I have just returned from Portugal where we held conferences in Oporto, Evora and Lisbon together with Samuel Santos, our Portuguese National Representative.
We met many leaders who have been using the Freedom In Christ course and who report excellent results. There is a lot of interest. A film crew appeared at the Lisbon event and interviewed us and participants for a piece that will appear in a Christian programme on Portugal's main TV channel.
For us, the icing on the cake was seeing Samuel's new church building. Last time we were with him, we stood on a plot of land that his church has managed to scrape enough money together to buy and prayed with him that God would remove the seemingly insurmountable obstacles to building, including resistance from the authorities and a total lack of funds. The Sunday we were in Oporto, the church was celebrating the first anniversary of their new building - and it is fantastic! It's on four floors and extremely well designed and equipped. The money came in in many miraculous ways and the church has doubled in size. Hugely encouraging!