The Parodis in Manchester, UK

06/12/2017

December is Here!

I can’t believe this year is almost gone. It has been a great year enjoying married life and living trusting God on a daily basis. I have experienced victories and faced challenges, being so thankful to God for His presence and corrections when I had to acknowledge my own faults. We don’t stop growing.

Christmas is around the corner, and it comes with so much nostalgia from the old times when my children were little. I have so memories, pictures and artefacts that remind me of those places we have been in four continents. My children are adults now, but I still have the desire to have them close to me. I just pray that they will be close to our Father, experiencing His love and provision daily.

I wish they could make it for Christmas, especially now that God has given us a new season, acknowledging His redemption in our lives, changing our wailing into dancing, removing our sackcloth and clothed us with gladness [Psalm 30:11] Because the days of weeping and mourning are gone. I would like to embrace this new season with my four children. This will definitely bring healing to our hearts and also honor God the author of life. I would appreciate your prayers for the Lord to allow us to have this reunion. Pray especially for the Lord to provide the air fares for two of my children. Liz lives in California and Nathan lives in Florida.

Sarah has moved to the UK so we are happy to having her serving in our church plant. God has used her powerfully through her worship on Sundays.

Pray for our church plant as we go to a new transition, most students are gone now. In the meantime, God has been touching lives and transforming people.

Pray for continuous financial provision. The end of the year is always a challenge. We will not be able to see family in Spain for the holidays because of the increase of airfares. Pray for Gema’s parents and especially for her youngest brother who has been dealing with serious health issues for a while.

Pray for God’s protection for our physical bodies, emotions and spiritual lives.

God bless.

J C & Gema

08/07/2017

Dear prayer partners,
We found a house! We saw it last Thursday and we thought we didn't get it since the landlord didn't get back to us until this morning. Please pray for a smooth process. The landlord's manager has to process our application, credit checks and other red tape. Pray please for the Lord to make everything smoothly.
Pray for helping hands to move our stuff and a team to help us to clean the current house and have it ready for hand it back to the real estate agent. Pray for his provision for all involved in the moving,etc. God is good!
Thanks for your prayer support. Juan-Carlos and Gema

06/07/2017

God’s will and Brexit

A year after voting for Brexit, Britain is divided politically and the future seems uncertain.
We were so disappointed when we heard that 59.1 % voted on favour of Brexit. I instantly thought about how this might affect our ministry. After one year I realised that in fact this has contributed to the spreading of the Gospel in this country. There has been so much confusion amongst Europeans living in this land, in the meantime there is spiritual hunger. God is good.

Ministry Update

Pray for God’s favour among our main ministry targets:

▪️Our student ministry is resuming after having a big number of students finishing and graduating from the University this year. We are launching our new academic year’s activities by the third week of September. Pray for manpower as we plan activities. We usually start with a main event, we usually have between 50-60 new students attending. After the big event we will start with a six weeks Alpha Course which is basically an introduction to Christianity.

▪️Our Asylum Seekers & Refugees ministry is struggling with some issues at the moment. We still have a good group eager to learn from God. We have had the help of an Iranian pastor who is helping us with Bible teaching in their own language. Pray for resources to allow our dear brothers to minister to their own people. We are praying for a Ministry House called “The Shelter”, which will bring people in need of
intense discipleship, training in different skills and a place to grow in community. God has provided some funding, but we still have to reach 95% needed.

▪️Our Family ministry is planning a marriage
Our Sunday Celebration retreat in October. My church from Peru is sending the Senior Pastor Javier and his wife Sarah, along with other couple to help us to facilitate a marriage encounter. The purpose of this is to establish a ministry for married couples and for their families here in our church plant. We would like to host a marriage encounter every year as a platform to minister to other families in the city who never heard the Gospel before. Pray for the Lord to use this tool to bless many families. Pray for funding to cover some of the costs involved in the preparation and hosting this type of ministry.

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29/06/2017

The Alliance Manchester Community, a multi-cultural expression of God's body.

08/01/2016

Pray for the Lord add many more to our multi-ethnic community.
Give generously to cause a greater impact in this city.
Go and join our ministry team on a short or long-term basis.

31/08/2015

23/08/2015

Worship in church today

22/08/2015

Summer in Manchester: Blessed by our community. We had more Iranians joining our weekly group. I will be sharing about the epistle of Jude tomorrow morning. Nathan is still at missions camp in Alicante, Spain, the house is quite but I miss him.

22/08/2015