From Outreach Foundation ... "Reaching Out Further" for July 2020

• Prayer request for Madagascar & the FJKM

Please be in prayer for the Malagasy Lutheran church which works very closely with the FJKM. Lutheran President Pastor David Rakotonirina died of COVID-19 Saturday night. The FJKM and Lutheran churches will be in mourning and looking how to move forward in this time when COVID-19 is spreading rapidly and the capital city is on lockdown.

Please pray for wisdom for church leaders in deciding what activities to stop and what activities to continue. Please pray that the churches may continue to be a light in a time of uncertainty and fear.

• An update from Pezini

Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Since March we have been receiving reports about the number of people infected by COVID-19 and the number of deaths keeps rising. Here in Brazil, more than fifty thousand people have died and the number of people who are infected is countless. As if this were not enough to take away our peace and cause fear, it has also brought uncertainty because it demands that we reinvent ourselves and seek new means to fulfill the mission that the Lord has entrusted to us. These challenges have helped make clear how our work makes a difference in the lives of pastors and churches. God has been faithful and tremendously blessed us and those we serve in this new way of accomplishing the ministry.

I am happy to inform you that even with social distancing and being forbidden by the government to travel from one place to another, I have continued to minister through the internet and social media. The SARA Ministries mentoring group, composed of 15 groups of pastors spread across the country, usually holds two retreats annually. Now, we meet remotely by Zoom once a month for two hours. We now realize that this new approach to mentoring is more effective. We have reached and cared for more than 500 pastors virtually, helping them overcome their problems and stress and finding new ways to carry out their pastoral ministry.

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