2. Mission to Portugal An Experience of Faith Love and Hope July 2009

3. Pessoas

4. The People 10.5 million people live in a country the size of Indiana There are 18 Districts (counties) 3.5 million live in Lisbon the Capital Native Portuguese, Brazilians, Africans, Europeans and Americans and Gypsies comprise this diverse population

5. Cultura

6. The Culture- Government Kingdom founded in 1143 by Alfonso Henriques 15 th Century is the Portuguese Age of Discovery 1492 Columbus sails from Portugal to the Americas 1928 Portugal Monarchy falls to communist dictatorship 1974 Democratic freedom is visited upon Portugal

7. The Culture-Arts Fado is the popular folk music and has a blues type genre Fernando Pessoa is the famous poet laureate who created a series of alter egos and published under each one The Lisboa Cristo Rie was built facing the Brazilian one to thank Deus for keeping Portugal out of WWII

8. Alimento

9. Culture-Food Food is what brings the Portuguese together Pastelle De nata is a favorite local pastry As a seafaring cultural, Cod and Sardines are a must eat to be considered Portuguese

10. Religiao

11. Culture-Religion Predominately Roman catholic (78%). Most are marginally faithful Portuguese Romanists are superstitious and are adherents to Fatima and Mariology Evangelicals are associated with the cults like Mormonism and Jehovah Witnesses (1%) The Health and Wealth message has been popular as this poor country is being invaded by western materialism

12. Nassa Missao Especial

14. Our Particular Mission To handle the church services To provide computer education to draw young people to the church To encourage and refresh the Arabis family and other believers To establish a marriage seminar program

15. Evangelizacao There are about 6,000 known evangelical believers in ALL of Portugal The Baptist Seminary has an evangelical website that has reached 10,000 people in the past year 2,000 confessions of faith have been made through this website

16. Evangelization There are less than 20 evangelical churches in Portugal with an average attendance of 25 There are 250 communities with no evangelical witness There are 8-10 seminary graduates each year with no church to support them

17. Evangelization Portuguese are hesitant at first, but are open to the gospel Free Education in Computers and Music open many doors to the gospel Adult Day care is highly favored by the local community The small army of Portuguese Christians are overwhelmed by the 2000 responses

18. Evangelization The government requires that religion be taught to each child in the public school system Each school age child is given a laptop computer by the state with the assistance of Microsoft Portuguese want to learn English making ESL a popular inroad for mission work

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