Middle East Prayer House | Ministry Partner Grant
FAMILIA MENENDEZ
Your donation to the Middle East Prayer House Ministry Partner Grant helped send full-time missionaries Willy, Sofia, Daniela, and Valeria Menendez to the nations of Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, and Turkey. While serving in the Middle East, Familia Menendez sustained existing prayer houses through biblically led intercession and worship, trained new workers to lead in the prayer houses, and taught teams about the significance of establishing houses of prayer in specific geographical locations (1 Chronicles 5). As they traveled throughout the Middle East, they sought the Lord’s direction in finding a home for future use as a permanent house of prayer and a training center for missionaries from around the world to minister in the region. This grant went toward their travel, accommodations, and training expenses.
This grant meets the following criteria as outlined in the Alabaster Foundation Criteria for Ministry Partnership:
Familia Menendez is actively working to expand the Kingdom of God through evangelism, intercession and training of workers in the prayer houses.
Familia Menedez has dedicated their lives to interceding for the world, especially nations who are unreached with the gospel.
The Menendez family are full-time missionaries living and serving in Guatemala, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Turkey and the Netherlands.
Familia Menedez is serving under the leadership and oversight of an established church in Guatemala and has a fundraising account with a third party missionary accountant based in the USA.
This grant is fully-funded!
The Power of Prayer.
Missional Scriptures
PSALM 27:4
One thing I ask from the Lord,
this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple.
JOHN 15
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Trip Itinerary.
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Macedonia, Albania & Kosovo
-Seeking God's will for a future, permanent prayer house envisioned to operate as a space where missionaries from anywhere in the world can be trained in English or Spanish to love Israel, grow in the Isaiah 19 Highway, operation of prayer houses, worship, intercession and the end-times.
-Training, encouraging and strengthening missionaries in the field and existing prayer houses.
-Connecting with potential new partners for medical ministry. -
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Turkey
-Leading the outreach team in Pergamum
-Strengthening the new congregation and local missionaries.
-Strengthening the house of prayer in Thyatira.
-Familia Menendez will be serving with intentionality to fill the gap and help disciple new local believers in their walk with the Lord since many local missionaries were forced to leave the nation. -
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Netherlands
-Strengthening the prayer house, "Prepare the Way"
- Willy and Sofia have a specific vision for intercession and ministry in the Middle East. The leaders of "Prepare the Way" are walking in a similar vision within their prayer house. While together, Familia Menendez will be walking through a time of equipping and training on establishing a new prayer house and training center from those who have gone before them. -
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Transitioning Back to Guatemala
Willy and Sofia are licensed, physicians in Guatemala. In partnership with Healing Nations they conduct weekly medical appointments, giving them a consistent opportunity to evangelize and reach the community. Every three months they host a larger medical outreach serving over 500 patients with the help of a large team of medical professionals. This week long medical outreach is scheduled for five days after their return to Guatemala. Please pray for strength, rest and recovery as they lead the Guatemalan medical team.
Vision For
The Middle East
We have a vision to move to the Middle East whenever the Lord says “go now”.
Our heart for Muslims and Jews has grown so much in the past few years. Our passion to serve these groups has led us to realize our vision for training missionaries who will sustain prayer houses in the Middle East. We want to open many houses of prayer that the land in the Middle East is continually covered in prayer and so we can have a personal connection point into the nations the Lord has chosen.
Our dream is to see many missionaries go to these unreached areas so that the Gospel can open the eyes of Muslims and so they can love Jesus. We feel called to serve as a “bridge” between Muslims and Jews. We know that the Lord has called to us unite Arabs and Jews. We intentionally contend in intercession for this ask the Lord to position us as a channel of reconcilliation by His Spirit.
Many of these nations do not permit missionaries. However, we know our gift of providing medicine and care can be used as a “key” to enter countries in the Middle East where we otherwise would not be welcomed. We have thought and prayed through the idea of entering countries as doctors in order to help people who are in need and to bring Jesus to them.
We don’t know when the Lord will ask us to move, but we want to be ready when the time comes.
-Willy & Sofia
