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Pray As They Play

24/5/2024

We’ve produced a ‘Pray As They Play’ Euro 2024 wallchart with all the teams and fixtures, but crucially, with some key information about some of the countries, to encourage your prayers. Why not use this in your church, you youth groups or Sunday school, your home, your workplace. Or give a set to your local school. We have plenty to give away, and they are all free!

Football! Do you love it or hate it? Are you counting the days to Friday 14 June, when the referee blows his whistle for the first of 51 matches, or are you longing for a remote island isolated from the media bombardment?

Love or hate the game, what a great opportunity this is to engage with people for the gospel! 
What a great opportunity to spur people on to pray for the gospel in the neediest continent on earth!

We see the UEFA 2024 Championships an opportunity to raise awareness of the great spiritual need of a continent which in global terms is relatively prosperous, and typically proud of its progressive ethos. At the same time, however, the people of Europe are generally uninterested in, and at times hostile to, the biblical message about Jesus Christ.

Christians who will be following the UEFA 2024 event in Germany have an opportunity to use each match as a reminder to pray for the nations taking part in the championships. EMF has published a colourful fixture and score chart which can be filled in by football enthusiasts, who will be encouraged to ‘Pray as they Play’.  Key data about the spiritual situation of a few participant countries is also given, aiming to highlight the urgent need for the people of Europe to hear and respond to the gospel of Jesus Christ.  

Did you realise, for example, that Türkiye is one of the neediest countries in the world with fewer than 0.1% evangelical Christians, around 10,000 believers in the whole country?
Or that there has never been a revival in Spain?

Why not use the opportunity to reach out to non-Christians in your area? 
Why not encourage your youth group to pray for the greatest need of these nations – not a silver trophy, but the wonderful gospel of Jesus? 

Why not use this in your church, you youth groups or Sunday school, your home, your workplace. Or give a set to your local school. We have plenty to give away, and they are all free!

Click here for more information, and a request form.

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