Fernandes

A Time for Celebration

October 23, 2025

Update from Isabel Fernandes Portugal The Biblical Baptist Church of Cartaxo is completing 5 years of existence and is beginning to take its first steps on its own. Five years may seem like a short time, but the dream and the struggle began much earlier. I am very thankful to God because, in the midst […]

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Last News

July 26, 2025

Update from Isabel Fernandes Portugal This week, Portugal experienced death. It arrived suddenly and with no warning. A road accident brought an end to the lives of two young men filled with hope and dreams. Diogo Jota and André Silva: two famous European soccer players, one of which played for Liverpool FC. Their lives were […]

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Letter of Portugal

May 10, 2025

Update from Isabel Fernandes Portugal At Easter, I brought my mother from the small village where she lives, a peaceful and lovely place. However, when I got home, I heard news that shocked me. A quiet and easygoing couple took their own lives. Suicide in Portugal has been on the rise. Currently, it is the […]

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Carta Janeiro 25 Portugues

January 21, 2025

Update from Isabel Fernandes Portugal Queridos irmãos e amigos: Chegamos a 2025 cheios de gratidão! Isto não significa que tudo aconteceu como queríamos, mas em todas as coisas, quer estejamos com as mãos cheias ou vazias, somos mais do que vencedores, por meio daquele que nos amou. A igreja Batista do Cartaxo deu os primeiros […]

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Carta Janeiro 25

January 21, 2025

Update from Isabel Fernandes Portugal Dear brothers, sisters, and friends, We arrived to 2025 full of gratitude! This does not mean that everything has happened as we wished, but in everything, whether our hands are full or empty, we are more than winners through the One who loved us all. The Baptist Church in Cartaxo […]

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The Dream

August 15, 2024

THE BEGINNING It all started as a dream. In 1987, Deise and I arrived to Portugal. We worked for one year as interns at Word of Life Portugal in the area of sharing the Gospel and discipleship. In 1989, Deise and I were sent as missionaries by our local churches, as assistants in church planting […]

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Fernandes August 2023

September 6, 2023

Update from Isabel Fernandes Portugal One and a half million people, youth from many different nations arrived to Lisbon in August to hear Pope Francis. I was surprised by the singularity of many things, eyes drawn to pretty words, words of social welfare, but words which were empty of the essence of Jesus Christ. The […]

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Fernandes April 2023

April 21, 2023

  Update from Isabel Fernandes Portugal God loves Cartaxo! This is the statement presented at the entrance to our church building. It is the truth we wish for this people to discover and witness the way we live. “As I have loved you, so you must love one another” John 13:34 Click here to read […]

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Fernandes August 2022

September 7, 2022

  Update from Isabel Fernandes Portugal To recycle is essential to the balance of the world. It is a practice which is also becoming urgent in missionary work. In this context we have been more sensitive to a rapidly changing world, to cultural differences and new trends. Meanwhile. we are certain that unless the Lord […]

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Deus é bom e surpreende-nos cada dia

January 25, 2022

Update from Isabel Fernandes Portugal We can look back, raise our hands and voices and say: The Lord has done great things for us and that is why we rejoice. Psalms 126.3 The Christmas carol was a time to celebrate and the greatest joy ever. We were also challenged by the announcement of the angels […]

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