Joe and Rachel Clarke

Joe and Rachel Clarke work with the Grupo Bíblico Universitário (GBU) – the Portuguese student Christian movement. They seek to evangelise and disciple university students and equip them for future Christian ministry.
Portugal has a population of almost 11 million people yet less than 100,000 attend an evangelical church. Within Portuguese universities there are few professing believers and the Christian student movement is small. There is a great need to develop the GBU’s work so that Christian students can reach out to fellow students with the gospel.
Joe trains and supports the GBU student leaders and helps run evangelistic events and courses. He and Rachel both study the Bible one-to-one with a number of students. Alongside this, Rachel is a full-time mum to Beth, Hannah, Joshua and Timothy.
Latest News from Joe and Rachel Clarke
‘O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!’ Psalm 8:1
Dear friends,
We write to you with hearts full of joy at the Lord’s mercy and kindness towards us in Jesus our Saviour. Although the past few months have been very strange indeed, although many of our plans have had to change, although there remains much uncertainty about the future, we have many reasons for giving thanks to God.
Over the summer, we were grateful to have managed to get away for a 10 day camping trip (our first time camping as a family!) and in spite of getting lost on the mountains, getting bruised and scratched by the thorns and thistles and being attacked by wasps as we walked into their nest (creatures who are definitely a result of the Fall!), we had a wonderful time. It was so good to enjoy and delight in the beauty, diversity and magnitude of all that God has made – the lakes, rivers, hills, mountains, wild snakes and numerous lizards – God’s majesty was clear to see.
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