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
‘The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.’ Isaiah 9:2
Dear friends,
‘“It is winter in Narnia,” said Mr. Tumnus, “and has been for ever so long…. always winter, but never Christmas.”’
Though not the precise words of Isaiah 9, C. S. Lewis had the right idea when he describes what the world would be like without Jesus. It would be awful for we would all be left walking around in the darkness, without direction, without joy and without hope. We would be separated from God, cut off from the source of life and under his righteous wrath. And yet, a light has dawned! A child has been born. For Jesus, the Wonderful Counsellor, the Mighty God, has broken into our world. Jesus, the promised King, the merciful Saviour, has come. And so there is hope for us all. Hope of forgiveness. Hope of salvation. Hope of reconciliation. Hope of life.
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