Pray For The Region of Castile-La Mancha

For the next three Thursdays, we will be focusing our daily prayer on the region of Castile-La Mancha. This central-southern plateau is the land of Don Quixote's windmills and endless plains. It's a predominantly agricultural region (famous for wine and saffron) with about 2 million people spread across historic cities like Toledo and Albacete. Evangelically, La Mancha has an inspiring legacy: it was one of the first areas in Spain reached by Protestant missionaries over a century ago. In 1913, Percy Buffard and the Spanish Gospel Mission established a church in Valdepeñas, making it a pioneering evangelical outpost. By 2008, there were 66 churches in the region and 30 towns with over 5,000 people without a church.Thank God for the "spiritual giants" of La Mancha's past – those who dreamed the impossible for the Gospel in a hard land. Pray that today's believers will honor that legacy by continuing the mission. Ask God to raise up new visionaries and church planters in La Mancha, inspired by heroes like Buffard, to go into the next unreached towns.