{"id":4552,"date":"2023-08-17T07:07:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/church-planters-face-unrelenting-pressure\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T07:07:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:07:03","slug":"church-planters-face-unrelenting-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/church-planters-face-unrelenting-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Planters Face Unrelenting Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mateo and Elena are church planters advancing God&rsquo;s kingdom in Central Mexico. Elena was diagnosed with a rare brain aneurysm that required surgery. However, in the most recent round of tests, the doctors found that the aneurysm had been healed. One even called it a miracle from God. Still, Elena and Mateo continue to face enormous pressure to stop their gospel outreach, including threatening phone calls, an unexplained fire in their house, and spiritual attacks on Elena and their two young daughters. The couple are worried for the safety of their children, even fearing that they could be kidnapped and trafficked. Pray for the physical and spiritual safety of this family and for comfort, wisdom, encouragement and healing as they continue to bear witness for Christ.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/southern-mexico\/\">Click here<\/a> to find out about Christian persecution in Mexico and learn how to pray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icommittopray.com\/request\/2551\/mateo-and-elena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Post a prayer for Mateo and Elena on iCommitToPray.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mateo and Elena are church planters advancing God&#8217;s kingdom in Central Mexico. Elena was diagnosed with a rare brain aneurysm that required surgery. However, in the most recent round of tests, the doctors found that the aneurysm had been healed. One even called it a miracle from God. Still, Elena and Mateo continue to face enormous pressure to stop their gospel outreach, including threatening phone calls, an unexplained fire in their house, and spiritual attacks on Elena and their two young daughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-commit-to-pray","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Church Planters Face Unrelenting Pressure - Stories<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/church-planters-face-unrelenting-pressure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Church Planters Face Unrelenting Pressure - Stories\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mateo and Elena are church planters advancing God&#039;s kingdom in Central Mexico. 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