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International Christian Fellowship Portimao
Cedipraia no 23, Rua N.S. Amparo, Portimao
A warm welcome awaits you with people taking part from various countries.
Weekly services are in English and include both traditional and contemporary hymns,
prayers, and biblical preaching.
Refreshments are served after the service in the kitchen.
We look forward to meeeting you!
Weekly in-person services are on Sundays at 11am
(please click on link below for location on google maps)
For online services (always available),
please click on the purple/blue link below:
Online service for April 21st, 2024
Online service for April 14th, 2024
Online service for April 7th, 2024
For more information please contact:
Tel: 282 042 836 or 91 735 8098 or email:
"borganjoy at gmail dot com" (write this as a normal email address)
Physical address:
Centro Comercial Cedipraia no 23
Rua N.S do Amparo, 8500 Portimão, Portugal
on the ground floor of the tall blue and white building
diagonally opposite the Piscina Municipal (swimming pool)
GPS coordinates: 37°07'48.9"N 8°32'26.6"W
This video shows the life of our church during 2018-2019
This video shows the life of our church during 2017-2018
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This video shows the life of our church during 2016-2017
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This video shows the life of our church during 2015-2016
This video shows the life of our church during 2014-2015
This video shows the life of our church during 2013-2014
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Joyfully Serving Christ!
 Photo taken December 2018
The International Christian Fellowship (ICF) is made up of Christians from around the world who worship in English each week. Our church is located in the traditional fishing port of Portimão and in walking distance from the well-known holiday resort of Praia da Rocha, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. Sunday School is offered for the children.
The church is made up of Christians from many different denominational backgrounds and countries. We are "one in Christ Jesus" (Gal 3: 28) and everyone is most welcome.
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| Sunday Worship Service |
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Our worship service is from 11am to 12 noon each Sunday. Our services are friendly and informal with several different people taking part. We use a blend of music styles from traditional hymns to contemporary choruses to lift up the name of Jesus. Central to all our services is the Bible, God's Word, which is read and taught every week.
We hope you will come and join us, whether you are here just visiting or are moving into the area. We look forward to meeting you!
        Photos taken March 2019
Children's Sunday SchoolChildren's Sunday School operates on Sunday mornings 11 a.m. during family worship service.
   Photos taken December 2018
Church Fellowship MealsIn October each year we celebrate our church anniversary at a local restaurant in Portimao. Everyone is welcome to join us.
      Photos taken October 2018
Location
Church address is:
Cedipraia Shopping Centre no. 23
Rua N.S do Amparo, 8500 Portimão, Portugal
diagonally opposite the Piscina Municipal (swimming pool) , Portimão.
Click here for Directions
By Car - By foot - By bus or taxi
 The Mineral Wells mission trip to Portimao in 2006 established strong relationships for David with the city authorities. The United Beach Mission (UMB) conducts over ninety beach missions each summer in the UK and other countries in Europe, but never before in Portugal. David presented the director of UB to the city cultural director and city sports director who invited them to come to the Praia da Roche beach -one of the foremost beach destinations in Europe with hundreds of thousands of visitors each summer.
United Beach Missions in UK organized the first Portuguese beach mission in June 2012.
This was so successful that it has now become an annual event each summer, usually taking place the second week of July.
       Photos taken July 2018
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| Ladies' Bible Study |
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Ladies' Bible study meets in the church kitchen at 2 pm on Wednesdays
The ladies take turns leading the study each week. Regular attenders include women from ICF and other local English-speaking churches.
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Our soup kitchen ministry began in May 2010, feeding about 12 people once a week. After eleven years it has now grown considerably, due to the generous support of many local volunteers and sponsors near and far. Since October 2020 during the Covid-19 Pandemic, we are now providing take-away meals to about 100 people per week on the following days and times: Sundays from 1.00-1.30pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6.00-6.30pm
Every year we hold a Christmas dinner for about 80-100 people, in addition to a hearty meal, each person is given a Christmas present. In 2018 the gift was a bag of personal toiletries,two bars of chocolate, a Gospel and a pen which had a Bible verse on it and a torch/flashlight on the end.
         Photos taken December 2018
Each Christmas our church prepares gifts for local Portuguese children from underprivileged families in our neighbourhood. The gifts are received with great delight at the Flor Amiga association, which is a local Portuguese charity.
      Photos taken December 2018
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| Membership |
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Membership of the ICF is based on a simple statement of faith which is agreed by all the members, new converts being baptised by immersion in accordance with the traditions of the host church.
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| Pastoral Team |
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 David & Joy Borgan served 17 years as career missionaries with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. David pastored the International Baptist Church in Vienna, Austria (1987-1991) and served as a general evangelist & church planter in Spain (1993-2003). David did his undergraduate at Trinity University and earned two masters' degrees in Theology and Religious Education at S.W. Baptist Theological Seminary SWBTS. Joy is from Devon, England and a Cambridge University graduate. She also completed a master's degree in theology at SWBTS with David. ...more.
In 1991, the ICF was started and led by Norman Harrell, a missionary with the International Mission Board (IMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention, until he retired in the autumn of 2002. Thanks to the generosity of the IMB, the ICF had not previously had to provide financial support for a pastor.
With the relatively small core of resident members, the church will not able to provide full funding for a pastor without outside financial help.
Iberian Christian Ministries Trust is a registered charity in the U.K. and eligible for Gift Aid.
For more information contact:
Ruth Edwards-Mlangwa, 89 College Road, Fishponds, Bristol. BS 16 2HP
Borgan Ministries, Inc. in the U.S.A. is a tax dedictable charity. [Section 501(c)(3) ].
P.O. BOX 87
Mineral Wells, Texas 76068
Thank you for your support of ICF and the Borgans' ministry in Portimão,
Please see Contact Us page for more details.
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| Directions |
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GPS coordinates: 37°07'48.9"N 8°32'26.6"W
 By Car from anywhere in the Algarve, Portugal Drive to Portimão on the A22 motorwayTake Exit 5 PortimãoDrive STRAIGHT through 4 roundabouts passing under the N125 overpass and beside the hospitalDrive STRAIGHT through hospital roundabout.Drive STRAIGHT through the tunnelDrive STRAIGHT through two traffic lightsDrive under the overpass bridgeThe road curves to the left and merges with a four lane street heading south toward the beachDrive STRAIGHT through the first roundabout stay on the dual carriagewayTurn LEFT at the second roundabout by Continente shopping center on your left and passing McDonalds on your right.Drive STRAIGHT through the first roundaboutTurn RIGHT at the first traffic light (past the Auditorio and across the street from the Policia station on your left)Drive STRAIGHT along Ave. 25 de Abril for three or four streets.Turn RIGHT where you see the bank Caixa Geral de Depositos on the corner.When you turn right onto Rua N.S.do Amparo, you will see our building on the left. It is a tall blue and white apartment building with an old shopping centre below. The entrance is a glass doorway on the north side of the Cedipraia Shopping Centre between the two cafes . (See Photo below)The entrance door is easy to spot to the right of a staircase and behind several modern stainless steel recycle collection bins on the street.There is plenty of free parking on the street and in the open car park to the right of the cafe. If you get lost, ask directions to the Piscina Municipal. Local people know where this indoor swimming pool is located. Because the pool is indoors you don't actually see a swimming pool. Directly across the street from the indoor pool is the bank Caixa Geral de Depositos and our church is in the shopping centre across the intersection from the Piscina Municipal..
   Entrance: Our church is through this door and is the first door on your left .
By foot from hotels in Praia da RochaWalk north away from the beach to the dual carriageway at the bottom of the hill behind Praia da Rocha hotels -see map above.Walk to the overpass which crosses over the dual carriageway-see map above.Cross the four- lane street using the pedestrian crossing on ground level underneath the overpass bridge.Walk uphill past the Patio da Rocha hotel on your right. Keep walking straight uphill untill you come to the first roundabout (turning circle)Turn RIGHT at the first roundabout. Walk straight up the hill and then downhill to the second roundabout.Turn LEFT at the second roundabout. Notice the broken chain'statue in the second roundabout in memory of the Portuguese Independance day which is 25 April. You're now on Avenida 25 de Abril where our church is located.Walk north past a school and continue straight along Av. 25 de Abril on left side of the street until you see the bank Caixa Geral de Depositos across a side street on the corner in front of you. Do not cross the side street to the bank. You are already standing on the block where our church is in the shopping centre. Look at the shopping complex. Notice the flight of outdoor steps, Then looking further right, underneath the steps on the ground level is the door to our church (see photo of entrance) The church is inside the North entrance under the steps (see photo below) and is the first building down the corridor on your left If you get lost, ask directions to the Piscina Municipal. Local people know where this indoor swimming pool is located. Because the pool is indoors you don't actually see a swimming pool. Directly across the street from the indoor pool is the bank Caixa Geral de Depositos and our church is in the shopping centre across the street from the bank.
By bus or taxi from Praia da Rocha hotelsInquire at your hotel for the GREEN LINE BUS schedule, fares, and the location of the nearest bus stop in the direction of the Portimão city centre. Or have your hotel call for a taxi (average fare is only € 4).Explain to the driver you would like to exit at Piscina Municipal (indoor city swimming pool). Our church is directly across the intersection from the Piscina Municipal and across the street from the bank Caixa Geral de Depositos on the corner. The bus will let you off across the street from our church by the Kiosco Kalunga newstand. Look for the bank Caixa Geral de Depositos across the street on the corner.The church is across the side street from the bank Caixa Geral de Depositos inside the shopping centre.Look at the shopping complex. Notice the flight of outdoor steps, Then looking further right, underneath the steps on the ground level is the door to our church (see photo of entrance) The church is a inside the North entrance under the shopping (see photo below) and is the first store down the corredor on your left |
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| Contact |
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For more information about the ICF
Call +351 282 04 28 36
Write to:
International Christian Fellowship,
Avenida 25 de Abril, 17-r/c-D,
8500-511 Portimão
Portugal.
Directions to the Church - click here
The ICF meets for worship every Sunday at 11 a.m. The map above shows how to get to the church from the A22 motorway and from Praia da Rocha.
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