Newsletter · July 2026

Dear friends,

We hope your summer has been a good one. We have a personal story to tell you this month: this newsletter finds us in a new home, at the end of a July filled with travel, rest, and one of the biggest changes we've made in years. Let's take it from the beginning.

Our time off began the way every summer begins for us, with a week at Nyhem, a large Pentecostal conference and camping gathering in the Swedish countryside. As in recent years we served with the radio team, Emma hosting live interviews and Panos in post-production, publishing segments to streaming platforms. Emma also held a warmly received seminar on sustainable marriage, connected to her podcast on the subject (which is in Swedish, so most of you will have to take our word for it). It is a full week, but it always leaves us rested, because the rest comes from community. Emma's family and many friends were there, and in the middle of it all came midsummer, perhaps the most beloved of all Swedish traditions 🇸🇪, celebrated on the longest days of the year, when it never really gets dark and the sky stays blue through the night ☀️.

This summer also held a bigger change. We sold our apartment on the island on Sweden's west coast where Emma comes from, packed our things into boxes, and shipped them to Greece. The decision was made last year, and after a season of living between the two countries we have now made Greece our home 🇬🇷. For this chapter our hearts were set on continuing to build Prayminder from here, and it brings Panos close to his family again after many years in Sweden.

And so we write this letter from Thessaloniki, and there is more to that than a change of address. This city is where Prayminder began: we built the very first version here in 2017. And as we all know, it is also a city that once received letters of its own; Paul wrote twice to the young church here, and in the first of those letters stands the verse that has inspired Prayminder from the very beginning: "Pray without ceasing" (1 Thessalonians 5:17). That Prayminder was born, and now continues, in the city where those words first arrived is a gift we are thankful for.

We also spent part of the month working, and we planned the coming quarter, which we are excited to share with you soon. Until then, thank you for praying, for supporting the mission, and for walking this road with us. We hope the rest of your summer brings you real rest. Let's keep covering the world in prayer.

Blessings,
Panos & Emma