Capital: San Salvador            
% Largest Religion (Christian): 94.6%
Population: 6,364,943           
People Groups: 12
% Christian:    94.6%
Least Reached People Groups: 1
% Evangelical: 31.6%           
% Unevangelized: 1%

Praise God that peace has held since the end of the civil war in 1992. Since then, corruption in politics has been a big problem in El Salvador. El Salvador’s main struggles are now against poverty and gang violence. Violent criminal gangs known as “maras” keep the nation among the global leaders for murder rates and juvenile delinquency. Overcoming these two giants will take more than just good social and economic policy – El Salvador needs a spiritual awakening that transforms the nation!

Prayer 

1. The growth of Evangelicals in the midst of travail has been a modern-day miracle, but now the need is for consolidation of the work. Pray for effective discipling and motivation of believers for service, witness and missions. Pray also for increased unity and vision for outreach so that this nation might belong to Jesus - El Salvador is Spanish for 'the Saviour'.
2. Pray for the Bible schools, seminaries and TEE programmes. Pray for the provision of all material needs for staff and students in this time of economic stress.
3. Missions vision has grown. Pray that mission involvement might increase and be fruitful.
4. The Amerindian population retain many of their cultural values and traits, even though they have largely lost their languages. Their treatment in the 20th Century has been horrific. Pray for effective ministries to begin and for culturally sensitive church planting among them.