Monday, March 23, 2015

Spain: Day 3-4

Day 3 - After a morning devotion time at the local church, we traveled to another city (Ripollet) to visit with a partner church. It was great to spend time with Pastor Marcos and to hear the vision to reach Spain for Christ. There are over 2,000 cities and towns in Spain without an evangelical church!

In The evening, Pastor Vernig presented discipleship training at Inglesia Evangelista Mon Bui, the local church. We were greatly pleased as there were 26 people who came out for the training! It was wonderful to see how the members of this growing church plant were soaking in every word that was being shared by Pastor Vernig.

We believe this small, but growing, new congregation has the opportunity to impact their community in a powerful way for The Lord Jesus!

Day 4 - Again, after morning devotions, we travelled to the city of Terrassa. Here there are two evangelical churches that are doing a wonderful job of reaching the diversity found in this state: the nationalistic Catalonians, the Spanish, the Latin Americans who have moved here, as well as a sizable Muslim population from North Africa.

The President of the Spanish Baptist Convention, Andreu Garcia, serves as pastor of Inglesia Evangelista De Terrassa. We had a wonderful meeting, hearing from the convention perspective, what is believed necessary to reach the people of Spain. Pastor Garcia and this church are doing amazing things to reach the diverse populations in this city and we wanted to see first-hand what has been proven successful in this context.

We also visited an outreach center where a ministry to Muslim women was proving to be very successful as well.  Walls were being broken down so the Good News could be shared and hearts were softening to hearing about Jesus. 

In the evening, Pastor Vernig led the second night of discipleship training. Again there was a group who had braved the rain and cold to be a part of this critical training. There were 24 who joined us for the evening!