Here We Are!

We are here, and WOW what a day. We have been up for 36 hours with only about 2 hours of sleep. As we came in to Spain I said it looks a lot like Texas. The people of Spain look like people of the USA. It is hard to pick out the teens because they are more like the young adults at home they look and act older then they are. The people are on the move they walk everywhere and the way they drive is like not a thing I have ever seen. One of the coolest things is to see places in person that I had seen on TV or the internet. - Charlie

We met with a Christian brother last tonight. He is a man who is organizing churches in
Spain to unite, much like our ministerial alliance, and also uniting the immigrants who come from all over the world. We will be going with him this morning to meet other Pastors and businessmen. - Rene


As we met with the missionair last night I could not help but be broken for the state of the church here in Barcelona, Spain. There are four dominant people groups here (Spaniard, Catalan, North Africans and Latinos) and they don't want anything to do with one another, especially in the area of worship for God in the same building, they are racially divided. The challenges are immense for church reconciliation to happen but this missionair is trying to do the impossible with man, and unite these churches to reach every man, woman and child for Christ in Barcelona, no exception. He drew encouragement from what we are doing in Gonzales in doing just that with our own ethnic divisions and our work and partnership with our own Ministerial Alliance. Looking forward to this morning and the other Pastors that we will meet through him. - Jesse