Mission 2010 Updates

Trip Photos Posted

We’ve put together a group on Flickr to share pho­tos from the trip. You can see pho­tos from the trip by vis­it­ing the group page:

WCCC Mis­sion Trip 2010 Photos

If you went on the trip and would like to share pho­tos you took, you can join the group and sub­mit your pho­tos to the pool.

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Last Day in Barcelona

“A new com­mand­ment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. All men will know that you are My dis­ci­ples if you love one another.” (John 13:34, 35)

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Amazing Day in Barcelona

Hola

Yes­ter­day we had an amaz­ing day here in Barcelona! I could write 10 pages worth of sto­ries of what hap­pened but I’ll only share a lit­tle bit.

Our group went to Parc de Guel for a pic­nic. At this park we can see all of the city of Barcelona and I was reminded of Matthew 9:35–39. We had a great lunch and then soon after we went to where we planned to have a con­cert at 6pm.

There were sta­dium type seats and we had Abby and Bren­nan play gui­tar and had oth­ers that could sing stand on the stage. We are there for 4 hours! Peo­ple kept replin­ish­ing them­selves. Peo­ple were intrigued by the music and would stop to watch. Dur­ing that time, we would share the gospel with them. Many peo­ple heard the gospel that night.

Dur­ing this time, Becky led one of the Chi­nese Spaniards to Christ! There were many Chris­tians from Barcelona that stopped by too. One the Chris­tians that stopped by plays pro­fes­sional Amer­i­can Foot­ball here. He and his wife live here and were out shar­ing the gospel and met Hai­ley and Nate at Star­bucks. An inter­est­ing thing about this is that Marc is friends with Coach Creighton (foot­ball coach from Drake and a Chris­t­ian) and keeps in touch with him. We also met a man named Julio who is with Chris­t­ian Mis­sion­ary Alliance. He is really good man that is try­ing to reach peo­ple here. We also met up with Adrian who now lives in Barcelona but got saved 20 years ago in Sin­ga­pore through our sis­ter church there. It was a big encour­age­ment to see him! We also met Marco, who is a Philipino that just moved to this city and was look­ing for fel­low­ship. These are just a few of many sto­ries from last night.

Be pray­ing for today. My group and I are meet­ing with Raul, Sergi, David, and Nelli. All these guys are Chris­tians and we just want to be a breathe of fresh air to them. Also, be pray­ing we will be able to hand out of the rest of our tracts.

Our prayer is that we can live this type of lifestyle when we get back to the states. Our days have been short, but we’ve des­per­ate to talk about Christ with peo­ple because we know we won’t ever see them again. We need that same des­per­a­tion back in the USA. In 10 years, half of all the churches we see in our cities will be closed! We’re only 10 years behind Europe. But God is big­ger than that, and we need labor­ers for the king­dom. Some days we’ve missed meals or not eaten what we’ve wanted because we were lov­ing and shar­ing with peo­ple dur­ing the day and ran out of time for our­selves to do what we wanted. But we wanted to share Christ and our pref­er­ences were pushed to the mar­gin and the gospel of Christ love was our focus. The chal­lenge will be to con­tinue to live the same when get back. I’m con­vinced that peo­ple all over the world our the same and all need to hear the truth.

Sorry this is so scat­tered, but I got to go!

Gra­cias,
El grupo Equipo Supremo (Nick, Jason, Randi, Becky, Heather, Dayna, and Lisa)

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God’s Plan Shines Through

Hey Every­one,

This is Nathan Peter­son writ­ing again.  Yes­ter­day was a very, very great day for us.  God is so amaz­ing and faith­ful to us.  I’ll start out this post with a verse.  Proverbs 16:9, “In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord deter­mines his steps.”  Haley, Ale­jan­dra, and I had met three Mus­lim women the day before and we had planned to meet them again on Fri­day for cof­fee at 11am to talk more about the Bible.  So here begins God’s (not our) awe­some plan.  The three of us left early from our hos­tel to go down towards the uni­ver­sity to get cof­fee.  On the train into Barcelona we met a young Moroc­can boy.  Haley started talk­ing with him and telling him why we were here.  He said that he had met some­one else from our group ear­lier in the week.  As he described him we fig­ured out that he hat met Jacob.  We talked with him the rest of the way into Barcelona.  As we were get­ting off the train we gave him a New Tes­ta­ment and told him that we were going to be hang­ing out at 6pm with every­one from our group and other peo­ple we had met dur­ing the week.  There he could meet up again with Jacob.  He said he would come (and did).

We arrived at the cof­fee shop a lit­tle early so we read our Bible’s and found some verses to share with the Mus­lim women.  While we were wait­ing, we met a girl from Indi­ana who is a Chris­t­ian study­ing here in Barcelona.  We were able to talk with her and encour­age her while we were there.  As she left she prayed for us and for the rest of the trip.  I think every­one was encour­aged after that con­ver­sa­tion.  An hour has passed by and we have now fig­ured out that the three women aren’t going to show up.  The rest of our group was going to be show­ing up to the uni­ver­sity in about an hour so we decided to stay in the cof­fee shop and just have a quiet time.

As we were read­ing, all of a sud­den three peo­ple walk in and come over to us (a young mar­ried cou­ple and another guy).  They asked us, “Are you Chris­tians?”  Haley and I said, “Yes” and they got really excited.  To make a long story short, the young cou­ple are here in Barcelona because the guy is play­ing on an Amer­i­can foot­ball team.  The other guy asked us what we were doing here and we told them that we are on a mis­sion trip with our church.  And that we go out every­day to the streets and share with peo­ple and that some­day, our vision is to plant a church in Barcelona.  This guy’s eyes got really big and you could tell that he wanted to just say ten things at one but couldn’t get any­thing out.  He helps to train and raise up peo­ple as mis­sion­ar­ies.  He also has a huge heart for Spain and has wanted to plant an Evan­gel­i­cal church in Barcelona!  They all were so excited to meet us and couldn’t believe that we were here.  It is amaz­ing to see how God works.

As the three of us (Haley, Ale­jan­dra, and I) look back at our morn­ing we were just amazed.  You could say that it was a bum­mer that the three Mus­lim women never showed up, but God had a big­ger and bet­ter plan for us.  If we weren’t going to leave early form our hos­tel, we never would have ran into the young boy on the train who came to our hang out.  He got cof­fee with Jacob dur­ing it where Jacob could share more with him, he also got din­ner with us and hung out with our whole group the rest of the night.  (Side story: Jacob had e-mailed him but for some rea­son couldn’t get a hold of him.  With out us meet­ing him on the train, the young boy wouldn’t know about the hang out and Jacob may not have been able to get together with him again.)  If we didn’t leave early in the morn­ing we wouldn’t have met the Chris­t­ian girl from Indi­ana and we wouldn’t have met the other cou­ple and the guy who wants to plant a church.  We were just read­ing our Bibles and they walked by and saw us in the win­dow, so they stopped in.  We had a plan for the morn­ing, but God blew our minds away with His much bet­ter plan!

The rest of the day was great and the hang out at 6pm went really well.  We found a place off of the metro stop “Lesseps” where there is some bleacher seat­ing and a piano out side.  We just had a few peo­ple play gui­tar and sing while every­one else stood around and met peo­ple who came from pre­vi­ous meet­ing in the week and talked with peo­ple who showed up.  It was a really great evening!  That’s all for now.  God Bless.

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Encouraging Day In Barcelona

Hello WCCC,

Another great day in Barcelona! Our group started out in Plaza Espanya. We were wait­ing to meet with some­one, and sev­eral of us ended up shar­ing the gospel with a group of 10–15 high school­ers from another town just south of Barcelona. Pray for recep­tive ears and hearts! We met with Vikki for lunch, a woman we met at the hos­tel. Vikki is a Chris­t­ian, so please pray that our time with her encour­aged her and that she would find a fel­low­ship in Barcelona. After­wards, our group went shar­ing in the Plaza which led to many great con­ver­sa­tions. Matt and Kendall were able to share the gospel with a group of high school boys. I (Cole) was able to share with another stu­dent for quite some time. Jon, Abby, and recent pick up Eliz­a­beth (Abby’s sis­ter) were able to present the gospel to a group of girls.

God has really encour­aged and blessed our group with Mauro, a man from the Madrid church who is in love with the Lord. It has been so refresh­ing to see his com­mit­ment to the Lord and the love he has for peo­ple, and to hear his tes­ti­mony. Please pray that God would use Mauro in an incred­i­ble way while his here in Barcelona. Also, please pray that our group would be a great encour­age­ment to him as well!

Tomor­row will con­sist of sev­eral meet­ings with other peo­ple that we have had the oppor­tu­nity to build into in the last day, week, or year(s). Here are some peo­ple you can pray for:

Ronald
Alex*
Another Alex*
Uroslav*
Iris
Neili
David
Laingchi
Caroling*

* means please pray for sal­va­tion. Oth­er­wise, pray for fur­ther growth and encour­age­ment in their rela­tion­ship with the Lord. Please pray that the Chris­tians here would grow in their desire to see the gospel advanced in Barcelona, and that God would give them the wis­dom to do so.

We are all extremely tired, but extremely encour­aged by what God has been doing. Thank you so much for your prayers. John 3:16

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