First Week

It's been my first full week here, and it's been quite nice. The first week of classes has been pretty good. The topics have been orientation, worship and intersession. We've had times of prayer for each of the students. This was a very good and interesting time. We went one by one through the students. Each of us gave our testimony, and the rest of us had the opportunity to pray for and bless that individual. It was really cool. We had worship here twice. The worship was pretty intense. That's cool though. Friday night was the weekly evangelism night. We set up a booth in the town center and gave out free hot chocolate, had conversations with people and invited them to a meeting next week here at the base. Yesterday, some of us went into Madrid. We didn't go to any museums, but that's okay. There's plenty of time for that later. Last night was game night. The games were nuts. Or chocolate, rather. Hmmmm. (You can ask me about that later.) This morning was church. I went to a church called Iglesia Evangelico Calvario, or Calvary Evangelical Church. It was not too far different from my church back home except that the service lasted about twice as long. For lunch we had a special meal. The three Chileans got together and cooked a traditional Chilean meal. Wow, it was good.

Well, do keep praying for me. There appears to be a bug going around, so keep that in your prayers. Also, pray for my room mate, Christian. He wasn't a Christian before coming here (except in name), so pray that he would be able to understand and accept Christianity without being too weirded out.There is a married couple here attending the DTS and the wife is expecting a baby in July, so please keep Claudia in your prayers, too. Also, there is a girl here from England named Vicky who was estranged from her dad very early in her life. He lives here in Madrid and the two of them will be getting together sometime next week. Please pray for her.

A street performer in Madrid