Small Steps. Big Faith.

Over the last 3 years, slowly and what seems to be coincidentally, staff members, one after the other, have been moving to the Barcelona area, specifically to the city of Terrassa, including Ruben and me. In all there are four married couples (and 7 children!) who make up this team. We have all come to this city for different reasons, but each one has been led by the Lord in some way or another. We all definitely have a desire to share the gospel, but the exact purpose of this loosely connected team was a bit fuzzy at the beginning. Mariangeles Bootello has been involved with evangelism and discipleship in the Campus ministry since 2002. She moved here from Sevilla three years ago, just before marrying a young man from Barcelona. She works with Existe Más Mundo (More World Exists), a social work outreach of the Campus Ministry in Spain that serves the hungry and the homeless. She´s also been working with troubled teens, many of whom are children of Moroccan immigrants. Two of th...

Ladies draped in winter coats, burqas  (the loose outer clothing that Muslim women wear)  and hijabs  (the head covering),  entered the classroom with plates and plates of their best Moroccan sweets and thermoses filled with Arabic mint tea.  To celebrate the end of the first semester of Spanish classes for the Moroccan women, we held a little "fiesta" in our make-shift classroom at the Montroig Civic Center in Terrassa.  They all are sweet and eager to learn.  It was an interesting mix of women: some can communicate better than others in Spanish; a few older women, many young women with multiple children; one or two that studied at the university and a good number illiterate, even in their own language, and almost all lacking employment. While there are a few, more outgoing women, most seem quiet and shy when they are together in the classroom environment. Isa Fernandez, (pictured on the right) is the wife of Spain´s National Direct...

I was wiped out from a long day with Aaron. He´s been waking up 4-5 times a night, missing his pacifier, fearful from a nightmare, hungry for a bottle. I knew I needed to open my mailbox and respond to the next incoming message from seekers on the internet. After several months of participation as an online missionary to Spanish speaking seekers, I´ve had a chance to respond to 90+ people, sending prayers and passing on resources to help them start or continue in their spiritual journey with Christ....but very few come back for a second response, let alone a third response. However, Joseph Martin Delgado Cardozo, a 27-year-old from Colombia recently recommitted his life to Christ and came looking for spiritual guidance at  www.jesucristo2020.com , one of Global Media Outreach ´s many evangelistic websites.  From my home in Spain, I´ve had the privilege of corresponding with him multiple times. He´s in the midst of some huge life change as he takes additional new steps o...