Barcelona News

Thanks for your prayers during this weekend in Barcelona. It was a privilege to be able to share in the Lanzadera training course, where I was teaching about a Biblical perspective of the different stages of human development - from the womb until adulthood. The material was well received by the group, who were a mixture of parents and youth workers.

Then, this morning, I was invited to speak in local church, El Lokal, where I again brought a message about stages of development - but this time thinking about our spiritual growth and development as Christians. I decided to pluck up my courage and do part of the sermon in Spanish (the first time I've done that in a larger church gathering) and I was glad to have an excellent translator for the second part of the message. Afterwards, I was able to pray with some of the people and encourage them in decisions they were making about going on with God.

I stayed with friends who live in the Clot district of Barcelona (see photos above), and these are the people who took an outreach team of young people down to South Africa this summer. So I was able to see the hundreds of photos they had taken during their time there - which brought back many memories of my former home in Cape Town and the young people we'd worked with in Klipheuwel township. I even spotted my dog in some of the photos.

I'm heading back to Malaga soon, and will arrive home about midnight tonight. Next week's schedule is more flexible and not so busy as the past three weeks have been, so it will be an opportunity to catch up on some of my computer work - like LDC correspondence, and a translation that I'm doing of French family camp curriculum.