Sunday in Sevilla

We walked around downtown Sevilla with our hosts for the evening Marcos, Toni and Jose. This caught my eye and instantly Remedy from the David Crowder Band came to mind. That's the hope of the leaders of East Park Church for the hearts of those in Sevilla - the remedy that is provided only by faith in Jesus Christ.

Words can't express the excitement and nervousness they feel about the English classes and the impact they will have moving forward. They want this to be excellent because it is the 1st exposure many will have to the church, the building (btw - great job prior team - the place looks fantastic!), etc.

While many of you are sleeping tonight (or were last night), we will have the 1st class and there will be another around 1pm (EDT). So thank you the time you spent talking to the Lord and in advance for the time you will spend on behalf of all going on here. It's pretty humbling considering God decided to use us for this purpose.

We'll post some more pictures of today tomorrow and try and have an update after the 1st class. Thanks for all the comments posted.

And the people of this city (and country) were just a little excited about winning the soccer (football) match against Italy tonight!

Time for some sleep!

Jeff

Pray for them.

They are more than names, they are the persons that are coming to the english campus.

Aarón Amoscótegui, Juan Gosé Gil,  Mari Carmen Guillen, David Rodero,  Ivan Amoscótegui, Liliana Salazar, Lidia Gutierrez, Macarena Mercado, Celia Cabezuelo, Javier Romero, Rebeca Ortiz, Maria Miranda, Esmeralda Ortiz, Lara Gil, Alejandra, Maria Arenas, Pepe Miranda, Yolanda Galán, Claudia Carmona, Paloma Carmona, Estrella Calvo, Maria Valdivia, Alvaro Horcas, Sebastian Rodríguez, Esther Rodríguez, Aarón Gil, Cristina García, Pablo Miranda, Moisés Gallego, Andrés Alvarez, Juan Antonio Sáez, Hugo Moreno, José Carlos Alvarez, Cristina Rodríguez, Eva gutierrez, Jorge Arévalo, Laura Marin, Bibiana Liz, Eva Freytas, Julio Freytas, Juan Naranjo, Samuel Rodríguez, Pablo Rodríguez, Maribel Gutierrez, Alejandro Lorence, José Bellido, Juan Manuel López, Josué Naranjo, Carmen Zurera, Carmen Robles, Bibiana Martínez, Raquel Castillo, Clara Palomo, Ernesto Rodríguez, Mariló Caballero, Loli Parkinson, Toñi Morilla, Alvaro Martínez, Marcos Martínez, Daniel Miranda, Germana Boza, Susana Caetano, Nono Lorence, Paco, Lucía, Manuel.

39 are not Cristians

Quick Update & Request

We made it to Sevilla earlier today. We already encountered some difficulty. However, we know that God is in charge and He will be glorified. Please be praying for us and the people coming to learn English.

There are now 66 signed up and here's the really cool thing - anytime Pepe (the pastor) invites people outside of the church to go hiking or something like that very few people come. Many people here in Spain view an evangelical church as a cult. However, people are contacting him because they are interested in the English camp! That is really huge.

I apologize for any typos. It's 6:10pm here and I haven't slept much since departing Atlanta. My body's had enough of that apparently.

Huesta leugo!

Jeff

Off to Spain...

So our team is leaving today for Sevilla/Seville to lead an English camp (you have to watch the video in the prior post...I'm wondering "Do they really need us?").

We depart Atlanta at 6:30pm and arrive in Madrid in what will be the middle of the night for our bodies. We'll have a couple of hours to make it through Customs and on to our connecting flight. Pepe has told us it is HOT in his beautiful city. Fortunately, we've been prepared after the extreme heat in Atlanta.

Who are we? We are:
Julie Allen, our leader and Spanish teacher
Lynne Edmonds, an old pro at mission trips
Stephanie Johnston, whose family will be missing their mom and wife
Kelly Angell, another veteran of mission trips
(all 3 of them making Brown's Bridge Community Church proud)
Jason Ferrell, who's making not only his 1st mission trip, but his 1st trip overseas!
Myself, returning to Seville after being part of Team 1 last year

We are very excited and looking forward to what God wants to do through us and in us. This trip wasn't one on the list at the beginning of the year, but was added in the Spring and we trusted that everything would work out.

We'll be posting updates along the way so keep checking back. Maybe there will be a new edition of the guys there speaking English.

Adios,

Jeff L

Two weeks before inglish camp in Sevilla

We're on the newspaper!!!

The local newspaper published an article where everybody can see our services schedule. Isn't great?

Hi! From "tapaland" down south

What a surprise we have had! Coming down south to Sevilla this weekend we have not been able to believe what we’ve seen. There’s a way different church comparing with what we remembered! It all even looks better if you add the “tapas” we dinnered that make us full of joy when we travel down from the north. Watching all it can be done with love and the hand of God we are sure that the week of the English course will be a success. We can’t wait! We’ll be praying for your journey and for your team expecting you’ll have a great time. Thanking God for letting us see the dream becoming truth in our lifes.

Eugenio, Samuel and Marc.