I spent some time talking to a friend last night, telling him about all the things that are going on here in Granada. He said, YOU HAVE TO BLOG ABOUT THIS, so Jason, here it goes. One of the things that keeps Andrew and I both here is the youth ministry. The city of Granada has over 70.000 students, more if you include the thousands that flock here for language school. Right now, Campus Crusade and Intervarsity have a limited reach, and so the rest is left to the little Baptist church. Many of our members have been perturbed in the past that they can't find seats on Sunday morning because of all the students! However, we along with the pastor and wife, have explained that this is part of the ministry here in Granada. Saturday night, we had about 20 students for youth group, and we showed them the movie, The End of Spear. If you all have missed out on this, please go find a copy and watch it this week. Since it was in English with Spanish subtitles, I wasn't sure how things woul...
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This whole Christmas season really started when Andrew and I went to the biggest theater in town to hear our church choir sing a Christmas Cantanta . Somehow doors were opened , and the mayor’s office of Granada allowed our church to throw a free concert . Over 500 people were in attendance . The theater is called Isabelle the Catholic , and to me it was amazing that a little evangelical Baptist church was allowed to sing freely about Christmas and the Gospel . We went to the concert with a couple of friends , one of them named Pablo. Pablo is from Argentina , but has lived here in Spain for a lot of years . He’s been reluctant to meet evangelicals as he believes they are all hypocrites . However , we had a good time with him and his girlfriend later that afternoon as a few of us went out for some pizza . A few days later was Christmas Eve or Nochebuena ( Go...