I found out yesterday that Send International formally accepted me as a short-term missionary to Spain for the summer. I will therefore be blogging my experiences so that supporters and brothers and sisters in Christ can be updated and pray for the work there. I'm hoping that my entries may eventually be written bilingually, however, at this stage I can't promise anything.
I'm nervous. The Lord has carried me through to this point, but I am acutely aware of my anxiety about logistics - raising my support, making sure I keep up my fluency rate, moving out of my apartment a couple of weeks before I leave, etc. I know these are minute things in God's great plan, so I'm trying to submit myself to God's will and be faithful that He will provide.
So where exactly will I be serving? I'll be traveling to Spain June 6 and working northeast of Madrid, possibly helping with youth camps, coffeehouses, evangelical campaigns and the annual Send Spain conference. The last five days (early August) I'll have free time. Some of the places I'll be working include Azuqueca and the Guadalajara region.
A small bit of background about the blog's name: Spain is often called the land of the sun (la tierra del sol), and the web address has the Spanish words for faith and sun in it. My hope is that the people in the land of the sol will be able to hear Jesus' call to their souls.
