Mike´s word.

We wanted to share some thoughts our youngest son Michael has for his friends in the neighborhood:  

“I saw how good it was to have this relationship [with Christ], I knew that everyone should have a chance to know Jesus as a Savior and also like a best friend. I have invited all my friends and witnessed to some but now they push the gospel away and ignore it. They say they want to live their life how they want now and repent later but that isn't how God wants us to be. I ask for prayer for the teenagers of Gijon that God will open their ears to the gospel and that they might get saved.” 

Pray for Michael.  His dream is to serve our country (USA) in the Air Force and learn to be a pilot.

Mission opportunities

Midway through fall, Gijon, which was full of vacationers from all over Europe during the Summer, is now full of students attending Gijón ́s polytechnic school of engineering. The university campus is located in what is called, “The Knowledge Mile,” which is also home to the Science and Technological Park, two technology centers, and more than 50 technological-based enterprises and innovation centers of global scope. It is considered the “Asturian Simi Valley.”

We are pleased that by word of mouth more college and career aged people are coming to our Centro Be Strong to improve their English skills for school and work. At present we have about 30 students. Being an evangelistic center, we pray that as people browse through our Gospel literature and as we share our faith, that God would open hearts and bring young people to salvation.

 As Be Strong evangelistic ministries grows, there is a need for short or long term English teaching missionaries. If the Lord burdens your heart to serve in this type of ministry, please contact us for more information. 

Youth Group!!!!!!

Our movie night watching "Facing the Giants" turned into a wonderful youth night! 

Please pray for these guys. Many of them are coming to church on Sundays and Wednesday, and those who have not started yet, are training with Joseph on the Raptors Football team all the other days of the week. 

Be Strong In the Febuary Cold

BE STRONG evangelism.  As Danielle gives English classes, she shares hope in Christ to many unsaved unmarried couples, and single college and career age Spanish people.  Pray especially for Noé and Nuria, Aingeru and Naiara, Chema and Ainara, Alba, Julia, and the Friday English workshop group.

Friday  English workshop- We get to share our faith in many different topics. 

On March 23, we will show the movie “Facing the Giants.”  We showed it in 2007 to the Mariners tackle football team.  This time we hope to have our new Raptors football team and their parents and friends present.  We also trust young people who have been involved with fitness and weightlifting classes will come.

New Invitations and Visitors

Iglesia Bautista LIBERTAD.  A number of church folks have moved or have changed churches.  Adina and her friend César (who I had been discipling) have moved to Oviedo as well for employment purposes, but we pray that they will continue coming and growing. 

First Be Strong Event Update

Hello from Gijón, SPAIN, 

We appreciate all your prayers and encouragement as last Sunday evening, September 30^th, we gave the first of six BE STRONG spiritual-related presentations which will be given over the next six months.  We will then repeat them creating a continuous cycle, making adjustments as needed.  I´ll explain the program.

As mentioned in our email last week, we have had about 200 people, mostly college and career age, involved with BE STRONG throughout the past year.  Some came for only a week, some have been with us for more than a year.  The majority came to weight train for tackle football, and English classes.  As we work one on one with these young people, we have been able to discuss the Gospel and numerous Bible issues with many of them.

We prepared this first evangelistic session for them and the theme was:  “Spiritual Life - People don´t need religion, nor psychotherapy.”  As spiritually dead beings, we need to be given life through Christ (Ephesians 2:1-9).  Many were positive and said they would come, so we literally prepared for at least 50 visitors.