Sunday I met…

On Sunday I got myself out of bed on time, I cleaned up nicely and ate breakfast, scooted out the door with enough time to make it to church. I found the church with no problems and only arrived a couple minutes, but, strangely it look like the service had already started, and the worship was really short, I was a bit confused but, I went along with it.

The sermon was super good and what I needed to hear. It was about spiritual warfare, something I normally learn about before entering a new country. But, because this isn’t a mission, I didn’t have anyone to tell me about spiritual warfare. I got it this Sunday though! It was so good to hear too. There are many idols here in Spain, and from what I’ve observed there are very few people I’ve met that wants anything to do with Christianity.
These past few weeks I have really felt the need to meet other believers. This is my first trip I’ve made that I haven’t had a Christian community surrounding me. Which is a little challenging, but in a good way, I’ve been challenged to seek God deeper; to be in community with the Father, Spirit and Son!
Thankfully, I got the contact information for the young adults group at the church I went to.  I did meet a few people at the church. As I left the church building this six year old came up to me and started talking to me…in Spanish. It went well though. Then on my way out back to the Metro station I caught up with this Chinese guy, of 16 years old. A young one. He is interested in everything that has to do with music, he’s in a band. I might check it out one day. We chatted the whole way till we had to switch subways and go different directions.
I am so thankful I found this church, I believe it will be a good place for me to get plugged in! I did find out though that, Spain changed to day light savings….and I didn’t…so I showed up to church an hour late! Just can’t seem to make it to church on time no matter what!

I did meet another feller of 29 years old, this one I met at the park, long story, but, a bit of it goes like…we tried to rent a bike, stood in line for a long time, I was next to get a bike then it closed, so no bike for me. Anyhow, we decided to just walk around and chat, which was great, we hit all sorts of deep controversial topics. I really enjoyed hearing his socialistic opinion on things. Although he doesn’t have a Christian point of view because he’s an atheist. Our conversations were rich none the less. Later we headed into the heart of Madrid to walk around and see the night life, get churros con chocolate, and a few tapas y canas. All of which were at super crowded intense restaurants.

Overall, I had a great day! I met new people, had good conversation and laughed a lot!