Calendar of Evangelistic and other significant events

Upcoming activities

Regular evangelism in central Seville and Madrid

A group of churches have got together to start regular open air outreach in the centre of Sevilla, the capital of the southern region, Andalusia, using the name Reacciona Sevilla. This will be somewhat similar to the outreach of Kilómetro Cero in Madrid's Puerta del Sol, which brings people from churches across the city for prayer, training and open air evangelism.

Living Water at the Zaragoza Water Expo

From 14th June to 14th September Zaragoza is the world centre for thinking on the Water problem. We have been there! The Evangelical effort, following on from the Pavilion of Promise in Seville, Hanover and Lisbon, takes on the title Agua Viva (Living Water).

The rapidly built pavilion is now operative and on the first day the Expo saw over 40,000 visitors, some 1,000 reaching Agua Viva. 200,000 made the Agua Viva visit by 20th August, over 150,000 viewing the espejismos video. Thousands of gospels and Jesus videos have been distributed. Pray that the visitors are eternally changed through their visit.

Along side the Expo pavilion, there are five outreaches happening across the city for the 3 months. Various evangelistic groups are involved, such as Decision and Pocket Testament League. But the bulk of the outreach effort is being conducted by the local churches' membership, along with volunteers coming from around Spain and further afield. At the last moment and despite giving plenty of warning, the city authorities have turned down requests for permission for various activities which were planned by the churches' council and visiting groups. The stated reason is that they want nothing to distract people from the Expo! Pray that the objective -presenting Christ as the Living Water in a spiritually parched city- is not hindered, but perhaps even aided by this hiccup. You can get a glimpse of the action from our report.

Other summer outreaches

Operation Transit

This outreach to people travelling across Spain between their places of work in northern Europe and their home countries in North Africa takes place over a long part of the summer and involves teams dispersed along the routes. in the past the ports were the focus, but now many other places are found easier to work. The objective is to give out gospels, Jesus videos and other literature to the travellers. In addition, there will be a special focus this year on visitors to the Zaragoza Expo.

Camps and other campaigns.

Many churches and youth organisations hold camps and summer activities for children and teenagers. Pray for these. Also pray for the outreaches of Decision and Pocket Testament League (both of which also have outreaches in Zaragoza):

PTL in Azuqueca de Henares (east of Madrid): 14 to 27 July

Decision in Palma del Río (Andalusia): 10 to 25 August.

Spanish Evangelists' Conference

This occasional event will again take place this year. It is happening at El Escorial, close to Madrid, early December. Most of those involved in reaching the nation will be meeting together at this time. More from the conference's site.

Recent Events

Concentración Masiva

Marcos Witt, Mexican pastor and singer and winner of 3 Latin Grammys was the star at the 'Mass Gathering of Young people' to be held in June at the covered Bull Ring in Leganés, south of Madrid. There were 12 hours of evangelical pop, dance, testimonies and preaching. Witt, in a press conference, encouraged evangelical leaders to build bridges, not walls. He invited himself to a possible (he hopes) future event at the Real Madrid stadium.

United week -or 2 months- of prayer

On the brochure it claimed to be the week starting the 6th of January, but events seem to be spread out throughout the month! In fact, the 6th, being Reyes the day on which presents are given, is hardly a good day to start this week of prayer, so in most cities the week was postponed by at least one week.
Other prayer initiatives at the start of the year were the 40 days of prayer -starting 13th January- led by Intercessors for Spain and Spain Prays for Spain, a series of three monthly prayer gatherings, first city-wide, then regional and finally in March a national meeting in Madrid. (See below)
May the Lord answer these initiatives!

Spain Prays for Spain

Marcos Vidal sings for Spain 1 March 2008

On 1st March almost 5000 evangelicals took to the concourse in front of Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in possibly Spain's largest ever prayer meeting. Believers from all over the country gathered to pray for Spain and in particular the upcoming elections. This was the culmination of two months of special prayer initiatives the length and breadth of the country. (See also united week of prayer article). Others joined via web and satellite links, with a message broadcast from Marcos Witt's mega-church in Texas.

Agua Viva prayer meeting and celebration

On 8th March believers from the churches in Zaragoza gathered to pray for the upcoming Agua Viva pavillion at the International Expo. Finance and volunteers are still needed to set up and run the pavillion along with the 5 neighbourhood outreaches which will take place across the city during the 3 month Expo.

Links

More can be found on the churches' calendars (in Spanish), which include activities of all sorts, including a good number of retreats and training activities.

Protestante Digital from the Evangelical Alliance
'Protestant Agenda' from the official churches' representative body, FEREDE