was a very cool "Special Time"...

Portugal is gone... two very hards weeks, but full of the love of God. The communication is something interesting and complicated, and to understand it you need A LOT of patience... and we have it :)

Anyway, Portugal is awesome, and the people are amazing, we could see the love of God through them. They helped us in ministry, they showed us the city, they cooked MANY beautiful and amazing things for us... The people of Portugal are so friendly and full of the Spirit.

The two weeks we spent with them we presented ourselves to the church, we did sketches and we played music. We also did a Kid's Club, and it was so much fun. We helped with a Cafe Concert, were we played music (of course).

We went to a skate park, met a few skaters, and skated with them (well, just Kayla, because she is the skater on our team). The people there were soo open to us, we had a few conversations with non-believers, and we invited people to the Cafe Concert and other activities, like a Movie Night.

These events were for people from the neighborhood and church members, but we didn't expect many to come. When we gave out invitations, we did it in one day for only 30 minutes, so we weren't expecting a big turn-out. We hoped to see around 17 or 20 people, mostly church members... but that night we saw around 55, and more than half were non-christians!

We worked with two churchs: Baptist Evangelique Church and CCVA. Together the two churches hosted a free Acoustic Concert (which also had free soup, that was very good :) For this we distributed invitations, and at the concert we performed a sketch and live art. This was also very interesting, because two churchs of different denominations working together is not common in Portugal. Right now there are 10098877365252673765434218.78899 (a lot) of church denominations, and they usually don't mix.  So to see these two churches working together was very encouraging.

We left Portugal for Spain on the 6th, and it was amazingly normal. We have an idea of our ministry here: every evening is an English cafe, where we will help the locals with their English. We also will make a video, do practical work, and try to survive the HUGE insects that are here, etc... it will be interesting, but of course, awesome.

:)