Dear Pastor and Praying Friends,

Greetings, from Spain, in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!  We praise the Lord for allowing us to finally arrive on the field in Spain.  There are so many precious souls here that need to know Christ as their personal Savior.  When we arrived here on September 5^th, Brother Steve Cooper picked us up at the airport.  He and his family shared their home with us until we were able to find a place of our own.  The Coopers have been serving the Lord in Spain for right at thirteen years and have done a great work for the Lord.  They are located in Lebrija, a village of about 35,000 souls, located about 45 minutes from Seville.  Bro. Cooper has invited us to live in Lebrija while we learn the Spanish language and learn under them.  This gives us a great opportunity to have a church to attend, Christian Spanish people to communicate with and the chance to learn from a veteran missionary.  God has so graciously provided for every need we have had.

I am traveling by train every weekday to attend language school in Seville.  Patsy is home-schooling the boys and setting the house in order.  It has been a real blessing to be able to explain why we are here to my professors and fellow students at language school (mostly German students).  There is obviously a lot of the “get to God your own way” philosophy in Europe.  That is of course, if they even believe in a God at all.  Patsy has been working on her Spanish by exchanging English lessons for Spanish.  Anna Belen is a 19 year old girl who was saved in the church started by the Coopers about two months ago, and she comes to the house almost every day to work with Patsy.  In addition to language training Patsy is also working with Anna Belen on memorizing scripture, keeping a prayer journal, and daily Bible reading.  After only three weeks in Spain the Lord blessed us greatly by allowing us to see Anna Belen’s father come to know Christ as his personal Savior.  The church had been praying for him and he came forward in the service last Saturday evening after another missionary here in Spain, Bro. Urey, preached a great message on Hell.  Isn’t the Lord good to us to allow us to see fruit of our prayers so soon after arriving here.  I’m glad we have a God that does so much to help and encourage us on a personal level.

I have been working with the men from the church here on visitation and soul winning.  We walk through-out the village passing out tracts, copies of John and Romans, and inviting people to the church services.  We have had people tear up the tracts right in front of us and tell us they don’t need it.  There have been some people who read them and others were cordial enough to “discuss Christ” with us.  The Roman Catholic Church still has it’s talons deep within these people’s souls.  Pray that the Lord will remove the Satanic oppression from this village and allow people to see their need to be saved.  There are many “good Catholics” racing down the road to Hell with their traditions and their church.  We try to show them verses from the Bible, but they are still content with what the priest has taught them.  To many of them it is just an “American” religion.

Along with encouragement we have seen sorrow.  The man who owns the building that the Church rents hung himself and died on Wednesday morning.  Bro. Cooper and several other men from the church had tried to help him see his need for Christ, but he was unwilling.  His home was the apartment above the church and the services were very somber last night.  Knowing that right above us this poor soul had gone off into an eternal Hell leaving no hope for family, really makes the battle before us very clear.

Please pray for a man named Jose.  He also takes the train and I have been able to witness to him and share my testimony.  He is really curious as to what our beliefs are.  I have given him several different tracts as well as a copy of John and Romans.  Pray that God will speak to his heart.  Every member of the church here has most of their families that are still lost, and we ask that you join them and us in praying for their family member.