A water baptismal service took place early on a Sunday morning in a little cove on the shores of Majorca, where 16 new believers were baptized. Toni, a 17-year-old, committed his life to Christ a year ago. One day, when he was 10 years old, his mom said, “Toni, you should read the New Testament.” He began reading the Bible and his grandma would tell him to pray, talk to God, and so he did. But at age 16, Toni’s life was in disarray and he understood that he must make a choice between following the world or turning his life completely over to God. Not knowing where to turn, Toni began looking online to listen to ‘preachers’ and realized he needed to become a part of a local church. His first internet search for a church brought him to the web site of Christian Center.
He decided to visit the church. “I’ll never forget that first visit — the singing, the excitement in the service, the love I felt from everyone and the message of God’s word was so real!” They were made to feel welcomed. An usher took down their contact information. Toni continued to come and on the third Sunday he made his decision for Christ. He began attending youth meetings and a weekly home Bible study group. “Everything was so different,” he said. “I was impressed!” As he grew in his new faith, his life was transformed. Bad habits left. His language cleaned up. His relationship with his Dad was healed. He felt a new desire to help people. “They need Christ!” He began telling his friends about his new life in Christ. At High School the other students began to call him "Pastor!"
Toni feels God’s call on his life, and his spiritual growth over this past year has been nothing short of amazing! Toni’s mom and dad are also now serving the Lord.
From Newsletter of AGWM Personnel Alister and Lindy Belbin, Majorca, Spain
A water baptismal service took place early on a Sunday morning in a little cove on the shores of Majorca, where 16 new believers were baptized. Toni, a 17-year-old, committed his life to Christ a year ago. One day, when he was 10 years old, his mom said, “Toni, you should read the New Testament.” He began reading the Bible and his grandma would tell him to pray, talk to God, and so he did.
But at age 16, Toni’s life was in disarray and he understood that he must make a choice between following the world or turning his life completely over to God. Not knowing where to turn, Toni began looking online to listen to ‘preachers’ and realized he needed to become a part of a local church. His first internet search for a church brought him to the web site of Christian Center.
He decided to visit the church. “I’ll never forget that first visit — the singing, the excitement in the service, the love I felt from everyone and the message of God’s word was so real!” They were made to feel welcomed. An usher took down their contact information. Toni continued to come and on the third Sunday he made his decision for Christ. He began attending youth meetings and a weekly home Bible study group. “Everything was so different,” he said. “I was impressed!” As he grew in his new faith, his life was transformed. Bad habits left. His language cleaned up. His relationship with his Dad was healed. He felt a new desire to help people. “They need Christ!” He began telling his friends about his new life in Christ. At High School the other students began to call him "Pastor!"
Toni feels God’s call on his life, and his spiritual growth over this past year has been nothing short of amazing! Toni’s mom and dad are also now serving the Lord.
From Newsletter of AGWM Personnel Alister and Lindy Belbin, Majorca, Spain
On The Red Box, a street evangelism ministry founded in Madrid, Spain by AGWM personnel, Jacob Bock, has spread to other European countries, and even to other continents. It has trained far over one hundred street evangelists. For the last number of years, there has been an annual conference held for these street evangelists.
The pastors of the church in Barakaldo, Spain, David and Gemma, as well as the whole church congregation are very brave evangelists. They go out on the street every week and preach the Word and witness. But recently, when a team from San Jose, California came to join in evangelism, they were blown away. They had not seen people in their town, who evidently react strongly against the Gospel, stay to listen when the name of Jesus or even the word, "God" is spoken. When the preaching began, the people stayed and listened attentively. A miracle was in the making.
About 11 new people showed up for church the following Sunday. To actually enter an evangelical church is a huge step for them. A miracle! When the altar call was given, 8 of the 11 people that were in the church for the first time, stood up in front of everyone to give their lives to Jesus. Obviously, they had come to the service with that intention and this was after a day or more of thinking about it. They got up Sunday morning, decided to find the church and attend the service and it seemed they had already decided to give their lives to Christ. A miracle.
A team from Norway came to Avila, Spain to evangelize on the streets along with AGWM personnel, Scott and Marisa Smith. There are some amazing testimonies of what God did there. An example was when three of the team were sharing Jesus with a young man. Right there as he experienced God’s presence, he started to cry. Moments later two teenaged girls came up and asked them if they could tell them what they had been sharing with the young man as they wanted to hear it, too. People coming up and asking to hear the Gospel…a new thing happening in Spain.
Scott goes on to tell that along with AGWM personnel, Kevin and Karen Prevost, they were in line for lunch when a man heard them talking in English to the Norwegian team. “He spoke to us in English and after conversing for a while asked if we could have lunch with him in a couple of days which we did. Turns out he has a PhD in economics and is the dean of the law and social science departments at the University in Avila. We had a two hour lunch with him and talked only about the Lord. There is no doubt that he believes in God but he now sees that he needs to make an commitment and make Jesus the Lord of his whole life. An amazing conversation.”