Venue Move & Launch

A big thanks to you all for praying us and sorry for the lack of news updates recently. Here’s some highlights from recent months to catch up:

Firstly, thanks to the generosity of Salisbury City Church members, we have been able to partner with 4 local men to help them in the start up of a small business. Due to the crisis in the construction industry they have been unemployed for the last two or three years and with very little hope for finding work. We have printed flyers for odd jobs and window cleaning and called the business SAROVIPA. We’ve also purchased them a laptop and printer and one of our mission groups is involved in giving them on-going training in running their accounts, etc…

Secondly, we have moved from our city centre venue to a small theatre in Quevedo, Madrid. It is in a much more authentically Madrid neighbourhood with a lovely bar area and glass frontage onto a busy street. While increasing costs and workload on Sunday mornings the move so far seems to have gone very well. We’ve certainly seen an increase in Spanish speakers with us since the move. We also had the privilege of having our first baptisms in this period as well.

 Thirdly, we are about to publicly launch the church. Although we have been running public Sunday meetings for over a year now, we’ve never had the opportunity to do an official launch with publicity etc… We’ve named the church, ‘Iglesia de Cristo Salvador’, have a new logo, webpage (check out: www.cristomadrid.es) and publicity. We have a number of events to help launch the church throughout November including:

• an open mic evening in a city centre bar
• a 3 week sermon series, 'Is God real/dead/good?
• a quiz night with supper
• the launch Sunday with gift day
• a breakfast for local church leaders

There’s probably more that we could say, but the above are the main highlights. Thank you for partnering in prayer with us for the church plant. Please thanks God for all he’s doing amongst us and pray for the launch period and the events as well as for the guys in SAROVIPA. Many thanks.