Spain – Day 4

It is hard to believe we are on day 4.  The early mornings and late nights are becoming a blur for us, in addition to eating at 2:30 and 9:30.

Today at breakfast, we observed the start of Advent.  Tan read scripture and light the advent candles.  It was cool to celebrate that.

Here is where the campers stay and where we have our meals.  It is a great facility and the food is excellent.  After breakfast we headed back to do a quick sound check and get ready for service.  This morning was a lighter day for us, we were to lead worship and they had arranged for a speaker to come to share, so we got to enjoy the talk.  We were also not part of the next series of breakout sessions.

Here is Miguel who spoke at the service and was teaching on recording here.

We were up next; demonstrating what to do and what not to do when leading worship.  This was a fun exercise since we over exaggerated everything and the campers had a good laugh.

Here’s us with one of the worship leaders/piano player.

Lunch was paella and a salad with onions (that taste lasted a bit).

After lunch, we had about an hour break before we were to pack up and head out to the concert venue.  We were really looking forward to playing at the concert except we didn’t know exactly what the plan was, we were going with the flow.

This was the building we played in.  It was a interesting facility in that there was a concert hall on the one side and then a bar/restaurant/dance hall on the opposite site.  This was in a nearby city called Valencia.  We were told that most of the people that were coming to the concert were from surrounding areas and  were mostly non Christ followers.

We had kind of a mad rush to get setup and get going because we were behind on our schedule.  Concert was to start at 7 pm and we got to the venue and 5:30 pm and had to set up an entire sound system, choir risers, instruments and lights.  Basically we didn’t get to sound check and the poor sound guy had to run the sound on the fly.

Aaron and Pat supervising the set up.

The choir in their Christmas outfits getting set for a mini run through.

Samuel rocking the drums!

Tan leading a time of singing some folk/Celtic music.

The audience that came to see the concert.

The concert was a blast.  Everyone did their best with the limited time to get ready.  Jesus was shared and even though we didn’t have a formal altar call or anything like that, I pray that people were moved by the lyrics and music to want to find out more about who this Jesus we sung about is.

As we were loading up to head back to camp, I walked past this.  If you can see, it is a bunch of older couples dancing.  It was so cute and cool to see them enjoying each other; bear in mind this was after 9 pm – not sure any of our parents are up this late dancing on a Sunday evening.

We made it back for dinner at 10 pm and were ready to call it a night.  It was a fun day and we’re looking forward to another full day of sharing and worshipping together.

Ciao!