Yes I know what you are thinking! Here in beautiful Spain and the Faases are 'suffering for the Gospel!' But I'm actually referring to some of the people here at the conference who are literally suffering for the Gospel. Yesterday we heard from an amazing guy called Kamil who spoke about the ministry he and his wife Kath run in Turkey. He has been arrested 3 times and continues to work under threat. He runs a TV/radio ministry and used to run a bible school until he had to shut it down because it was infiltrated with a spy masquerading as a Christian but was actually from the army. This man went on to do terrible things against them. Kamil even spoke of some of his ex students who were executed because they would not denounce their Christian faith. It is a privilege to be here. They are being blessed by Karl's messages and we are blessed by hearing their stories.
In the afternoon we went on a bus to l'Albufera lake for a bit of a boat tour and then had paella for dinner. Apparently for all you foodies, paella originated in this Valencia region of Spain. There are rice fields everywhere - something I didn't really expect in Europe!
It was delicious but what was even better was sharing it with people from Germany, Norway and Albania and hearing about their work in Christian media across Europe. Fascinating and incredibly encouraging.
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