Evangelist among students in Spain
Santiago de Compostela is a small town of about 100,000 inhabitants, but with one of the oldest universities in the world hosting 30,000 students.
Get involved in the lives of students who want to practise speaking English. You could come as a student yourself, perhaps through an exchange programme, or to study Spanish or the Gallego language.
One possibility is to work alongside the GBU, a Spanish Christian student organisation. There are many other opportunities to serve in WEC's new church planting team in the area.
Qualities & Gifts Sought
You have a heart for students and young people, energy and passion to share the gospel.
You are willing to study or teach in order to connect with them more closely. You will have some level of fluency in Spanish already, and also good English.
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About Spain
Spain is a country mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe, but also shares a border with Morocco. Its African territory accounts for nearly 5% of its 46 million population, mostly in the Canary Islands, but also in Ceuta and Melilla.
With an area of 505,990 km2, Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe, the second largest country in Western Europe.
By population, Spain is the sixth largest in Europe. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid. Other major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Bilbao and Málaga.
[Read more about Spain on Wikipedia]
Spain has 106 people groups, 16 of which are considered unreached. Christianity is the largest religion at almost 76%. Professing christians number 77.5% and of those 1.35% are Evangelical.
[source: Joshua Project]
Catalán, Calician and Basque are all official languages in the respective autonomous regions. Castilian (Spanish) is the only official language for all the Spanish territory. Spanish is the first language of over 340 million people; the world’s third most widely used language.
[source: Operation World, 2010]
Pray with us for:
the challenges of drugs and addiction
the training for christian leaders
key groups for outreach: the Basques, young people, peoples of other faiths and no faith, and the elderly
Bible translation into regional languages
WEC España is an international team focused on:
walking alongside people, sharing the stories of faith,
discipleship and starting churches where there are few,
Bible translation,
teaching and training,
youth and children’s ministry,
social and medical work,
drug and alcohol rehabilitation with Betel,
media production and broadcast,
reaching out to immigrants.
WEC are looking for anyone with a heart to serve the peoples of this beautiful land.
Check out the WEC España website for more information.