We arrived at Ibiza airport at about 2am Spanish time and were met and made very welcome by the 24-7 Ibiza team leaders Charlie and Abby and swiftly transferred to our hotel in San Antonio.
The weather is unsurprisingly hot with the average temp being about 30 degrees in the day with it not dropping much below 20 at night!
We are here with a group of others who are here for most of the season. These guys really know what they are doing and we are grateful for their encouragement and support. Man, they are good at praying!
Day 1
The photo is the famous sunset over the sunset strip, which is the unofficial start of night time in Ibiza. We started at 12 with two teams of 6, one group going out into San Antonio the others staying at the centre and praying. We met with workers and revellers a like, who wholeheartedly welcomed our presence. People were prayed for, bibles given out and people helped.
So Alex, in his own style, managed to make a cracking rookie error! Given that he is an experienced wheelchair pusher with Robert he confidently stepped forward and helped a young fella up to the medical tent. He was a tricky customer but don't think he deserved to be thrown out of the chair when Alex hit a curb!
One of the local bar workers asked one of the teams to pray that they would get a flat mate very soon. The next day she said she'd got one!
As part of our initial training, stories were shared about how often prayers in the prayer room were answered as soon as the teams hit the streets. It was wonderful to witness this as for the first prayer hour between 12 and 1 we were praying about how God keeps his promises. Two of the team then went out and met up with on of the bar workers who opened up and, in tears, was sharing about how his life was full of broken promises. We were able to draw alongside a lonely young man, listen to him for 20 minutes and then offer words of encouragement and friendship to him. Please pray that the long term team have many more opportunities over the coming weeks to help this chap and show him that God loves him and keeps his promises.
Final thought
It's obvious from our first night that Jesus very much loves Ibiza and that very positive things are happening here. There still is a small sense of what are on earth are we doing here but instead of wanting to hide away we are excited to get back out into San Antonio and be involved in what is happening.
7 The Spirit has given each of us a special way of serving others.
1 Corinthians 12 v 7 CEV version
Hi Team, Great to get your news and feel connected with you. Housegroup have signed up to pray for you between 7.00-8.00 p.m. tonight, followed by pizza and a skype session. I've been 'confined to barracks' for the prayer time, but will still be praying. Hope to be allowed out later for the skype session. Looking forward to getting more news of God's answers to prayer.
ReplyDeleteHi everyone Thank you for all the hard work and effort you are putting in out there I am in total awe .It has been good that when Morgs and I have done and still are doing daft o clock in the morning in the prayer room as are others, we feel somehow connected .Still praying, loving the blog,see you all soon , Amanda and Morgon
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