Here are some pictures of the most recent baptsims that we had.

This first picture is of Adoración, the grandmother of the family in Cariñena that is slowly growing in numbers of saved members of the family.

Here is John Jairo, who we met through a business group. John was saved but not attending church. It was a great thrill to see him getting baptized, as well as seeing his two older daughters starting to attend the youth meetings.

This is Elisabet, who recently has experienced a revival in her life. Besides getting baptized, she has also been faithfully going out to evangelize with our group to the towns every week.

Antonio, along with his wife, Lucy have been encouraged in their spiritual walk by José Manuel and Belen from Cariñena, making them a kind of spiritual grandchildren for us.

Another Antonio is the grandfather of a couple of the young men from our youth group. Daniel asked is to go visit him when we were still not sure of his salvation. When he got baptized here, he clearly expressed his faith in Jesus Christ as his Saviour.

At the beginning of the month, we had a church excursion with our group from the town of Tauste. We spent the day at Moncayo, a mountain about an hour from Zaragoza. It was a great time of fellowship for the believers, and we also were able to meet some new people that Karina invited. In the picture to the left, clockwise from the bottom left: Antonio, Azucena, Diana, Juan, Feli, and Dunia.



Pictured to the left are Michel (Karina's daughter), Lucia and Lucas (Dani and Diana's children)

Clockwise from the bottom left: Cesar, Marimar, Jorge, Axel, Karina, Sara, her husband Miguel, Fabian and David. Sara, Miguel and Fabian are not saved; she has a brain tumor and is seeking God.

Clockwise from bottom left: Ben, Eduardo, Juana, Pedro and Sue. There was 25 of us in all that day, Praise the Lord!!

Here are a few pictures from a day trip that we took this summer to the French coast. The town is called Biarritz, it was a well-known resort town during the Franco years.

This summer has also been a summer of goodbyes for us. In the pictures to the right, you can see Sue with Sara Lindemann, a university student from Australia. Sue and Sara became great friends during the school year, and we were sad to see her go. We do, however, have an open invitation to visit her in Australia!!


You can also see a picture of Gary McGregor, who used to work with Campus Crurade here in Spain, and has since come back several times to work here with the youth. Plese pray for Gary as he attempts to secure his visa to come back and continue working with the youth of the city.

We also had to say good bye to two families who are very good friends of ours, the Fryes and the Tabiendos (in the picture to the left). The Fryes have been in Zaragoza for over 30 years, and the Tabiendos for a year longer than we have. That leaves us as the missionaries in Zaragoza with the most "seniority."

In July, we had another one of our all day excursions to the towns. Here is an impressive sight in the town of Lanaja. The building is an old wheat silo built to store and ration the wheat harvest. You can see more than a dozen stork nests, there are almost as many more on the other side. These nests can measure up to NINE FEET diameter and weigh several tons.

Spain is one of the world leaders in alternative energy. Here you see a field that used to grow crops now being used to "harvest" sunlight and turn it into energy. The governement subsidizes both solar and wind generated energy, and they are being a significant source of income for many of the outlying towns.

I have told you in the past that many of the towns are decreasing in population as the people move to the cities and larger villages. However, many of them do not forget their roots. They take the money they earn in the city, and use it to fix up houses in the towns, to be used as a vacation property, like the magnificent bulding to the left.

The province of Zaragoza is very dry, and the countryside very barren. Teruel, the province to the south, is mostly mountainous, with many springs and rivers and much more rain. You will find many of the houses in the villages there with wonderful flower gardens growing out front.

In the 1980s, a plague swept through the region, killing most of the elm trees in the area. In this particular town, the people have left the trunk standing of the last elm tree that grew here