We have accepted God’s invitation to live with Him eternally but what about our friends, our neighbours, and our relatives?… Have they accepted their invitation yet?

It is the fourth year of CONÉCTATE and we have been active in Santiago de Compostela since January. It is a city of ninety thousand habitants of which only fifteen are Adventists, Our Challenge is to increase our membership through motivation and encouragement. This in itself is not an easy task but, for God, there are no giants, so we will go to work as the Sower goes to work: With the seeds in His hands. Jesus, while on earth, set the example. He walked close to the people to learn about their needs. Then He prayed with them and He gave them the hope of eternal life.

We have been able to meet the challenges of our Project by using the ‘door to door’approach when working in the communities. We introduced the communities to the ‘Mobile Library’, a free lending service of Adventist books, music and audio sermons. Several people have opened their doors to us and willingly borrowed booklets from our catalogue. Already we are reaping the benefits of being in regular contact with the community because, in less than two months we have not only started a Bible Study group, we have also made contact with a number of people interested in their spiritual growth.

We have scheduled the following Evangelistic events:

15 March. The orchestra and choir of the Adventist Seminar, in Sagunto, will delight us with their concert: ‘Man is a curious thing’.

3 to 12 April. The “Evangelistic Urban Camp”. Sixty youth, from all over Spain, will come to Santiago to experience spiritual revival, fellowship and discipleship while working on a crusade that has already changed the lives of the youth who attended this crusade in Valencia, Zaragoza or Seville.

Every evening, from the 5th ‘to the 11th, one of the youth will preach a sermon inside the First Crusade of Biblical public conferences. The topic: ‘The last week of Jesus on earth and what it would mean for us today and for tomorrow’.

In May, the Conéctate Festival of christian music, meditations and mimic will portray the Adventist message of hope.

In June, A Bible-Expo will be held in the city centre, with theology students from the Adventist Seminar in Sagunto. This activity will be associated to the Final Crusade of public conferences preached by our youth leader of the Spanish Union, pr. Oscar López Teulé.

The Bible workers are: Sara Guntín (La Coruña), Cecilia Montero (Puerto de Sagunto), Loris Bizarro (C.A.S.) and Diego Angulo (Denia). They set aside their personal projects to join the campaign and to enjoy the privilege of dedicating six months of their lives to a ‘full-time job’ for God. Their Challenge: Bringing a message of hope with the second coming of Jesus and eternal life in the 21st century. Many may regard this as madness but “… it was God’s pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him”. 1 Cor 1:21.

We would like to thank all the people who have contributed towards making this Project become a reality by sharing with them all the blessings we receive every day.

Think of the changes Jesus has made in your life and share them with your family, friends and colleagues so that we never can forget Jesus is the ONLY one who can give us eternal life.

We will regularily keep you informed, through interesting articles, about news and campaign results.

Take a short break, every day at 22:00 hrs to pray to our Lord so that the Holy Spirit will be the only protagonist of CONÉCTATE, and of your life and of ours. Amén.

Ernesto Duo

ASI Spain President