Aaron Vocals

Sorry this is late. I've had a manic week. Our church offices are moving and I have been in charge of a lot of projects including ordering 17 new PC's and a server from Dell (which is taking longer than I had planned).

Anyway, as for my escapades in sunny Spain:

We got to Luton (I hate that airport) just in time for our flight (there had been an accident on the M1, we tried to take an alternative route through the small townships of Bedfordshire but it seemed that everybody else travelling to Luton that day had decided to try the same). After finally boarding the Ryanair flight I let our a sigh and waited for take-off. We rumbled down the runway and took off for Girona (near Barcelona).

After 2 hours pretty smooth flight we touched down in Girona and were met by the tour promoters and taken out to eat. An experience to say the least. Although the food was edible, my mate Matthew found a beetle walking about on his plate of food halfway through eating. Of course this put everyone else off. We were then taken to our hotel - a pretty basic but nice Campanile hotel. Reminded me of those American motels because the entrance doors to the rooms were on the outside.

The next day we were taken to the beach (we were on a tight schedule and were told that we could only spend about 15 minutes there!) and then to a TV studio where we were to perform on a programme a little bit like a youthful version of Parkinson. It was good fun.

That evening I called for a time of devotion and prayer (even though it was about 12am I felt strongly that we needed it). It was a good turn out with about 10-12 of us crammed into mine and Matthew's room. We started by singing some praise and worship songs and then went into prayer and I read from Romans 12 (KJV and The Message versions). I felt that we needed to pray for people individually and find out what was on their mind and what they wanted praying for. The Holy Spirit moved in such an amazing way, bringing healing and deliverance to some and just increasing his blessing on others. We finished at 4am!

The following day we were taken to Barcelona centre to look around and do a bit of shopping. I just bought a baseball cap for 3 euros (about £2) and a Starbucks coffee (which cost about the same as the cap). Our concert was that evening in a sort of sports hall type venue in Girona. It went well and the people loved it. Spain is a very religious country being mainly Roman Catholic so its quite hard to get people to come along to a gospel concert, but they did come and they enjoyed themselves - we actually had 2 encores!

We then went to Zaragoza the next day which took around 3 hours drive. We didn't get to see much of the city but the concert venue was a beautiful big modern theatre. It was about half to three-quarters full. Concert was great.

All in all I enjoyed the trip and am exicted to go back to the 30 degree temperatures!!! Visit back for SPAIN TRIP #2!!!!

See ya and have a great weekend.
Aaron