CMF’s Globalscope campus ministry in Salamanca, Spain, is celebrating six years of fruitful ministry to university students today. And although European mission fields such as Spain are among the most resistant to the Gospel, the En Vivo ministry has a wide-ranging impact. At its recent spring retreat, for example, there were 10 Spaniards, but also students from Bulgaria, Great Britain, Columbia, Germany, Brazil, China, Angola, and Mexico.
En Vivo team member Ansley Cleveland was there from the beginning of it all. “It is pretty crazy to think back to when all this started in the spring of 2005, when after months of meeting people and putting on concerts to bring them all together we had one final concert as a house-warming party for our brand new Spanish campus ministry,” she writes.
In celebration of this anniversary the student leadership group of En Vivo volunteered to be in charge of the regular Thursday evening Bible study at the campus house for the very first time.
“They are at our campus house right now, cooking, cleaning, setting up, practicing the music, doing all the things that our team normally does on a Thursday so that tonight at 9:30 p.m. their friends can come experience the love of Christ,” said Ansley. “Our leaders came to us with this idea and already had a plan in mind for what they each wanted to do!”
“I love things like this,” added Ansley, “ways you can see God moving things that you could have never planned for yourself, so that when you see them happening all you can do is say, thank you, thank you, thank you.”
For the fourth year in a row, the students and staff of the Globalscope En Vivo campus ministry are working on a building project with Habitat for Humanity. This week (June 6-10) a team of 12 from the ministry in Salamanca, Spain, will head west to Portugal to help construct a Habitat home for a needy family.
