Spain to Switzerland in one piece (or six)

Sadly our time in Spain has come to an end. Many seeds have been planted and the Bible Festival continues. Please keep praying for those who are continuing the work in Baeza. Pray for a new generation to rise up in Spain that will be changed by the Gospel and not be afraid to proclaim it!

After our day trip from Baeza to Madrid we spent the evening on a whirlwind tour of the central city in Spain. Part of that tour involved a stop at the apartment building in Madrid where Katie's parents lived as missionaries about 35 years ago! 24hrs later we were staying in a YWAM building at the base in Lausanne, Switzerland (with all 6 pieces of our luggage!)...we soon figured out that this was the same building where Katie's parents had lived and trained with YWAM in 1972! How exciting to trace our heritage on this trip.

Last night Dustin did three presentations and shared Christ with hundreds on the shores of lake Geneva during the Montreux Jazz Festival. We will be repeating this schedule nightly for the next 4 nights. We have already heard many testimonies of lives that were impacted through Dustin's presentation last night Please continue to pray for Dustin's strength, knees and clarity in the message the Lord gives him.

Espana

Hey everyone. We finally have an internet connection tonight... We made it to Spain safe and sound. Five of our Six pieces of luggage made it and after many phone calls and some compromises with the shipping company on the ground our last piece of luggage arrived just in time to get set up for our first program.

We are involved in a Bible Festival campaign in Baeza about 4 hours south of Madrid. Baeza is a small Pueblo of 16,000 that has no evangelical Christian presence. There are no believers and no church except for a small group of faithful missionaries who have moved here recently to bring Christ to the local people. We are praying that the Lord will sow seeds of change through this campaign. Our first performance Saturday night was in the main Plaza in the center of town. Our organizers hoped for 50 people in the audience and we ended up with nearly 200. Word got out and the next night we had about 450 present.

Please pray that many will attend the events in the next few days and that many will be open to hearing the Gospel for the first time. Also pray for Dustin's knees. His right knee is swollen and he's experiencing some limited range of motion.

Thanks for all the prayers and support!

Favored Nation

It was a privilege to be part of Ken Parker's, Christian Arts Ministries patriotic musical called Favored Nation. Dustin commanded the stage during his act as John Hancock and Katie danced in scenes throughout the production.

Ninety-five percent of the script was the actual words of our Founding Fathers and showed their dependence upon God in making the important decisions of our countries beginning. It was a refreshing yet sobering look at our countries heritage, though magnified how far we have strayed from the Truth of God that was once commonly accepted.

There were two lines in the production that really impacted Dustin. First was one of his own lines as John Hancock: "...our confidence must not be in the Means we use; but must repose only in that GOD who rules the Armies of Heaven, and without whose Blessing the best human Counsels are but Foolishness." (America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quoatations pg. 275) The other line was from John Adams - Founding Father and 2nd U.S. president: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Happy 4th of July! And may God somehow have mercy on us and continue to bless America!

Have a Blast!

For all your fireworks needs this Independence Day, we recommend you stop by the Shakopee Cub Foods parking lot and stock up. This firework stand is run by our friends at JSAW (Jesus, Snow, Asphalt and Water) and proceeds go toward their action sports ministry. Support JSAW and you can be assured you are supporting the cause of Christ in reaching youth around the world!
Get the most bang for your buck and watch your patriotic fireworks display support a ministry! POW!

Rock Solid Rock!

Dustin participated in Grace Church's VBS this summer. The theme was Rock Solid Rock with a very clever drama running all week along the theme of David and Goliath.

Dustin's role each day was to MC the rally's where 900 kids and 350 volunteers gathered from their classrooms for a big assembly. Each day he surprised the kids by riding out on a different unicycle, of course building up to the ten footer at last.

Dustin had the opportunity to share the gospel with the kids on the last day and again with families Friday evening during the Family Drama Night which seamed the daily drama together and celebrated all that God had done throughout the week. Many kids choose to make Jesus their Solid Rock to build their lives on. It was an exciting week where we saw God at work in many ways.

(Thank you Jonathan Stone for the photos; thank you Children 18:3 for the "Jesus is my Rock" t-shirt.)