Genesis 1:1

This is one of the MANY reasons I love my church.

Bella knows God made her, God loves her, and Jesus wants to be her friend forever.

Espana es muy bonita

From Spain

From Spain

From Spain

From Spain

From Spain

The trip has been an amazing experience. So far, we've found that the church does amazing work already, and needed less tangible help with technical gear. They are a talented bunch. They did, however, need help with the intangibles. We've spent a lot of time talking philosophy. Coaching them on how to think about ministry. We had no idea how valuable our advice would be to the staff and volunteers, as we led them through a creative brainstorming session yesterday, which illustrated how we, at Buckhead Church, think through creating programming. They loved it.

Said an easier way, it's tempting on these quick trips to "give them a fish" by programming a service for them; however we "taught them to fish" by showing them how to think in terms of creative programming, how to use good transitions to glue elements together, to value the details, to create positive tension in their attendees where they create a safe environment to struggle with spiritual questions, and most importantly, what questions to ask themselves about their audiences...people who don't do church. As much as it helps them, it also has been a big help to Josh and me; cementing what we believe about programming.

Josh is a celebrity here. His videos are legendary in Spain. It's funny to see people nearly bow to him, as we forget the influence our little church in America has around the world. Josh's videos are recreated here in Spanish, too. It's humbling to see that. People crowd around him...at all times, even if he's just surfing the Web, hoping they will learn something...maybe by osmosis. It's hilarious, especially if you know how little attention Josh demands.

From Spain

From Spain

From Spain

From Spain

From Spain

I'm looking forward to coming back to Sevilla in the future, and very happy about seeing my girls tomorrow. You don't realize how much they mean until you go 4,000 miles away. If you don't use Skype, maybe you should. It's made the distance seem much smaller.

He's off!

Chris left for Spain tonight. Not gonna lie, I already miss him! He's got another 6 hours left of traveling, and I hope he's getting some sleep right now.
Thanks to all of your for your monetary support of this trip! Spain and Buckhead Church appreciate it!!!

Spain Needs Your Money

From Sevilla, Spain

From Sevilla, Spain

Blog reader friends:
I've been asked by Buckhead Church to go to one of our partner churches in Sevilla, Spain (where Christopher Columbus was buried) to train their production crew how to run audio. Rough life. I know.

Cool story, though. This church used to meet under a tree! How cool is that? Now, they have all the technology, but need help learning how to master it.

By now, you're jumping off the couch yelling: "Chris, How can I help?"

I ain't pulling any punches. We need your cash! We are SO close to raising the money needed to make this trip happen, over $2,000. If you want to help, here's how...

TO GIVE ONLINE
Go to www.GOglobalx.org
Click on "give" along the top right of the page, then...

1. Enter your information
2. For country select "X Trip (admin use)"
3. For trip select "X Trip (admin use) Other trips - 12/30/09-12/31/09"
4. For individual type in "Spain - Chris Green"

Question #6: When/How did you come to know Christ?

I grew up at church, and I had always known who God was, but it was in 9th grade at an Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting that I first officially made a decision to follow Christ.

It was always hard for me to know "when" I came to know Him and it was something I secretly struggled with, like I needed an exact date to that. I didn't have a day where all of a sudden I did a 180 or was a different person. You know, how you hear someone was bad then was a new person after accepting Jesus. I didn't have an "ahh-haa" moment. I think I thought I needed to have that, so I probably prayed that prayer in FCA meetings 100 times, not kidding.

Later, I realized, that although my story was maybe "boring" to tell, the Lord had totally protected me from a lot of that stuff. I just naturally went from learning to accepting.

There came a time early in college when I felt led to get baptised. It was a freeing step for me because I was publicly confirming that Jesus was my Savior.

Of course, it's always a learning curve. I am still getting to know what it's like to know Him.

What's your story?