Ministries to non-Spanish-speakers

As more and more immigrants arrive in Spain, from both the richer and poorer nations, so churches follow. For many years there have been official chaplaincies for the communities of western nations, such as Britain and Germany, both in Madrid and coastal regions. Independent churches and fellowships have also arisen where there are larger communities, most of which at first were English-speaking.

2/3 World churches

In the past decade, the immigrant rush from less economically developed, but more spiritually developed lands had brought about great changes in the face of Spanish evangelicalism in general and in particular in reference to churches speaking other languages. The many Latin Americans have mostly been able to integrate, with greater or lesser success, in the Spanish speaking churches led by Spaniards, but here also new churches are rapidly growing with latin leadership. But among those coming from countries such as Romania, the Philippines and sub-saharan Africa, new expressions of church were certainly necessary to provide a spiritual home for the immigrants. Thus there are now Nigerian churches in some cities, Philippino fellowships and Romanian churches. Indeed these are rapidly becoming some of the largest churches in the country, providing Spanish evangelicals with both encouragement and discouragement. On the one hand it is good to know that they are not alone, that the number of believers is growing. On the other hand, Spanish evangelicals have long been spoken of as having 'a foreign religion'. With such large foreign evangelical communities in their midst, it is again hard to escape the foreign label, something Spaniards find concerning.

More soon, as we investigate this growing phenomenon...

Chinese churches

We have found this site which informs about one Chinese work in Madrid and Valencia.

English speaking groups on the Costas