Photo report, Agua Viva 2008

Zaragoza

The city of over 700,000 was founded by the Romans and is dominated by a cathedral marking the supposed spot where 'the virgin' met James, brother of John on his return from evangelising Spain before returning to Judea to be executed by Herod!

Zaragoza has been swiftly modernised over the past decade, particularly taking advantage of the Expo to build new bridges over and parks beside the river Ebro. earlier this year the high speed rail link from Madrid (open to Zaragoza already several years) was finally completed at Barcelona. Madrid and Barcelona are just over an hour away by train, with former Expo city Seville another 2 1/2 hours beyond Madrid.

El Pilar Cathedral by night	El Pilar Cathedral, Zaragoza	Volunteers bridge to the Expo
View from the Expo towards the city centre	Swiss celebration at the Expo	Spray-cooler fun

The Agua Viva Pavilion

The Expo is open from 14th June to 14th September and the regional Churches' Council has taken up the challenge to be involved. Some 6 million are expected to the Expo and after 2 months some 185,000 had visited Agua Viva, of whom 136,000 had seen the evangelistic audio-visual. We helped 'entertain' visitors waiting to see the video with a rope trick and to distribute gifts -and talk to visitors- on departure.

View from the street, pavilion of Aragon to the right, Agua Viva on the left	The Agua Viva Pavilion from inside the Expo	Entering the pavilion you find an area of NGOs working in the third world	A water chlorinator cleans 220l per minute with a car battery and salt
Roping in the visitors!	Getting them depressed about hope for the world	Raising hope of a bright future... in the video show
Crowd viewing the audiovisual	The video presentation can be downloaded	Coming out of the show
You can see pictures painted under water	Please take a Gospel, a Jesus video or some other literature!	And we'd be happy to talk with you...

Open Air Ministry

We were involved in two (brief) training seminars and preaching in 4 parks.

Sketchboard training session	Romanian church sing and mime	Woman at the well (sorry, man by a stagnant pool!)	Chris, Les and 'Teo' (the latter two sing a duo!)
In the 'Big Park'	Colombian dance group	Preaching to the crowd	Still looking for an answer?

Download (or view)the full slide show here ('light' 6MB version).

Download (or view) the Agua Viva evangelistic video (in English!) here

Photos taken by Chris and Hilde on the Panasonic Lumix compact or the new Pentax K100. Touched up with The Gimp.
Our Video made on the Mac Mini using iPhoto, converted into Quicktime - sorry, not the most compact format and still it hasn't got all the flashy tweaks (which it makes automatically!) of my desktop version.