Fran Vargas was a pastor who had arrived in Spain years ago to bring the word of God. As soon as he arrived from Guatemala where he was born he settled in a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Madrid . Over the years he gathered a group of faithful made up of both emigrants and Spaniards. Humble uneducated people with many ambitions for a decent life and many more frustrations that tied them to the edge of the consumer society without perspectives and full of uncertainties. Uncertainties that found no answer in State institutions administrations politics unions or traditional religions. With this flock despite the specific contributions of all of them the income of the " Universal Church of the Evangelical Rebirth " did not go far.
But Pastor Fran Vargas received enormous resources from other postmillennial neo-Pentecostal churches especially from the United States and Brazil . With these resources he could not only live comfortably but also help his parishioners meet their basic UAE Phone Number needs from everything necessary for the children's school to occasional help to make ends meet pay an overdue bill or buy clothes. worthy to go to the Sunday ceremony that is a skirt below the knees and a long-sleeved blouse for women; suit shirt and tie for men dress for girls and shorts and long-sleeved shirt for boys. Going to church well presentable shaved perfectly combed with clean nails was essential. Otherwise they could be punished. Also with the money he received he was able to buy a place in the neighborhood that they converted into a temple make a pool for baptisms and also acquire a couple of guitars to accompany the songs.
One afternoon watching a report about “Empty Spain” Pastor Fran Vargas had the idea that his church could be installed in an abandoned town. He set to the task with his two most intelligent deacons. The North American and Brazilian churches found it very interesting and offered to participate in the project by purchasing the land and providing the necessary resources for the reconstruction of the town. The pastor hired an office that was in charge of the procedures and permits necessary for the purchase and construction and the preparation of the construction projects. They acquired an abandoned town between Granada and Malaga . For a couple of years the parishioners joined by volunteers from North American Latin American and some Portuguese churches worked with zeal and devotion building a new town with all the necessary infrastructure to live in accordance with divine provisions.
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