letter from Spain

Seedy clubs, drugs & alcohol... but the gospel too!

Trevor Ramsey  |  World
Date posted:  18 Jul 2024
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Seedy clubs, drugs & alcohol... but the gospel too!

Benidorm

Located on Spain’s sunny Costa Blanca, the town of Benidorm is known for many things - only a few of them are particularly healthy! Through popular TV programmes, such as Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun, A Place in the Sun or the sitcom Benidorm, many UK citizens have got a taste of life on the sunny coast.

Benidorm is still a very popular holiday destination - indeed nearly 800,000 UK tourists flock there every summer, seeking the perfect holiday of sun, sea and sand. Parts of the town are beautiful and peaceful but certain areas are awash with decadence and immorality, fuelled by excessive alcohol and a lax drug use policy, particularly on 'The Strip', the notorious street full of bars and seedy clubs. It’s a veritable hive of activity and noise and depravity, especially when the sun goes down.

Yet, in the midst of all this, a small non-denominational evangelical church, is bearing witness to the gospel of Christ, and speaking hope in place of hopelessness, truth in place of error and life in place of death.

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