Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International in Spain

Torrevieja Chapter Profile

The Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International Torrevieja chapter was started by Stuart Handley, Eddie Martens and Paul Brygider in 2006.

The chapter had its first meeting at the Torrevieja Christian Fellowship church room in Torrevieja,  at the time when Pastors John and Doreen Jessop were leading the church. That meeting was headed up by Bruce Wick, Lionel Ferries and Alan Dunbar from the Marbella chapter. The next day the Torrevieja chapter started with its first breakfast meeting at ‘Murphy’s on the Park’ Torrevieja, with a time of testimony from Alan Dunbar who is a retired police inspector, from the city of Liverpool, and spoke about how he became a Christian in such a high powered job.

After that the Torrevieja chapter has had regular breakfast meetings in the Torrevieja area and in the winter around November has had shared meetings with  the ladies coming along to enjoy a Gala Dinner evening with guest speakers. One of our dinner guest speakers was Welshman Richard Taylor, who was then one of the pastors at Renewal Christian Centre, Solihull; Richard used to regularly appear on television and also wrote ‘To catch a Thief’.  He now leads ‘Victory Outreach’ in South Wales. Another dinner speaker was Pastor Chris Thompson from the USA (who is pastoring a growing church in the UK) and shared a powerful testimony of how he went ‘from drugs to being a Pastor’. The Torrevieja chapter has around 25 to 35 people or more at the breakfast meetings, and as many as 120 have attended the Gala dinners.

The chapter try to use a variety of different bars and restaurants for their breakfast meetings and Gala Dinners, usually around the Torrevieja area.

The men of the chapter meet for prayer and fellowship, especially before their breakfast or dinner outreach meetings.  Breakfasts, for men only in Torrevieja, tend to be about every six weeks.There are no meetings during July and August as the temperature rises to uncomfortable levels and many members are either busy with visiting family and friends or have escaped to slightly cooler climes.  Meetings resume again in September.

The Torrevieja chapter works closely with the ladies of Women Aglow who meet at Torrevieja Christian Centre on the second Saturday of every month  - for details click here.