For the second missionary journey, Paul took Silas as his companion. The journey is introduced with the terse announcement in Acts 15:41 that "he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches. We have no record of when these churches were started, but a logical assumption is that at least some of them were started by Paul before he was brought to Antioch of Syria by Barnabas, and unrecorded period of perhaps ten years.