Two years on....

January, 2013, it’s been two years since the first family arrived from New Frontiers to start learning the language and culture and to
eventually plant a church into this great city of Madrid.

Impact groups
We now have two different impact groups meeting in the city. One meets in the morning, one in the evening. We decided to do this because we felt God call us to be less ‘event’ focussed and more people
focussed, recognising that Madrid is made up of many small ‘villages’ or ‘barrios’ that requires us to spread out and be relevant to the people around us.  It has been a great way to get to know people very quickly and a lot cheaper on the budget. We would like to keep growing groups in different barrios of Madrid. This has also helped us to start thinking and praying towards a second team starting to emerge in the south or the east of Madrid.

In each impact group we have between 6-10 adults and a handful of children. It has been a blessing to have young single people join these groups who are living in Madrid for a year or 
in some cases more. We believe this is going to be a strategic way of reaching people for Christ around us.

Local
Once a month we meet in a local more central to Madrid, where we get to worship, serve and preach all in Spanish with translation back to English.  Before Christmas we held a carol service where we had many guests (40 people attended including the team). It was great fun, getting our Spanish friends to read passages about Jesus’ birth from the bible with the microphone. Lesson learnt, that some like the microphone a little more than others. After every carol there was a spontaneous round of applause and a general feeling that this was Church planting, in the raw and so exciting.

Outreach 
The other Sunday of the month we organise a language exchange evening which have been very popular unless of course it’s raining as Spanish people don’t tend to come out of the house if it’s raining. We feel it’s a way to serve our community as many people are unemployed and when looking for a job, English is essential. At each one we explain who we are, what we are doing and that we want to be a blessing to Madrid.

Team meetings
On Wednesday evenings we meet at Kev and Ness’ house for team time, praying for one another and the task that is ahead of us, Confident that the one who has started the good work in us and Madrid will bring about its completion.

Please pray for us, we are all at different stages in our cultural adjustment and language learning due to different team members arriving at different times. Please pray that we gel as a team, have fun with one another and spur one another on. Please pray for more team members to come and live in a different part of Madrid and start something in their barrio.

Pray that we will see men and women of peace come to join us from our barrios, preferably Spanish speakers who will run alongside us and open up more opportunities to share the gospel.We know that we need your continued prayers and are grateful that you stand alongside us.
Thank you