Big apologies for the delay of this
blog. It has been an intense season with lots of new news however we have no
great excuse. It is thanks to the arrival of Christmas that has provoked us to
inform you of what has been happening and the plans that we have for 2014.
Vanessa
started working in a school as a language helper which means she helps the
teachers as a native speaker in the english classes. She loves her job even
though the journey is very long. She travels by underground, train and bus in
order to get there and back. It means that the children stay in the school for
lunch which costs a lot but the house, which is also my office, is quiet
throughout the day. I work much better without all the interruptions.
Marco (who
stayed with us for 9 months serving the church and studying with me, has
reutrned to Mexico. Marco was a blessing and in November I followed him to
Mexico in order to go to Fiesta (the conference for Nuevas Fronteras Mexico). I
had a very good time, made lots of new friends and the old friendships were
strengthened. Thanks to Oscar Suarez, who is the pastor of Fuente de Vida in
Guadalajara, I got to preach to the church in Spanish. While it wasn't the
first time preaching in Spanish, it was the first time in front of so many
people. They were very friendly (as always) and I enjoyed it a lot. By the end
of my time there, I had met 2 young guys that are planning to come to Madrid
next year in order to serve the church and study with me, as Marco did. There
is some paperwork to overcome but we are hoping the first will arrive in Jan or
Feb.
The church
plant in Madrid is going well. God has blessed us with a number of people that
have arrived in order to spend 6 months or a year studying or working in
Madrid. The majority are English. Of greater importance is that we have more
Madrileños or or Spanish speakers in our meetings. We started the year praying
for this and, little by little, God has responded. I believe a few are not yet
Christians but they are interested in the good news.
We continue
meeting in different groups 3 times per month and once a month we all come
together. The majority of weeks we have two full houses. We desperately need to
start a 3rd group but we lack a place to meet each week. We have
some ideas of how to overcome this problem but would be grateful for your
prayers for this issue. On the other hand we have found a chapel in a local
school that we could use for the meetings all together. We are thinking of
increasing the meetings there throughout next year until we have 'Sunday
meetings' every week. Currently, they are checking our references and we hope
to begin meeting there at the beginning of the year. Pray for this as well,
please.
These is some
of our most recent news and some plans that we have for next year. We hope you
have a great Christmas and a prosperous new year.
Un abrazo
fuerte
Kevin
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