Peter's Valencia Marathon

The goal was to finish the marathon and try to do it under 5 hours. What a beautiful city for a marathon. I think there were some 24 bands that were playing as we ran by.

Just before the start of the race. There were so many runners it took about five minutes just to get to the starting line.

 23,000 some runners

 A spectacular finish line

Crossing the finish line

Just finishing the race!

With my friend and running partner Paco

Discipleship training in Oxford

A number TEAM Spain missionaries have spent the last two years in a learning community with 3DM Ministries in Oxford, England.

 The learning communities have focused on how to develop a discipleship culture. If the church that we live is going to have a impact of the society in which we live, we can no longer wait and expect “them” to “come to us”. We need a missional approach to reach out to the cities in which we live. The church as establish by Christ is God's tool and means to each out to the lost world. Our learning community has spent time reviewing how Jesus taught and trained his disciples to carry on the work after he had left them. The focus of his training was to make disciples, spend much time with them modeling what he was teaching.

Fellowship with others in the learning community

 Small group sessions

TEAM missionaries from Europe

 Pretty canal near learning center

 Pub where C S Lewis would meet with colleagues

 Visiting Oxford University

Visiting Oxford University

A suprise Birthday Party for Sharon

 Peter had a lot of fun planning a Birthday party for Sharon. I invited some of our neighbors, our friends from choir, church and also students from Sharon's English class.

Hiking the Camino de Santiago - Portugal trail

Sharon and I had a super vacation hiking on the Camino de Santiago. We actually hiked on the Portugal route which streches from Lisbon Portugal to the city of Santiago. We did half of that trail. Maybe we wil get to do the first part in the future. Trust you will enjoy the pictures.

Peter Runs his first 10K in Spain

On Sunday June 15th Peter ran his second road race here in Madrid. This was his first 10K here in Spain. He has been training since January and would like to try a Marathon sometime in the future. Thanks to his friend Francisco "Paco" for practing together. We both completed the 10K. We ran part of the way with a 76 year old man who started running after he turned 60. He has run at least 5 Marathons in his 70's.

Peter and Paco