Safely back in the USA

Today August 25th, we arrived safely back in the USA today. You can imagine how thrilled we were when US Air asked us if we would mind being bumped up to 1st Class. Wow what a treat and a nice trip back to the USA! Thanks Ben and Hannah for picking us up at the Richmond airport. We will be staying with Ben and Hannah when we are not traveling. We are looking forward to be near by when our first grandbaby comes along. We will miss our dear friends back in Madrid, but sure looking forward to see old friends and meeting new partners for ministry.

Two New Baptisms for CCEN

What a joy to be able to celebrate two baptism today. We are fortunate to have a local church that was willing to let us use their baptismal tank. Jael and Renato are two youth in our church. I have had the privilege of knowing Jael since our days back in Venezuela, where I baptized her sisters at the IBM Church. Renato came to Madrid from Peru to be with his mother. It is a great joy to witness their public profession of faith. Renato is looking forward to helping with our sound and music ministry at church.

 Renato and Peter

Church celebration after the service

Sing with the Ramon y Cajal Choir

Did you know that most of the hospitals in Spain have their own choir? I have been with the Ramon y Cajal choir now for almost a year. We have our practices on Thursday afternoon. We will practice at the hospital but most of our performances will be at a cathedral in Madrid. Our big performance this year was in June at the San Andres Cathedral in Madrid. Check out this video of our July Concert.

Cipriano de Valera 2013 & 9 Marks

Our First 9 Marks Conference in Spain

It was great to have Mark Dever in Spain for our first 9 Marks conference. Mark was invited to Spain to speak at Cipriano de Valera 2013. This is a conference for reformed minded pastors and lay leaders in Spain. We were able to share promote two of the 9 Marks books that Peter has been coordinating the translation and publication.Mark gave an overview of  the charertisitcs of an effective discipleship ministry in the local church. We have a sweet time of fellowship and discussion.  The two books that we promoted at the conference are available in pdf format the the 9 Marks web page. Check out La Disciplina en la Iglesia & La Membrecia de la Iglesia. 

After the conference Peter enjoyed travel with Mark and Jamie Owens to Toledo and down town Madrid.

Mark shares a word about the new book on Church Discipline

9 MARKS IN SPANISH

The new 9 Marks web page in Spanish and two new books from 9 Marks in were launched at The Gospel Coalition conference in Orlando, Florida. Over the past year and a half, Peter has been working with Patricio Ledesma and 9 Marks to coordinating the translation of the 9 Marks web page into Spanish. Javi Perez has done a great job in translating these two books into Spanish. Little by little a team is forming to get more of the books, articles and ejournals into Spanish. We are thankful that it worked out for Patricio to actually attend the conference and meet with the Spanish pastors that were in attendance. Here are the two books that were given to the Spanish pastors.

A Day in Valencia, Spain

It does happen often but when it does we are thrilled to have family come for a visit. Peter's sister Miriam and her husband David won a Cruise in the Mediterranean. One of the stops was Valencia, Spain. We were able to enjoy the day with them and get a first time chance to visit the city.

 

February Learning Community in Oxford

There were 9 of us from TEAM Spain that attending the learning community in Oxford, England. The focus for this learning community was "Building a Discipling Culture".

It was refreshing to consider how Jesus would use "Invitation and Challenge" as he built His discipling culture. A new insight for us was that "Inviation and Challenge" should begin even at the -9 level of the Engel's Scale and continue on thru the whole discipleship process.

 

With our church planting parters Scott and Lorna

One of the high lights while we were in Oxford was to eat at the Pub "The Eagle and Child" where C S Lewis would hang out with his buddies. 

  

 The Corner where the four "Inkling" would sit.