It's fun to watch God put things together.  I'm writing this from the annual conference of FIEIDE, the association TEAM works with in Spain.  It's been fun to connect with several old friends and meet some new ones.  Some of these are good contacts for the investigation: determining what God is doing in Spain.  Others are potential candidates for future church plants TEAM might do in Spain.  This in only a half day of meetings so far.  We are entering now in the business sessions, which gives me the opportunity to write to you!  Sorry, but I've never been a big fan of business meetings.  The best part of these conferences is connecting with the people over a meal or coffee, and I did connect with some very interesting people who God is using in Spain.

Now I'm back home and we are preparing to have some good friends over tonight, Marcus and Sofia.  I have a year end party for my tennis league tomorrow, a chance to get to know guys in the league better, which was the real objective for playing.  Unfortunately, it starts during the church service, so we'll have to leave as early as possible so I can get back for at least a bit of it.  

On another front, Jeremy and Jessica are a young couple that attended our church in Camarma for a few months, and now have returned to California.  They "happen to" live close to Greg in Orange and we think he'd like them.  They may be able to help him with job connections.  Regardless, it impresses me that J and J have moved close by even as we've been praying for Greg.  Greg is applying for a loan, by the way, as he has still been unable to find a job.

There is good and bad news about the summer camp.  The town does not want us to do a program for the 225 registered kids in the town camp.  That means we'll have to do something different with the team that is coming.  There are several alternatives that would be few kids but perhaps give a better opportunity to present the gospel.  The town camp would give a much better contact with non-Christian families in the town.  So please pray for wisdom, and that God will clearly open the door He wants us to enter.

From the beginning our church has been concerned about the teenaged children in our congregation, but we've been unable to maintain our own youth group after some ups and downs.  It's been proposed several times that we connect with a group in a nearby town, San Fernando de Henares, led by a dynamic couple, Giles and Debbie Davis.  This church is connected with another church in Madrid that is a big sister of ours.  It "just so happened" that youth group celebrated a weekend retreat in the school in which our church meets.  This allowed our teens to meet the kids in the group after our church service.  They were happy to receive our kids, and they will join the activity their next meeting.

So, God is on the throne.  You knew that, just wanted to remind you!

Thanks for praying for us,

Mark and Kay