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August 4th, 2008

Packing time again! This time, for a two week Europe trip - visiting parts of Austria and Italy, with one week of it in Switzerland for a conference. As much as I think I like to travel, I’ve found that even more than traveling, I like returning home at the end of it. No worry about where we’re sleeping for the night, how to get there, or how lost we can get while trying to find it! Málaga always feels like home.

Regardless, Tim and I need at least one good chance to take a trip to other places than Spain, and this is our chance. Who knows when next we will be able to do something like this. Unfortunately, I only know about 15 words in German. Ten of those are the numbers 1-10. I know even less Italian!!

During our time in Switzerland we’ll get to experience both Tim’s birthday and our one year anniversary. A more beautiful place to enjoy those days, I could not have imagined! Our God is so great to both create such a beautiful place, and to bless us with the ability to be there. Hard to believe it’s already been a year of marriage - time passes quickly.

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Eternal Praise

August 3rd, 2008

A couple weeks ago during our worship service I was struck by a moment of inspiration. More like a knowledge of something I’d never thought of before. I don’t know if I quite have it figured out in a way that makes sense to anyone else, but that morning, standing on the stage holding my bass as our pastor read a Psalm (I can’t even remember which one, or if it had anything to do with this), I gained a deeper understanding of our relationship with God in terms of our need to praise.

God is eternal. We are eternal beings, currently trapped in a world bound by time.
God desires our praise and worship. He is surrounded by eternal praise. (See Revelation 4, 5)
God created time, placed us in it, yet is interacting with our time-bound lives even while remaining eternal.

If God desires our eternal praise… then with every moment of our lives, even as we are bound by time, we should be praising Him. Even when we don’t feel like it. Even when we’re upset about something and praising God is the last thing on our minds. If he desires our eternal praise… NOW is part of that.

Wow. Convicting. I know I fall short. Praise God for loving me anyway, even in my weakness!!

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Feria in Town

July 21st, 2008

The local feria (fair) is in town! Every city has one, it seems; the larger cities have much larger events, but even in our area there are at least two that take place in July, not to mention the official Málaga feria in August.

Expensive feria food, flamenco dancing, live music, fair rides with loud pulsing music and flashing lights…all a part of the yearly fair. The experience is kind of overwhelming at first, but if you can find a seat near one of the performance stages, the music and dancing is well worth a visit.

The noise, however, can be a bit much. Even though we live quite a ways away, sound does carry! Every night we hear voices from the loudspeakers, and even music. I can’t imagine living right next door to the fairgrounds!!

The partying usually starts in the evening and carries on well into the early hours of the morning for each day of the feria.

Photos to come as soon as I can remember to get them off my camera.

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Ministry Update - July 18

July 18th, 2008

The pilot episode for our new series was finished last week! It is now under review, and once we’re all back from summer trips we will resume work on the series as a whole.
Many of the staff at MMC go places during the summer, and this year almost all of us are going to be together at a conference for one week in August. For that conference, I’ve been given the job of preparing some of the printed materials: small booklets, schedules, name tags and the like. I made sure to have some supplies ordered for the printer today, which should be here by the time we need to print everything next week.
Tim gave a presentation on Wednesday at our MMC team meeting about the new company intranet that is available, and how everyone can access it. One person I talked to said that Tim is like our very own Steve Jobs (someone in charge of a big computer company) when he goes up in front of everyone to show off what’s new and available. I guess that’s a pretty big complement!
We are putting together a prayer letter right now, and making plans for our return home early next year to raise support. Please pray for us as we plan and try to seek God’s will.

Thanks for your love and support!

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Ministry Update - July 10

July 10th, 2008

Tim received his Spanish driver’s license in the mail this week!
The video studio team has been working on a pilot episode for a new series of Arabic programs, called “Music and Word.” It will be featuring music videos, Bible readings and commentaries, along with the occasional poem or prayer. My responsibility is the creation of the intro, outro, banners, titles, etc. Tim and I have been working together to make a majority of it in 3d; since he’s had more experience in Blender (the 3d program) than I have, I’m really thankful that he’s had the chance to get involved. I suppose we make a good team.
My brother has been here in southern Spain, studying Spanish for five weeks. The other week we had a chance to take a trip together to North Africa for a couple of days. It was an interesting experience, but worth the chance to see up close the country and people we are reaching through media.
Last week and over this past weekend we’ve had the chance to put the increased space of our new home to use! In three days we hosted three different people in our spare room. Thank God that we did get a sofa bed! I love having the space to open our home to others in need.