Hey all! Well, considering I was meant to do a monthly blog update, I haven't been doing so well...I'm sorry! A crazy amount has happened since the last time I wrote so will try to remember all that's happened, no doubt I'll forget a huge amount but I'll try! And also, feel free to drop me a message anytime you like, always good to hear from you :-)

So, I'm still alive! :-) I've gained more work which is great, almost have a full on teaching week now finally! Although I would still like a bit more if I can find it, bit harder now that my schedule is pretty fixed. But Spain does love their holidays, 2 days off a couple of weeks ago and 2 days this week! Annoying thing about that is no work for me so no money which is frustrating at times. But apart from that work is going well. I'm still in the same flat, but one of my housemates left about a month ago as he finally found work back home in Murcia, so it's a bit quieter in the flat now there's only 3 of us. I've started playing football twice a week now, on Sundays with one of my housemates in a 7 a side league which is great, and Monday nights for a kickabout with some guys. That one is a pretty late one, we only start playing at half 10 but since last week the weather has changed dramatically and it's been HOT every day so it's very nice to play late :-) I've been making more friends which is good, so my spare time is filling up very quickly. It's great coz they want to practice their English and I get to talk a lot, which I love, and most importantly, I get to talk about the church plant and more about Christianity and they listen to me!! :-) some have even shown an interest in what we're doing here so we'll see what happens with them.

As a church plant, things have been going very well. We've had a few social events which have been well attended and a great success, God is really blessing us in that.We still meet on Saturday nights which is a great time for us to grow together. I now offically "lead" the kids work although there aren't many of them so isn't as big as it sounds lol. We've had Guy and Heather Miller out here which was a brilliant weekend. At the end of March was the Iberian Peninsula Conference where all the Newfrontier churches in Portugal and Spain met in a place called Penafiel near Porto. We had a lot of leaders over from England too. That was a great conference and we all left with a real sense of God's blessing and renewal on us to impact the cities where we are. There was also a free Christian concert in a park in Madrid the other weekend organized by Kaka's (a Brazilian footballer who plays for Madrid) wife which Hillsong London were at plus other groups/artists famous in Spanish circles. So we all went there as a group which was good, only shame was the day was rainy so there weren't as many people around -- Spanish people don't seem to like the rain as much as English people do ;-)
Umm, now am struggling to think of what else has been going on...sure I've missed a load. Oh well, this is probably long enough and like I said, you can always message me and I could probably tell you more, plus I would love to know how you're doing! :-) anyways, this blog is a bit boring so will try and find some interesting pictures to put with it!

Love you and miss you loads,
Dave

I nicked this picture, but this is of some of us at the Iberian Peninsula Conference

Obviously, I'm not very good at taking photos as I nicked that one and have no others of real interest to show you! Maybe next time :-) take care!