December 7th and 8th WEC Spain had their annual Fellowship Days. It was two days where the whole Spain team gathered together to update each other on how they are doing, pray for each other, discuss some urgent business, eat, laugh, and make repairs around the WEC office.
Our job as short-termers to help prepare was to do all the shopping to get paper plates and cups and such, coffee, snacks, and snack lunch stuff for the kids. It was a good job that Esther and I did well, but we both were feeling very sick the few days before Fellowship Days so you should have seen us sniffling and dragging our tired selves through the aisles at the store wondering how many packs of coffee to get and what to pack for the kids' lunches. It was quite comical. Three stores and two shopping carts full, we walked back home and collapsed onto the couches. We also ran the children's program the second day for 4 hours (the same kids we had at Prayer Day in Burgos in September).
I got to see more of how a country-wide team of missionaries works together and supports each other and makes decisions. It was very enlightening. Afterward, Coralie called it a miracle that there could be 20 people with different views and backgrounds and thoughts come to a consensus on an urgent matter and have 100% support in agreement.
Also, while talking with the team that works in the northern Basque region, we decided to make plans for me to visit them and help out doing research for an upcoming event they are planning. They are new to their region, are just getting started learning the people and the language, and they want to host a weekend of Prayer for the people in the area. The research will involve assessing the needs of the population and the challenges that they will face in their church planting. I think the tentative plan will be for me to go mid January (after I get back from Germany and before my parents come to visit the 25th). Yay!
Here's some photos!
Lisa, Gloria (ministry in Almeria to Muslim children), Linette (beginning a ministry in the basque region), and Coralie at lunch at a Chinese restaurant.
Doing an activity in Juan Carlos park in the center of Madrid. This is a huge jungle gym web thingy that we were challenged to climb. No problema!
Playing blind folded follow-the-leader in the park with the kids. We're mean, I know.
Gladys (english teacher/associate WEC missionary in Alcala) y Maripei (ministry in Talavera) sorting out the WEC library:
Eun Suk (new worker studying Spanish in Alcala) sorting out the linen closet:
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