I have been wanting to blog about all of the stuff that is going on here right now, but something had to give, and it was the blog. Forgive me for the long silence. I think the best way for me to catch you up is to do a speed list. Maybe i'll throw a story in, we'll see. So hang on here it comes...
April brought the rain, and it wants to stay. On the 12th we gathered as a community to huddle and get a vision for our mission as a church. At the same time we were trying to figure out what our choices were going to be for school for the kids next year. (I'll talk more about that later) Teaching kept us busy with a lot of heart ache about some of the kids from ICSC in the upper grades not passing. On the 25th of April our house church gathered as a small group and worked out our vision for our group. It was amazing!
May came roaring in and we kicked off our Month of Prayer. We prayed for the states on the 1st and also kicked off our first Thursday fast of the month. (we are fasting on Thursdays for spiritual breakthrough here) Friday the 2nd Paula and I had a lock-in with the high school class at ICSC. We stayed up all night, ate ice cream, watched movies and had a great time. (We were tired) Saturday was Marty's birthday so we went to the beach and played volleyball. Then house church at our place on Saturday. Also Friday Peter from Germany came for a visit. He headed to Porto on Monday. Monday we went to a teachers meeting for ICSC to support our friend Jason Gregg because the school...i'm not going to go into it, but we may not send our kids to the school, or teach there next year because of the way they have been treating people. Please pray with us about this. It is major. I have no idea what we did for the rest of the week, but my head was spinning. And then Sunday was house church again and the Global Day of Prayer. (We had a prayer meeting for our city at the cross in Cascais) Today we taught and sent out e-mails, prayer retreat flyer's, school prep and more. Now I have to finish this so I can head over to another prayer meeting and share with them tonight. Pray with us that we would see freedom and open doors here in Portugal.
OK, that's a mess and a whole lot of info. Hope you can follow it.
Blessings
PS We will head for the states June 9th. Texas, to Colorado, to San Diego and back to Lisbon on July 18th, I think.
May came roaring in and we kicked off our Month of Prayer. We prayed for the states on the 1st and also kicked off our first Thursday fast of the month. (we are fasting on Thursdays for spiritual breakthrough here) Friday the 2nd Paula and I had a lock-in with the high school class at ICSC. We stayed up all night, ate ice cream, watched movies and had a great time. (We were tired) Saturday was Marty's birthday so we went to the beach and played volleyball. Then house church at our place on Saturday. Also Friday Peter from Germany came for a visit. He headed to Porto on Monday. Monday we went to a teachers meeting for ICSC to support our friend Jason Gregg because the school...i'm not going to go into it, but we may not send our kids to the school, or teach there next year because of the way they have been treating people. Please pray with us about this. It is major. I have no idea what we did for the rest of the week, but my head was spinning. And then Sunday was house church again and the Global Day of Prayer. (We had a prayer meeting for our city at the cross in Cascais) Today we taught and sent out e-mails, prayer retreat flyer's, school prep and more. Now I have to finish this so I can head over to another prayer meeting and share with them tonight. Pray with us that we would see freedom and open doors here in Portugal.
OK, that's a mess and a whole lot of info. Hope you can follow it.
Blessings
PS We will head for the states June 9th. Texas, to Colorado, to San Diego and back to Lisbon on July 18th, I think.
