Spain in February

My last night in Spain is being spent in Valencia. It is one of my persoanl favorites in Europe because of the historic part of the town. It is fascinating and often sunny (like today almost 70 degrees in February). While in Spain this time we set up our summer ministry for a team in Segovia and Zamora, preached in Zamora, took a week of language school, and attended the Assemblies of God conference in Gandia. We are working with their youth ministries and ICI to equip their youth workers. We were also able to put materials for training short term mission teams into the hands of their mission department.

Having three of our books translated into Spanish enables us to equip a large number of countries in these areas. Kristy came with me this time to help get all those books over here. She left for Madrid this afternoon to get ready to fly out for home, while I head to Poland for another conference where I am speaking and to do set up work for teams in 2010.

So that is the latest greatest from where in the world is Mark.

well i just finished another atlantic ocean crossing and am on keyboards that give interesting symbols when you don´t want them and the ones you need you can´t find sometimes. spain is one of the countries we have had a long term investment in and will continue to as long as the doors are open. today i delivered almost forty books that will be a part of their correspondece training for youth workers. like most of the rest of the world youth ministries are run by volunteers and our materials are focused on that dynamic. so we get to help train youth workers we will never meet face to face but all the effort and time that a book takes becomes ultimately worth it when you realize what it can do in multiple languagues and long after you are gone. when we are done here in spain we get to do the same delivery thing in poland. wow. it is a priviledge to be able to help out in places where whole generations of youth will be lost if we don´t do what we can to equip the people that already have the zeal and the heart just not the tools and training. thank you jesus. mark