Moving house again

Today is the big move. Dozens of boxes have been packed over the past weeks, and by this morning even the furniture was all lined up, waiting to be loaded into the vans. The two vans have been driving back and forward all day.

No, I'm not moving this time. This move is for the whole leadership development ministry; that's why there's so much stuff - even though there's not actually much furniture to be moved. We'll need to trust God for all the beds, etc, needed to furnish our new ministry home.

Yes, after two years in Villa Victoria (on the left below), the property that we were using as a leadership retreat centre and a base for the LDC training course, we began to pray about whether we should purchase the villa as a YWAM centre for leadership development. But it turned out that the present owner had bought the house some years ago, at a time when property prices were unusually high, and when we had the house evaluated by the bank, the evaluation came in at 100,000 euros less than the owner was asking for. He wasn't willing to take that much of a loss, and so we had to start looking for a new place to base the ministry.

An estate agent told us of another villa that had just come up for rent (on the right below.) It's a newer house - just three years old - and it's about four miles out of town, in what the Spanish call the "campo" or countryside. Like Villa Victoria, it has five bedrooms, and hopefully it will be ideal for the ongoing ministry. So the big move is happening today. Our winter seminars and next year's LDC will be held in this new location.

The most challenging part of the move, I think, will be capturing and transporting Pepe the turkey, who is now a very big boy!! Watch this space for more news of that adventure.