A month of gatherings

This has been a holiday weekend in Spain - not a particularly cheery one, though, as 1st November is All Saints' Day - the time when Spaniards take bunches of flowers to the graves of dead relatives. Yesterday at church, we came in the opposite spirit by holding a special family service that celebrated the life and power of God. Adults and children alike enjoyed making the armour of God (see Ephesians chapter 6) and dressing someone up with the belt of truth, the helmet of salavation and the shield of faith, etc

November is going to be a month of seminars and conferences for me, starting this week with our all-Europe KKI staff and leadership conference in Barcelona. I fly up to Barcelona tomorrow for some days of meeting with the European Leadership Team (ELT) and then the conference itself will run from Thursday till Sunday. Nearly 400 people from all over Europe will be joining us for that time, a time of tapping into God's heart for the children, youth and families of this continent. We've found an excellent facility very close to Barcelona airport for this event.

I'll get back to Malaga next weekend, just in time for a week-long training seminar we're running on the topic of Christian leadership coaching. This will be with a much smaller group than the Barcelona gathering, but people are coming from as far afield as Scotland, Latvia and Romania for that week.

Then, in the third week of November, we'll be gathering together in Malaga as the steering group for a training event that we're holding in Austria next summer..... and the following weekend I head back to Barcelona again to teach on a PCYM training seminar for child and youth workers.

All in all, a busy month of leadership gatherings, conferences and seminars. Thanks for your prayers during these weeks of travelling and meetings.