Saturday, 26 March 2011

A concerted effort...

Last night we held a special concert in order to raise money to help tsunami victims in Japan. Church members and friends, including the youth group and our pre-teen girls group, presented a varied programme of songs, instrumental music, dance and drama - ranging from folk songs in Swedish, French and German, to gospel songs in English and Spanish, and even numbers from the well known musical, Les Miserables!  The concert may be one of the last things that we do in our present building, as the house has recently been sold and our church is moving to new premises, a former restaurant property, within the next month.
Since returning to Spain a few days ago, my week has been very full. Ada and Gabriela had been in a car crash while I was gone in Switzerland; they're both okay, but the car was a write off. So I've been driving Gabriela to school in the mornings, then heading off to visit hotels in Torremolinos (to book a venue for our November KKI conference) or to attend meetings where we plan and pray for the Leadership Development Course or the upcoming Intensive Coaching Seminar. Stephe and I are also busy on the computer this week - preparing the manuals that we'll give out during this year's LDC. Ten different manuals for more than forty people adds up to around twenty thousand photocopies!! And then we'll need to bind them when we get together for our staff training week. I'm trying to get almost everything finished by the beginning of next week, as my friend Jacqui will be arriving from England and we're planning to take two or three days break to visit some of Andalucía's famous cities that are not far from where I live. If the weather stays reasonably dry (at the moment, more rain is forecast) we're hoping to visit Granada and possibly also Córdoba.