Looking after Lucy... and writing for Reto

Well, after starting the week with a puppy rescue mission, I'm ending it with a cat care assignment! Friends of mine, missionaries with another organisation, are going to England for almost three months. Guests are living in their home for most of that time, but there are three weeks where their house is empty, and so I've committed to dropping in several times a week to check on their cat, Lucy. She gave me a warm welcome when I arrived at the house this morning. Meanwhile, back at my own house, my three were settling down for their usual summer schedule of a long, lazy nap on the bed!

Now that LDC is over, the summer schedule is beginning for me too. Among other things, summer is often a time for curriculum writing. I've already finished writing a number of young people's devotional booklets for our King's Kids outreach in the north of Spain and our Planting Together outreaches in West Africa; now I'm working to complete the Reto 2013 Bible reading booklets for July, August and September, so that I can print and distribute them before I leave for Senegal in August. Next week, however, I'll be hosting the KKI European leadership team here in Malaga. We'll be working on the final preparations for the West African outreaches, as well as looking ahead to plan a conference that we'll be running in October.