It's almost April! Although "April showers" are the norm in many parts of the world, I'm hopeful that it will be different for us here in AlhaurÃn. After many days of torrential rain in mid-March, the southern Spanish weather finally seems to be catching on to the fact that it's supposed to be spring now, and we're having warm sunny days at last.
I look back on March as an alphabet soup of leadership meetings, filled with the various tasks of missions leadership. First the KKI European leadership team came down to meet for some days of prayer and planning in Malaga. Among other things, we took time to consider how best to continue providing pastoral care for our missionaries throughout the European region, and we began to make plans to hold our next regional conference in Portugal this November.
The following week saw me in Holland, still with KKI, but this time with the international leadership team. There we had some precious times of prayer and hearing God's voice together, stimulating times of considering how we can protect ourselves from drifting from our original calling and values ( a real danger when a movement gets into its third generation of leadership) and started to plan ahead for a leadership school and an international leadership conference in the Ivory Coast next summer.
Back in Spain, my next week of leadership meetings was with the field team for YWAM Europe; a new eldership group with a heart to pray and seek God for the present and future development of our mission initiatives in this continent.
With all those leadership tasks behind us now, April will be quite a different month. I'm wrapping up all my coaching and curriculum writing, and we're busy with all kind of practical preparations for hosting and leading the next leadership development course (LDC) here in AlhaurÃn. Thanks for your prayers.
