Summer is a time when a big chunk of our church congregation (those who are year-round missionaries here in Spain) often head home to the US or the UK to visit their sending churches. Meanwhile a brand new group (those coming to Spain for summer outreach in our church's English Camp) arrives to swell the numbers at our Sunday services again. This year we're hosting outreach teams from New York and Oregon, and we have forty local children and teenagers enrolled in our two weeks of English Camp.
Those of us who remain in Malaga for most of the summer usually end up recruited into service as plant-waterers and animal-carers for the families who have gone overseas. This month I'm checking up on my friends' cat, Luci, and yesterday I was also on "puppy duty" for my former housemates, who were going to the beach for Gabriela's birthday, and didn't want to leave their brand new tiny puppies alone in the house all day.
