LIFE TO GIVE

Jesus said, "Real life is not measured by how much you own" (Luke 12:15 NLT) but by how you live. That's why it's always wise to challenge yourself and examine how you spend your time. Jesus said that in order to follow Him, we "must give up the things we want" (Luke 9:23 NCV). Reach out to others. The smallest good deed is worth more than the biggest intention. The enemy doesn't mind you talking about your faith as long as you don't practice it. God never teaches us anything without giving us an opportunity to put it to work. That's why Jesus said, "Blessed… are those who hear the Word… and obey" (Luke 11:28 NIV). May we choose to obey!

PRAYER

Praise God for
- His salvation, being here has given me such an appreciation and awareness of the responsibility of the hope we have and can share!
- The way He is revealing himself to the people around me, what I joy that I get to see that.
- All of you, this amazing loving family God has given me, for your support in everything and especially with Pepe and His family!

Please Pray For
- Pepe, his family and friends! Pray for Hugo so he can have opportunities to share with them!
- The girls in soccer, may we grow even deeper in our conversations and point them to Jesus
- Alba's family, Estefania and Espe, may God reveal himself now even more in their life, and may they open their hearts to Him.

Hello my strong prayer warrior family! Thank you so much for your prayers! Pepe and his family are so thankful, they are doing well and I know God touched their lives through you, Hugo and I are so grateful because of that!! Please do keep me informed also on how you are and how I can also be praying for you!


This time in Spain has been of great blessing! I have been able to take advantage of my situation here, being the new girl, I get to ask all the good questions about them and their life, and I get to answer their wonderful questions about what I think and my testimony and God has given me great opportunities to love, bond and share with the people here, with the girls in the soccer team and even with their families!


In the prison ministry, we were able to go in with some girls from the soccer team and play a soccer game with them, and it was a good opportunity for both the prison girls to know we care and value them, and also for the team girls to witness a bit more of our testimony in other situations, hopefully they can see consistency and God’s love that moves us to do these things!


In the soccer team God has blessed us with other christian girls that are here studying Spanish for a few months, and have been of great blessing to the team, by their consistency, their commitment, their joy and just their testimony! And there has never been so many christian girls on the team, so we pray that the other girls can see the common factor in the fruit that comes from a true relationship with God, because here the danger is that they can admire you and see you are different, but don’t give God the credit, but now that they can see the common factor is Jesus, we pray it is a stronger impact!


Another great tool God was able to use and I pray he continues to use is the movie Fireproof, we were able to watch it with one of my adopted families (Alba's family) which I love very much and spend much time with, and with another girl from soccer (Estefania), let’s just say we even had tears in the audience and for Alba's dad it was the first movie he didn't fall asleep! So please continue to pray for them, because I do believe this movie can be very challenging and very clear about the gospel, so we were very excited about this!

Espe was able to come last year to Guatemala for the women’s tour, and she has been really excited to raise funds to built a house for one of the poor families she was able to meet in Guatemala, so her idea was to sell things in the church, I just loved the fact of having her in church, and she came, that was my greatest joy! We didn’t really sell much, and we are far from raising the funds, but I love how God is using this in her life and in our friendship!

There are so many more things I would love to share, God has just been amazing and it has really been great even in the little things, like God providing for special ways to bless and visit others and allow that to be a small example of how much God loves them and how He is showing that love to them! Thank you so much for all your prayers and support, you are so loving!