"The rain in spain...

... stays mainly on the plane."

The "A" Team

April 8th set the mark for breaking my record of being in the states for over 3 years. I can't believe that as I type this I am sitting in a beautiful Villa on top of a mountain overlooking Malaga, Spain. The view can't get any better we have the Mediterranean Sea to the rear that we can view from the almost every window, and mountains surrounding us. In fact yesterday a handful of our team decided to hike up the mountain behind us (pictured below).

Now that you have a better idea of who we are and where we are let me update you on what have been and will be doing. We have now been in Spain the the last 2 days. The first day we rested most the day,then later that evening we had our first official team meeting which included some worship/intercession. We couldn't have asked for a more incredible first meeting. It was incredible seeing some of our students already stepping out of the comfort zones, and praying out, or singing out as the declared truth over the city. After our meeting I got the chance to talk with one the students and get to hear some of her fears, and worries as well as get to share some of the things I battle with on a regular basis, her realizing we have a lot more in common than she thought. It was such an incredible time of breaking some of the barriers of lacking in trust.

That brings me now to how I've been sleeping. Sadly, I have yet to have a good nights rest, and today (April 11th) I have been really feeling the effects. After spending the day in class learning more about Isalm, Culture, Security Issues, and French we got to discuss briefly as a team how we each are doing which made us realize that the majority of our team last night had nightmares/strange dreams. It definitely was interesting to see how we all were connected in this matter. (So we prayed against it corporately) The other thing we decided as a team, after going through our classes today, was that we are all going to de-activate our facebooks starting next week for security reasons. It was good to know again our team was all on the same page.

As I wrap up, a few things you can pray into for us over the next few days:
1. Finances: we still as a school need to raising $20,000
2. Sleep: that when we do go to bed we have restful evenings with no nightmares.
3. Clear communication
4. Retention: that we retain all the information we are receiving this week including culture, religion, language.
5. That God already be preparing the hearts of the people we are going to get to build relationships with in Tunisia.

Thank you for your prayers and support and I will update you again very soon! Salam!

Villa Isabel

Some students atop the mountain