Tim and Marilyn Westergren

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Prayer Letter/Ministry Update

After the initial euphoria, our girls are encountering the work and chores of their respective schools.

Katey misses us more now than her first year at BFA and finds herself out of the loop at times with what she missed last year. Happily, she has her senior class trip to Florence and Rome now at the beginning of the year, October1-9. She will be able to make strong memories with her class in Italy. Pray for her safety and health.

Sarah is now feeling the long commute every day to ECA and the higher level of studies, compared with last year. She likes the school a lot, but the learning curve weighs on her. Change is always hard on her and this has some huge adjustments.

Hannah finds herself with a teaching style that is pathetic at times, and with being behind in some courses. The adjustment to Spanish in the classes after two years of studying in English is hard. Also making new friends. She has the potential to be a tremendous influence on her peers as she is a natural leader. Pray for supernatural guidance as she wades into the wacky world of the Spanish public high school.

2. . Christian Community of Tres Cantos: This month we celebrate THREE YEARS OF LIFE TOGETHER!! I am back to the role as the teaching elder (there are four elders), which I love immensely. Marilyn is entering a new phase with no homeschoolers and no housechurch, and diving into women´s discipleship.

We are picking up speed in the rhythm at Comunidad Cristiana de Tres Cantos. Things start slow in Spain but continue strong all the way to the end of June. Takes some getting used to, but that is contextualization! We just finished

3. We are going to begin our small groups. Marilyn will have two groups of girls and I will have a group of adults on Sunday afternoons. Pray for another interest group I am putting together to test with the weight of the truth some of those bridges of friendship I’m building. A group of investigation about spirituality: what does it mean to be spiritual without being religious?

4. Marilyn was heavily involved in the Strategic Field Review this month, travelling for the interviews with a team from the national office of The C&MA.

Building Bridges of Trust that Can Stand the Weight of Truth,

Tim & Marilyn
Sector Pueblos 32, 1-D
28760 Tres Cantos
Spain

There are more prayer requests and information on our field website. www.cmalliancespain.org

Living the call together with you (and loving it!),

Tim, Marilyn, Katey, Sarah and Hannah

Prayer Requests/Answers to Prayer

We found a great location to live after English Camp, back in our old neighborhood, in the same buidling as Sarah and Hannah´s best friends, and renting from a choir colleague. The only downside has been going back to an apartment (first floor), with about half the square footagde. This has forced us to downsize (good).

In fact, this Saturday, we along with other families from our church are going to show our English Camp families what a good, old-fashioned rummage sale is! We will recycle some of our junk and give a quarter of the proceeds to another local association that works with handicapped children. Of course, in November we will hold our annual Thanksgiving Festival as a Global Venutres event as well.

As I share above, we are celebrating three years. I think that our congregation is in the toddler stage, coinciding with the physical years. Lots of training and parenting to do!
Most importantly, we´d like to ask you to pray for some categories of people that we have personal and ongoing friendship with. We could insert several different names in each one.

Nominal Christian that attends our church.
The unbelieving spouse of a Christian.
Nonrelgious couples who seek us out for marriage counseling.
Born-again Spaniards who face the incomprehension of their families in situations like infant baptism (understood as believing for the child) and first communion.
Atheists and agnostics with whom I have ongoing dialogue.
Catholics who are disaffected with the church as institution.

This is the main work--prayer. We believe the Holy Spirit convinces people of their need and we appeal to them enthusiasticallly, "Be reconciled to God!" Help us in your prayers.

In Christ,

Tim and Marilyn

Spain

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