June 2012

Annual Egg Hunt….

     This year 21 neighborhood kids participated in our Easter outreach.  Thirteen of them were from non church related families and for this we were praising God.  Actually, it was a huge encouragement to see some of the girls who have been coming to The Zone come to the egg hunt also.  God gave us a beautiful morning to play games, hunt eggs, dye eggs and present the resurrection story.  Pray with us that the contacts we have made with the children in the neighborhood will yield eternal dividends!    
Furlough Preparations…..
     As we all know, and as the saying goes, time flies when you are having fun.  It is hard to believe that we were last in the US in 2008 and almost four years have gone by.  Actually, it seems like they have literally blown by.  We are currently in the throes of getting ready to head back to North Carolina for a six month furlough.  We leave Spain on the 19th of June.  Until that time, life and ministry continue to move forward.  Please pray with us that God will grant spiritual, physical, and emotional strength during the next three very busy weeks.                

Gospel Concert….

      It may sound a bit strange to mention a Gospel concert, but actually, here in Spain, it is viewed as a cultural event.  Given that, our church will be hosting a Gospel concert on the 15th of June.  Please pray with us that many unsaved will come to enjoy this cultural activity and will leave having their hearts and lives transformed by the music, testimonies and devotional that will be shared.  
Visiting your church….
     We have already begun to schedule meetings.  Our goal is to visit as many churches as possible, placing emphasis on those that we did not get to in 2008.  In addition to reporting to our supporting churches, we need to raise about $1,600 per month in support.  Please pray with us that God will supply this need!  In fact, would you be willing to pray and ask God if He could use you to help meet this need?  You would be surprised what just $10, $20, or more a month, when multiplied by 20, 30, or 40 families can do.  Your journey of faithful giving can make an eternal difference!  If God should so lead in your heart to join our support team you can do so by visiting www.abwe.org/give.   On the left hand side of the page click on “commit to support a missionary or project”.

Praises…

• A great egg hunt
• The Zone (youth outreach) is going really well.  There are 12 to 15 kids who consistently attend.  On the 8th of June, we are sponsoring our first ping-pong tournament.

Pray with us…

• Getting the church ready for our furlough
• There are very urgent staffing needs for the upcoming school year 2012-13 at the MK school here in Madrid.  Check out www.ecaspain.com if you´re a teacher!
• For Levi and Gracen – that God will grant grace to adapt well to all of the changes that will occur in their lives over the next 6 months or so.
• For the salvation of a young couple with whom we have recently come in contact with.
• For good conversations with unsaved friends as we say goodbye and for us to be able to keep up these friendships when we return.
• For our support needs.

Contact information: 
Skype: glenn.clodgo
Website: www.iglesiabautistadecoslada.com
Blog: http://clodgocorner.blogspot.com
Account number at ABWE: 13121

Clodgo Corner March 2012

The Five Love Languages…

     The weekend after Valentine´s Day, our church, in cooperation with a Christian organization called Family to Family, sponsored a marriage workshop based on Dr. Gary Chapman´s book The Five Love Languages.  There were 22 adults in attendance – including two unsaved ladies.  The message of love based upon Godly principles is desperately needed here in Spain where almost two-thirds of marriages end in divorce.  Please continue to pray with us that the believers who attended the workshop will daily put into practice the principles that they learned and that the two unsaved ladies who attended will come to Christ.        

The Zone…

  If you will remember, in our last prayer letter, we mentioned a new youth outreach ministry that we started at our church called La Zona (The Zone).  Thanks for your prayers.  The ministry is still going strong.  Every other Friday afternoon (We are alternating this outreach with AWANA) anywhere from 12 to 15 teens from the neighborhood come into our church to “hang-out” for an hour and a half.  Over the past several months, we have gotten to know all of them by name and some of them will even talk to us! J Please continue to pray that God will break down barriers, open doors, and that these teens will come to Christ! 

Upcoming furlough…

     Beginning mid-June of this year, we will be returning to the states for a six month furlough.  God has already graciously provided housing (Thanks Cornatzer Baptist Church) and a vehicle (Thanks Westeren family).  We have already begun to schedule meetings.  Our goal is to visit as many churches as possible, placing emphasis on those that we did not get to in 2008.  In addition to reporting to our supporting churches, we need to raise about $1,600 per month in support.  Please pray with us that God will supply this need!  In fact, would you be willing to pray and ask God if He could use you to help meet this need?  You would be surprised what just $10, $20, or more a month, when multiplied by 20, 30, or 40 families can do.  Your journey of faithful giving can make an eternal difference!  If God should so lead in your heart to join our support team you can do so by visiting www.abwe.org/give  On the left hand side of the page click on “commit to support a missionary or project”.

 Praises…

·         A great Christmas program at IBC with over 35 in attendance (including at least 7 unsaved friends).  You can see some photos of the program on our church´s website.

·         A great marriage workshop

·         For the joy it is to serve our Lord and Savior here in Spain!  This past February we celebrated 7 years of ministry in Spain – to God be the glory!

Pray with us…

·         Getting the church ready for our furlough

·         There are very urgent staffing needs for the upcoming school year 2012-13 at the MK school here in Madrid.  Check out ecaspain.com if you´re a teacher!

·         For Levi and Gracen – that God will grant grace to adapt well to all of the changes that will occur in their lives over the next 6 months or so.

·         For the salvation of a young couple with whom we have recently come in contact

·         Egg Hunt in March – Evangelistic outreach

·         For The Zone.  We now have contact with 20 or so teens. 

      ·         For our support needs.  We are currently about $1,600 per month under supported.

Tammy teaching during AWANA

     One of the highlights of our AWANA year thus far was a theme night that we did just a few months ago.  The church members used suitcases filled with all kinds of exciting props to share Bible stories.  The clubbers had a great time traveling from room to room listening to the various stories.       

Contact information:

Calle Extremadura, 16
San Fernando de Henares (Madrid)
28830 Spain
Telephone: 011-34-91-207-9539
Skype: glenn.clodgo
Website: www.iglesiabautistadecoslada.com
Blog: http://clodgocorner.blogspot.com
Account number at ABWE: 13121

Praise Update

Dear Friends,

  God provided a house for our upcoming furlough in June!  Thanks Cornatzer Baptist Church and Pastor Jeff Beverly!

January 2012 Update

Clodgo Corner Update - January 2012

Glenn, Tammy, Levi, and Gracen 

Missionaries in Spain with ABWE

Dear prayer and financial partners,

    We want to begin this update by letting you know just how much we appreciate you and the vital role you play in the ministry that God has called us to here in Spain.  Thank you for the time you spend in prayer and for your sacrificial giving!  Thanks for your eternal investment in the lives of Spaniards.

     Since our prayer letter in December, things have been moving right along.  The church in Coslada just had it´s annual meeting.   It is a great moment in the life of the church to reflect back upon the previous year and talk about the direction that we feel God is leading us in for the upcoming one.  Over the past year, the church has been involved in so many different activities - men´s and ladies Bible studies, AWANA, evangelistic Bible studies, The Zone (a youth activity), family camp, special outreach activities, kid´s club (VBS), and so much more.  It is a tremendous encouragement and blessing to work along side of the Spanish believers in the church and see their passion and dedication to the Lord.  

     One of the items on the agenda for our annual meeting was our furlough.  In June, we will be taking a 6 month furlough.  Please be in prayer with us that God would provide housing and the use of a reliable vehicle.  If you might be able to help us in any one of these areas or know of someone who might, please let us know.  Also, we will soon be contacting supporting churches in order to schedule a time to report on the ministry in Spain. However, we will also need to raise more monthly support.  We are currently only at 82% of our needed support.  Thanks in advance for taking these matters before the throne!  

Yours for the harvest in Spain,

Glenn, Tammy, Levi, and Gracen Clodgo

Christmas Program at Coslada

Here are a few photos from the Christmas program at our church in Coslada.  They were 12 unsaved people in attendance.  Pray with us that God will use His Word to work in their hearts! 

December 2011 Prayer Letter

Catching up with the Clodgos…

     Since our last official prayer letter back in September, things have been very interesting in our house to say the least.  Our kitchen flooded twice due to a faulty water pressure regulator, the mother board on our “good” computer crashed and while it was in the shop being fixed a much older laptop that we were using crashed, and our car was in the shop – not once but three times!  However, despite all of these distractions, God was – as always – more than faithful and sustained us through each one of these unforeseen “blips” on the radar of our family´s life.  We also want to take this opportunity to once again thank all of you who gave to help pay for car repairs and the purchase of a new computer!

The Zone…

     Are you in The Zone?  The newest outreach at our church is called La Zona (The Zone).  Right now, the only teenager in our church is Levi.  So, in an effort to get to know some teens in our neighborhood, we are using our church as a youth activity center.  At the moment, this is a purely pre-evangelistic activity.  We have ping-pong, a foosball table (Thanks Pastor Roger!) and we bring Levi and Gracen´s Wii and hook it up to the church projector.  Here is what happened in November at The Zone. Levi´s classmate Sam started a group called One Town at a Time, a group of ECA students with a burden to reach unreached towns in Spain and, even though our church is established, we asked if our desire to start a youth center would fit into their ministry ideas.  It being a nice fit, we picked up 2 carloads of middle schoolers, most of them from the group OTaaT who meet weekly to pray, and a seminary student.  We got to the church, fed them a snack, and they went out in groups of 4 or so and handed out flyers, the same  ones we had posted all over the neighborhood earlier in the day.  We were astonished when a few minutes later, the kids came in droves!!!  At one point, not counting the kids from ECA who came to minister, there were at least 20 kids in our church from the neighborhood.   We couldn´t believe it.  Too many to even get all their names.  Some of the kids were frustrated with their friends when they couldn´t get their friends to leave!  Twister was a hit, the Wii was constant and the ping pong was intense.  They devoured the brownies the other mom had made and so Tammy promised them brownies in two weeks when we opened again.  When we were closing at 7pm the boys on ping pong were begging Glenn not to make them stop playing.  Adrián, Adrián, José, José, Eva, Andrea, Nicoleta, Pedro, Fabi, Luis, Dominique…  Of course, it was the loudest and dirtiest we´ve ever seen our church, but it was worth it!!  It was good for Levi to be involved in something like that.  His experience:  they were trying to invite a group and when they heard "church" they walked away but Levi said "Wii, food and ping pong!" and they came back to get the flyer!  They didn´t come that night, but you get the idea what it´s like to try to get teens into our church building. The idea is to break down barriers and eventually get to know them enough to have an influence in their lives. Last week we had about 15 kids come to hang out and break in the new foosball table.  We open every other Friday night.  Who knows when we´ll be able to have devotional talks with them or any of them would attend church...it could be years, but maybe it will be this Christmas to see our program on Dec. 23.  One of our church members is also coming to help.  You can imagine the prayer support from all of them since many of them grew up going to youth centers opened by other missionaries.

 Praises…

·         The provision of all the funds needed to pay for recent car repairs.

·         A pastor who gave so that we could purchase a foosball table to use in The Zone.

·         The joy it has been to study the Bible with an unsaved couple who has been attending our church.

Pray with us…

·         For the salvation of the couple that is going through the Bible study called The Story of Hope.

·         For our church’s Christmas program “The Million Dollar Question”.

·         For The Zone.  We now have contact with 20 or so teens. 

·         For our support needs.  We are currently about $1,500 per month under supported.

Contact information:

Calle Extremadura, 16

San Fernando de Henares (Madrid)

28830 Spain

Telephone: 011-34-91-207-9539

Skype: glenn.clodgo

Website: www.iglesiabautistadecoslada.com

Blog: http://clodgocorner.blogspot.com

Account number at ABWE: 13121

Watching the Children Grow

Many of you have heard us talk about the little boys who visit our church without their parents.  What a joy is has been to see them develop over the past few years!  Besides praying for them, hugging them, and teaching them about Jesus, one of the more practical things we have tried to teach them is how to sit still and quiet in church.  With that huge task in mind, I bought them notebooks and pens and now every Sunday, they get out their notebooks and draw, usually quietly.  Spongebob has his portrait on several pages and Patrick is also well represented.  As one would expect at this age, the boys are starting to write letters and even copy phrases they see around them.  Today as we were singing one little guy brought me his notebook and asked me what it said.  "TU AMOR POR MI".  "Your love for me", refering to God´s love.  I was overcome with joy to be able to tell this little fellow how much God loves us.  I prayed that the message of the song and his little note-taking would sink into his heart, and the hearts of the other 2 children there without their parents, coming from homes where God´s love isn´t a prominent message.  Well, I found myself so overcome, that then, I wasn´t quite able to sing the song myself!  In a flash I was going over the process in my life that led to that tiny interaction between me and little sweetboy.  A calling to missions, God's leading to Spain, so many financial supporters who have made it possible over the years, language school (thanks for praying me through that one!), a dozen sh´s, a hundred fingers to the lips, and countless hugs later, we arrive at this special moment.  "What does this say?"  That He loves us so much.   It's more than a phrase to copy from the powerpoint.  It´s the phrase that helps us love little ones with dirty fingers, that motivates us to get out of bed in the morning, that helps us love those who mistreat us, and makes us want to do it all over again and again.   TU AMOR POR MI.  His love for me.  immense!