miércoles, 28 de diciembre de 2011

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! 

jueves, 8 de diciembre de 2011

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
Account number at ABWE: 13121