We’ve done our part cheering Spain to its first ever soccer World Cup title. The celebrating has been long and wild. Tens of thousands of fans packed venues all over the country to watch the games on huge screens. The victory parade in Madrid took 4 hours to cover 3 miles. It’s been great fun to be a part of. ¡Viva la Roja! ¡Viva España!

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As part of a new project with Spanish Ministries, several Spanish youth spent a Saturday morning helping Mikaela and Eliel with on-the-street interviews.

If you could wander into Roland Walter's office here at MMC and ask about Spanish Ministries' newest projects, he'd tell you openly, "The whole purpose is to move the hearts and minds of Spaniards towards Jesus."
The hardest question is how to do this. So lately Roland, Mikaela Bruce, and Spanish intern Eliel have been asking Spaniards a lot of question to figure this out. Roland makes the point of talking with a number of Spaniards each week about their views on the purpose of life. Meanwhile, Mikeala and Eliel are filming on-the-street questions with younger generation Spaniards to ask them questions like "What is love?"
Roland says, "We want to understand the culture by learning what people think and where their concerns lie."
As they continue to ask questions, they are now also filming 1-2 minute testimonies about a believer's relationship with Christ, and how that relationship pertains to the issues addressed in these questions. This project specifically targets people from their early teens to 30 years of age. The Spanish Ministries team asks for prayer as they seek ways to move the hearts and minds of Spaniards towards Christ.

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Update: This project has been funded. Thanks to those who helped.

The video world is taking some exciting new turns, and one we want to take advantage of is using digital SLR cameras for high definition video. By using SLR lenses we can get the great images and shallow depths of field (think out-of focus backgrounds or foregrounds) in video previously only possible in very expensive cinematographic cameras. We can improve the quality of our productions and stay up with the ever-changing standards of our viewing audience. These cameras are also very portable and unobtrusive.
Compared to good professional video cameras, the video-capable DSLRs are rather inexpensive, and yet maintain the professional quality. For the camera, an extra lens and some other accessories we need $2,500.
To help out with this need, consider sending an additional gift to Avant Minstries for us, designated as “Camera equipment.” It would help if you let me know of your intent as well.

Dolores, her husband Angel, and their children

Dolores’ sister Susana wrote the following:
As you know, my older sister Dolores (Loli) was admitted to the hospital in Málaga this past October 28 because of the H1N1 flu. She was 8 months pregnant which caused complications much more severe than normal. I know that many of you have followed her progress... Read More...

Eddie was born on January 4 at the Hospital Galvez in downtown Malaga. He weighed 7.5 lbs and was 19.5 inches long. We are excited to finally all be together at home, and Robyn is also very glad not be pregnant any more.

Impact World Tour was in Gibraltar recently and the people in charge of follow-up decided to use our ¿Ahora Qué? booklet. They had it translated into English, made their own cover and printed 500 copies. We sent over some Spanish versions as well. The attendance at the events was very good (I heard it totalled 6,000), and there were lots of people to follow-up. It was exciting to be able to contribute to this outreach.

Today at the doctor’s office we found out that our baby is a boy. On Thursday we are going in for a high resolution scan. They go into 3D mode which provides some pretty amazing views. I’ll post a picture here when we get it. By the way, Robyn is due January 19, though we expect him to arrive sooner since the last two babies did.

Last Friday we taped 46 programs. It may sound like a lot, but the name of the program puts it in perspective: “59 seconds” They are short (but not always exaclty 59 seconds) answers to common questions people ask about God, salvation, and the Bible. Read More...

Right now our house is spotless - or it was an hour ago. Social Services came to check us out, so we spent yesterday getting the place scrubbed and clean. Read More...

Yesterday I got another haircut - and a big encouragement. In the past I’ve asked for prayer for José, my barber, and it appears that God is answering. The last two visits he was the one who brought up spiritual topics. Read More...

For several months there have been no changes to this web site. To help me stay on top of things I’m changing to a blog-style front page. The content from the other site is still here, in case someone cares to see what’s been written in the past, but I will only be adding to this page. I’ll add my semi-regular prayer updates, as well as the ocassional family news. If you want to see only the family news, click find it in the “categories” section way down the column to the left.

She showed up at the gate with a broken nose, a scratched up face and blood on her blouse. While on her way to our media center to tape a scene for one of our video projects, Isabel's motor scooter was hit by a van.
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