Updated on April, 2016
I am a happy wife and mother of three!
Dwight, my husband, and I met 26 years ago during a mission trip to Spain. He went to Spain all the way from Texas and I did it from Brazil, where I am from. After a long (and romantic) story we got married about a year later.
We lived in Texas for the first 3 years of our marriage. God gave us the blessing of seeing the birth of a multicultural church in that city. It was an exciting time of our life.
God, then, directed us to move to Spain to continue this labor. We arrived in Gijon, north coast of Spain, in the Summer of 1993. It was overwhelming to see the crowds of people without the Lord. God was faithful once more bringing people on our way through different circumstances. God was good to us, allowing us to be part of the birth of another church that started in our home.
Our two daughters, Sarah and Amanda, were also born in that city in 1996 and 1997.
Dwight was invited to assume a different responsibility and we moved to the capital of the country, Madrid, in 1999. Once more, we hurt as we left a "family" behind us, but they were not alone ...
We lived in Madrid from 2000 to 2005. During this season, we had our time to dedicate to CP a bit limited but we still saw a small BS group emerge. It was a joy to be able to share our faith with friends in our home. As always, our prayer was that our home would be a lighthouse.
During our time in Madrid we had Christopher added to our family in October of 2000.
In 2005 God directed us to a change. We found ourselves in Miami! A beautiful place where my husband worked mentoring and encouraging CP around the metropolitan area. It was a job he loved to do and God used him in a great way. I had the opportunity to be "out there" substitute teaching and meeting new people.
In 2007 we found ourselves back to Madrid, Spain. It was back in the suburbs of Madrid called Alcobendas. We saw the birth of a house church. Due to some educational needs we moved to another suburb city called Alcala de Henares in 2012. Our girls have graduated and are not living in USA.
We still live in Alcalá at the moment, 2016, and our youngest Christopher is our only child at home. For this school year we are hosting two teenager TCK boys. So our house is still full for the time being!
Regarding ministry we are doing church planting. At the moment we have two attempts of small group start, still in the forming phase. I personally have a ministry with ladies through craft classes and a blog for women. We see dozens of people weekly sharing Christ verbally and through our services in our community storefront and in other ways. We attend an amazing church and most of our partners in ministry come from there.
We are thankful to God for the rich life he has given us so far and we look forward to what it is to come! God always surprises us and we want to find ourselves ready at any point when God sends the winds of His Holy Spirit and we start sailing vigorously seeing many people come to Christ in our beloved Spain!
I am a happy wife and mother of three!
Dwight, my husband, and I met 26 years ago during a mission trip to Spain. He went to Spain all the way from Texas and I did it from Brazil, where I am from. After a long (and romantic) story we got married about a year later.
We lived in Texas for the first 3 years of our marriage. God gave us the blessing of seeing the birth of a multicultural church in that city. It was an exciting time of our life.
God, then, directed us to move to Spain to continue this labor. We arrived in Gijon, north coast of Spain, in the Summer of 1993. It was overwhelming to see the crowds of people without the Lord. God was faithful once more bringing people on our way through different circumstances. God was good to us, allowing us to be part of the birth of another church that started in our home.
Our two daughters, Sarah and Amanda, were also born in that city in 1996 and 1997.
Dwight was invited to assume a different responsibility and we moved to the capital of the country, Madrid, in 1999. Once more, we hurt as we left a "family" behind us, but they were not alone ...
We lived in Madrid from 2000 to 2005. During this season, we had our time to dedicate to CP a bit limited but we still saw a small BS group emerge. It was a joy to be able to share our faith with friends in our home. As always, our prayer was that our home would be a lighthouse.
During our time in Madrid we had Christopher added to our family in October of 2000.
In 2005 God directed us to a change. We found ourselves in Miami! A beautiful place where my husband worked mentoring and encouraging CP around the metropolitan area. It was a job he loved to do and God used him in a great way. I had the opportunity to be "out there" substitute teaching and meeting new people.
In 2007 we found ourselves back to Madrid, Spain. It was back in the suburbs of Madrid called Alcobendas. We saw the birth of a house church. Due to some educational needs we moved to another suburb city called Alcala de Henares in 2012. Our girls have graduated and are not living in USA.
We still live in Alcalá at the moment, 2016, and our youngest Christopher is our only child at home. For this school year we are hosting two teenager TCK boys. So our house is still full for the time being!
Regarding ministry we are doing church planting. At the moment we have two attempts of small group start, still in the forming phase. I personally have a ministry with ladies through craft classes and a blog for women. We see dozens of people weekly sharing Christ verbally and through our services in our community storefront and in other ways. We attend an amazing church and most of our partners in ministry come from there.
We are thankful to God for the rich life he has given us so far and we look forward to what it is to come! God always surprises us and we want to find ourselves ready at any point when God sends the winds of His Holy Spirit and we start sailing vigorously seeing many people come to Christ in our beloved Spain!
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