Friday, April 17, 2009

mission possible


Jim returned from a three-day Christian conference in northern Spain called Mision Posible. He attended workshops for pastors and lay people who have the privilege of working with teenagers in Spain. Along with the opportunity for networking with other Christian youth leaders and learning more about the Spanish teen culture, Jim helped facilitate activites (such as Sumo wrestling) that were offered the over 1000 youth at the conference.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

the whitmire family arrives!



On March 1, 2009 Chase and Katie Whitmire landed in Madrid with their four daughters and ten pieces of luggage to join Jim and Barbara and the YoungLife Madrid team. After merely two weeks in Spain, they have located a place to live, a school for their oldest 3 girls and a car. That’s amazing!! Preliminary paperwork on their residential cards and on their container have been completed.


Jim, Barbara, Anna and Kate welcome the Whitmires to the Madrid team, “¡Bienvenidos!“