Sorry for just giving news updates, without anything much to speak of, but I thought I´d say a bit about how the last couple of weeks have gone. A couple of weeks ago I was so sick of the whole business with searching for jobs here that I was about to apply for jobs in mainland Spain. At the last minute, Olaf (the pastor here) was able to find me a job as an assistant waiter on some kind of apprenticeship. I´m also paid the princely sum of 500 euros a month for six days full time work a week, which works out at under 2 euros an hour (travel costs deducted). Oh yes, and I don´t get a contract or help with travel or anything. When I asked one of my co-workers whether this was normal, I was told that hotels didn´t generally want people like me, and that I was very lucky to get a position at all. It seems that working in Spain is destined to be a lesson in eating humble pie...

Monika continues to look for jobs, but this morning decided not to go for a job as a photographer with one of the tour boats nearby. The interviewer told her that she should try to film the drunken antics of the passengers, especially when they fall overboard. She didn´t feel this was her 'style of job'. Thankfully the doctor who she had an offer from wrote that he is still interested in employing her but will return from his summer job as an aid-worker in Nicaragua in a few weeks time so she´ll keep looking for something to fill the gap until then. Her health is still improving and though she has had a bit of a set back this week, overall it is much better than even a month ago! It is such a blessing to have a place to live just five minutes from the main bus terminal, the shopping center, grocery store, internet cafe´and beach! We are trying to make the most of this time as we don´t yet know where we will be living from the first of December but there are some contacts in the pipeline that might be able to help us out with accomodation then, too!


This evening we met with Olaf (pastor)and Gudrun(his wife) and did some brainstorming for the church activities in the next few months. Please continue to pray for us as we serve the German community here and start up an English youth group. We will meet with their teenage daughters tomorrow to discuss the youth work and what they would like to have, but we will also be praying over a schedule and plans for it over the next few days to submit a preliminary plan to Olaf next week. There are two international highschools in the area which we plan to target with flyers and put adds in local English newspapers as well. As the church only rents it´s meeting room on a Sunday from another church, we plan to hold the youth group at the pastors house (their basement has got a large furnished room that would be ideal). Thank you all for your prayers sofar! We have seen the Lord to be faithful in His provision and has blessed us in ways which we could never have imagined! Praise the Lord for His goodness and strength! Praise Him for His mercy and grace! Praise Him for His love and may we shine His light for all to see....

Oh...I almost forgot! The tomato plants! As you might know already that we have aquired a love for almost all things growing, once we got here we found ourselves digging our fingers into bags of compost and planting seedlings again! we now have almost fifty cherry tomato plants and ten green pepper plants lining our balcony in empty water containers filled with compost. The first flowers are blooming now so in a few weeks we should be abounding in our very first crop of organic cherry tomatos! Appetite anyone?