Monday, 14 May 2012
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Dave Hodgson
Another busy sunday, preached on God loves a cheerful giver and that if you look out for others God shows you extraordinary grace.
BTW I am typing one handed as i have a crying baby on my shoulder. Naomi teaches English on a monday morning and I am on baby duty, whilst in the church office.
She has started to smile now which is rewarding even at 4pm in the morning. Naomi Coley Hodgson is doing really well she is natural mum and is far more experienced with children than I am. She is a great wife and I know she works hard looking after Melissa whilst daddy is at work.
On a very Spiritual note now, Malaga CF have made it into a champions league position which is great not just for football fans like myself, but also very good for the area and will bring many more people to the costa del sol.
Keep us in your prayers.
God has blessed us with great supporters so thanks to all who help us.
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Monday, 7 May 2012
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This week we are starting our "soup and Sandwiches" club where folks who have very little income can come and receive a free lunch (yes there is such a thing). Please pray that the families come and that we can build up better relationships with them.
Naomi and Melissa are well albeit Melissa has an upset stomach and she is like her dad she wants to let you know when she has pain.
God is good and he is looking after us as a family.
Monday, 30 April 2012
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Hi Guys, We are all rushed off our feet at the moment.
Last week we began distributing food from our food bank. The food comes from the EU and we register familys according to a strict criteria, 20 families came and they were a mixed bunch. Argentinian, Spanish, British, Estonian to mention a few. The worse story was of a woman who will remain nameless in her early 60s from Yorkshire originally, she had no work and no benefits available, she has been eating out of bins and getting her clothes from skips. She use to be a nurse at hospital in leeds. We had opportunity to pray with most of the families and many felt Gods presence.
We will be giving out staple food products every few months and we are working with the town hall social services.
One in Three unemployed people in the EU is Spanish, 40 percent of spaniards under the the age 25 are unemployed. Folks the need is on our door step here in europe, there are people going hungry on the streets of Spain. please pray that God blesses the work we are doing here in Spain.
On a lighter note we had a dedication service for Melissa Rose yesterday and many non believers came and heard the gospel for the first time. Mum and Babe are well and God is good.
Monday, 26 March 2012
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News: Yesterday we had a great meeting, I spoke on "Doing new things" from Joshua 3. A few folks responded to an appeal and one older gentlman broke down in my arms saying he wanted to draw closer to God. I do love the way the Lord can just pinpoint an issue in our lives like he did with this man.
Naomi and Melissa are doing very well and Melissa had a check up at the doctors today, she is all healthy and on course she eats like me, every 2 hours.
The 20s and 30s Group is doing very well and everyone is benefiting from having stronger relationships in that age range in the church.
I recently was a guest speaker at a church in Calahonda near Marbella, its the 2nd time they have asked me to preach there. We had a blessed time, the sermon? well you need to ask them if it was any good or not.
thats all for now.
News: Yesterday we had a great meeting, I spoke on "Doing new things" from Joshua 3. A few folks responded to an appeal and one older gentlman broke down in my arms saying he wanted to draw closer to God. I do love the way the Lord can just pinpoint an issue in our lives like he did with this man.
Naomi and Melissa are doing very well and Melissa had a check up at the doctors today, she is all healthy and on course she eats like me, every 2 hours.
The 20s and 30s Group is doing very well and everyone is benefiting from having stronger relationships in that age range in the church.
I recently was a guest speaker at a church in Calahonda near Marbella, its the 2nd time they have asked me to preach there. We had a blessed time, the sermon? well you need to ask them if it was any good or not.
thats all for now.
Monday, 6 February 2012
More news from the mission field in Spain.
Hi friends, Spain calling.
News from the Costa del Sol. If it makes you feel any better let me start by saying that we had minus 2 degrees the other night, winter has arrived here too!
All our weekly activities are back on after the christmas break which actually is until the 6th of January here in Spain for reyes (3 Kings day).
It was with great pleasure that I traveled back to the UK the spend a day with my sending Church Coventry Elim, I love being back there it is like coming home. It was great to catch up with many old friends and see what the Lord was doing there. It felt very different and yet it felt like I Just slotted right back in again.
Our Sunday mornings are going well and last week the church was packed, I taught from Genesis 12 the call of Abraham and how he did not try to negotiate with God but just did as he was told. It was more encouraging than it sounds.
On a personal level I am working three hours a day to suppliment my income, its a an afternoon show and you can listen to me 3-5pm monday to thursday by logging on to this address. www.talkradioeurope.com
We had our final scan this week and our little baby girl should clock in in around 5 weeks time, please pray for a safe delivery, the postal system in Spain is not great and I am hoping the hospitals are better lol.
Thats all folks!
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Hi friends, Spain calling.
News from the Costa del Sol. If it makes you feel any better let me start by saying that we had minus 2 degrees the other night, winter has arrived here too!
All our weekly activities are back on after the christmas break which actually is until the 6th of January here in Spain for reyes (3 Kings day).
It was with great pleasure that I traveled back to the UK the spend a day with my sending Church Coventry Elim, I love being back there it is like coming home. It was great to catch up with many old friends and see what the Lord was doing there. It felt very different and yet it felt like I Just slotted right back in again.
Our Sunday mornings are going well and last week the church was packed, I taught from Genesis 12 the call of Abraham and how he did not try to negotiate with God but just did as he was told. It was more encouraging than it sounds.
On a personal level I am working three hours a day to suppliment my income, its a an afternoon show and you can listen to me 3-5pm monday to thursday by logging on to this address. www.talkradioeurope.com
We had our final scan this week and our little baby girl should clock in in around 5 weeks time, please pray for a safe delivery, the postal system in Spain is not great and I am hoping the hospitals are better lol.
Thats all folks!
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012
2012
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Update from Dave.
Hi guys, I hope you all had a great Christmas. We had a mixed emotioned Christmas. We had the jy of all the Church celebrations and attending a Joint church venture Carol service in the square in fuengirola.
We also had a small family bereavement. One sunday before Christmas I was taking the rubbish out and I caught our Cat Demian (not named by us) being attacked by 5 loose hunting dogs. I managed to get the dogs off him and got him to the vets asap. It looked like I had saved his life but a just over a week later he died. He had an underlying disease that we were unaware of which attacked his inmune system. Normally this would go unoticed but with the extent of his injuries his little body could not cope.
I have been shocked as to how upset i have been of late i was obviously more attached than i realised.
As hard as it is we have to carry on, there is a gospel to be preached and people to be reached.
Please continue to Pray for myself and Naomi and the little baby on its way.
Dave & Naomi xx p.s Happy new year!
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Update from Dave.
Hi guys, I hope you all had a great Christmas. We had a mixed emotioned Christmas. We had the jy of all the Church celebrations and attending a Joint church venture Carol service in the square in fuengirola.
We also had a small family bereavement. One sunday before Christmas I was taking the rubbish out and I caught our Cat Demian (not named by us) being attacked by 5 loose hunting dogs. I managed to get the dogs off him and got him to the vets asap. It looked like I had saved his life but a just over a week later he died. He had an underlying disease that we were unaware of which attacked his inmune system. Normally this would go unoticed but with the extent of his injuries his little body could not cope.
I have been shocked as to how upset i have been of late i was obviously more attached than i realised.
As hard as it is we have to carry on, there is a gospel to be preached and people to be reached.
Please continue to Pray for myself and Naomi and the little baby on its way.
Dave & Naomi xx p.s Happy new year!
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Monday, 26 September 2011
Beach wedding with kilts
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Spanish Steps (Daves mission to Spain)FacebookFacebook are changing there groups I am not sure the full implications but if you still want to be a member you may at some point have to indicate that you want to remain a member.
Well We had a busy weekend as always. I officiated at a wedding on the beach (it felt a long way cov) on saturday. A scottish man marrying a welsh woman i felt a little outnumbered however all went well apart from the wind blowing my pages and not to mention the mens kilts lol.
Yesterday we had our usual service in Benalmádena and then I went to preach in Calahonda a town further along the coast. the calahonda church meet in a catholic church building and we were warmly recieved.
We then drove to Malaga for our 20s and 30s group last night which was a great social time together.
I have a busy week working on the radio filling in for a presenter who is off this week.
well keep us in your prayers guys, thanks for reading this again.
Dave & Naomi
P.S Naomi is now 16 weeks pregnant and is doing fine!!
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Spanish Steps (Daves mission to Spain)FacebookFacebook are changing there groups I am not sure the full implications but if you still want to be a member you may at some point have to indicate that you want to remain a member.
Well We had a busy weekend as always. I officiated at a wedding on the beach (it felt a long way cov) on saturday. A scottish man marrying a welsh woman i felt a little outnumbered however all went well apart from the wind blowing my pages and not to mention the mens kilts lol.
Yesterday we had our usual service in Benalmádena and then I went to preach in Calahonda a town further along the coast. the calahonda church meet in a catholic church building and we were warmly recieved.
We then drove to Malaga for our 20s and 30s group last night which was a great social time together.
I have a busy week working on the radio filling in for a presenter who is off this week.
well keep us in your prayers guys, thanks for reading this again.
Dave & Naomi
P.S Naomi is now 16 weeks pregnant and is doing fine!!
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Monday, 5 September 2011
Still Hot on the costa del sol.
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Hi guys, all the latest from Spain.
33 degrees not bad for september!
Last night we were privelaged to be part of an open air meeting in the middle of Torremolinos where many came to the Lord on the streets there. This is really unheard of in Spain but we praise God that the mayor of Torremolinos has given permission for this. We joined up with an Evangelical church to help them out.
We are currently doing a "way of the master" course on wednesday night in the church teaching our people how to evangelise effectively.
This september we will be starting a Zoe course this is a bible course that helps you to hear from God and tune into what he is saying more effectively.
I am currently writing a new newsletter that will be with shortly. If you dont already recieve it but would like a copy please reply to this message with your email address.
Thanks for your ongoing support.
Dave
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News from Spain
Hi guys, all the latest from Spain.
33 degrees not bad for september!
Last night we were privelaged to be part of an open air meeting in the middle of Torremolinos where many came to the Lord on the streets there. This is really unheard of in Spain but we praise God that the mayor of Torremolinos has given permission for this. We joined up with an Evangelical church to help them out.
We are currently doing a "way of the master" course on wednesday night in the church teaching our people how to evangelise effectively.
This september we will be starting a Zoe course this is a bible course that helps you to hear from God and tune into what he is saying more effectively.
I am currently writing a new newsletter that will be with shortly. If you dont already recieve it but would like a copy please reply to this message with your email address.
Thanks for your ongoing support.
Dave
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Monday, 22 August 2011
August
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Spanish Steps (Daves mission to Spain)Hi gang.Hi friends,
I have had a really busy few weeks, i have been covering radio presenters whilst on holiday etc. Doing this alongside my other commitments in the church, well lets just say it keeps me out of trouble.
It may well be that this will lead to a part time paid job in september, please pray that the Lord will give me wisdom in this area.
Hope you are all well. its very hot here the other night it was 32 degrees at 11.30 pm just to give you an idea. its not as hot as seville which reaches 45 on a regular basis. look at me I am very English talking about the weather.
Preached from james chapter 0ne using a mirror as an illustration (see if any of you bible schollors can make the link) and I felt the Lord was ministering to many folks in the room.
well better go now, miss all my Uk friends and family...
Spanish Steps (Daves mission to Spain)Hi gang.Hi friends,
I have had a really busy few weeks, i have been covering radio presenters whilst on holiday etc. Doing this alongside my other commitments in the church, well lets just say it keeps me out of trouble.
It may well be that this will lead to a part time paid job in september, please pray that the Lord will give me wisdom in this area.
Hope you are all well. its very hot here the other night it was 32 degrees at 11.30 pm just to give you an idea. its not as hot as seville which reaches 45 on a regular basis. look at me I am very English talking about the weather.
Preached from james chapter 0ne using a mirror as an illustration (see if any of you bible schollors can make the link) and I felt the Lord was ministering to many folks in the room.
well better go now, miss all my Uk friends and family...
Thursday, 21 July 2011
new website
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