News from Spain

Dear friends thank you for ongoing prayers and support. We have had a very busy summer and a productive one too. Although many at the Calahonda Church go back to the UK over the summer, we saw some new people come in as well. We saw three conversions from 3 young people. Two of them are entertainers on cruise ships around the world. The third is a young girl who is from London and is currently looking after her grandma. 

Please keep us in your prayers, we thank God for those who are supporting us finsncially. As a missionary I can tell you we would not be see this without your help. 

Melissa has started pre-school and is loving it. She is at the ark Christian school in Fuengirola.

Please like our calahonda church facebook page for more info on all that is happening. You can also listen to sermons from me and guest speakers. Click here http://www.calahondachurch.com/downloads.html

Thanks again, may God bless you as you support our ministry.

Great to see the Skeltons.

Pastor Jonathan Skelton from Kingstanding Elim in Birmingham paid us a visit this week. 

Naomi's grandad

Last night Naomi's grandad passed away. He was in his eighties please can you pray for Naomi at this time. She maybe traveling back to the UK for his funeral.

Two new people

Yesterday we had two new people come to church (non tourists), pat an older woman and Rachel (23) her granddaughter who is caring for her. Both are from a non church background and both said it was the best meeting they have been in. Both were moved by the message preached by Naomi. Praise God for this and please keep praying for them. Joe and Laura (cruise ship entertainers) came again too! They are both in their twenties and made friends with the aforementioned Rachel. Please keep praying for us at the Calahonda Church.

Starting to settle down

We are starting to settle in our new home now. We have lots of places to visit to change our address though. 

The weather here has been unusual for Spain. Nice but cooler and windy. 

In these conditions it's easy for the slightest spark to set off a forest fire. On Sunday it took us an hour to get home from church. It normally takes 10 minutes. There was a fire just the other side of our urbanization, thankfully the wind was blowing away from our house. If it had been the other direction, we would had been evacuated. 

Coming from Derby and Cov I haven't had much experience of this kind of thing in the past. 

Please pray for us this summer that we won't get caught up in anymore of these fires. 

Although Melissa enjoyed watching the helicopters fly over our house.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

The Hodgsons.

Lots going on.

Where to start?

Well the best place to start I suppose would be with salvations. 

Following my induction service, we have settled into the church in Calahonda quite quickly. 

Naomi is heading up the worship side of things which she is enjoying and I'm enjoying bringing the teaching series. 

Enough of that, what I am so excited about is that 2 young lads, Sinclair and Sean who seemingly came in to mock what was going on, got so touched by the message they were seen crying during the message. Now I have had that before in my sermons, but for very different reasons. To cut a long story short they both responded to the salvation appeal at the end. They were not here this week, but nonetheless the journey has begun. 

This Sunday, we heard a testimony of Doug an Elim pastor from dunstable who was recently diagnosed with Cancer, following much prayer from our Calahonda Elim church, he had a very successful operation and is recovering very well. He gave testimony to Gods healing power yesterday.

Laura and Joe. 

Laura and Joe are professional entertainers on the coast. Joe does a tribute to Sammy Davis Jnr amongst others, he is a musician, tap dancer and singer. Laura his wife to be is an outstanding singer. I am marrying them in September. They came to church yesterday and both gave their lives to The Lord. We had a very enriching conversation with them afterwards and prayed with them both.

Please pray for them all, that they continue on their journey of discovery. 

Thanks for your ongoing prayer and financial support. 

Every blessing,

Dave

Great weekend.

What a great weekend! Induction service Friday with Elim missions director Paul Hudson and a very emotional farewell service, for Peter and Annette yesterday.

New church

Tomorrow is my first Sunday as Pastor of the calahonda church. Pray for me but more importantly pray for them lol.

On the mission field

Sometimes it can feel quite lonely on the mission field. You miss your family and friends in the uk and your colleagues. But every now and then God brings friends your way, he did today. It was great having lunch with a lovely family who are supporting our ministry. We are so blessed to have friends who believe in us and Gods ability to use us for his kingdom. Praise God for friends.

36 percent unemployed

The news today that andalucia is the region of Spain with the highest percentage of unemployed is no surprise to those of us who live here. 36 percent are claiming benefits and there will be a big percentage that are no longer entitled to benefits. It's not unusual to meet people who have been unemployed for more than 5 years. Some how we need as the body of Christ to be able to help people set up businesses and make a living in Spain. Please pray for us.