• I’ve been working on finishing up the Communicate, a twice-yearly publication of Málaga Media Center. Since there is no dedicated graphic designer working here at the moment, I offered to finish it, since I have been trained in graphic design and I know how to use the programs. At the moment I’m just waiting to hear back from a few people, and waiting for one last article from Dan, the director, before getting some final approvals and figuring out how to get it printed and mailed. (Something I’m not very informed about.)
• I also recently began working on a new Arabic video project — creating music videos out of some of the Arabic praise music that has been produced over the years, by native North African songwriters and singers, with the help of MMC. After the first day of working on the first song, I woke up with the tune still going through my head!! It is either very catchy music, or I’ve just heard it too many times.
• Tim has been asked to lead the worship at our church on Sunday, since the pastor and some of the band will be out of town at a conference (I must have mentioned to him at one point that Tim and I used to lead music together…). Please pray for him as he is preparing the music to play, especially tomorrow during our worship team practice when we practice with rest of the band (those who are not going to the conference).
• Avant Spain Conference - Next week Tim and I and the rest of the MMC team will be away at a conference for a few days; so the next weekly update won’t be until the week after. Pray that it will be a good time of rest and connecting with the other Avant missionaries in Spain. The president of Avant Ministries will be flying out to give the messages, so that should be nice.

Have a happy and safe end of October! I’ll be turning 24 in a few days…where does the time go?

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I find it interesting that as most of southern California is up in flames, southern Spain is being covered in rain.

My two homes are at odds.

Pray that the fires would be stopped, before causing further damage, and… that I can remember my umbrella next time.

We just got the news that Tim’s visa is ready to pick up, and now he’s looking at tickets in November to go back and get it. We found a few options for less than $800, which is much better than it could be, so we’ll probably get one of those. Praise God that it’s finally ready! (After only three months of waiting.)

• The promo video I was working on for the new Arabic TV series is now finished and sent to the station, which is probably airing it already. The series is set to air on October 25th, so the promo needed to be there ahead of time to start getting the word out about the new series. On Tuesday we sent the video to them digitally, but when it came to recording it down to tape, my computer decided it would NOT cooperate! With the help of Tim, other video staff, and some internet research, we managed to find the right trick to do to make it work again; but for a while there, I was afraid I’d have to reinstall my video editing program!

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