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January 2026
We hope you had a good Christmas and a good start to 2026. We have had a mix of encouragements and challenges.
Terry recorded 5 videos from John 1 about Jesus coming in to the world, which we sent to all our contacts. They were well received and we have already had some good conversations as a result.
We also heard from Rodrigo and Vania that they will not be returning to our church in the foreseeable future. There has been no conflict, but they just don’t feel that they can commit to living in community with our church with their own work commitments and their desire for personal ministry in their house. We will continue to pray for one another and meet up from time to time, but one of the challenges of pioneer church planting is that all the people in the core team need a high level of commitment to the central ministries.
Esther and Joel spent Christmas with us and Esther was in Cordoba for 2 weeks, partly for medical reasons. A friend of Terry’s from the Catholic Bible Study group is a cardiologist and offered to make a space for her to run various tests over a number of days. After 18 months of uncertainty, she has finally been diagnosed with POTS which means she can begin to work out how to adapt to the condition and hopefully get medical support in the UK.
This term we are going to focus more on meeting individuals and couples and will also be having monthly meals with a smaller group of people invited and using live questions from Chat GPT over the meal table to help to get to know people better, understand their stories and perspectives on life and provoke them to examine their foundations in the light of Jesus. It is something you could try in the UK. Get in touch if you want to know more.
We will also be continuing with the Story of God meals (starting Friday 16th), the English evenings in our house (starting this Friday 9th) and the women’s breakfasts (next one Saturday 24th).
We would greatly value your prayers for us as we seek to work out how to meet with all the people we need, to keep everything running well and have sufficient rest, now that we are on our own. Whatever the challenges you face in 2026, we encourage you to hold on to God’s character as good, faithful and committed to his people and his mission. We can see that most clearly in the cross, but also throughout the Bible and in history, as well as in our own lives until now.
We would ideally like to find some other people to work as team with us and we will be praying for and exploring possibilities, but we are sure that God knows what we need. We trust in his wisdom and will not force openings but rather push in peace as a great friend once encouraged to do.
With love in Jesus,
Terry and Cristina