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October 2026
Thank you for your prayers for Peter, Cristina's dad.
After a fairly long battle, he went to be with Jesus on Saturday morning at about 3:00 a.m.
He was able to stay at home until Thursday, when the palliative team told us to take him in to the hospital, and he was unconscious by Thursday evening. As things move very quickly in Spain, by 4:00 a.m. we were with the funeral directors in the hospital, sorting out paperwork and confirming the arrangements for his cremation, which happened quietly the next morning, Sunday.
It is normal for the family to go to the funeral home and receive visits for all sorts of people for the 24 hours after the death of a loved one. As this would have been tough on everyone, especially Sue and very impersonal, so we decided to have 2 open house slots in our home; one on Sunday from 5-7 p.m. and the other on Monday (a bank holiday) from 7-9 p.m. Over 50 people turned up over the 2 days and some of them stayed until after 9pm on the Sunday, but we were overwhelmed by the warmth and affection shown towards us and Peter and Sue.
Despite being exhausted physically and emotionally, God provided some amazing opportunities to talk about the eternal hope we have in Jesus and a number of people who are still grieving lost ones poured their hearts out to us and we could point them to Jesus. We have invited people to Peter's funeral, which we will be celebrating in our home this Sunday at 16:00 U.K. time.
Unfortunately we won't be able to live stream it, but in the end Christine will be playing piano, Esther and Joel will sing and Terry will give a short gospel message from John 14, a passage that Peter loved and preached from at many funerals. As well as Joel and Esther, Cristina's sister and brother in-law will be here (they arrived on Monday) and also one of Cristina's cousins. Please pray as Peter asked us to pray, "that people would see Jesus" and put their trust in him for their eternal future.
Thank you once again for your support. Although we are tired and sad to be without Peter, we know he is without pain and will be with his best friend, Jesus (as we have told many people).
With love in Jesus,
Terry, Cristina and Sue.
Photo is of Peter and Sue not too long ago