Spain, June
1, 2008
Dear Friends,
Greetings from Spain! It is great to be able to say
“from Spain”! Over the last two months we have
worked in Leadership Matters Courses (LMC) in Thailand and
Costa Rica, as well as attended an Regional Director/Field
Chairmen’s Meeting in Nashville. It is great to be
home! It is wonderful to be in our home church in Villalba!
The new building is growing higher each day, in spite of
the much-needed rain that has fallen over the last month.
We hit the ground running. We arrived Friday and Saturday
we had an all-day training session with five local leaders,
preparing them to give a three-day LMC short course later
this year. We meet again next Saturday to continue the
training, and will have at least two more weekends of
intense training. The training we have received in LMC we
now giving to others. Our (and ITA’s) goal is to
eventually offer the entire course to Spanish-speaking
leaders around the world. The more time-consuming part of
this process is not the translation of the materials, but
rather finding and training qualified leaders. This will
take several years.
Things are changing in our world. By now most of you have
heard that our mission board asked Jeff to assume the role
of Deputy
Director for International Field
Operations, to begin July 1, 2008. (See
article on the mission’s website: http://www.fwbgo.com/happenings.cgi?t=2&id=798)
This is part of the streamlining and restructuring of our
mission administration. We will continue to live and work
in Madrid to carry out this new international ministry,
rather than moving to Nashville. We understand that many
Evangelical missions consider their director of field
operations to be a field rather than Stateside role. We
agree with that idea and therefore will tackle this new
ministry opportunity in that light, by fulfilling this
responsibility from Spain. We will continue to be involved
in Leadership Matters Course (and training leaders). We
will continue to need your prayers and support! If you have
any questions or comments, we’d love to hear from
you!
In April our mission board also voted to begin the
transition of changing our overall funding system from
exclusively an individualized system of missionary support
to a general fund to support all our missionaries
(the Great
Commission Fund). This will officially begin
January 1, 2010. Our board has been praying about and
investigating this change for the past three years, and as
a part of a five year strategy, is giving another two years
for the transition. We will continue to need your prayers
and support! Your financial support will continue to
support our particular ministry until 2010, and after that
date your gifts will continue to support us plus EVERY
FWBIM missionary around the world! We are very thankful for
the vision of our leaders and look forward with much
anticipation to the future! If you would like to read more
about this change, please go to our mission website:
http://www.fwbgo.com/funding/
We are thankful that TEN of our FWBIM colleagues were able
to attend these last two Leadership Matters Courses! They
made comments like “LMC
is the best and most practical leadership course I have
ever attended” to “LMC
has been transformational!” This unique and practical
course is blessing leaders around the world, literally on
every continent, and it is a privilege to have a small part
in delivering this blessing. We are attaching a picture of
the group from the Costa Rica LMC.
We are attaching an updated picture of the construction
here in Villalba. We are very excited to see this! Your
prayers and support means that you are helping to place
every brick, every block, and every beam that goes up in
this building! Both we and the believers in Villalba are
fully aware of the fact that this wouldn’t have been
possible without your help! GOD BLESS YOU! We continue to
give Him thanks every day for this tangible evidence of His
blessings and faithfulness.
Thanks for taking time to read our update!
Here for HIS glory,
Jeff and Susan Turnbough
jeff@fwbgo.com
http://www.fwbgo.com/
P.S. We are in the process of changing our internet
service, and they tell us they have to cut our service for
the next 3-5 days! Hopefully we’ll be able to find
access somewhere, but it will be more sporadic until the
change has taken place.
Prayer concerns:
Pray for the Spanish-speaking leaders we are training to do
LMC training.
Pray for our new role as Deputy Director for International
Field Operations.
Pray for the reorganization of the mission funding system.
Pray for the leaders who have taken LMC recently.
Pray for the construction of the new church building in
Villalba.
Spain
Address:
Dr. and Mrs. Jeff Turnbough
C/ Pocillo 22, Chalet 5
28492 Mataelpino (Madrid) Spain
(34) 91 857 3570
(34) 696 662 662
jturnbough@fwbgo.com
