October 15th was a first for us...we helped plan and lead a BBQ.  We invited the church in Alameda to be the main participants, then (as a team) we invited our friends from Torrejon also.

We were able to host the BBQ at the baseball club where we are members.  The president of the club allowed us to use the facilities free of charge, which was a big blessing.  We had the usual fixings for a BBQ here in Spain...

and of course chorizo (a type of sausage), panceta (like really thick bacon-looking slices of pork), and morcilla (blood sausage).  Slap the meat on bars of bread or buns, add the side dishes of tortilla (a potato, egg, and bacon omelet), and some olives or potato chips, and you are ready to eat.

BBQ-ing is usually something the men like to do.  Thankfully everyone pitched in and helped out.

God gave us a great day of sunshine, after praying all week that the rain would lift.  The field was in great condition, there was not much mud, it was a miracle!

That freed Keith and Glenn up to run the games and activities.  What a blessing to see Alameda taking an active roll in this outreach activity. 

and ten of the fifteen we invited came (from three different families).  Here Teri and I grab a moment to take a picture with Gabi (our pastor's daughter).  Teri is one of my friends from Cal's school. 

We had about 53 people there in all!  That is what we would call a sucess.

Talking is something we do a lot of...or at least listening.  Spaniards like to talk, and they tend to talk all at once.  So it can get loud with everyone talking on top of each other.  There may be three or four conversations going on at one time, with everyone contributing to all four!

until the sun went down and it got too cold to sit around.  We had a LONG day, arriving at 2PM and not leaving until we had locked up at 8:30 that night.  You can bet we headed straight to bed!