Spain Update

hcmoderator — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:27:01 -0700

Hello dear friends,

We want to apologize for not showing any signs of life in the last few months but we´ve been caught up in the swing of things as we´ve been getting the whole project off the gound since
last summer. We surely appreciate your prayers and are so grateful for them as we´ve needed them now more than ever.

As always, God continues to show His grace, love and guidance in the Aslan project. As you know we started with classes last summer and we haven´t had a minute to stop since then, so to speak. The organization of the classes, schedules, the teachers, the students, all the legal aspects and the implementation of the Christian approach in all the work are taking all of our time up till now. So, yes, we´re tired but thankful and happy at seeing everything take place before our very eyes.

To our amazement we can tell you that right now we´ve got about 57 music students and 50 dance students, all of them non-Christian people, with the exception of two or three. More and more we´re convinced God´s called us to be a living testimony of his life and presence through our lives and the creative gifts. Last week we had the dedication ceremony where some pastor from the city came and prayed for the work, it was a great and blessed time for us all. We´re sending some pictures so you can see what´s going on.

We´ve got a few challenges before us as has been the case in the last years with us and the Aslan project but are expectant as to what God´s going to do to make things come about in every one of them. Right now we´re in the midst of organizing our first summer camp for the whole month of July and continue to establish all the different aspects of the work. Lilli´s teaching about 20 hours a week, as well as doing some of the administration work. Danny is taking part in some of the classes and enjoying them, if you don´t remember he´s almost seven years old now and growing. I´m getting the theatre classes going and doing most of the administration work for now, until God provides somebody to do it. We´ll, I´m going to share with you some of our prayer needs so you can continue to up lift us before the throne of grace.

1- One of our main needs continues to be people:
-Music and dance teachers as well as a person for administration and a web and graphic designer, also.

2-Another one of our needs is prayer and we don´t take this lightly. One of the most important lessons we´ve been learning in this whole project is dependence on God, and of course, to be able to walk in a daily dependence on Him we need grace, strength and wisdom to not let anything, even the work, take the place of our personal relationship with Him day after day as we see Him make things come about. Part of this means being wise enough to be able to keep our family time as one of our main priorities in the midst of all the work and activities we´ve to attend to.

3-Please pray also that we´ll be able to listen to God every step of the way and let Him speak to us in every area of our lives and in every decissión we have to make and in every plan we´ve to design.

4-The other need continues to be our finances. The support for us as a family is still very short though God´s never let us down. So pray for this and if God leads you to contribute we´re sending you our address so you can send any donations.

5-You can also pray for finances for the work:
We need materials such as music instruments, computers, furniture, salaries, etc. You can also contribute to our Inreach Program which is designed to reach the underprivileged children and young adults that come from socially and economically depressed situations. It is one of our goals to expose them to artistic education and cultural events that would bring the moral and spiritual values of Chritianity into their focus.
Well, this is it for now. Again we appreciate your prayers a whole lot and and are so happy and glad to have you as part of the work God´s called us to do. Do drop us a line when you can.

Blessings and greetings from the 'Aslan Country'.

Hécto, Lilli , Danny and all the team.

Hector & Lilli Ramirez,
Producing Artistic Directors
Aslan Theatre WorkShop and Ars School

www.aslanperformingartscentre.org

Madrid

Madrid

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