The iGosian summer is quickly coming to a close. All the iGo teams are now back home except for our JSI team in Spain. JSIs are overseas interns. They serve alongside iGo staff and the M’s overseas as they learn to lead and live on mission. JSIs get to lead students who come for a week through one of our partnership trip opportunities. Today’s update is from our JSI team leader, Matt.

I can’t believe the end of the summer is here! It is crazy how fast it went by! The Texas Super Summer Global team and the Louisiana Geaux Students teams were here last week and they left Tuesday. I had my own trek group to lead that week which was very different, but I loved getting to know them and see Father work through them.

We were at a site that I was familiar with, which allowed me to keep up a relationship with a restaurant owner in that area. I’ll call him “C”. “C” is from Iran and he is not a believer. We became very close to him and his family. I loved getting to know them as they were cooking our food everyday. I knew him before this week, but it was awesome that my trek group jumped in and became his friends too. Throughout the week we had a few conversations about the Son and were eventually able to give him the Word in his language, which he thought was awesome!

Also, this week one group was able to break fast in a local mosque. It was so cool seeing people in Spain being open to us. The amazing part of that is the Story was sown among those people several times. Father is incredible.

This week we are doing something the M’s have never tried before called English camp. It’s amazing being able to hang out with these kids. They are all from Morocco and our main goal is to make relationships with the families to pass off to the M’s. It has been a crazy week, but we have loved every minute. Father is moving and that is always encouraging to see.

As the summer is winding down, we are looking forward to our retreat this weekend. We have three days to debrief the summer and talk about integrating our experience into life back home. I am excited to hear how Father worked in my team’s life. Please be PR-ing for my team as they think about home and what waits for them upon their return. Our desire is to continue to live on mission as we return.