Waiting for HOPE

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Penny Saunders is a long-term staff woman from Canada who joined Agape Spain during the pandemic, first part-time and later full-time as assistant to our national director in our national office in Valencia.

Although Penny has been on staff many years, we decided to go use the New Staff Training material to help her improve her language skills. She and I have been meeting every week to practice speaking on a different topic, using and developing her Spanish vocabulary. 


It has taken a while for Penny to feel comfortable in our ministry here in Spain....but over time we have seen her open up and also develop her capacity as a leader. 

While she has served faithfully in this role, the large part of her ministry experience has been working as a teacher in Christian schools in Russia, Moldova and Madrid, Spain. Her dream is now to start a new Christian school in Valencia. It is in this context that teachers can teach students a Christian worldview as well as present the gospel with words and action. Christian schools can provide amazing opportunities for students as well as families to know Christ.

After months of praying together with Penny, God has put a variety of people in Penny's path with the same dream. In June they have met twice to talk about the potential of the HOPE SCHOOL project. Although they currently have different commitment levels right now, they have decided to carry out a feasibility study in Valencia to consider the state of the current market for a Christian school.



 Please pray for Penny and the Spaniards and missionaries to Spain that have expressed an interest in this project. Pray that the Lord will open doors for this project to move forward and make His timing very clear to all of them. Pray that he would speak specifically to each potential partner about the role He would like them to play as they consider launching HOPE SCHOOL. 

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