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One team - One vision

8/16/2018

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​“If you want to go fast, go alone.  If you want to go far, go together.”  —African proverb

For the past couple of years, we have been in team collaboration with another cross-cultural worker family living in our town of Antequera.  Axel and Delilah have been amazing teammates for us.  They moved from Puerto Rico to Spain in the summer of 2013 (the same time we did) and we lived just a block away from each other, so it didn’t take long for us to meet and begin sharing and working together.  Over the years, we have shared not only work and strategy, but we have also shared family and friends, good times and bad, laughter and tears.  Honestly, without Axel and Delilah, I don’t know how we could have made it.  They have been integral to our lives here.  So we were so excited when they transitioned mission agencies to work fully with TMS Global!

In July, we added another family to our little team.  Ryan and Kat Marcum moved their family from Texas to Antequera and are now transitioning to life in Spain.  This year will be spent learning culture and language and being in mentoring relationship with the rest of the team.  Little by little they will transition in to the vision and roles and goals of our team.

 On any given day, you can hear our team encouraging one another by restating the vision.  “The vision is not ______ (fill in the blank with whichever frustrating thing we are encountering at the moment).  The vision is Kingdom in Antequera. Love your neighbor and open up the Kingdom for Antequera.”  On so many occasions, when we have been discouraged and frustrated and needed to vent to our teammates, someone on the team reminds us of the vision.  It has a way of always changing the mood, always grounding us and bringing us back from the edge of the proverbial cliff.  We all have different and various roles and goals within that vision, and we all work in various ways.  But we are all committed to that vision.  The Kingdom of God in Antequera. 

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much." --Helen Keller
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Please keep our team in your prayers as we work together to love and serve our neighbors, the church, and the community in Antequera, Spain.

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    Laurie Drum

    In my USA life, I was a teacher in Texas for 15 years.  I was also a professional photographer, a soccer mom, a horsewoman, and the neighborhood hospitality queen.  I did "Joanna Gaines farmhouse style" before Chip and JoJo were even a thing - we restored an 1884 Victorian farmhouse in small town Texas and did shiplap walls until I thought I'd go crazy. I taught at NASA, scuba dived with astronauts in training, and studied animals at Sea World for educational purposes. I've tried just about everything, because I have an insatiable need to know if I can do it! Never underestimate a Texas girl in cowboy boots!

    ​In 2006, my husband Billy and I became cross-cultural workers (CCWs) with TMS Global.  For five years, we served in three rural Quechua Wanca villages in the Andes of Peru.  And when I say rural, I mean RURAL - like no potty!  I spent my days in Peru learning to live a Quechua lifestyle in a rustic adobe house - cooking Peruvian foods, sewing with Quechua women, raising my chickens and goats and pigs, and planting my gardens. Now I live my life in small town Spain, serving other cross-cultural workers via teaching and training and care, and helping displaced people to navigate their new reality in Europe.

    I'm passionate about fostering personal growth, growth in community, and growth in The Kingdom. Walking alongside others and helping them to use their unique design, their gifts and strengths and maximize their abilities to fulfill their God-given purpose - that's what makes my heart sing! 

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