Hi Jack, Marco here….

You remember, the Marco that came as a friend of Nick Tonkin’s and ended up living at La Casa en la Roca with Mo & Elaine, Andre & Irene, etc etc.

I woke up this morning and wrote my list of things to do for the day and two items on that list read as follows:

look up on the internet Bob Mumford and Dan Delvecchio

and boy am I glad I did. I don’t know why I hadn’t done it before but there you go.

I see you have a list of email addresses and there are so many people listed there that I know but I didn’t think it was the best idea to just start emailing everyone so I thought I would start with you.

I’m not sure really what to write next as such a lot of time has passed by since I spoke to anyone at the community church, I really wouldn’t know where to start but as it happens I had planned to visit Spain this august to see some friends in Marbella along with my wife and two girls, and had a hidden agenda of looking up the church in Torremolinos to see if it was still there. I say it’s a hidden agenda because Vivi, my wife, and the girls don’t want to get dragged half way around the Costa del Sol by a husband looking to get reconnected to his spiritual birth place.

Please add my email address to the list and I when I get my website up and running (soon) I’ll send you the link so you can get a more complete up date of what I am doing , what I have done, and where I am going, …. or at least, where I think I am going.

In brief, left Spain er….1983, went to work for Crusade for World Revival (CWR), publisher of ‘Every Day With Jesus’ bible reading notes )  http://www.cwr.org.uk/

Left them in Dec 1986 and left for Dallas Tx where I studied at Christ for the Nations Institute (CFNI) for two years and then worked there for a further 1 year. http://www.cfni.org/

Went back to CWR in 1989 and worked with them until August 1998 during which time I met Vivi, got married 11/07/92

and had my first daughter Jemma Lucille, born 27/08/95. David Ried came to visit with me around about that time and stayed at our flat in Farnham.

Left CWR in August  98 and went to work for NTL, a cable TV channel which has gone through various changes since then and is now called Arqiva  http://www.arqiva.com/ . I now work for the satellite media solutions department.

Daughter number 2 Lucy Mabel came along on 19/12/97.

And that is pretty much where I am now although there’s tons of other up’s and down’s in between. The latest thing I am hoping to embark soon is a new project soon called ‘Good Gracious Media’ which is a business I have founded with the help of my vicar and friend Derek Welsman which will be concentrating on providing media solutions, that are Good ( i.e Phillippians 4:8) and Gracious   ( i.e a fair and honest price for services provided, that doesn’t rip people off) and also provide more time for me to concentrate on my songwriting and singing. I am recording my first album at the moment and have started to host singer/songwriter evenings under the name of ‘Uncharted Territory’.

I am hoping to counter the message given to our young kids by the media that, to have talent means you have to get up on a stage and perform ‘like a pop idol’ in front of a panel of judges who will then decide whether you have ‘talent’ or not. It’s a particular bug bear of mine and I am hoping to go into schools and tell them that true talent is individual and unique and is a gift given by God and if we turn to him, he can unlock it.

Anyway enough of my preaching. I hope this email isn’t too large and I hope I haven’t droned on too long.

Please forward this to as many that you think would like to catch up with the news.

I can’t tell you how much Dan’s ministry and the friends I made at The Evangelical Community Church mean to me, and how thankful I am that you have set up this link so that I can keep in touch with them.

Many thanks Jack

Marco