Another missionary off to a mountain town!

One of our dear friends, a 19 year old girl, that is in our new believer discipleship class just left about a month ago to go to her hometown in Espinar. This girl is PASSIONATE about Jesus. She is always reading the Bible and talking to people about things that she personally learns from the Bible. Anyway, she was having a hard time in Lima and decided it was time to go back home for a visit. She is trilingual. She is fluent in English, Quechua, and Spanish. Therefore she will really be able to communicate with the people there since a lot of them just speak the native language Quechua. She originally asked me if we had salvation bracelets she could take with her, and I told her I didn’t not have any with me but to come over, and I would load her up. She came over to our house the day she was going to leave, and I loaded her up with stuff to teach kids the Bible in this mountain town. She took a giant sack with her filled with art activities, Bibles, Bible verse games, and a kid’s story Bible. She also took curriculum with her and I gave her Mission Arlington’s website with more Spanish curriculum. On top of that she took about 3000 bracelets to explain the gospel to people. She emailed me a few weeks ago and said she had already started teaching children there and it was going good. Her brother is also a believer. He has been living there for about a year now. I know her going back there will really encourage him in the faith and hopefully they can do missionary work as a team. I am so excited to see all that God will do through this brother –sister team. Please be in prayer for them that God will give them courage, strength, wisdom, and God will use them to reach the region of Espinar. There are not many Christians there, but I feel confident that God has his hand on this brother and sister team and that He will use them in tremendous ways to reach the city of Espinar! So excited to see what God will do!

God's amazing provision

Recently, I had to go back and get together some financial records. Although, I hate dealing with financial records and such (I don’t know how I am my mom’s daughter), God really showed me how he had provided so abundantly for me this year. God has provided in an amazing way for me this year financially. Up to this date, almost 2 years of first leaving for Peru, I have never had to ask for one penny of money. God has always just provided through all kinds of people. If you have supported me financially I would like to take the time in this blog to thank you again. I don’t know where all my support comes from because of confidentiality policies at the church, but thank you so much. I could not be here without the support of people like you. It just amazed me how God has provided for me and I mean faithfully provided for me for the past two years. I am so thankful that God would provide for me even when I don’t deserve it at all. We serve an AWESOME God.

A fresh perspective

Today's blog is actually about today! Imagine that, a miracle. Anyway, during today and yesterday God has just given me a fresh perspective on my life in Peru. It has been like I have been able to see Peru in a new way, just the little things like getting to ride on a combi (a very ghetto bus), or going to the market and buy the biggest avacadoe ever, buying wanton soup at the local chifa (chinese) restaurant, or grocery shopping at the corner store. It has just been awesome seeing God renew my perspective of how much I LOVE life here. I love that it is different from the United States. I have been down about life in general lately, but I had a very tragic reminder yesterday when someone that I went to school with was in a tragic accident. Please pray for her. Her name is Lauren Scruggs. You can keep up with her through this website: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/laurenscruggs/mystory. It just made me see that I have life so good, and I should never complain about anything. I don't have ANYTHING to complain about. God has blessed my life abundantly, and I am so blessed to get to live in Peru. I love life here, the people are beautiful, the culture is so unique and fun to get to be a part of, and I look forward to see what God is going to do. I hope and pray that one day every person in Peru will know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. Please pray for an awakening here.