First of all, we are really sorry that we havn´t updated this for so long. Time flies when you are busy! During our second week in Puno we visited a primary school and a secondary school. We took part in the normal church services and also helped out in the nursery school. We spent time with the 2 boys who are left in the home, although they were due to return to their father this month. We took the boys to the park and unfortunately one of them fell and broke his arm! It wasn´t really Simon´s fault! But at least he won´t forget him for at least 6 weeks.
During this month we have been visiting the churches in Ilo, Moquegua and Tacna, doing deputation work for next years team. We have also been able to do a little door to door work and take a few Sunday Schools.
The guys have also been helping out constructing the new church in Ite. Things are progessing well. Pleae do pray for the work in Ite.
We are currently in Mejia for a few days. Alistair Creelman is with us. He is doing some Bible Studies for us on things that will be helpful as we all return to our homes and churches.
This Sunday we will be having a farewell lunch and farewell service in Ite.We will then leave with Alistair to go to Tacna. We fly to Lima first thing on Monday morning. We will will then fly from Lima on Monday night. We arrive home on Wednesday morning (3rd June). Please pray for safety as we travel.
Monday, 25 May 2009
Monday, 20 April 2009
We made it and we weren´t sick!!!!
We are in a team of girls!!! At the moment we are in Puno which is like home for us because it is a lot colder than the coast, although a few of the team are struggling with the cold. Yesterday evening on of the girls had 5 layers of clothes, while another is enjoying the use of long-johns! But the guys are just as bad.
Last week we worked alongside Pastor Jair in the Alianza Church. We had the opportunity to visit a boy´s home, a girl´s home and an old people´s home. All the programs went really well, so well that they all want us to come back! One old woman even wanted to sing for us! In the evenings there was a gospel mission, where we looked at the real meaning of The Passion of Jesus. We really enjoyed the time and had the chance to share the good news with so many, and the church (which only has 10 members) seemed really encouraged.
This week we are back with Pastor Ramon in the local Baptist Church which received a lot of help from the Creelmans and the Flemings. We will have the opportunity to do some door to door work, teach English in the school, visit a primary school and a secondary school. We will also be helping with the midweek meeting, youth meeting, childrens club and Sunday services.
Please pray for the different programs that we will be involved in this week. Also please pray for the health of the team as it can be difficult in the altitude.
Thank you so much for all your prayers and continued interest. We have appreciated all your support.
Last week we worked alongside Pastor Jair in the Alianza Church. We had the opportunity to visit a boy´s home, a girl´s home and an old people´s home. All the programs went really well, so well that they all want us to come back! One old woman even wanted to sing for us! In the evenings there was a gospel mission, where we looked at the real meaning of The Passion of Jesus. We really enjoyed the time and had the chance to share the good news with so many, and the church (which only has 10 members) seemed really encouraged.
This week we are back with Pastor Ramon in the local Baptist Church which received a lot of help from the Creelmans and the Flemings. We will have the opportunity to do some door to door work, teach English in the school, visit a primary school and a secondary school. We will also be helping with the midweek meeting, youth meeting, childrens club and Sunday services.
Please pray for the different programs that we will be involved in this week. Also please pray for the health of the team as it can be difficult in the altitude.
Thank you so much for all your prayers and continued interest. We have appreciated all your support.
Sunday, 5 April 2009
Baptism at the swimming pool!
This week we have been in Tacna with the Manantial de Vida church. Today they are celebrating their 7 year anniversary. We have been visiting houses each day to invite people along to these special services. We also were able to do an open air childrens club. There was a baptismal service yesterday at the swimming pool! 5 people were baptised and then this morning they were welcomed into the church. The anniversary service will take place this evening.
This Thursday, Friday and Saturday there will be a special conference for Easter. It will take place in Ite. People from all the different churches we have visited will be coming along for the conference.
On Sunday we head to Arequipa for a few days on our way to Puno were we will be visiting some schools and a nursing home. We will also be taking part in a 4 day mission. Hopefully we will be able to update you all a little more about Puno once we know more ourselves! Do please pray for us as we travel to Puno. Last time it was a very unpleasant experience for us all. We hope to survive it better this time.
This Thursday, Friday and Saturday there will be a special conference for Easter. It will take place in Ite. People from all the different churches we have visited will be coming along for the conference.
On Sunday we head to Arequipa for a few days on our way to Puno were we will be visiting some schools and a nursing home. We will also be taking part in a 4 day mission. Hopefully we will be able to update you all a little more about Puno once we know more ourselves! Do please pray for us as we travel to Puno. Last time it was a very unpleasant experience for us all. We hope to survive it better this time.
Thursday, 12 March 2009
Moquegua
This week we are in Moquegua with Pastor Edgar and the San Antonio church. We are taking their Holiday Bible club. Things are going well so far. About 50 children have been attending each day. We will also be taking part in the youth meeting on Saturday night and the service on Sunday morning.
Please pray that God would speak to these children and that He would use us forHis glory.
Please pray that God would speak to these children and that He would use us forHis glory.
Tacna
Last week we were in Tacna once again. This time we were working alongside the Palabra de Vida church. We did door to door work in the mornings, open air kids clubs in the afternoons and projected films in the evenings. We took part in an open air for young people on Saturday night, and were responsible for Sunday school and the Sunday morning service.
At the kids club on Friday, Roberta was telling the story of Noah. Just as we finished the club there was a rainbow in the sky. Maybe that was due to all the rain that was falling on the ark (Chris and Ricardo that is!)
All in all it was an excellent week. There were many opportunities to share the gospel.
Please pray for Pastor Quintin and his family.
At the kids club on Friday, Roberta was telling the story of Noah. Just as we finished the club there was a rainbow in the sky. Maybe that was due to all the rain that was falling on the ark (Chris and Ricardo that is!)
All in all it was an excellent week. There were many opportunities to share the gospel.
Please pray for Pastor Quintin and his family.
Family camp!
Family camp went well. At first we were all a little discouraged because there were so few families there but it turned out to be a good week. A lot of the campers werent Christians and it was great to have opportunites to share the gospel with them. On the last night around the campfire it was great to hear many of them stand in front of everyone and say how much they enjoyed the camp and hoped to return again next year.
Please pray that God would even now be at work in these families.
Please pray that God would even now be at work in these families.
Saturday, 14 February 2009
Busy Times
HELLO!!!
Thanks so much for your patience. This is the first time we´ve been able to escape from the campsite and get to the internet here in Ilo. Well what have we been up to....
We had the Amazing Journey in Ite, in the middle of the main plaza. There were at least 80 people there who listened to the entire message of the Bible and how Jesus is the centre of it all. This was really encouraging as very few people come to the church. Robeta did the part of the Egyptian Princess and Simon got to be Goliath which was great fun ... but to be honest ... pretty nerve-racking for us!!!
The first camp of the summer was the youth camp. 40 young people came for the week. We had a brilliant time with them. We were divided into pairs and each pair was responsible for a group of 7-8 campers. We got to take the devotionals each morning, take part in the sport, wash dishes, and help the campers prepare for the activities in the evenings. Simon/Simon´s team won!!!!! We had the chance to get to know some of the new missionaries. Alistair was the camp nurse for the week and no one died which was good. We all got to know him and got on really well with him. Andrew Roycroft came for a day too and spoke in the morning with Trevor translating. It was nice to hear a sermon in English!! He spoke really well about how God speaks through creation and through His Word. We hope the camp helped the Christian young people grow closer to God and in their desire to serve Him, and we hope that those who aren´t Christians would have been challenged to think about their position before God.
HOLIDAY BIBLE CLUB! We were able to help Christine, Alicia and David in the HBC in Ite last Monday - Friday. We had up to 46 children. The stories were from Acts, with quizes, songs, memory verses, games and fizzy drinks happening every day. The kids were really enthusiastic and left us pretty tired!!! We got to try new things during the week, learnt more about how to work with children and had the opportuinity to explain the gospel to 46 children. Praise God for this! Please pray that he would use the efforts from last week to save children.
Well, that´s a bit of what we´ve been up to in the last while. And that brings us to today ... the first day of the family camps! Please pray for us this week, and that people would be challenged from God´s Word and encouraged to grow spiritually.
Thankyou for your prayers.
Thanks so much for your patience. This is the first time we´ve been able to escape from the campsite and get to the internet here in Ilo. Well what have we been up to....
We had the Amazing Journey in Ite, in the middle of the main plaza. There were at least 80 people there who listened to the entire message of the Bible and how Jesus is the centre of it all. This was really encouraging as very few people come to the church. Robeta did the part of the Egyptian Princess and Simon got to be Goliath which was great fun ... but to be honest ... pretty nerve-racking for us!!!
The first camp of the summer was the youth camp. 40 young people came for the week. We had a brilliant time with them. We were divided into pairs and each pair was responsible for a group of 7-8 campers. We got to take the devotionals each morning, take part in the sport, wash dishes, and help the campers prepare for the activities in the evenings. Simon/Simon´s team won!!!!! We had the chance to get to know some of the new missionaries. Alistair was the camp nurse for the week and no one died which was good. We all got to know him and got on really well with him. Andrew Roycroft came for a day too and spoke in the morning with Trevor translating. It was nice to hear a sermon in English!! He spoke really well about how God speaks through creation and through His Word. We hope the camp helped the Christian young people grow closer to God and in their desire to serve Him, and we hope that those who aren´t Christians would have been challenged to think about their position before God.
HOLIDAY BIBLE CLUB! We were able to help Christine, Alicia and David in the HBC in Ite last Monday - Friday. We had up to 46 children. The stories were from Acts, with quizes, songs, memory verses, games and fizzy drinks happening every day. The kids were really enthusiastic and left us pretty tired!!! We got to try new things during the week, learnt more about how to work with children and had the opportuinity to explain the gospel to 46 children. Praise God for this! Please pray that he would use the efforts from last week to save children.
Well, that´s a bit of what we´ve been up to in the last while. And that brings us to today ... the first day of the family camps! Please pray for us this week, and that people would be challenged from God´s Word and encouraged to grow spiritually.
Thankyou for your prayers.
Saturday, 24 January 2009
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Apologies in advance that it will probably be a while until there is another one! We have been busy these last few weeks getting things ready for the upcoming camps. We have been cleaning tables and chairs. We have been making an obstacle course, a running track and 2 beach volleyball courts. There have also been various groups staying at the centre. During this past week there was a group of special needs children staying. We went to the beach with them on Tuesday. It was good fun.
This week we will be preparing more things for the youth camp which starts on Saturday. No doubt there will be cleaning and some manual work. We are also practising songs for all the meetings. This camp runs for a week, that is followed by a Holiday Bible Club and then there is a family camp after that.
Tomorrow we will be doing an open air in Ite. This will include the Amazing Journey Presentation. The week before last we did some door to door work in the village and invited people to the meetings. Some new people turned up which was great. But it is very difficult to get people in. Also with it being the summer many regular attenders of the ladies meeting and youth meeting have left the village to visit family or take a holiday. Since it is difficult to get people in, we are going out to them!
Please pray for
This week we will be preparing more things for the youth camp which starts on Saturday. No doubt there will be cleaning and some manual work. We are also practising songs for all the meetings. This camp runs for a week, that is followed by a Holiday Bible Club and then there is a family camp after that.
Tomorrow we will be doing an open air in Ite. This will include the Amazing Journey Presentation. The week before last we did some door to door work in the village and invited people to the meetings. Some new people turned up which was great. But it is very difficult to get people in. Also with it being the summer many regular attenders of the ladies meeting and youth meeting have left the village to visit family or take a holiday. Since it is difficult to get people in, we are going out to them!
Please pray for
- the open air tomorrow
- preparation for camps
- the young people and families who will attend camp
- the Holiday Bible club
Friday, 9 January 2009
We didn´t really celebrate Christmas but we did celebrate Christmas Eve!!!!
Hope you all had a good Christmas and Happy New Year!!
We had a week off to catch up on some sleep! We celebrated christmas together ... on the 24th!!! which was quite bizarre, but good fun. The Peruvians are just impatient! We had a turkey at night which had been injected with orange juice, and instead of potatoes carrots, peas , brussels, roasties etc. ... we had rice. We watched a stupid video guido and simon made and then had a bonfire at the campsite eating icecream and chatting til 3 in the morning. Christmas day we all went to our different houses although that was a bit more difficult for us so we settled for David and Alicias house which is where we spent a week. We had an Aussie christmas with a barbecue for Christmas dinner and on 26th travelled to tacna for the real Norn-Iron Christmas dinner with all the missionaries which was awesome although they forgot to cook the brussel sprouts (what a pity!)
The rest of the week we spent relaxing at the beach, the pool and the amusements. We are now at the campsite getting ready for the camps which are about to begin as it is the summertime here.
Please praise God for the break
Please pray for us as we prepare and get ready for the camps
And please pray that God would use the camps to impact the lives of those who come
We had a week off to catch up on some sleep! We celebrated christmas together ... on the 24th!!! which was quite bizarre, but good fun. The Peruvians are just impatient! We had a turkey at night which had been injected with orange juice, and instead of potatoes carrots, peas , brussels, roasties etc. ... we had rice. We watched a stupid video guido and simon made and then had a bonfire at the campsite eating icecream and chatting til 3 in the morning. Christmas day we all went to our different houses although that was a bit more difficult for us so we settled for David and Alicias house which is where we spent a week. We had an Aussie christmas with a barbecue for Christmas dinner and on 26th travelled to tacna for the real Norn-Iron Christmas dinner with all the missionaries which was awesome although they forgot to cook the brussel sprouts (what a pity!)
The rest of the week we spent relaxing at the beach, the pool and the amusements. We are now at the campsite getting ready for the camps which are about to begin as it is the summertime here.
Please praise God for the break
Please pray for us as we prepare and get ready for the camps
And please pray that God would use the camps to impact the lives of those who come
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