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

• the open air tomorrow


• preparation for camps


• the young people and families who will attend camp


• the Holiday Bible club

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