Friday, May 17, 2013

Do you ever feel that time just flies?  We sure are feeling that way!  It's hard to believe that we have now been in Peru for 2 1/2 months.  We have seen the Lord provide in so many ways and He has been faithful and sustained us when we are weak.  We continue to minister twice a month in the village of Carhuaquero which sits in a beautiful location at 12,000 feet.  And we have been blessed to join another missionary family, Sean-Crissy Heath, each Wednesday afternoon in Matara.  It is amazing as we drive into town, as the van driver honks his horn and the children run out.  Last week there were about 100 children.  Now that the rainy season is ending, we meet at a soccer field where we play with the kids for about half an hour.  We then have a time of worship, Bible lesson and a nutritious snack.  This week the girls even got to paint our fingernails!  Take a look at their beautiful faces!

We had our first Baptism at Refugio which was an amazing testimony of God's saving grace as it was held at a public pool at a local restaurant.  Many from our church came and we celebrated afterwards with Pollo a  la Brasa.  We are also moving our church to a better location across the street where we will be able to have our Children's Ministry in the same location.  We laugh at how it seems that the Lord always has a remodel project for Stan!

Stan is now an official resident of Peru and Jan should receive her residency card in June.  The language barrier is difficult as we long to be able to have deeper relationships.  However, we are excited to start private tutoring twice a week.  We hope this will help us to become more conversational.

We all look forward to when the Brower Family will join us.  We hope to begin teaching english classes to adults and children as another opportunity to share the gospel.  There has already been an interest expressed by several locals.