"Tis the Season"

Happy Thanksgiving!

As we approach the Christmas season this year, we look to God's Word and truly consider the One whom we are celebrating to gain a fresh perspective and truly worship the almighty God who humbly came to the world in human flesh to seek and save the lost.

Although it may be the "Christmas season", the Bible exhorts us to be ready in season and out.  Most of us can probably remember the old Verizon commercial with the man testing the phone service and asking this question: "Can you hear me now?".  We need to remember that often during the Christmas season we can become so busy and distracted that we fail to hear God's voice.  The choice is ours.  We pray that all of us will this year choose to keep our eyes on our Lord and Savior!

Meet Adolfo and Cecelia

Adolfo and Cecilia along with their two young children are part of the Refugio family.  Adolfo is part of the Gideon International Organization in Cajamarca and regularly distributes Bibles throughout the region. We have been blessed to be included when we helped give out Bibles here in Baños at the elementary school.   And Cecelia is a regular at our Women's Bible Study.  Recently Adolfo and Cece began serving in our Children's Ministry as Sunday school teachers.  We are blessed by this family;  please keep them in your prayers.

Chiquitín Jardin

This past weekend we were excited to be invited to the inauguration of Chiquitín Jardin, a new preschool/kindergarten here in Baños del Inca.  A family from Refugio is hoping to bless the community as they open this new chapter in their lives.  They dedicated their new business to the Lord and in prayer asked that it would honor Him and that He would bless it.

Inauguration Day!

Upcoming Events

We are already looking forward to December!  The "Choclotada" is a traditional Peruvian Christmas celebration for children.  This year we are excited to host 3 choclotadas; our 3rd annual Refugio choclotada for the children of Baños del Inca, our 1st at a public kindergarten in Banos, and our 1st at the Aldea Infantil Orphanage in Cajamarca.  Please pray for the children that will come and hear about how God came to earth so that we can have eternal life with Him.

Making stockings for our kids at the orphanage!

Thanks to all of you who pray for our ministry here in Peru.  We hope you have a joyous day of Thanksgiving with family and friends.

"Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!"