Once again lack of time seems to have prevented us from sitting down and updating our blog for some time. Some days here in Peru you run around like a crazy person trying to get things done and then at the end of the day you have to sit back and think very hard what you have done that day! When we first arrived in Peru a more experienced missionary from a different mission shared a piece of advice with us. He said here in Peru you should plan to do two things everyday and be pleased when you get one done! I think it would be fair to say that this is an exaggeration but I guess in recent days we have become aware that in some ways this is not too far away from the truth! Often we find ourselves one problem away from completing a task.
Since the New Year time really has flown by rapidly. On Saturday 5th January the first camp started at Baptist Centre – Valle Azul. Although the week of camp proved to be quite tiring it was highly profitable as many of the young campers who attended were encouraged in their faith and a few made commitments to follow Jesus as their Saviour for the very first time. It is in these times that we are reminded that this is what serving as a missionary is all about – seeing lives transformed for God.
The week following the first camp we spent preparing for the second camp, a Family Camp which starts tomorrow (19th January) and runs to the 26th January. During this week we also took over a number of responsibilities from the Morrow family as they left Ilo for Ireland via Lima on Monday 14th January. Over the next three months Alicia and I will have more responsibility in looking after the small church plant in Ite, including taking quite a few meetings, looking after the overall running of camps and overseeing the Mision Rescate Team who are based at the Camp Centre for a year.
We really would appreciate your prayers over the few months as we try to be faithful in serving the Lord with what we have been given. As we take on these new responsibilities we are encouraged by seven words from Psalm 29:11 “The Lord gives strength to his people.”
Since moving to Ilo at the end of September Sarah has been spent most of her time at home. On Monday past Sarah started back into and induction month for her new nursery. She will attend the nursery for two hours a day three days a week for a month. After a couple of weeks break she will properly enrol in the nursery at the beginning of March. Once again we ask that you would pray that Sarah will adjust to her new surroundings. To date she has been happy with the concept of going to nursery and making new friends again but the reality has been a little more difficult and there have been a few tears. We hope and pray that very soon she will settle and will pick up where she left off with her Spanish.
Finally we just want to apologise to any of you who may have received some junk mail from us earlier in the week. We are not sure what happened but are suspecting that someone hacked our email. We have now increased security and have not experienced any problems since. As a result of our problem with our email we lost all our email addresses. We were able to retrieve some addresses which we had written down in various places, however if you regularly receive our prayer letters (or emails from us) and would wish to continue doing so please send us an email expressing your desire to do this so that we can store your email address once again. Once again we apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused to you. After looking into the problem it seems it is not something that is a threat to others.
As always we want to thank you for your love, prayers and support. You have been such an encouragement to us as a family. We would also like to say a huge thank you to everyone who remembered us in anyway over the Christmas period, be it in prayer, through an email or phone call or by card or parcel.
May God Bless you all.
Since the New Year time really has flown by rapidly. On Saturday 5th January the first camp started at Baptist Centre – Valle Azul. Although the week of camp proved to be quite tiring it was highly profitable as many of the young campers who attended were encouraged in their faith and a few made commitments to follow Jesus as their Saviour for the very first time. It is in these times that we are reminded that this is what serving as a missionary is all about – seeing lives transformed for God.
The week following the first camp we spent preparing for the second camp, a Family Camp which starts tomorrow (19th January) and runs to the 26th January. During this week we also took over a number of responsibilities from the Morrow family as they left Ilo for Ireland via Lima on Monday 14th January. Over the next three months Alicia and I will have more responsibility in looking after the small church plant in Ite, including taking quite a few meetings, looking after the overall running of camps and overseeing the Mision Rescate Team who are based at the Camp Centre for a year.We really would appreciate your prayers over the few months as we try to be faithful in serving the Lord with what we have been given. As we take on these new responsibilities we are encouraged by seven words from Psalm 29:11 “The Lord gives strength to his people.”
Since moving to Ilo at the end of September Sarah has been spent most of her time at home. On Monday past Sarah started back into and induction month for her new nursery. She will attend the nursery for two hours a day three days a week for a month. After a couple of weeks break she will properly enrol in the nursery at the beginning of March. Once again we ask that you would pray that Sarah will adjust to her new surroundings. To date she has been happy with the concept of going to nursery and making new friends again but the reality has been a little more difficult and there have been a few tears. We hope and pray that very soon she will settle and will pick up where she left off with her Spanish.Finally we just want to apologise to any of you who may have received some junk mail from us earlier in the week. We are not sure what happened but are suspecting that someone hacked our email. We have now increased security and have not experienced any problems since. As a result of our problem with our email we lost all our email addresses. We were able to retrieve some addresses which we had written down in various places, however if you regularly receive our prayer letters (or emails from us) and would wish to continue doing so please send us an email expressing your desire to do this so that we can store your email address once again. Once again we apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused to you. After looking into the problem it seems it is not something that is a threat to others.
As always we want to thank you for your love, prayers and support. You have been such an encouragement to us as a family. We would also like to say a huge thank you to everyone who remembered us in anyway over the Christmas period, be it in prayer, through an email or phone call or by card or parcel.
May God Bless you all.
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