Monthly Archives: February 2010

Don’t You Quit When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit- Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.Continue reading “Don’t Quit”

Today people all over the Cusco region are celebrating “Yusna”. The tree you see pictured above was not there until yesterday.  It was cut down and planted (again) just so it can be cut down (again).  Yusna is a tradition where couples will play traditional Peruvian music (waino) and they will dance around the tree. Continue reading “Yusna”

On Tuesday morning I was able to go with a fellow Baptist missionary to the small town of Yucay (it’s right outside of Urubamba in the Sacred Valley).  His mission and church have been helping about 320 people living in tents in this little town.  Driving through the town everything on the left side looksContinue reading “Yucay”