Month: August 2010

Our week started off with Neomi having to get stitches on Tuesday!  Her class went on a field trip to fly kites and she tripped and fell.  The teachers used egg yoke to stop the bleeding (a new one for me, but it worked).  Neomi got two stitches but she is doing very good.

On Thursday I was able to go with the 3 men pictured above to preach at a school near Urcos (about 40 minutes from Cusco).  The school didn’t have things quite as organized as we wanted and they only gave us a total of 15 minutes (during recess).  We sang a couple of choruses and then I gave my testimony.  It was good to get our foot in the door and the pastor of the church in the area (pictured in the middle) hopes that this will lead to future visits.

This morning (Saturday) we had kids club!  It was our first meeting in awhile and we are meeting in a new location.  We ended up with 10 and had a great time with them.  We are teaching through the “Book Without Words”.  The children really seemed to enjoy it!

We are getting back into the swing of things after me being in the U.S. and Becca’s mom being here.  We have had a good weekend.  The church that we are working at had a ladies conference on Friday afternoon.  Becca attended and enjoyed the fellowship with about 50 other ladies.  The meeting didn’t start on time and ended much later than anticipated but that’s par for the course down here.

On Saturday we held an open air meeting in a part of Cusco called Altivas Canas.  It’s a part of the city that I had never been to, a “pueblo joven”.  (The church might start a cell group there). We showed the movie “Facing the Giants” and an evangelist from the U.S. name Randy Chovan preached through a translator.  There were about 25 that actually sat and watched the movie and listened to the message.  Many others watched bits and pieces of it.  We also passed out tracks inviting people to the movie and gave John and Romans to most of those who came.  This morning the same evangelist Randy Chovan preached in the Sunday school hour and for the worship service out of Acts 8.  He preached two great messages and the Holy Spirit really moved in the services.  Tonight I was given the opportunity to preach.  I was a little nervous since I hadn’t preached in Spanish for almost 1 month.  I was rusty but praise the Lord for His help!

This coming week we hope to have our kids club up and running again and we have some contacts we are trying to get in touch with for discipleship.  It’s great to be busy again in the Lord’s work!

Happy Birthday to our daughters Natali and Neomi! They turned 6 yesterday and we have had them now for almost 5 years! We have been in party mode since yesterday afternoon. The girls had a party at school with all their classmates, then they had a party with their friends, and after that they had a party on Skype with all our family!  So, needless to say, we are all partied out!

The girls had a party with their friends yesterday afternoon.  They were very happy to celebrate their birthday with their friends, play games, and of course eat cake!

Above the girls were enjoying the party festivities with our family on Skype.  By this time they were already loaded with sugar from the two previous parties (they stayed up a little later than usual)!  Almost 5 years ago we were blessed with Natali and Neomi and we can’t believe that they are already 6 years old! The Lord is good!