Month: February 2013

Here in Peru, February is the month of “Carnival”.  While there are some bad traditions associated with Carnival, in Peru, it is mostly just to get each other wet.  Girls and guys have to be watchful the entire month because you never know when you might get hit with a balloon filled with paint, or a water balloon, or even a bucket of water.  We finished off this month of kids club with a water balloon fight.  Today was not the best day to do it.  It has been raining off and on the whole day, but the kids have been looking forward to it and wanted to go ahead and do it.  We filled up 200 water balloons for the occasion.  We did some relay races and then the kids had about 120 balloons to hit each other with.  Thankfully, I escaped without even getting hit.

This morning we had “Friend Day” at our church plant.  We have been preparing for this day and announcing it for about a month.  We invited nearly all the Peruvian friends we have as well as many other acquaintances.  While we didn’t have as many as we expected we praise the Lord for bringing 2 visitors! We had a great morning! We had pens and key chains made up to give to everyone and we also gave away Bibles.  We finished the service off as all good Baptist do – with food!  We also had a great kid’s club this weekend with 28 children in attendance!

The Lord blessed us in the ministries this weekend!  We had 25 kids in our kids club!  It is so good to see them come even during their summer vacation.  We are praying for these children and their parents to be saved! Please pray with us!  We praise the Lord for bringing 2 visitors to this morning’s services! Also, she came back this evening with two of her sons and her daughter!  On Sunday mornings we are preaching through Philippians on Striving Together and in our evening studies we have started a discipleship series.  Please continue to pray for the work here!