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Today we had our second Sunday services!  We had one plus our family this morning.  Elizabet came this morning.  She is good friends with Rebecca and as far as we know she is going to be a regular attendee.  Tonight she brought one of her friends from University and we also had a lady come with her young daughter; which gave us 3 first time visitors.  They all came about 5 minutes before I finished up the sermon so I had to to a quick recap and then we had a time of refreshment and fellowship after church.Zunilda came with her daughter and said that she had just gave her life to the Lord last week in a church about 3 hours away.  We didn’t get a lot of time to talk with her so Lord willing we will follow up with her this week. The young man Elizabet brought seems to be interested in returning as well.  We are ecstatic.  Praise the Lord with us and please pray as we follow up with these people!

We had our first services at Faith Baptist today.  We are praising the Lord that 3 people came in our morning service and in our evening service also!  After passing out thousands of fliers and doing some advertisements we were expecting more but we are very thankful for those who came.  Please keep us in your prayers!

This past week was a very busy one for us.  We are trying to get our new space ready for the first services on April 29th.  We have passed out nearly 1,500 invitations to our first service and we have another 1,500 to give out still!  We have also had some work done to the space. We had to put some railings along the 2nd and 3rd floor for safety reasons, a little platform/deck was put into the entrance way to make it more convenient for people to enter, and the 2nd floor door had to be made a little secure.  We also had our sign put up and lights hung to reflect it at night.  We still have a lot to do during the coming week so please keep us in your prayers! 

We got the keys to our new church building on Sunday!  We still have quite a bit to do to get ready for our first services in it, but we are looking forward to what God will do.  We are renting out the 2nd and 3rd floors of the building that you will see in the pictures.  The rent came out much cheaper leaving out the 1st floors.  Here are some pictures:

On April 14th, 2005 we left the U.S. for Arequipa, Peru.  The following day after a couple of flights and a long layover in Lima’s airport we arrived in La Ciudad Blanca – Arequipa.  Looking back we were probably so very naive arriving on the mission field.  We praise the Lord that He has saw fit to allow us to serve Him in Peru these past several years.  So much has happened in the past seven years.  In some respects it seems like we’ve been here forever and in other respects it seems just like yesterday that we got off the plane.  We look forward to many more years serving the Lord here and where ever He would have us!