Pray for Gerson

Pray for Gerson. I think that I have discovered some very somber news about his health. I am asking that you all pray for him and the difficulties that will be coming his way. I would not like to jump the gun on any conclusions so I won't disclose any specifics right now.

In case you forget here is Gerson, he just turned 11 in December.

New blog site for Go Ye

If you would like to keep up with happenings in Pacasmayo then the new blog site is www.goye-ministries.com I will continue to blog about my personal experiences on this site while I am in Peru, but this other site is more for ministry wide news. I will be keeping that site updated hopefully once a week, even while I am not there.

Kevin

Rain?!

It never rains here, just like in Chilca where we've been with Childreach. However, these last 3 days it has rained each night, all night. People's houses are flooding, including a couple rooms at the orphanage. When they build stuff here they never think about making it water proof. I have a picture of some city workers sweeping up water down below. I am praying that the rain stops because a lot of people who live around here don't have roofs. Also if the rain continues people's houses will litterally melt because they are made out of adobe.

Last night we took Gerson, Yhonson, and Joel out to eat some pizza at the only pizza place in town. It was amazing. I forgot my camera and so did my mother. Sorry. We got pretty wet getting there though even with taking a moto. I've got some more pictures below.

We'll be getting back Saturday in the morning. I'm not sure if I'm going to have time to post before now and then, so if not Thanks for taking this trip with us.

My dad with a big hardware store dog. He's huge, really.

Here is my mom doing flash cards, Mimi on the right and one of the twins on the left... I never can get their names

Man sweeping water through the streets

Nelson and his happy face

This is a shot of Jose eating popcorn...his hand is blurry because it's litterally moving that fast, maybe next time I'll put my camera on sport mode.

Pictures and update

The last couple of days have been pretty busy.

Friday was a big day. It started out with Ruben, Linche and their two sisters Jenifer and Ninilinita's parents showing up to take them back home. The kids had mixed emotions along with everyone else here. They were happy to go back to live with their parents but they were also sad to leave all their friends and comforts they had here. Before they left all the kids, house moms and I got in a circle and held hands and prayed for them, then they all hugged eachother goodbye. We loaded them up with clothes and soccer balls and then they left to go back to Trujillo.

After that I took the boys to the beach because the girls got to have a fingernail painting party earlier in the day with my mom. They reminded me that I still owe them dinner because I told them that if they could solve a puzzle we brought down then I'd take them. They figured it out pretty quick. So I told them not today but we'll go another time, because it was Norma's Quicenera tonight. They have a huge celebration for 15th birthdays for girls here just like they do in Mexico and many other latin american countries. There are a couple pictures below. Her Quincenera though was on her 16th birthday because she didn't get to have one on her 15th because she wasn't here. It lasted from 8 - 12 at night and was a great time.

Yesterday we gave the kids some stickers that were a present from Mrs. Sams preschool class. They loved them.

I'd write more, but I'd be late to the interview of the some of the teachers that I have to translate for. I'll catch up on some more later.