I hate to say it, but I’ve seen this coming for a long time, and I’m pretty sure Avis has as well. When I came here in June she had told me that her main sponsor who gave her $5000 a month had quit paying because his business had started having some trouble. It’s been about 4 months now since he’s given anything and Avis has pretty much milked all her accounts dry trying to keep up with food bills and salaries for the 20 some Peruvians she has working. The school makes enough to just pay the salaries of the teachers but not enough to pay for books, food and all the other miscellaneous. After all, it is just the first year they have been going, and things always take time before they start to turn a profit. From a business point of view it’s a pretty big nightmare, because if she has to shut the school down half way through the year then the parents aren’t going to want to come back next year. The whole idea of a private Christian school is brilliant, it’s a way to let the orphans get a good quality education that they wouldn’t receive elsewhere, a way to spread the word of God to other kids in the city, and a way to generate revenue for the ministry so it can continue to grow. I think in a couple years the school will be able to do just that, but right now it could use a big financial push.
Basically what I’m trying to say is that if you can give a donation to someone I know a good place. There are many ways that you can help, such as sponsoring an orphan. The orphans get to go to the school, but no one pays for them to go so that’s probably the biggest reason the school is having a little trouble right now. Eventually Avis wants to send kids to school from around the community that are sponsored by people in the states. Most of the information you could ever need is on the website (www.goye-ministries.com) a good page to look at is called “Kingdom Investors” . If you want any additional information you can always e-mail me at kpg8xd@missouri.edu or Avis at goyemin@yahoo.com . If you can’t give a donation, you can pray, and Go Ye ministries just like any other ministry could always use prayer.
Next post I plan on having some video footage of the school, so stay tuned.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Saturday.
July 27th 2008,
Yesterday was another long day, but packed full of action. I woke up and picked up my packages from home, beef jerky and snickers bars, then headed over to the orphanage to hang out with the kids before I had to go to Trujillo (again) in the afternoon. We had to go because some kids from a church in Lima that Avis visited wanted to come here for a retreat, but they couldn’t get a bus any further than Trujillo so we had to bring them the rest of the way. Their bus was suppose to arrive at around 8:00 pm so we figured we’d go in the early afternoon and do some much needed shopping. We started to head out at around 1:15 or so, and Oraylio was telling us how he had found a dead rat in the van, so that was one of them. I remembered there were two that I saw. So the three of us hopped into the van and started to pull down the drive when Avis decided to check her papers in the middle consol. When she opened the consol there was a big, stinky Peruvian rat staring up at here. She immediately freaked out, opened the driver side door and jumped out of the moving van. I did some quick thinking and pulled the emergency brake and closed the consol. It was a pretty exciting ordeal. I picked up the dog and placed her in the front seat and opened up the consol, Princessa (the dog) quickly grabbed up the shook the rat to death. I then cleaned the rat blood out of the car, and we were once again on our way.
We got to Trujillo around 2:45 or so and did some shopping in the cheap market until dinner time. Then we went to the big grocery store to buy our groceries, and eat at McDonald’s. It was about 7:45 when the kids called and said their bus was going to be about 2 hours late, long story short we left Trujillo around 12:15 after getting lost because of poor directions and a lot of shouting in Spanish. I didn’t get to my bed until 1:30 and then was woken up at about 6:00 am, by one of the people who came who decided to sweep the sidewalks and water the plants while singing. I’m glad that he wanted to help but I would not have minded if he kept the singing to himself…haha.
Yesterday was another long day, but packed full of action. I woke up and picked up my packages from home, beef jerky and snickers bars, then headed over to the orphanage to hang out with the kids before I had to go to Trujillo (again) in the afternoon. We had to go because some kids from a church in Lima that Avis visited wanted to come here for a retreat, but they couldn’t get a bus any further than Trujillo so we had to bring them the rest of the way. Their bus was suppose to arrive at around 8:00 pm so we figured we’d go in the early afternoon and do some much needed shopping. We started to head out at around 1:15 or so, and Oraylio was telling us how he had found a dead rat in the van, so that was one of them. I remembered there were two that I saw. So the three of us hopped into the van and started to pull down the drive when Avis decided to check her papers in the middle consol. When she opened the consol there was a big, stinky Peruvian rat staring up at here. She immediately freaked out, opened the driver side door and jumped out of the moving van. I did some quick thinking and pulled the emergency brake and closed the consol. It was a pretty exciting ordeal. I picked up the dog and placed her in the front seat and opened up the consol, Princessa (the dog) quickly grabbed up the shook the rat to death. I then cleaned the rat blood out of the car, and we were once again on our way.
We got to Trujillo around 2:45 or so and did some shopping in the cheap market until dinner time. Then we went to the big grocery store to buy our groceries, and eat at McDonald’s. It was about 7:45 when the kids called and said their bus was going to be about 2 hours late, long story short we left Trujillo around 12:15 after getting lost because of poor directions and a lot of shouting in Spanish. I didn’t get to my bed until 1:30 and then was woken up at about 6:00 am, by one of the people who came who decided to sweep the sidewalks and water the plants while singing. I’m glad that he wanted to help but I would not have minded if he kept the singing to himself…haha.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Sunday - Wed.
Sorry I haven’t been updating as much lately. I feel that there’s a lot of routine now with English and all, so I’ll try and just hit the highlights of the past couple of days.
Last Sunday was the day that relatives come and visit the kids. It turned out pretty well. The aunt of Gerson, Johnson, Joel, Betsy and Sibilia came and they were extremely excited that she came. She comes about once every other month. It put Gerson in the best mood he’d been in for a couple weeks, but the older brother Johnson was pretty nonchalant about it. It was an answered prayer that Nelson’s father didn’t come to visit him, because now we think that he can be declared abandoned and be easier to adopt. His father hasn’t visited in over 6 months now, and the last time he visited Nelson was terrified and was crying in horror the whole time his father was there because he still remembered the abuse.
Tuesday night will be remembered as the great rat war. Avis was telling me about some car problems after dinner and I went out to go check the air filter in the car(which was completely caked thanks to all the dirt here) and that’s when I found the real problem…rats, Peruvian rats. There were two of them the size kittens with tails about as thick as my pinky finger. They were making a home out of the van. I went back and told Avis and she gave Matt and me some huge knives. We propped the hood open and started the hunt. I found one and made a quick jab at it, but all I came up with was some hair. We then decided to just put rat poison all over the van. The dog Sparky got a hold of one of the rat’s tails and ripped it in half which sent the mouse into a shrieking frenzy, then I went to bed.
Wednesday was another doctor day. I went to Trujillo again with 6 kids 2 house moms, Randy and Vanessa. After the nearly 2 hour ride there we waited outside on rickety wood benches for another 4 hours to see the doctor. The doctor finally prescribed some inhalers and I think the kids are already feeling better. After the doctors visit it was about 2 and we finally got some food. All the kids were starving because the moms made them fast just incase the doctors needed to take blood. After we ate we went to another hospital to visit one of Randy and Vanessa’s friends so I waited in the car with one of the house mothers and all the kids while they went inside. I fell asleep in the front seat because it had a recliner on it, and I was sharing it with Gerson who also fell asleep. I woke up and then out of no where Gerson woke up and started throwing up, good thing I’ve got the fastest puke reaction time south of the equator because I was able to grab a trash bag that was behind us open it up and put it under Gerson’s mouth in about .05 seconds. Thanks to the fast reaction time only my Jeans and his shirt got covered in vomit. We didn’t get back home till about 5:30, it was a pretty long day.
Last Sunday was the day that relatives come and visit the kids. It turned out pretty well. The aunt of Gerson, Johnson, Joel, Betsy and Sibilia came and they were extremely excited that she came. She comes about once every other month. It put Gerson in the best mood he’d been in for a couple weeks, but the older brother Johnson was pretty nonchalant about it. It was an answered prayer that Nelson’s father didn’t come to visit him, because now we think that he can be declared abandoned and be easier to adopt. His father hasn’t visited in over 6 months now, and the last time he visited Nelson was terrified and was crying in horror the whole time his father was there because he still remembered the abuse.
Tuesday night will be remembered as the great rat war. Avis was telling me about some car problems after dinner and I went out to go check the air filter in the car(which was completely caked thanks to all the dirt here) and that’s when I found the real problem…rats, Peruvian rats. There were two of them the size kittens with tails about as thick as my pinky finger. They were making a home out of the van. I went back and told Avis and she gave Matt and me some huge knives. We propped the hood open and started the hunt. I found one and made a quick jab at it, but all I came up with was some hair. We then decided to just put rat poison all over the van. The dog Sparky got a hold of one of the rat’s tails and ripped it in half which sent the mouse into a shrieking frenzy, then I went to bed.
Wednesday was another doctor day. I went to Trujillo again with 6 kids 2 house moms, Randy and Vanessa. After the nearly 2 hour ride there we waited outside on rickety wood benches for another 4 hours to see the doctor. The doctor finally prescribed some inhalers and I think the kids are already feeling better. After the doctors visit it was about 2 and we finally got some food. All the kids were starving because the moms made them fast just incase the doctors needed to take blood. After we ate we went to another hospital to visit one of Randy and Vanessa’s friends so I waited in the car with one of the house mothers and all the kids while they went inside. I fell asleep in the front seat because it had a recliner on it, and I was sharing it with Gerson who also fell asleep. I woke up and then out of no where Gerson woke up and started throwing up, good thing I’ve got the fastest puke reaction time south of the equator because I was able to grab a trash bag that was behind us open it up and put it under Gerson’s mouth in about .05 seconds. Thanks to the fast reaction time only my Jeans and his shirt got covered in vomit. We didn’t get back home till about 5:30, it was a pretty long day.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Update, and News (it's long)
If you get tired of reading at least read the last paragraph.
Today the electrical engineers came to meet with us. The story behind that is Avis needs more power into the compound where the school is so that she can meet the needs of the school plus the 150 more kids she plans on having in the orphanage. She has been trying to get more electricity since she has been here but they had never let her before, but a couple of weeks ago when some technicians came to fix the line they realized that we need more. The truth is they are running the entire school and all the houses on less electricity than one 3 bedroom house gets in the states. So when the technicians said that they would allow her to get more electricity she was ecstatic. The engineer guys came out and met with us today and told us that it was going to cost 10,000 soles to run the wires. That’s about $3800 that she doesn’t have. See, here in Peru you have to pay for everything that has to do with electricity. The power company just sends power through the lines. So if you need lines ran, you have to pay for it. If the line breaks, you have to pay for it etc. From what I gathered she’s taking out the last of her money that she has and using it to start the process. She said that if God has finally given her a window to have electricity she’s going to take it. She has more faith than I do… that is for sure. I don’t know where she plans on getting the money for next month’s bills because her sponsors haven’t been able to help her in a long time because the economy has gone bad, but she said that if God wants this ministry to continue and for these kids to be here that he will provide. She has also had a lot of other bad stuff happen to her this month, like one of her brothers getting diagnosed with massive amounts of cancer, and some other things that don’t need to be posted on the internet. But yet, she has an amazing amount of peace about her that I just can’t comprehend.
As for the rest of the day, I went over the orphanage and hung out with the kids for awhile. Gerson was feeling terrible today, he had a fever and was having some leg cramps as well, I prayed over him for a good while, and then went into town with Avis and matt to get some dinner, I stopped back by the orphanage on my way back to say good night and he was feeling much better.
Here’s the news that I said I had but I couldn’t share yet a couple of weeks ago. This whole time we’ve been down here Matt and I have been working on a new website for her. The address is www.goye-ministries.com go there, look around and post some feedback. It’s not completely done yet and there’s definitely some fine tuning to be done, but the basic format is ready to go. I’ve been working with Avis to give her ideas on how to generate more funds, because that is something that she is seriously lacking right now. She doesn’t really have groups come at this point, except one from Canada that comes every march for a week, and that is something that I’ve talked with her a lot about. Also, we’ve tried to set up the website so that people can sponsor kids or make donations which are 100% tax deductable .
Today the electrical engineers came to meet with us. The story behind that is Avis needs more power into the compound where the school is so that she can meet the needs of the school plus the 150 more kids she plans on having in the orphanage. She has been trying to get more electricity since she has been here but they had never let her before, but a couple of weeks ago when some technicians came to fix the line they realized that we need more. The truth is they are running the entire school and all the houses on less electricity than one 3 bedroom house gets in the states. So when the technicians said that they would allow her to get more electricity she was ecstatic. The engineer guys came out and met with us today and told us that it was going to cost 10,000 soles to run the wires. That’s about $3800 that she doesn’t have. See, here in Peru you have to pay for everything that has to do with electricity. The power company just sends power through the lines. So if you need lines ran, you have to pay for it. If the line breaks, you have to pay for it etc. From what I gathered she’s taking out the last of her money that she has and using it to start the process. She said that if God has finally given her a window to have electricity she’s going to take it. She has more faith than I do… that is for sure. I don’t know where she plans on getting the money for next month’s bills because her sponsors haven’t been able to help her in a long time because the economy has gone bad, but she said that if God wants this ministry to continue and for these kids to be here that he will provide. She has also had a lot of other bad stuff happen to her this month, like one of her brothers getting diagnosed with massive amounts of cancer, and some other things that don’t need to be posted on the internet. But yet, she has an amazing amount of peace about her that I just can’t comprehend.
As for the rest of the day, I went over the orphanage and hung out with the kids for awhile. Gerson was feeling terrible today, he had a fever and was having some leg cramps as well, I prayed over him for a good while, and then went into town with Avis and matt to get some dinner, I stopped back by the orphanage on my way back to say good night and he was feeling much better.
Here’s the news that I said I had but I couldn’t share yet a couple of weeks ago. This whole time we’ve been down here Matt and I have been working on a new website for her. The address is www.goye-ministries.com go there, look around and post some feedback. It’s not completely done yet and there’s definitely some fine tuning to be done, but the basic format is ready to go. I’ve been working with Avis to give her ideas on how to generate more funds, because that is something that she is seriously lacking right now. She doesn’t really have groups come at this point, except one from Canada that comes every march for a week, and that is something that I’ve talked with her a lot about. Also, we’ve tried to set up the website so that people can sponsor kids or make donations which are 100% tax deductable .
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Whooping Cough
I'm about 95% sure Gerson has the whooping cough and that's it is already making its way around the orphanage, so I'll probably contract it too. I've done my research on it and its much less severe the older you get, so I'm not too worried about myself. I found this out because the hospital we took Gerson to on monday called and told the house mother to take him out of school until he finishes his anti-biotics. That and all his symptoms match up perfectly. If you'd like to read more about this illness I found some good information here. Whooping Cough
As of right now I'm feeling fine, a little bit of a sore throat, but thats been usual for most of the time I've been here because I'm constantly getting different bugs from the kids. I'm sure you all are getting tired of hearing about all the sickness stuff going on, sorry.
Last night there was a women's meeting that Avis holds about 2 times a month. There were 45 women who came and she made spagehti and meat sauce for all of them. Us guys served the women the food. About halfway through the preaching portion the lights went out, so we lit a bunch of candels. Some lights were still on and some were off. So I went around and turned everything off in the compound except for the lights in the womens room and then they came back on. They have a problem with weak current, so that temporarly fixed it. Overall it was a good time, the women all ate, and prayed, and ministired to eachother.
As of right now I'm feeling fine, a little bit of a sore throat, but thats been usual for most of the time I've been here because I'm constantly getting different bugs from the kids. I'm sure you all are getting tired of hearing about all the sickness stuff going on, sorry.
Last night there was a women's meeting that Avis holds about 2 times a month. There were 45 women who came and she made spagehti and meat sauce for all of them. Us guys served the women the food. About halfway through the preaching portion the lights went out, so we lit a bunch of candels. Some lights were still on and some were off. So I went around and turned everything off in the compound except for the lights in the womens room and then they came back on. They have a problem with weak current, so that temporarly fixed it. Overall it was a good time, the women all ate, and prayed, and ministired to eachother.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
More thanks, and update.
I just got another group of cards, so I figure I'd let you know that I got them. I got the Valdivias, Stigalls, a couple days ago I recieved one from the Bailes and the McRaes, I also got some more from you mom. I hope I'm not forgetting anyone. Anyway thanks a bunch. It's always nice to get mail down here, and I guess I'll get to thank you guys in person in about 4 weeks. Those first 6 really went by fast.
Update on Gerson.
We went to Trujillo doctor yesterday and they told us he has some virus that is the gate way virus to whooping cough. They gave him some antibiotics(which didn't make since to me if they said it was a virus) and a couple other types of medication. As well as prescribed this protien vitamin mix that he needs to drink for awhile. They also said its contaigous so they put a lot of the other kids in the orphanage on some antibiotics that is suppose to keep it from spreading. All this medicine and protein mix is getting really expensive. The doctor said that him throwing up is nothing to worry about unless it starts to turn bloody, also he could possibly have this cough for 4-6 months.
Update on Gerson.
We went to Trujillo doctor yesterday and they told us he has some virus that is the gate way virus to whooping cough. They gave him some antibiotics(which didn't make since to me if they said it was a virus) and a couple other types of medication. As well as prescribed this protien vitamin mix that he needs to drink for awhile. They also said its contaigous so they put a lot of the other kids in the orphanage on some antibiotics that is suppose to keep it from spreading. All this medicine and protein mix is getting really expensive. The doctor said that him throwing up is nothing to worry about unless it starts to turn bloody, also he could possibly have this cough for 4-6 months.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Orphanage Tour
Here is a tour of the orphanage. It's pretty quick, but thats because I don't have a high quality video camera with me, and it would take about 10 hours to upload it to the website if it were longer. I hope you like it. Another prayer request for Gerson. He went to the doctor last week who told him that he had asthma, but for the past week he has been having really terrible coughing fits where he coughs and throws up at the same time, it usually happens about an hour or so after he eats, and he says his stomach is never upset. I've witnessed it several times and it doesn't seem like asthma to me. It happend again today while he was in my house and I went and got Avis so she could see it. She agreed that we need to take him to another doctor and get a second opionion.
Friday, July 11, 2008
July 10th
Today was a good day. I taught P.E. in the morning, and English in the afternoon. At lunch time I had forgotten that it was my birthday, but I was quickly reminded when I walked into the lunch room and all the kids stood up and sang happy birthday. After school I knew the kids were throwing a surprise party for me, so I waited awhile until I headed over there so they could get organized. When I went over there at 4:15 and knocked on the door the house mom said that I couldn’t come in for another 10 minutes. I guess I should’ve waited longer. I was sitting downstairs working on the computer and the house mom told me that I was allowed to come into the house now, so I walked upstairs and when I went inside all the kids were sitting in a big square in the main room. On the count of three they all said “SORPRESA!” haha… I think I did a great job of acting surprised. The fiesta they threw for me had cookies, cake, purple corn juice and some other stuff I that I hadn’t ever eaten before but was pretty good, and I’m not sure I could describe it if I tried. The kids danced and played games for about an hour then it was time for cake. Gerson couldn’t have any because earlier he started dry heaving and coughing when he was eating sweets. I think it is something to do with the asthma the doctor diagnosed him with. But as they were passing the cake around he looked at me and said, “I want to eat” after he said that, there was no way I could eat cake in front of him so I said, “how come… real men don’t eat cake” then I put my piece they had given me on the counter for someone else to eat. Overall I’d say it was probably one of the best birthday parties I have ever had.
After cake it was time to leave and the regular routine of homework began. I left to go back and eat with the rest of the gringos because Thursday is missionary night, so we all get together and eat American food made by one of us. Avis made some beef patties in this ridiculously good gravy that we ate on top of mashed potatoes. For desert Avis made pineapple upside down cake with some candles in it for my birthday. That was pretty delicious too. It was a great day.
After cake it was time to leave and the regular routine of homework began. I left to go back and eat with the rest of the gringos because Thursday is missionary night, so we all get together and eat American food made by one of us. Avis made some beef patties in this ridiculously good gravy that we ate on top of mashed potatoes. For desert Avis made pineapple upside down cake with some candles in it for my birthday. That was pretty delicious too. It was a great day.
Monday, July 7, 2008
God the Provider
So like I said in the earlier post I was feeling sick the last couple days. Last night I woke up sweating and not feeling good at all, so I just started praying and said God, I don’t really know what to do here, but I know that you can heal me. The day before I had told the boys that I would come get them and come back to my house and eat some PB and J sandwiches… so I was on my way over there when I heard the loud music blasting out of the community center next door. I asked Carlos what was going on, and he said that they were giving away free medicine today. There were doctors and everything providing free health care and medicine compliments of the Pacasmayo Concrete plant. Talk about awesome corporate responsibility. I’m positive there was at least $50,000 of medicine there. They set up shop in the poorest part of Pacasmayo which happens to be right where I’m living, and their doors are open to anyone who walks in, absolutely no cost. I weighed in, answered some questions about myself, then waited in line to be seen by the doctor. While I was waiting in line the lady that was on the microphone yelling out peoples names and telling everyone what was going on asked me to tell everyone what was going on in English. I said why not so I got on the loudspeaker and told everyone that thanks to the Pacasmayo concrete plant there was free medicine to everyone today… it was just for the novelty of it because no one within a mile radius would have been able to understand English. Anyway it was my turn and I sat down and the doctor asked me what was going on, so I told him, and he listened to me breath with his stethoscope then looked down my throat and wrote down the prescription and I walked over to the prescription table and picked up my antibiotics. As I was walking out, Isabel a lady who works at the school and was helping me through the process told me that one of the nurses said she wanted to go back the U.S. with me and when I looked over at her she gave me a little wink and a smile…haha.
I’ve had 10 doses so far and I’ve started to feel better already, at the rate that he told me to take the medicine I should be done with all of it by Tuesday night. Just to be cautious I looked up the medication online and made sure that I wouldn’t have any problems taking it. I also looked up the price and I think its about $100 worth…Hallelujah
I’ve had 10 doses so far and I’ve started to feel better already, at the rate that he told me to take the medicine I should be done with all of it by Tuesday night. Just to be cautious I looked up the medication online and made sure that I wouldn’t have any problems taking it. I also looked up the price and I think its about $100 worth…Hallelujah
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Calling all nurses.
I know theres a couple nurses out there that might be reading this.. so read this and leave a comment please
For a couple days I have had a pretty bad fever and getting chills, sometimes waking up at night sweating. I wasn't sure what to do so I just prayed and asked God whats up and wouldn't you know it... I woke up today and walked over to the orphanage and right next door they are having a free medicine give away for all the people in the area. So I stood in line told them what was up and this is what they gave me..
Bactrim - it is 2 bottles of anti-biotics in liquid form. And he told me to take 2 spoonfulls every 2 hours until the bottles are gone. The doctor also said something about not eating chicken. So I was wondering if he thought I might have gotten salmanila poisoning.
I looked it up on the web and it looked like what I needed but just wanted a second opinion. Thanks!
God bless
For a couple days I have had a pretty bad fever and getting chills, sometimes waking up at night sweating. I wasn't sure what to do so I just prayed and asked God whats up and wouldn't you know it... I woke up today and walked over to the orphanage and right next door they are having a free medicine give away for all the people in the area. So I stood in line told them what was up and this is what they gave me..
Bactrim - it is 2 bottles of anti-biotics in liquid form. And he told me to take 2 spoonfulls every 2 hours until the bottles are gone. The doctor also said something about not eating chicken. So I was wondering if he thought I might have gotten salmanila poisoning.
I looked it up on the web and it looked like what I needed but just wanted a second opinion. Thanks!
God bless
Friday, July 4, 2008
Happy Freedom Day!
Well, besides from being Awesome day, 4th of July is also teacher day in Peru. So this afternoon the kids put together a big party for all the teachers. There were jokes, dances, junk food and games. There was a sack hopping relay where there was a student and a teacher on each team. Nicolas and I destroyed everyone. Then there was an eating contest, and I won that too, but I will admit the kids gave me a smaller portion.
Matt made an awesome shirt for 4th of July, he just colored USA RULES on the front of a white t-shirt, the wrote FREEDOM on the back, drew and american flag on one sleeve, and an eagle on the other. Our plans to finish up our 4th of July celebration is to go to the most American resturant here which is a Pizza place that caters to all the surfers in the summer, then we are going to watch the movie The Patriot. Some people blow up some really loud fireworks almost every night so we are going to try and find those and light a couple off.
I have a couple prayer requests...
Gerson is really sick with some sort of cough, and they haven't been able to take him to the doctors yet because the house moms are really busy. Also his sister Betsy is really sick too.
Matt made an awesome shirt for 4th of July, he just colored USA RULES on the front of a white t-shirt, the wrote FREEDOM on the back, drew and american flag on one sleeve, and an eagle on the other. Our plans to finish up our 4th of July celebration is to go to the most American resturant here which is a Pizza place that caters to all the surfers in the summer, then we are going to watch the movie The Patriot. Some people blow up some really loud fireworks almost every night so we are going to try and find those and light a couple off.
I have a couple prayer requests...
Gerson is really sick with some sort of cough, and they haven't been able to take him to the doctors yet because the house moms are really busy. Also his sister Betsy is really sick too.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Thanks
First of all I just wanted to say thanks to all the people back home. I received some more cards today one from the Skeen family, Rothaus family, Kirk family, Joey and a couple cards from my family. Also thanks to all the people who read this blog and all the people who leave comments. It really encourages me to know that people back home care about what I’m doing, or a better way to put it… what God is doing through me.
We went to another church in Pacasmayo last night that we were invited too because an American missionary was preaching there. He had a really awesome message using a story I had never heard before that is found in Genesis 26. It talks about how God had blessed Isaac and made him rich, so the Philistines decided to clog up all his wells, and then told him to leave. Isaac moved and re-dug all the wells. Then sometime later the Philistines came back to him and wanted to make an agreement to join forces because they had seen God was with him. The preacher then made the metaphor that wells are constant water supply or living water, just like the holy spirit in us is a spring of living water and that sometimes we get our “well” clogged up by others, or even ourselves, and that when we unclog the Holy spirit within us people will see that God is with us… ok I’m realizing it loses a little bit when I try to type it out in my own words, but you get the drift. It was a really awesome sermon and something that I needed to hear. Anyway after the sermon he came up to me and told me that I looked really familiar to him, and asked if I had been to Peru before, I said I had. Then he realized where he’s saw me, my blog. Funny how things work out. Anyway we talked for a little bit and he told me about the ministry he is apart of, they are all over the world, then he asked me if I’d ever want to join him…who knows maybe another adventure is right around the corner, haha.
P.S.
I have a lot of information I want to share with everyone (not related to the pastor that goes all over the world, don’t worry mom), but it is too soon to share.
We went to another church in Pacasmayo last night that we were invited too because an American missionary was preaching there. He had a really awesome message using a story I had never heard before that is found in Genesis 26. It talks about how God had blessed Isaac and made him rich, so the Philistines decided to clog up all his wells, and then told him to leave. Isaac moved and re-dug all the wells. Then sometime later the Philistines came back to him and wanted to make an agreement to join forces because they had seen God was with him. The preacher then made the metaphor that wells are constant water supply or living water, just like the holy spirit in us is a spring of living water and that sometimes we get our “well” clogged up by others, or even ourselves, and that when we unclog the Holy spirit within us people will see that God is with us… ok I’m realizing it loses a little bit when I try to type it out in my own words, but you get the drift. It was a really awesome sermon and something that I needed to hear. Anyway after the sermon he came up to me and told me that I looked really familiar to him, and asked if I had been to Peru before, I said I had. Then he realized where he’s saw me, my blog. Funny how things work out. Anyway we talked for a little bit and he told me about the ministry he is apart of, they are all over the world, then he asked me if I’d ever want to join him…who knows maybe another adventure is right around the corner, haha.
P.S.
I have a lot of information I want to share with everyone (not related to the pastor that goes all over the world, don’t worry mom), but it is too soon to share.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Today was the second day of teaching... its going alright, a little crazy still but alright. They are starting to realize I'm a little bit more strict than the old english teacher, so things should get under control in the next couple days. Ok, I've got a birthday party to run too, I'll post about that later.
Here is a video tour of where we are living. Cinder blocks and concrete floors is about it. I'm not complaining though because most people around here have dirt floors and thatch roofs, if they have a roof. I'll add some more video tours in the future.
Here is a video tour of where we are living. Cinder blocks and concrete floors is about it. I'm not complaining though because most people around here have dirt floors and thatch roofs, if they have a roof. I'll add some more video tours in the future.
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