Hi all......
First of all, thanks for all the prayer support you have given us, it shows. All of us are feeling ok except for some congestion issues and lack of sleep, but it is minor. We thank the Lord for good health on this trip.
Yesterday was a very full day. We had a couple of English classes, one at the San Ramon school and one at Steven Hawking High School where Bethany teaches. They went very well. We did our cooking classes at the American Cooking Institute, making french toast, hash browns and stovetop applecrisp. The students really liked it. Jay, Joel, Hal and Mark had several basketball clinics with more today. Tarma is very into basketball, much more so than soccer. Tim did his presentation on time management to about 50 people and they were riveted. We all know Tim hates to speak in front of crowds, but he does such a marvelous job of it. God has just given him the gift for teaching.
Today we are at the American Institute painting 3 rooms for Jose and his wife Diana. Lots of sanding, priming, taping and painting. The students are cooking in rooms all around us and we are taking lots of pictures.
Tonight is the final goodbye dinner with all of the contacts we have made down here. It will be sad to say farewell as all the people we have met are so wonderful. Please pray that the ministry down here continues to grow and that they get male leaders in order to start a formal church. Women can do almost anything, but the Bible does make it plain that male leaders are needed.
This is a ministry that is growing very quickly and we pray that it multiplies in Gods timing.
We have had a blast working our butts off here in Tarma and I know a lot of us would like to come back to help some more.
Tommorrow is travel day, so pray for safety on the roads, as we are coming down to Lima from 15000 feet. It will be long and very tiring as we then get on a plane at 1 am to fly back to Atlanta.
Pray that we have the energy to drive home from Chicago at 1 in the afternoon when we get back there.
This mission has been a joy and we pray God makes it fruitful!
Your Tarma Team
Friday, November 12, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tourist Day
Today was our ´tourist´day in the area of San Ramon. We took two small buses down the mountain about 2 hours from Tarma to visit the waterfall at Tirol.
It is just amazing to see God´s handiwork everywhere you look! When we started going down, we all could see the change in the vegetation and the increase in humidity. It was Eric who said, ¨Just think, God was sitting at his desk one day and said ´Plants´ and all the variety just sprang into full blown life.¨ Just to think of that one exercise of God´s infinite power to create is very humbling and praiseworthy.
We stopped at the falls and most of us got our feet wet, but Nancy and Lina went all the way in.
They had soooo much fun! We then went to a native village called Pampamichi where they put us all in native dress and told us some of the history in the area....in Spanish. Most of us don´t understand much, so it was hard to get much out of it. Then, we participated in a couple of dances, posed with parrots and Eric made friends with a little monkey. Of course, there were the usual tourist things to buy (much like home).
We then had the driver and guide take us to the Highland Coffee operation just outside of San Ramon. We met a lovely young lady from Goshen, Indiana who was working there and took us through the small tour. She is Mennonite and doing her year of service here in Peru. She was so wonderful and it was a wonderful opportunity to talk with her in English. I think she enjoyed us also.
We then headed home about 1 hour late and were hustled of to dinner with a lady named Rut and to David´s final English presentation. We are very tired, but the day was wonderful.
Shane got chills last night and had aches and pains, but this morning was just fine to go with. Joel and David stayed back due to preparation and stomach issues.
Please continue to pray for our health as tommorrow and Friday are very full days...we have many invitations to different activities such as cooking class, preschool, dinner, etc with the people of this wonderful city.
Pray that we are touching lives for the glory of the Lord!!!
Your Tarma Team
It is just amazing to see God´s handiwork everywhere you look! When we started going down, we all could see the change in the vegetation and the increase in humidity. It was Eric who said, ¨Just think, God was sitting at his desk one day and said ´Plants´ and all the variety just sprang into full blown life.¨ Just to think of that one exercise of God´s infinite power to create is very humbling and praiseworthy.
We stopped at the falls and most of us got our feet wet, but Nancy and Lina went all the way in.
They had soooo much fun! We then went to a native village called Pampamichi where they put us all in native dress and told us some of the history in the area....in Spanish. Most of us don´t understand much, so it was hard to get much out of it. Then, we participated in a couple of dances, posed with parrots and Eric made friends with a little monkey. Of course, there were the usual tourist things to buy (much like home).
We then had the driver and guide take us to the Highland Coffee operation just outside of San Ramon. We met a lovely young lady from Goshen, Indiana who was working there and took us through the small tour. She is Mennonite and doing her year of service here in Peru. She was so wonderful and it was a wonderful opportunity to talk with her in English. I think she enjoyed us also.
We then headed home about 1 hour late and were hustled of to dinner with a lady named Rut and to David´s final English presentation. We are very tired, but the day was wonderful.
Shane got chills last night and had aches and pains, but this morning was just fine to go with. Joel and David stayed back due to preparation and stomach issues.
Please continue to pray for our health as tommorrow and Friday are very full days...we have many invitations to different activities such as cooking class, preschool, dinner, etc with the people of this wonderful city.
Pray that we are touching lives for the glory of the Lord!!!
Your Tarma Team
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Tuesday
Hi all..
Today was a very full day of work for the team. We split up into 3 different parts.
The ladies had another cooking class, this time making apple crisp on the stovetop. It was full of some of the same ladies that came yesterday. Nancy and Lina shared their testimony and it really moved the ladies that were there. One of them stated that she was glad she had someone to relate to in her struggles and was surprised that some of the things she had experienced happened in other places than Peru.
Some of the men, Eric, Shane, Randy, Tim and Dave Block were invited to talk about business values with a class of students at a culinary school owned by a believer in Tarma. About 30 twenty-somthings asked questions about what we did and how we were successful at it. In turn, we were able to talk about God´s role in all of life, business, family, church. A bit different than what you might expect at a technical school in the US.
The basketball clinic went well. Jay was invited to visit two other schools in the afternoon to work with the coaches in their own environment.
Several people also visited a private school English classroom. The classroom teacher is a staff member with ADIEL, the mission work hosting us in Tarma.
Pray for continued opportunities to cross the bridge from these ¨everyday¨ contacts to opportunities to show the love of Jesus in word and deed.
Your mission team in Tarma
Today was a very full day of work for the team. We split up into 3 different parts.
The ladies had another cooking class, this time making apple crisp on the stovetop. It was full of some of the same ladies that came yesterday. Nancy and Lina shared their testimony and it really moved the ladies that were there. One of them stated that she was glad she had someone to relate to in her struggles and was surprised that some of the things she had experienced happened in other places than Peru.
Some of the men, Eric, Shane, Randy, Tim and Dave Block were invited to talk about business values with a class of students at a culinary school owned by a believer in Tarma. About 30 twenty-somthings asked questions about what we did and how we were successful at it. In turn, we were able to talk about God´s role in all of life, business, family, church. A bit different than what you might expect at a technical school in the US.
The basketball clinic went well. Jay was invited to visit two other schools in the afternoon to work with the coaches in their own environment.
Several people also visited a private school English classroom. The classroom teacher is a staff member with ADIEL, the mission work hosting us in Tarma.
Pray for continued opportunities to cross the bridge from these ¨everyday¨ contacts to opportunities to show the love of Jesus in word and deed.
Your mission team in Tarma
Monday, November 8, 2010
Monday
Well, we have almost completed our first full day of activities. The ladies had a cooking class at a tiny restaurant called Pepino´s Burger. We had ten local ladies for a class on making hash browns and french toast. They had never made anything like it, so they enjoyed it very much. Karen and Chris gave their testimonies to the ladies, also.
The men and Lina and Nancy went to shadow with a gentleman named Chicho, who owns several large shops here in Tarma. The ladies had a wonderful response with several women in tears. Pray that God has reached into their hearts with His love.
Some of the men spent time in the Plaza in front of our hotel doing surveys about the people and their belief in God and how they see the Holy Spirit and Jesus. They met a young man who is very sincere about his relationship with Jesus and spent a lot of time talking with the guys.
This trip has started out with a bang!! Thanks be to God for all the things he is doing with us here. We are so excited for tomorrow to begin. The last thing that is happening tonight is a presentation by Tim on time management. In Peru, people do not necessarily live by the clock...when you say 7, they may show up at 730 or 8 or not come at all. Life is quite relaxed here.
Please continue to pray for us all....Tim has had some congestion and sleep issues and Mark´s stomach is a bit off. Pray that we stay healthy and ready for the work the Lord has for us.
On a side note, it doesn´t matter where you go, the Packer game is still available to be watched. We came back from David´s English presentation and there were all the guys, camped out on the couch and watching the Packer game on Peruvian ESPN....you can take the guys out of the country and they STILL find football!!!!
Your Tarma Team
The men and Lina and Nancy went to shadow with a gentleman named Chicho, who owns several large shops here in Tarma. The ladies had a wonderful response with several women in tears. Pray that God has reached into their hearts with His love.
Some of the men spent time in the Plaza in front of our hotel doing surveys about the people and their belief in God and how they see the Holy Spirit and Jesus. They met a young man who is very sincere about his relationship with Jesus and spent a lot of time talking with the guys.
This trip has started out with a bang!! Thanks be to God for all the things he is doing with us here. We are so excited for tomorrow to begin. The last thing that is happening tonight is a presentation by Tim on time management. In Peru, people do not necessarily live by the clock...when you say 7, they may show up at 730 or 8 or not come at all. Life is quite relaxed here.
Please continue to pray for us all....Tim has had some congestion and sleep issues and Mark´s stomach is a bit off. Pray that we stay healthy and ready for the work the Lord has for us.
On a side note, it doesn´t matter where you go, the Packer game is still available to be watched. We came back from David´s English presentation and there were all the guys, camped out on the couch and watching the Packer game on Peruvian ESPN....you can take the guys out of the country and they STILL find football!!!!
Your Tarma Team
Sunday, November 7, 2010
It is Sunday!!! What a beautiful day to worship the Lord together. We had a wonderful little service after breakfast with Joel playing guitar and all of us singing. We went over the schedule and boy, is it packed with stuff to do!!! Please continue to pray for all the people here in Tarma and for all of us! We can feel your prayers as none of us are suffering from the altitude or other things at the moment.
Today is market day, so we went and bought all the ingredients for the cooking class....apples, potatoes, cinnamon, sugar, oil, etc. We will be going to the Indian Market in Lima when we get back, so not a lot of shopping has been done.
We are going to be planning the week´s activities today and resting a bit before Dave´s English for English teachers class this evening. Pray that the teachers show up.
Look for a post tomorrow, late.....
Gracia por sus oraciones.....
The Tarma Team
Today is market day, so we went and bought all the ingredients for the cooking class....apples, potatoes, cinnamon, sugar, oil, etc. We will be going to the Indian Market in Lima when we get back, so not a lot of shopping has been done.
We are going to be planning the week´s activities today and resting a bit before Dave´s English for English teachers class this evening. Pray that the teachers show up.
Look for a post tomorrow, late.....
Gracia por sus oraciones.....
The Tarma Team
Saturday, November 6, 2010
At last we have reached Tarma!!! It was a loooooong bus ride through the mountains, but they are so beautiful! Gods handiwork is very visible in all the beauty that surrounds us. We met Bethany, Elsa, Luis and Meredith and had dinner at a restaurant next to the hotel. All of us are very tired, but very happy to finally be here. Our hotel is the Hotel Galaxia on the Plaza de Armas in central Tarma.
Everyone is ok and ready for a week of wonderful ministry here in Tarma!! Thanks for all your prayers and thoughts that got us here. Continue to pray for the ministries with the businessmen, the ladies and the basketball players.
Your missions Team in Tarma
Everyone is ok and ready for a week of wonderful ministry here in Tarma!! Thanks for all your prayers and thoughts that got us here. Continue to pray for the ministries with the businessmen, the ladies and the basketball players.
Your missions Team in Tarma
Hola from Lima....
We made it through the first leg of travel with no problems!! Praise the Lord for that!! Today we are getting on the bus to Tarma and traveling in the mountains. This is a public bus, so we will be traveling with many other people today. Please pray for travel safety and the opportunity to witness to the people we are with. We are all excited about this mission and just pray that God will use our talents in the way He wants to. Thanks to all of you for praying for us, it has definitely been felt.
Your Mission Team
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