Dear brothers and sisters in Christ.
We would like to pass on a few areas of prayer and praise so
you can better help us.
In late July our sister Gloria passed away. She had battled liver cancer for over a year.
We are thankful that she did not suffer a lot of pain and remained a faithful
witness to the end. Visiting shortly
before she died, she told us how that day she spoke to a young lady who
resisting God. We had several meetings for her funeral and were able to preach
the gospel to a good number of unsaved.
Remember her husband Carlos as he adjusts to life without her.
Over the next few weeks we visited several more “wakes” and
at most of them I had the opportunity to preach the gospel (I didn’t know until
I arrived that I would be). We have
found that funerals are a good way to establish relationships – everyone
attends, from the youngest to the oldest and they stay around talking for good
period of time, so it gives a chance to meet and know them.
Recently I was asked to officiate at my first Peruvian
wedding. It was new for me, but a
privilege to spend time with this couple and then see then participate in their
Christ centred wedding. The biggest
difference – we started only one hour late (8:30 PM) and were eating at 12:30
AM.
Recently one of the teachers recounted the following. She overheard a student talking with others
about a tv program, when asked about it the young lady said “I don’t watch that
anymore now that I am a Christian”. The
teacher asked when she became a Christian and she explained it was during the
morning school devotions that she put her faith in Christ. What was encouraging – her mother then took
her to a local shrine where they worship a cross, they claim has miraculous
powers. She told her mother she the cross
did not mean anything to her it was only a pole now that she is a
believer. We are thankful for the seed
bearing fruit.
Shortly after this a young man from grade 1 professed faith
in Christ after we thought he had to wait until he was older to trust Christ as
his saviour.
Recently another young lady entered the children’s
home. She is the older sister of two
children already in the home. She is 13
and had been violated and earlier this year gave birth to twins. She is sweet girl and is responding well to
the security at the home.
Another little girl was abandoned in the village next to
ours at four days old. She was with Tom
and Carol for the a few weeks but is now at the children’s home as Tom and
Carol have left for the States to visit for six months.
