Mark and Kim DeJager

We wanted to give you a brief update of some of the things that are happening.

We are in the final phases of school. We just had our school closing Friday morning followed by the graduation in the evening and school program on Saturday morning.  We are closing late this year because of days we had to make up from a flu virus.

Just this week a boy from fourth grade came and asked to talk with me.  He then told me that a few days previous he had put his trust in the Lord Jesus while listening to one of the teachers in our school chapel.  This is one of the reasons we are here. Pray for him as he starts his summer vacation that the Word would abide in him.

I am including a few photos of the five year old grad we had this past Friday evening.

 

This week I got to drive a hearse (it was my own vehicle serving as one).  Not why I came to Peru, but a family from the meeting had a brother die (they lost their dad in October).  It took 36 hours for his body to arrive and so they had to bury him within one day.  They asked us to do a meeting yesterday evening so I spoke at a meeting at the “wake”. After the meeting they asked if I would mind driving the casket to the cemetery the next day (while they walked behind,) they didn’t want to carry him all the way as he was decomposing!  So it was a bit of a smelly affair.  Tom spoke at a meeting we then had at the cemetery and then afterwards we went to the home and I shared from the Word at a ceremony they have in the house.  Then everyone ate a meal prepared by the family of the deceased. 

The construction of the school building is underway.  God willing we will be adding two more floors to the current school building.  We are thankful for the people who are coming down to help prepare the building.

We said goodbye this Wednesday to three volunteers as they returned to the states and then Tina Howell left on Saturday morning.  They have been helping us out over the last six months and we are very thankful for their help.  One of the young ladies Laura Messerly will be returning to teach in March along with Tina Howell who was with us all year, God willing.  We are always amazed at how God uses so many different people to do His will.

Recently the daughter of one lady from the meeting started studying the Bible with Laura.  She initially thought she was saved but it quickly became clear she was relying on her works.  Within two weeks she professed her faith in Christ alone.  At the funeral I asked her husband if I could come by and visit on Sunday evening and so I went over and i talked with him about the gospel (he works 6.5 days a week and Sunday evening is when he is off). God willing we will have a Bible Study every Sunday evening after our meeting.

We have heard nothing more from our landlord.  The last we spoke she told me not to worry.  So we are staying where God has us for now.

Kim and I are both involved in individual Bible Studies with some of the people from the meeting.  I am meeting with two young men discipling them, and Kim is working with several young Christians teaching them.  She is also helping a young mother with training up her children.

We appreciate your prayers and pray you will enjoy sweet communion with the Lord, Paul said that I may know Him, I pray that is true for each of us.

In Him
Mark Kim and family