These past few weeks have certaintly been busy ones! We waited in vain for our new tires but the daily excuses added up to zero & so we left town and headed for San Jose de Quero. We made it with only 1 flat tire-not bad considering. There we met up with Mindy, Larry Pumpelly from our home church, and 10 South Carolina college students. They had already been there for five days or so. It was a great trip and a great team. We did some painting in Usibamba and some discipleship in Quero. We attended/led Bible studies in both of those towns and met with believers in Porvenir again. It has been a true blessing to be able to be in this area so many times this year. David and I are really seeing the difference that consistency makes in our relationships with the people there. We are looking forward to going back in a week or so to help get some suumer missionaries started. They will live and minister there for two months.
David and I had a really neat thing happen this past trip-the believers from Porvenir attended a Bible study in Quero one night and one of the couples wanted to dedicate their child that night and asked us to be godparents! So we are now godparents to a beautiful baby girl named Thaiza. What a sweet blessing for us!
Straight from Quero we along with translator JP split off from the Lima-bound group and headed to Huancayo. There we coordinated details for the upcoming pastors conference in June. Afterwards we went to Jauja to coordinate upcoming June and July trips there with our friend Miguel. We also enjoyed another flat tire (3rd of the trip) so we spent the night in the very nice Xauxa House and headed out the next morning for Tarma. There we met with Pastor Paul and planned for their upcoming pastors conference in July. We also awaited the arrival of the Southside Baptist Church team. We spent the next few days with them ministering in a town called Huasahuasi (wasawasi) focusing on evangelism. Now we are back home in Huanuco enjoying some much needed rest before we head out again.

Post from Lima:

Just a short note today! We are in Lima for a few days for meetings and training and are having some fun hanging out with our team here. We just got back from 4 days in San Jose de Quero, Usibamba, Chaquicocha, and Santa Rosa. We had Pachamanca twice- a traditional Peruvian special occasion meal. We met with believers in Por Venir (near San Jose), San Jose and Usibamba. We spent some time in discipleship as well. Here are some prayer requests for us these days...

Prayer Requests:

Please pray for encouragement for the believers in these areas, especially for Arminda (Godofredo's wife). Pray for us as well as meeting with her can be very discouraging.

Please pray for us as we make decisions about the future- it appears an extension is very probable in our future.

Please pray for the intense months ahead of us! And the exciting work ahead!