Dave and Cam's Peru Adventure

I am writing this from sunny and HOT Iquitos, Peru. David, Pete and I are here in the jungle city visiting teammates, Jeremy and Crystal Nelson (with karis and Adalyn) and Jake and Dodie Glover (with Hannah and Abigail). We are so enjoying our time with them and have a new respect for them living in this heat! Its wonderful in a way- compared to dreary Lima, but its hard to get used to! Pete has adjusted well and loves tooling around in just his diaper. He's a free spirit, what can I say?
The Nelsons and Glovers have generously shared their lives and ministries with us this week. We've met a lot of their national friends and had some great time reflecting on their ministries and life here.
They've also shown us some of the hot spots (no pun intended) of the town. We visited a great zoo where we saw real live jungle animals, including jaguars, wild boars, tapers, parrots, and yes, a monster snake. At least David and Pete saw the snake, I was shuddering as I rushed past! Ha! We also got to see the infamous Paiche, aka the river monster. Its a HUGE fish, unreal, that has an enormous velocity in grabbing a piece of food off a stick. Wow!!
We've had some great food, jungle pig and fish, a large fried plantain ball and camu camu juice.
Its been a fun trip and we are so pleased to have been able to be here.

We are continuing to seek the Lord's guidance in our role as team leaders. It is a hard change in our ministry focus. But we desire to be obedient. Please be praying for these things...

Unity among our REAP team- pray that we will work with a common purpose and develop an environment of encouragement.

Pray for the joining of REAP North and South into one team. Pray for the work and transition time and that we will do a good job merging the two teams.

Pray for an upcoming meeting with our supervisor, Marty Childers. Pray that it will be a great time of vision casting, brainstorming, and putting some legs on our ideas. Pray also that we will have some good time just being with Marty.

Please pray for Pete's continued growth and development and wisdom on how to be good parents.

Please pray for opportunities for David and I to do more ministry with nationals. This has been a struggle as our team leader responsibilities have taken more of our time.

Thank you all so much for your prayers- please feel free to send us an update and prayer requests for you and your family.