"Miguel, please make me a little doggie!"

Carlos and Nickie passing out salvation bracelets

Linzy AKA Tweety entertaining the people of Peru

Becky AKA Goofy with the ninos

Dancing at the children´s outreach

Heather showing the Ninos how it´s done

Nina praying at Outreach

Gretchen and Bob our missionaries to Peru

Bus number 1 from lima to andahuaylas

Peruvian and Bethany team in Lima

Life is good in Peru

Another great day working for the Lord!
We did a large outreach on the other side of town. Hundreds of kids from some very poor neighborhoods attended. Tomorrow is our large nighttime outreach.

Team is doing great healthwise. The weather dropped into the 20s last night. Warm 60 during the day.

Here are some pictures

Fiesta! Feliz dia de Peru

Yesterday was independance day here in Peru. But more importantly, we had our first outreach with the combined teams. We had a large group of kids and adults. We did worship, games, skits, prizes, and explained the wordless book. It was Awesome!

Last night we attended church. We participated in worship, presented a peruvian dance with our combined teams, and preached a message and testimony.

Today, Sunday, we went to the big market after devotions. It is a huge outdoor market with everything from pots and pans to sheep and bulls. Later we have practice, lunch, and church tonight.

Tomorrow we have another outreach. Our dinner tomorrow will be a national dish. Cui. Ask about it when we return.

I will be posting pictures later tonight or Monday.ç

THanks for praying.
God bless,
Mike

Welcome from the mountains!

we arrived safely in Andahuaylas. Thank you for all the prayers.

The process took 26 hours. wahoo! It involved walking with bags, taxis, a big nice bus with no airconditioning, and the final big van over 210 miles of off road dirt and gravel. We crossed two 15000 foot passes. A few folks got altitude sickness, but all are doing great now. We have been eating like kings at the pastors house. Lots of local food. the weather was warmer then normal. should be down below 30 tonight.
We spent the day learning dances, skits, songs, and enjoying the company of our peruvian partners. We have large outreaches saturday. over 800 kids are expeced. then all next week to over 300 kids each.
the team sends their best. it is hard to get internet time here.

Please continue to pray. More soon..
Serving Him,
Mike

We have arrived in Lima safely!

Praise God, we arrived safely in Lima. We had one issue, Carlos needed a Visa. He will be flying tomorrow to join us. We had good flight. It is 50s and heavy clouds here.

The team had an awesome dinner at Bob's, with Gretchen and many Peruvians. We feasted on Aji Gallina prepared by loving hands at his house.

Wed we will practice for our ministry in the mountains. We depart for the long bus ride 7PM Wed.

Thank you for the awesome send off at Church.

Serving Him together,
Mike

Today is the Day!

We leave for Peru tonight. Thank you for all the support and prayers you have provided the team & I. We got a quick weather report from Andahuaylas. -10C (about 17F). The team is doing great, and ready to meet up with our American & Peruvian partners tomorrow.

Two weeks until we depart. We depart Monday July 23. We would love to have folks meet at Bethany Church at 9PM to pray with us before we leave. Peru is having record cold (it is winter there). The low temperature in the village we are traveling to was 9F last week. This site now has pictures of our mission partners in Peru at the upper right.