The ministry in Ica

The ministry in Ica is changing. We recently stopped the afternoon Bible study in the street and invited them to the nighttime Bible study. I am currently teaching the nighttime Bible study each week, Praise God. Pray for me (Robin), because teaching in Spanish is very difficult. I enjoy it, because it really makes me depend on Christ for each and every word. Currently we are looking for a place to rent once a week to open the doors to more people. We meet in a house now and it is an incredible blessing, but we don't want to fill the house with a bunch of people from the street, because it is an offering of a very nice family. Thanks for all your prayers for this ministry. Pray that God would continue to open the doors and tear down spiritual strongholds in Ica. I have been told that Ica has a plaza called the "plaza de brujas" (park of the witches) A very dark place. Starting this week only Americo (a peruvian that lives at the church) and myself will be going to Ica for the next few weeks or more. We are praying about changing the day to Thursday, once we find a place to rent.

Robin

Updates...

Two and a half weeks ago, we had a ladies Bible study. It was really nice. The guys served us our lonchecita (light dinner). A couple of the girls came from Canete.

Me and Gabby.

Betty did the teaching. It was nice. We might start having a ladies study every 2 months or so.

By the way, Brian is back, and it sure is good to have his jolly face around again!

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Family...

Liam, goofy as ever, dressed himself up to be a knight in shining armor. He modeled himself after a picture of a little boy in a chilren's book we have.

There's just nothing like laying around on a free day and reading an american cookbook...

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Conferencia de jovenes Youth Conference.

Ricardo and I were invited to play the worship for a youth conference here in Lima last Saturday. "Youth" here can mean all the way up into your 30's. Yay! I'm a joven!!! There were probably around 200 youth there. We had about 20 there between the church in Surco and the church in Canete.

practicing in the morning...

The worship was great. Unfortunately, the teachings were lacking. We only stayed for the first 2. We felt that they were either totally not from the Bible, or completely watered down. It was very sad to see all those youth soaking up a bad teaching. It reminded me how important the Word is, not that I had forgotten, but I could really sense it's importance. It also made me really appreciate our church here in Peru, and in Florida. I really appreciate Kelly and Kaulana, the youth pastor(s) back in Florida. Wow, our youth there really have it great. My heart was pretty saddened that day. We went back to the church and began to do our own impromptu conference to straighten things out with the youth here. Americo, Ricardo, Robin & I shared. I shared a Bible study for the girls on modesty and dating, or really the lack of dating. At the end of the day, it was really good. Pray for the chruches here in Peru, that they would be churches of God's Word and churches of prayer.

2 Timothy 4:2 "Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfull your ministry."