Walk in newness of life

I love to read.

I'm always reading while I'm nursing the baby. She's grown accustomed to reaching out with her hand to feel the book that I'm reading while she's nursing. She especially loves the sound my Bible makes as she crinkles the thin pages. I've been reading in Romans lately. The day I started Romans 6, I was reading between Nala's sweet little baby fingers feeling all over the page. It was such a picture of what I read:

"Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Romans 6:4

I read the last part right between Nala's fingers. It was an image of our life with the Lord. She is walking in newness of life. Everything is new and fascinating to her. She sees everything with such joy and interest. We should walk that way with Christ, with excitement over His word, seeing the good in people, loving them, hoping for them.

It was a sweet morning with the Lord.

New chairs for the church

We bought some new chairs from Jaime (Calvary Chapel Pastor in Canete). We are starting with 20 chairs and we will get new ones when we need them. They fit great in the space and we still have room to add a few more.

Americo holding the new toilet we bought. We can't install it yet because the water shut off valve is broken. They are repairing it this week and we should be able to put in the new toilet and sink.

Donal Watson came from Brentwood, TN to help out around the church in Surco. He came to Ica with us with plans to change out the toilet but that didn't happen because of the shut off valve. This is a terrible picture of Donal, he looks like he hasn't slept in 10 days.

Donal taught the Bible study in the evening and we were all very blessed. I translated for the first time (first time to translate a whole message) and all went well. Praise God!!

Resurrection Beach service

This past Sunday we had a special Resurrection service of the beach. We had a great time celebrating the ressurection of Jesus and the new life he has given us. OHHH PRAISE HIM!!

To get up so early in the morning Nala had to have her morning coffee. She is just like daddy.

The girls always fight over who gets to hold Nala.

The kids were content playing in the sand in their church clothes.



About 35-40 people came out to enjoy the beach and the majesty of the Lord's creation.

Tracy, Ricardo and David blessed us with some sweet worship.

Three people got baptized in the ocean.


Then we enjoyed a time of breaking the bread as a family. We ate sandwiches and shared some with others on the beach.

Then we went back to the church for our normal Sunday service followed by some nice fellowship and some more breaking of bread together. Why is it when we celebrate that we eat so much food?

Liam turns 5

A New Little Church Building

Yeah! We found a little church building. It is small, it will hold about 20-24 folding chairs. The Lord has lead us here and He has a purpose. We will be very centrally located and easy to find. The location need some work, which we will do over the coming weeks.

This is the face of the building. The owner said we can paint a sign on the door and hang a banner on or above the window.

This is the inside which will serve as the small sanctuary. We feel like about 6 rows of 4 folding chairs each will fit inside.

This is a small room that we will use for kids ministry. It's about 9ft by 9ft.

This is the bathroom. We are going to change the toilet and sink for a new one and clean up and paint everything. We will probably begin service here sometime in the beginning of May. Please pray for the work that needs to be done here.

Update on the ministry in Los Pollitos

Ana (blue pants)

About two weeks ago I posted an update saying that for certain unspoken reasons we were not having Bible studies in Los Pollitos at this time. Well after some time of prayer we are back in Los Pollitos, we have decided to change the ministry for now, to just reading once a week with Ana only. We feel that it isn't wise at this time to invite others to the this study. Please pray for Ana and the work the Lord is doing in her life, she is under a great spiritual attack and needs your prayers.

You can also pray for us as we consider beginning a Bible study for the community of Los Pollitos in a small wooden building that the community has offered to let us use for free. We don't want to start because an opporunity exist, we want to hear directly from the Spirit that this is from Him and not of our own makings. Please keep this in your prayers also.

Small wooden building, possibility for Bible study