Construction continues in Puente Piedra

A group from Calvary Chapel In the City (Boston) came last week and helped us to advance a little further on the building. They were a great group and we made a lot of progress. Thanks CCITC.


Preparing cement to make a new floor, so the kids don't have to sit on dirt floors for the Bible studies. Praise God.

Americo (Peruvian) shows David from CCITC how to cut and prepare the wires for making the support beams of the roof.

A rare shot: Americo smiling. He really smiles a lot, but all the pictures we put on the blog of him, he is usually very serious.

We ran out of water and had to haul it from the neighbors house to keep the project going.

We built more columns and support beams and then on the final day we were able to finish the roof of one side of the building. More pictures to come.

Family and 1 to come (+/-7 weeks to go)

Wow! Look at this strickingly beautiful pregnant wife of mine. Only a few more weeks to go before we get to meet the new edition to the family. We are very excited. This week we had an ultrasound and the baby had it's foot in front of it's parts, so I guess we will all have to wait to see if it's a boy or girl.

Kilaine being sweet as usual. What a blessing little girls are, especially for dads.

Liam, our little monkey! What a blessing to have monkies, too!
Good times goofing off. We have lots of fun tickling and wrestling around. Boy it's good to be a daddy and to have goofy kids. I think kids are goofy because they are imitating their parents. Ha! A house full of laughter is a great gift and blessing from our Lord (not a verse, more like a paraphrase of many verses together). Praise God for the gift of family!

Robin

Outreach in Ica

Yesterday we did some street ministry in Ica. We have a team visiting from CC of the Triad (North Carolina). For the first couple of hours we did one on one street evangelism, then we invited the people to come and see a drama that the team had prepared.


A small crowd gathered around to watch the drama.





After the drama, Americo (peruvian) shared the gospel and explained the drama. It was good ole street preaching. We had a lot of fun. The people of Ica are ripe for the gospel, we had a blessed time. Many were asking where we met for the church, so please pray that soon the Lord would provide a place for His work in Ica.

In the evening we went to the Bible study. The house was packed, because there was 11 extra people from the group.
The Peruvians from the Bible study really enjoyed listening to a very touching testimony of one of the women from the missions team. It is great to see God working through language barriers and cultural difference. Our Savior is awesome.

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Robin took this picture of Kilaine, she was just crawling out of her room like this one day.

I finally made a cake for Robin's birthday. It was only a few days late... (almost a week).

We went to Santa Rosa yesterday to do some evangelism and a children's craft with the team from Calvary of the Triad. They're from North Carolina. We went out in small groups. Robin took this up on the hill on the other side of the road from Santa Rosa.

Some kids of one of the families Robin's group talked to.

Praying before we start.

We had a nice time doing the craft with the kids. I made a pretty funny language blunder. I was explaining that the craft was an invitation to give to someone that doesn't come to the church. But, I accidentally said it was an invitation to give to someone so that they don't come to the church. Oops!!! Brian was sitting at a table right by me and started laughing. He told me what I said so then I fixed it. But, I've been getting a good laugh about it.

Denise was sleeping until Robin tried to take a picture of her. Ha!


So was Nick.

Kara's party

Denise and Ricardo.

The kids did a puppet show of Kara, Denise and Miguel. It was really funny!

Good job guys!

Classic picture of Kara, always laughing.

Ricardo played some songs.

Betty and Pilar did some dancing.

Kara

Kara was a girl that stayed here for 3 months as a missionary. It was such a blessing to have her here helping out. She is such a joy. She went back to Florida on Monday. We miss her. Here are some pictures of her and that she took while she was here.

Robin and Angie. This is perfect of Angie with a pile of mandarin peels in front of her!

Senorita Mandarina!!!

One day in Canete. Me, Kara, Krystel and Jaime.

Cassy with the kids when they came to my house to help me make some fudge to sell.

Goofiness... Kara and the kids

This was Robin's birthday in Ica. They gave him a wonderful cake and told him about the "tradition" in Ica where you have to take an actual bite out of the cake. Without cutting it... using only your face... Hahaha. They shoved his face way down into that cake.

The Bible study group in Ica.

The family with Kara the day before she left.

Kara, Ayumi, Kilaine, Priscilla and another little girl (I don't know her name) in Santa Rosa.

Fiestas Patrias- Patriotic Parties

Peruvians are very proud of their country and there are many festivals and parties to celebrate. In my institute of Language we had a party to celebrate the Peruvian independence. I dressed as a Chalan, typical Peruvian festival costume.




These are a few of the teachers at the intitute that dressed up as in traditional festival costumes from the mountains.

These are the people that are part of my spanish class. I am the tallest by far, and the only man. The guy on the end is not part of our class, he is another professor. It is fun to participate and learn about Peruvian culture in this way. We learned a couple of traditional patriotic songs and sang them all together that day to celebrate Peruvian independence. Independence day is tomorrow July 28, but I don't have classes, so we celebrated a little early.

Robin