During the time that we had with short-term help we painted at a local elementary school, entertained the students during their recess with a puppet show, a drama, and choreography to Justin Beiber’s “Baby”. A few days later we had a kid’s festival at a nearby park and a couple hundred people came out as a result of flyering at the school. We have several new contacts – one group of women that are encouraged to meet together (5 women & 7 children just in the first meeting). We are going to do a medical clinic at Nilda’s Wawawasi, which is a government subsidized daycare. She gets paid 2 soles per person per day. Needless to say, we're excited to see what lies ahead with Nilda and this group of women. That’s just one story as follow up to the great couple of weeks.
Another is of a woman named Maribel. We gave her a call to see if we could visit her later that afternoon. She said yes and when we showed up she began to tell us that at the time we called she was in the middle of an argument with her husband after finding a photo of another woman in his wallet. In the middle of their argument he hit her and she said she was at the point of doing something that she’d regret, but we called and she said, “Dios es grande”. She believes that God wants to be a part of her life and is looking forward to joining us for our cell group at the Jove’s house. I feel very blessed to be a part of this work. I’d like to encourage you to check out my facebook for more photos from the events. We have more short-term projects coming up in August and November if you’d like to register go to www.extremenazarene.org and click on GET INVOLVED.
God is good and we’re excited to follow where he leads and see what he has in store. Please join us in praying for Hunter, the people with whom we’re working, and for a place to rent out as our church. We certainly have enough people interested to get going.
