Well this blog is going to have to be short to conserve time. Yesterday as some of you know, my team and I were supposed to go up the Amazon river, and, well things dust didnt go as planed and the boat is not leaving until 4 (I think) today. This situation was really not that big of a deal to us as a team because one thing we have learned is to have no expectations and if something changes it was obviously ment to happen the way it did because NOTHING happens outside Gods will.   This blog is being posted not only to let everyone who reads it know what is going on but also as an...

I wish I could only bring every one here and give you my feelings. On the outside it might just seem like a tourist, just amazed and excited about everything. It is so much more than that. Five year old brothers and sisters carry and feed their younger siblings. Dogs walk around free but suffering everywhere. People down here ask for the shirt or shorts right off of you. Some take money and run. This sights are always new and overwhelming. Some places are nicer on the inside than what they apear on the outside. Everything is different. They are in poverty here and yet that still...

You are Peruvian now! A comment made by my brother Johnny when we were all playing soccer. What does that mean? This team was welcomed into Peru with open arms. We are already changing lives and God is blessing us and changing our lives. The fact that my Peruvian brother says that I am Peruvian now tells me that we are one. We are all one in Christ. It doesn´t matter if you´re from America, Peru, Nicaragua, Honduras, or anywhere else. We are all brothers and sisters in Christ. As my friend Juan told me yesterday "I am coffee, you are milk" (referring to skin color) we...

Ministry has many different faces. Sometimes it looks like the last blog post I posted with God setting people free. Sometimes it looks like sharing testimonies of what God is doing in our lives and laying hands and praying for those present. And then there are other times when its completely different, and ministry looks like twirling kids around and playing futbol.  This blog is actually about the same day as the last one I posted. Its kind of hard to keep track of days. Honestly I dont remember what day that was. But after we were done ministering to the prisoners, they invited us to...

The last couple days have been busy and a lot of fun. Friday, we went to the prison again and played soccer with the men after a very emotional prayer session. All these men were super happy to see us and welcomed us with open arms. The older men were all outside working with tools and crafting pictures and furniture out of wood while the younger men were inside just sitting around or making objects out of rolled newspaper. Then in the afternoon, half of our team went to a neighborhood in the second poorest district in Iquitos. As we walked down the muddy "street," we passed...

          Hello again everyone! I love it here in Iquitos! I love listening to the rain, which is somehow alot louder here than at home. It puts a whole new meaning to the song lyric "It's the song of the forgiven, drowning out the amazon rain." There are so many stories I wish I could tell you, like when three of us girls got lost in Iquitos for a while and had to find our way back from memory, or riding on the back of a moped balancing groceries through the caos of these streets, or making my way through the market looking for a...