Where to begin. . . These past two weeks have been such an amazing time and blessing! Since we´ve been to Iquitos, God has just been pouring out HIS amazing love and blessings non-stop. This past week since we´ve been doing prison ministry and today was our official last day of working with them. I participated in both the men´s prison ministry and women´s and I found out to be such a HUGE blessing. I met this man named Max(imo) my first day working in the prison who has such a hunger and thirst for the Lord that he can´t wait until he leaves the prison so that he can serve the Lord...

This feels like home.  Like I was born to live this life, in this culture, or maybe just with these people, or maybe just this way.  I love Iquitos, and as we prepare to leave for the jungle it will be hard to say goodbye. Hard to say goodbye the the motorcars that never stop moving, even at 3am.  Hard to leave the woman’s prison where I watched a guard play volleyball with the prisoners and even return on her days off to hear the Word of God.  Hard to leave Eleana, from the youth group and the freedom and growth she’s been walking in this past week (though I...

    The theme lately seems to be “everything”. From how God is using me to how He is growing me, the theme of everything just keeps coming up.        One way that God has used me and others on the team so far is in a skit known as the Everything skit. The chorus of the song the skit is put to is “You´re all I want, You´re all I need, You´re everything. So how can I stand here with you and not be moved by you? Could you tell me how it could it be any better than this?”  It´s an amazing and intense representation of...

Hola.   Peru is amazing! Amazing. I love everything about this place. The city is wonderful and so are the people. We have had so much fun. Riding around in motokars and laughing as we run though 7 red lights and drive on the wrong side of the road. We have got to sleep out on the roof under the stars. I Held a snake, and I got bit by a monkey, but don´t worry I´m alive. We got to go to the zoo and play soccer with some of the friends we made at the church and all of that has been amazing, but even more amazing then that is the ministry we have got to be a part of.   We have...

Hello hello! So firstly, I am absolutely in love with Peru! We have been here a little over a week and I am going to be sad saying goodbye! I have just really had such a great time here! (Sidenote for Dad– we ride around in motocars here. Which are motorcycles with seat things attached. No doors. No seatbelts. Oh yeah, and no speed limits. Just to give you a slight heart attack). I ate Suri, which is a grub that is so fat and juicy. yumm. Ha ha. I held a baby monkey in a village. And I held a boa at the zoo! ha It kissed me! I have met so many great people on the streets, in the...

Hola mis amigos!  That´s about the extent of my spanish but I hope to learn more by the end of this trip.   So far our stay in Iguitos has been unbelievable.  From the accomodations (we´re sleeping in beds with mattresses!) to the prison ministry and team time God has been working crazy things.   I don´t have a specific story to share with you so Ã�´m going to share an experience that I´ve had over the past few days.  As I mentioned briefly in my post from training camp I´ve been feeling God calling me to just let go and live without any reservations and so...