It seemed so counter-intuitive. Why run into the very place that had harbored so much pain? Why not hide, race away, from the source of it all? The plane landed. My feet were still hesitant, after having dreams I would die, not knowing what that might look like. We step on the soil of my husband’s […]
“I’m going to die”, “I just know it”….days before we left, panic gripped me. I couldn’t breath. I hadn’t been this way on my way to Peru twenty-two years earlier. So, why now? For some reason, this trip had doom and gloom written all over it. Was it just me? Or should I be, actually worried? […]
I didn’t want to touch my feet to the soil. It had burned me, stung me, tainted my innards with an offensive taste and smell. I was poisoned by love. Ran from the call. Would have rather served in China or Guatamala, or the barren lands of Africa… Before believing God might call us here. But […]
TODAY WE ARE CELEBRATING $920. of the $2600. has been raised for the new school shoes for the children who live high up in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Even more amazingly, 99% of those funds came within the first 23 hours of our campaign. (So incredible what God can do when we put our trust […]
It made no sense. Can’t you just imagine Him…slow, methodical, not racing to man’s expectations…instead, wise, intentional, focused on His primary mission? A man born blind, approached, talked about, questioned as to why he can’t see. Once learning to make his living, sitting and begging…Heightened senses likely listening, discussions of whose fault it was, his deficit […]
THE NEED $10.00 (the cost of two latte’s) can buy a new pair of shoes for a child who walks along the dirty, mountainous region of the Andes, to their new school this year. Carahuasi, Peru is a small village in the Andes mountains, two hours outside of Cuzco, near Machu Picchu. While most kids in […]