Anniversaries, Cake and Football!

Sunday saw the 13th Anniversary of the church here in Arequipa. To mark this event the service was held at the church mission project - a rehabilitation centre in another part of Arequipa. We had an outdoor service with many families. The men from the centre, who do not usually come to the church, attended as well. After the service we enjoyed a church lunch together and remained there for the rest of the afternoon.
On Saturday we were involved in a children´s outreach at the Latin Link International School. There were around 200 primary school children as well as their parents. The theme of the afternoon was how powerful God is.
This week Simon was involved in a 5-a-side football competition with the men from the rehabilitation centre. There was a team entered from the church as well as four from the centre. Simon ended with a red face - not only from the embarassment of coming second but also as she sweated off all his sun cream!

At the weekend Luz Maria came up from Ite to stay for a few days. It was brilliant to see her again and we had a really enjoyable time. It also included celebrating Luz´s birthday a couple of weeks early on saturday night - any excuse for a cake!

Luz shared with us on saturday morning for team devotions from Matthew 9 v36-38:

When He saw the crowds, He had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like a sheep without a sheperd. Then He said to His disciples, "the harvest is plentiful, but the labours and few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out labours into the harvest"

There is so much work to be done, please continue to pray for the work here in Peru.