Mission Rescate IV

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

This is the first blog post of Mision Rescate 4 and I write to you from a cosy living room, in front of the fire as the snow melts in Northern Ireland. My case is almost packed and there's just the essentials to take care of .... getting a hair cut, picking sweets for the plane, oh yes, and saying goodbye to the family for a while.

It's great to be able to continue this blog from last year and my prayer is that Mision Rescate 4 can continue on the work of the great teams that have worked in Peru in previous years. As I leave on Thursday, I will be spending January helping in camps at the camp centre in Ete. In February the team will travel around the churches supporting their summer outreach programs, working with children and young people and getting involved in anything needed. Its an exciting time as I think that in 3 days i'll be meeting the Morrows (the missionary family i'll be working with) in Lima, joining the rest of the team and getting settled into the work to come. I've been told that its so warm in Peru at the minute that people dont go out in the afternoons, thinking the heat is going to be a shock to the system considering that its been subzero temperatures keeping us inside in Ireland.

We've had a lovely christmas in our house and now that the festivities are over, I'm ready for the next adventure. This team has came together in its own way and in its own time, and its great to know that God has brought things together according to his perfect purposes. Thinking of the Christmas story, I was reading in Galatians 4
"But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit if his Son into our hearts, crying "Abba! Father!" So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God."

God has brought the team for Mision Rescate 4 together in His own time and with the purpose of sharing the news of his Son, whose birth we remember at christmas and whose life brings us hope. The time has come for the team to start work and we trust that God will help us in all that we will do, in the difficulties we will face and teach us as we serve him together.

Please pray for us
- For safety as I travel
- For the team as we meet and get to know each other
- For the missionaries and team as we plan for camps
- For the people we meet, that we will share Christ faithfully
- That God would be glorified in all that we do

Thank you so much for you support and prayers! Please keep in touch over the next months with whats happening in your lives and stories from home.

God bless
Jud