The past few weeks we have been back to base- this doesn’t mean rest time, we have been busier than ever. No two days have been the same! We began with a big ‘Spring Clean’ (even though its not Spring time) and cleaned the kitchen from top to bottom…literally, everywhere was sparking after 8 hours (yes 8 hours with 9 people)! The following 2 days saw the girl team members carrying (outside), washing, drying and returning 500 chairs and 50 tables, whilst the boys cleared out the Macen (shed type of thing) which could only be described as Aladdin’s cave, it contains anything and everything, by the end it was unrecognisable!
The week finished with the ‘National Workers Conference’- an opportunity for the entire mission family to come together for a series of meetings. It was brilliant catching up with Pastors, their families and some people who attended summer camps. We held a kids club and got to know and share with the children of the workers.
The 2nd week was spent working on the amazing journey (El Viajé Increíble). It’s a presentation which takes listeners though the entire Bible from creation to revelation in 40 mins! People dress up as biblical characters and tell their ‘story’. We learned how to assemble and dissemble the panels and were guided through the story. We received scripts for performances over the next few months. We spent time planning and constructing ideas for the amazing journey ‘packs’ that kids will receive at the end of the presentation. The vision is to make it into a ‘3/5 day club’ presentation, we have been working on making up activity sheets for 3 separate age groups for each day, its been a really exciting venture to be involved with it.
Gordon Darragh the ‘Baptist Missions Director’ (a.k.a. The Boss/Hermano Gordon) came to visit us for a few days. It was great to see him again; he kept us entertained with his video camera and music selection, it also nice to have another English speaker for a few days!
We also had an opportunity to take a youth night in Ite, we arranged a sports night (football and volleyball) in the local school. Around 35 attended and were able to listen to the Gospel. On the Sunday we were responsible for Sunday school in Ite. It was brilliant seeing lots of the kids from the EBDV which we ran in January
More recently, we had another Spring clean for the arrival of the Baptist womens team/ ‘Easter Churches Congress’. We cleaned windows, camp centre walls, weeded and rebuilt the giant obstacle course amongst other activities! It was well worth it, there were around 150 campers for the Congress. It was excellent to meet the womens team and seeing lots from the summer camps returning again.
Next week we head to the ‘Sierra’ with the womens team, we will visit churches (same ones we attended with the Christmas Project.). This time travel may be a little more difficult as we are travelling from coast to the altitude….lets just say everyone is packing the sick bags!!
Points for Praise
-Great turn out at Youth night and Sunday school
-Successful Churches Congress
-The entire Mission Family and Baptist Missions
Points for Prayer
-That we would be an encouragement to ther churches in the Sierra
-Travelling to Puno and the surrounding churches
