After our week in Tacna we headed back to base (Ite camp centre). We finished the Amazing Journey 6 day kids’ club activity sheets and perfected our acting skills for the ‘Amazing Journey’ presentation. We helped out at the ladies meeting ‘May Sale’ (700 soles was raised for the work of the ladies meetings and Sunday school ministries of the church), Friday night youth meeting and Sunday services.
On Monday we returned to Moquegua for a very eventful week! The first evening we took the kids club in Costa Verde (it’s like a mission area of the church) it turned out to be the 3rd anniversary so the evening finished off with lots of food, cake and sweets!! On Tuesday, we presented the Amazing Journey in the Mitchell and Porter school, and were even invited back to take a kids club the followind day and to judge a ‘best decorated classroom’ competition (sadly we didn’t have time to judge the classrooms!) One evening we experienced our first strong earth tremor, this time it was more obvious than any of the others which we have slept through, or just didn´t notice!!
During the week we were able to run kids clubs in ‘Las Vegas’ and ‘Las Americas’ (no, we didn’t board a flight to the U.S.) these are two areas were the church is trying to start up a ministry (like the Costa Verde project). We had a great turn out considering we just arrived and started the club (they don’t do the whole publicity thing here).
During the week we helped the youth of the church prepare and sell ice-cream type things in the market (they are trying to raise money to buy instruments and get a music group in the church). Over the weekend we participated in a youth night and Sunday service Mothers Day Specials (Mothers Day is huge over here they provided meals during the services and people sang songs etc for their mums.) After an incident with a spider bite on Friday morning, Lynne has had stayed on in Moquegua (with Shirley). They bid farewell to the other members of the team on Sunday afternoon, (so she can continue to receive the necessary treatment). Thankfully it seems to be improving and they are both being well looked. They will hopefully be reunited with the team on on Friday.
Please remember the team this weekend as they will be in the Ilo church. They return to Ite on Sunday to lead the Sunday school and participate in the Church service. The following week will be spent in preparation for helping out in ‘Pichi’ church in Tacna (this will be a new adventure, Mision Rescate teams havn’t previously been involved with this church), doing kids activities and English classes in a ‘Pepe’ school and helping out in the Manantial De Vida kids Missions project!

Manantial de Vida happenings.....

Sorry for the recent lack of updates, we have been busier than ever!!! We finished a great week in Manantial de Vida church in Tacna a couple of weeks ago. During our time we were able to do lots of door to door visitations inviting kids who had attended the kids holiday bible clubs to the sunday school. We also did an open air in the market and helped out at a Christian concert! It was great being able to see the various ministries within the church, they have a great crowd of young people who are willing to get involved (if the truth be told they didnt need our help, but it was great to see the work they are doing). We also had the chance to 'star' on the radio 'El Sembredor' which is part of the mission!! It was great to see this work after hearing so much about it back home in Ireland.

We´ve been round the mountians (minus the pink pyjamas!)

The last couple of weeks have been really busy (nothing new there then!). We had the oppurtunity to return to the Andes with the Baptist Womens team. (A team of 8 women - who were very loud!) It was brilliant being able to return to the churches where we did the kids sunday school project (before Christmas). Some of the pastors gave us an insight to the work of previous missionaries over the years.

This weekend we have been able to help the church in Ilo. We took part in 2 youth nights, 2 kids clubs, prayer meeting, 2 church services - and Pastor Marios Birthday Party - which was an experience to say the least!

Please pray for us this week as we return to Tacna - Manantial de Vida until monday.

Sorry it has been a while and this is a short post ... more will be added later in the week (we hope!)

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