Here is a photo of Gloria, the PROSIM coordinator, myself, and one of the children with the three bunnies that were born out there since we left the rabbits in July. Only 23 days of gestation! As many of you know cuy or guinea pig is VERY popular to eat here in Peru, but since rabbits reproduce so much faster and give birth to more young we're trying a more practical and relatively cheaper way to get more protein into the diet of the children.
The above pics are of several of the gardens growing out in Chuyllullo. These are the result of donations made earlier this year to the "Gardening Project" through EMM. As you can see, the gardens are doing well and the families are quite happy with their gardens. The lady in the top picture couldn't hardly wait for us to come around and see her garden!
Just after we left her garden we passed by a man in a wheelchair just a little down the hill from her house. We, our little group of four, stopped and talked with Clemente Romero, & his wife for awhile and prayed for them. I was hoping for complete and immediate healing but God didn't allow that. We head out to this village again next weekend, Sept. 9-11, and I'm looking forward to catching up with them to see how Clemente is doing.
These next pictures are from Sunday August 15 and this is a photo of the gospel being presented in the small town of Ayumaqui. We used the "salvation bracelets" donated by Providence Mennonite Church as our tool to explain, as well as for the people to remember, the saving gospel of Christ. No one in this town has accepted Christ as of yet but there is much interest. Francisco, the President of the community, is very interested and wants to know more as well as a couple of young men, Mario and Eloy. Serapio, the pastor to my left in the picture, is going to have meetings out there on Saturdays in the evening to continue the teaching and outreach. Please keep this town & group in your prayers. We had an awesome time out there!
We took advantage of this opportunity to do some health teaching there as well. In the photo above you see Gloria, along with Ryan and Kristie Sommers using posters to explain some basic health education. We were also able to give out anti-parasite pills to everyone who came to the meeting. Ryan and Kristie are here with EMM's Go program. They are English teachers serving at Promesa this year.
And finally, the way back home. These villages are a LONG way out there so I decided to stop & take a nap by the side of the road! (It's hard to see but I am resting on the right shoulder of the road.)
Not really, haha. Many of you may not know this but... This is the spot where the old church van completely broke down back in June of 2014 on the way back to Cusco w/members of the PMC medical team on board! We all ended up finally getting back to Cusco between 3-4am Monday morning. I'd been meaning to take this photo for quite awhile but finally remembered to on the way back this trip. If you didn't know, we now have a brand new church van thanks to the generous donations of people through several churches. Another huge blessing is that the Peruvian government has really improved the roads out where we have churches in the mountains so it's a HUGE PTL for both!
Here is a picture of the new church van ready to go out to Marangallay the same weekend of our trip.
Please continue to keep us in your prayers & pray for the work down here in Peru!
"And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will one and his name one." Zechariah 14:9
