Day 5 continued

Well, our mission to Peru is half way over. We have only 2 days left in Huancayo then a day of travel back to Lima on Friday. Saturday will be spent seeing the city and then we'll fly out that evening. This trip is going by too fast!

Everyone is doing well and each day gets better with ministry and seeing what God is doing through us. Our 4 teams got together tonight at 10pm to share what's been happening. Here are a few things...

--Each student was given a Spanish Bible to give away to someone here. We wait for the divine moment or special connection with someone. Mandy Martin and her team got in a cab with a Peruvian lady today and Mandy struck up a conversation with her. She was asking Mandy a lot of questions and why she was in Peru. Mandy told her about Jesus and the mission work. She thought that was interesting and asked questions about other things. When they were getting out of the car Mandy gave her the Bible. Her name is Patty. Pray that Patty would be drawn to read it and that the good news would change her.
--One team was doing ESL with university students today. The director of the school asked that our student not outright share about Christianity when teaching. Tonight the class asked why our students were here and they shared briefly about the mission work. For the next hour and a half the Peruvian students asked question after question about Jesus.
--One of the teachers of the ESL school seemed very unresponsive today to any talk of Christ. They students left out of the session a little disappointed wondering if they had made any impact. Don Squires left his Bible at the school by accident and later had to go back and get it. When he returned the disinterested teacher said, "You must have come back for your Bible. I've been reading it since you left and it's very interesting with good things in it".
--One group ate guinea pig. They actually watched the lady kill it, skin it, cook it, and serve it to them!
--My team trained a group of pastors and their families in how to evangelize and share their faith. We spent 2 hours in the freezing cold in a church building with no roof and a dirt floor---and we couldn't have been happier. These Christians seemed so eager as we taught scriptures and Jen shared how she came to faith. Even the little kids were asking questions about how to talk to their teachers about the evolution they were learning in school. One little girl asked what color is God :). Jesus actually had her color skin:). We are going back tomorrow to go out in the village with them to share the Gospel.
--One of our Peruvian interpreters, Martin, knows pretty good English but declared tonight to our group that there is no way humanly possible that he has been able to interpret with such clarity as he has this week. No way humanly possible. He says that Jesus is amazing him and the Holy Spirit is taking over for him b/c he can't believe the words coming from his mouth.

Well, there's a lot more going on but that's just a little. The sun is so intense I think I'm getting sunburned at night :). Thanks for keeping up with us and praying for us as well.

Peter