Well let me first start off by praising God for all the wonderful things he has been doing in our lives. Thank you so much Lord for your faithfulness and love. Thanks to my supporters as well for there faithful praying and giving that God has laid on their hearts.
It has been a while since the Love Extreme project. During that project a lot of us were being spiritually attacked. I know I was and it was not good my relationship with God and my devotion time was horrible. I wanted to go home I felt as if I had been abandoned here in Peru. Culture shock was hitting me hard I was angry fed up with listening to the rules and didn't know where to turn for guidance. I started to think about it really hard and me and my friend Gary were in the room chillin and he was talking to his parents about something that he wrote exactly a year ago. It said something like this: I want God to break me hear in Peru I want him to break me so all I do is rely on him. That hit me he was crying and so was I. I realized that this is what was happening to me also. I still was lost in anger. I hadn't talked to my mentor in a while so I set up a conversation with him on skype. When we talked he told me something that was hard to accept and told me what I wanted them to pray for me before I left. He told me I needed to change my attitude and pray for my partner more. That was it I changed my attitude but let me tell you everyday it is not great and it is a fight. I have to bring it to God everyday. There is more I am going to talk about and I will write more blogs soon. I ask that you pray that I will continue to have the attitude of Christ there is a scripture that I really like and try to live up to in
>1 Peter 2:4-8 4 As you come to him, the living stone-rejected by men chosen by God and precious to him- 5 You also like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For the Scripture it says: See I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trust in him will never be put to shame. 7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, " the stone the builders rejected has become to capstone," and, "A stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall." They stumble because the disobey the message-which is also what they were destined for.
First the scripture refers to Jesus as the living stone and that He is precious. Then it refers to us as living stones because Christ lives in us and we are the living stones that make up the Church. It is not some building it is the people of the Church. We are being built into spiritual houses refers to Christ continuing to work in our lives each day to form and shape us into the likeness of Him. Holy priesthood refers to the us being made holy like a priest and needing to offer spiritual sacrifices to God for example: Fasting, giving something up for some time, and ect. The precious conerstone refers to Jesus. The story of the conerstone was the builders used the stone to measure the whole building off that stone. As we need to measure our lives off the life of Jesus and we also need to be that conerstone in the lives of others so that they to can see Jesus in us. It goes on and talks about those who don't believe and how Jesus becomes a stumbling block for their lives because they do not obey. We need to remember to obey the laws that Jesus set forth before us and remember everyday that people are watching us and waiting for us to make mistakes. I am not saying we are going to be perfect but we have to try to be and continue to obey God because if we don't we can cause other people in our live to turn away from God or not choose him at all because of our actions. This is for encouragement in your lives and know that
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
The First Look
Eli and I went to a few of the places in Arequipa we will be planting churches this week. We went out on the 1st of may, Thursday, to pray over the places and anoint them with oil. The first place we went was Cural, it is a farming town and there are hardly any houses. It is a poverty stricken place, to get there you have to take a dirt road and as far as I know no combis (which is a bus) or taxis. So we don’t know how we are going to get there. When I saw the place I started crying Because this is where God had put Eli and I for the next two years. I had a vision of a church.
Here are some pictures of Me, Eli, and our places below:
Eli and I in Cural
Eli and I in Cural
Cural
Cural
In the back of the truck with Pastor Elvin and my partner on the way to Cural
The road to Cural
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Nosotros Vivimos en Zamacola. We live in Zamacola
Hey everyone,
It has been a while since my last blog. I have been really busy as usuall. Let me start off with this, we arrived at Zamacola on the 13 of May. I had started to get sick the week before but the cold seemed like it was gone. Well it wasn't I had it for about a week and a half. I went to the doctors on a sunday the 16th and Found out i had an two ear infections. Which wasn't helping. Now the week we arrived to Zamacola, was the same week we recieved our Peruvian partners. My partners name is Eli, he is a very humble man of God and he is 23 years old. Now the 13th of may was a Thursday and the next week we started our Bible classes in Spanish. #
Now we started the hardest class first. I have a conversation in Spanish with another person but when some talks really fast in spanish I get probably one word out of every 25 words. The first week of class was really rough and I didn't get anything out of it. I had a mental break down the second day. We had to read 35 pages in Spanish and sumerize it for the next day and prensent it in Spanish infront of the class. It Takes me a long time to read in spanish, understand it all, and give a report in Spanish it seemed so impossible. So you see why I had a mental break down. Now remember that I have never spoken any Spanish before Peru. I was not saying anything to my partner that day, i went up to my room and he asked me how I was doing I didn't not saying anything to him. I just started to cry I sat down by the bed and just cried and my partner and another Peruvian came to prayed over me. Then Stephen, from Scottland, also prayed over me. After that things were a little better but not completely. I did fine on the presentation I had to give and was not nervous.
Culture Shock
Ever since I have arrived at Zamacola, my relationship with God has been dry because I have not been able to hear a sermon in my Engilsh for while. I have heard a lot of sermons and Spanish and not understood any. For two weekends we had confrences without break. Everything in Spanish too. I have been angry I need prayer for this. I am struggling with these thing but mostly I need to continue to have my alone time with God. God has shown me a lot and I feel a lot better this week and I feel a lot better I just need all of your prayers.
Love extreme is coming up soon and I really think devil is trying to split us up before it. Love Extreme starts the 11th. I am doing construction for love one and I am really excited. I am going to be lead man out at the site with Cuarto who is the forman out there. I am reviewing some construction terms this week and next so I am ready to help with making sure the volunteers know what to do. I willmake sure to take lots of pictures for my next post Love yall and good night. Thank you for all your prayers.
It has been a while since my last blog. I have been really busy as usuall. Let me start off with this, we arrived at Zamacola on the 13 of May. I had started to get sick the week before but the cold seemed like it was gone. Well it wasn't I had it for about a week and a half. I went to the doctors on a sunday the 16th and Found out i had an two ear infections. Which wasn't helping. Now the week we arrived to Zamacola, was the same week we recieved our Peruvian partners. My partners name is Eli, he is a very humble man of God and he is 23 years old. Now the 13th of may was a Thursday and the next week we started our Bible classes in Spanish. #
Now we started the hardest class first. I have a conversation in Spanish with another person but when some talks really fast in spanish I get probably one word out of every 25 words. The first week of class was really rough and I didn't get anything out of it. I had a mental break down the second day. We had to read 35 pages in Spanish and sumerize it for the next day and prensent it in Spanish infront of the class. It Takes me a long time to read in spanish, understand it all, and give a report in Spanish it seemed so impossible. So you see why I had a mental break down. Now remember that I have never spoken any Spanish before Peru. I was not saying anything to my partner that day, i went up to my room and he asked me how I was doing I didn't not saying anything to him. I just started to cry I sat down by the bed and just cried and my partner and another Peruvian came to prayed over me. Then Stephen, from Scottland, also prayed over me. After that things were a little better but not completely. I did fine on the presentation I had to give and was not nervous.
Culture Shock
Ever since I have arrived at Zamacola, my relationship with God has been dry because I have not been able to hear a sermon in my Engilsh for while. I have heard a lot of sermons and Spanish and not understood any. For two weekends we had confrences without break. Everything in Spanish too. I have been angry I need prayer for this. I am struggling with these thing but mostly I need to continue to have my alone time with God. God has shown me a lot and I feel a lot better this week and I feel a lot better I just need all of your prayers.
Love extreme is coming up soon and I really think devil is trying to split us up before it. Love Extreme starts the 11th. I am doing construction for love one and I am really excited. I am going to be lead man out at the site with Cuarto who is the forman out there. I am reviewing some construction terms this week and next so I am ready to help with making sure the volunteers know what to do. I willmake sure to take lots of pictures for my next post Love yall and good night. Thank you for all your prayers.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Pictures from the lost combi ride
so yeah this is when we got lost. There is not much there in the pictures but that is the point of being out in the middle of no where.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Hey everyone,
I am back. There is a lot of things that has went on this past month. I will start by saying this my spanish is great I can hold a pretty good conversation now. I have been studying really hard. As some of you know my american partner had been sent home. They had chosen another member of the next cohourt, his name is Blake. That changed also there was a member of the Pulcalpa cohort, whose name is Gary, that is now going to be part of my group here in Arequipa. Blake is going to be part of the cohort until his cohort gets here in May. They are both men on fire for God. Gary is curently rooming with me now and we get along great and have a lot in common. Next week I start one on one classes in espanol so I can advance in my speaking. In a month we all get our peruvain partners and we all need prayer for them. Also for our new relation ships with them. Every Sunday night we have a bible study and take prayer requests. My biggest prayer request was that God could give me peace about my truck and my debt. It is really effecting me here I have a hard time Letting it go and giving it to God. I know that God will take care of me because he called me here. I just feel like it is my problem and God shouldn't have to take care of this mistake. Everyone keeps telling me to let go of my pride and give it to him. So I am asking for 12 people to help me by giving $18.00 A month for 2 years to help me pay back extreme. It is hard for me to ask but I feel led by God to. Thank you for all your support and prayers. I will write again in a month. Love yall and God bless
I am back. There is a lot of things that has went on this past month. I will start by saying this my spanish is great I can hold a pretty good conversation now. I have been studying really hard. As some of you know my american partner had been sent home. They had chosen another member of the next cohourt, his name is Blake. That changed also there was a member of the Pulcalpa cohort, whose name is Gary, that is now going to be part of my group here in Arequipa. Blake is going to be part of the cohort until his cohort gets here in May. They are both men on fire for God. Gary is curently rooming with me now and we get along great and have a lot in common. Next week I start one on one classes in espanol so I can advance in my speaking. In a month we all get our peruvain partners and we all need prayer for them. Also for our new relation ships with them. Every Sunday night we have a bible study and take prayer requests. My biggest prayer request was that God could give me peace about my truck and my debt. It is really effecting me here I have a hard time Letting it go and giving it to God. I know that God will take care of me because he called me here. I just feel like it is my problem and God shouldn't have to take care of this mistake. Everyone keeps telling me to let go of my pride and give it to him. So I am asking for 12 people to help me by giving $18.00 A month for 2 years to help me pay back extreme. It is hard for me to ask but I feel led by God to. Thank you for all your support and prayers. I will write again in a month. Love yall and God bless
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Hey Everyone,
everything is great going great here. Spanish is fun I learned a lot of stuff this last week and the week after. I am a little late on this post Because I have slacked off on writing. This will probably be the last post for a month. My computer is my biggest stumbling block and I can't keep this up. I am cutting the power cord to my computer yes I am going to cut it with my knife. Let me tell you what has happened so far these past two weeks. In February, I think the week before the last week in the month, Stephen and me went out to get a few things. We found everything in Plaza de Armas. After that we decided to hop a combi back to the house because it is only 50 centimos. So we got on it and we took a turn and thought nothing of it. We kept going took a few more turns and told ourselves that we were going to go back the other way soon. That never happened we ended up at the end of the bus route. We were at the edge of town close to the mountains. There were hardly any houses and a lot of partly built houses. So we took some pictures, wondered around for a bit, went pee behind a partly built house, and asked the a combi near by if he was going to the plaza luckily he was and we got on headed toward home. The guys in my group really hold me accountable and ask me all the time how I am doing. The group is really supportive. I am speaking more Spanish and I am enjoying it. I can't speak extremely fast but it is getting better. God has shown me a lot since I have been here and why I am here. I need prayer to stay pure while I am here some of yall at the church know what my big struggle is. I want yall to know i love you all and thank you for your support and prayers I have to get ready for school. My computer fast should be done in a month that will be my next blog.
everything is great going great here. Spanish is fun I learned a lot of stuff this last week and the week after. I am a little late on this post Because I have slacked off on writing. This will probably be the last post for a month. My computer is my biggest stumbling block and I can't keep this up. I am cutting the power cord to my computer yes I am going to cut it with my knife. Let me tell you what has happened so far these past two weeks. In February, I think the week before the last week in the month, Stephen and me went out to get a few things. We found everything in Plaza de Armas. After that we decided to hop a combi back to the house because it is only 50 centimos. So we got on it and we took a turn and thought nothing of it. We kept going took a few more turns and told ourselves that we were going to go back the other way soon. That never happened we ended up at the end of the bus route. We were at the edge of town close to the mountains. There were hardly any houses and a lot of partly built houses. So we took some pictures, wondered around for a bit, went pee behind a partly built house, and asked the a combi near by if he was going to the plaza luckily he was and we got on headed toward home. The guys in my group really hold me accountable and ask me all the time how I am doing. The group is really supportive. I am speaking more Spanish and I am enjoying it. I can't speak extremely fast but it is getting better. God has shown me a lot since I have been here and why I am here. I need prayer to stay pure while I am here some of yall at the church know what my big struggle is. I want yall to know i love you all and thank you for your support and prayers I have to get ready for school. My computer fast should be done in a month that will be my next blog.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Spanish, phones, and other stuff
Hola,
mi iglesia familia. (my church family). Spanish was good learned a lot today. I am starting to put more sentences together but they are not always right. Prayer this morning was great. We worshiped this morning and then prayed for all the 4040s. We got our phones too which is really good now we can coordinate things better. When I first got here my feet cracked really bad because I have a fungus on them and the is not that much humidity. So I got my medicine today for my feet. I also realized that I need my reading glasses really bad for studying Spanish. Been really praying for every one back home. I hope everything is going great. need to go got Spanish to study. I love you crossroads. God bless yall.
mi iglesia familia. (my church family). Spanish was good learned a lot today. I am starting to put more sentences together but they are not always right. Prayer this morning was great. We worshiped this morning and then prayed for all the 4040s. We got our phones too which is really good now we can coordinate things better. When I first got here my feet cracked really bad because I have a fungus on them and the is not that much humidity. So I got my medicine today for my feet. I also realized that I need my reading glasses really bad for studying Spanish. Been really praying for every one back home. I hope everything is going great. need to go got Spanish to study. I love you crossroads. God bless yall.
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