We made it to Lima

Hey, i just wanted to let everyone know that we made it to Lima and so far everything is going good. At first i did not like it here, but the more time i spend here the more i like it. This has been my first oppurtunity to go to the Internet. We have had a pretty relaxed week, we only are doing two outreaches a day. I have not yet had to preach but you can pray for me because i know that i am going to have to soon. I talked about what God has done in my life during an outreach and i felt like God really spoke to the people through me. Sometimes it is tough doing evangalism. Often we run into people who don´t want to talk to you at all or we run into people who are high or drunk and want to talk but they don´t take anything serious. It is so encouraging when people are saved. Thank you for all of your prayers. On tuesday, well monday night and tuesday we will be traveling south. I am not sure of the name of the town we will be going to but it is a 20 something hour bus ride. It is close to Arequipa but on the coast. Thank you, your brother in Christ, Christopher

Back from the Jungle

Hey we made it back from the jungle!!!! At some points i was not sure if we were going to. This trip we took supplies to dig a well, but that could not all fit on the YWAM boat so me and two other guys went on a launcha two days before everyone else. It took us twenty four hours to get to the town, so we slept in our hammocks on the boat. A launcha is a big boat that they use for transportation and shipping, it is three stories tall and is not to fast. I had a lot of fun and it was great to relax. We dropped the well dinging supplies off at a village and slept in their church that night. The next day we went to the village where Luis, a student in the DTS is from. About three hundred people live there we stayed there for a few days doing outreach and preaching. Then we went to a bigger village called Santa Rita. about two-thousand fivehundred people lived there. We did outreach there for four days. We did door to door evangalism and had kids programs and services. On the last night we where there they had a stage set up for a big party the night before and they let us use it. We did all of our dramas. I think we reached a lot of people who would not have come to church otherwise. Then on monday went to the village to dig the well, it was really flooded. It started out well, but then we started having some troubles. The well kept caving in and it ended up that we could not finish it. YWAM has to come back another time and try again. I am sort of disappointed but at least they will get a well sometime. Then on tuesday we started to head home but the motor was not running to well. Finally it stopped working and we where just floating on the river. A big storm came and the waves got rough.... we made it back safely so it is all good. We had some difficulties, but that should always be exspected. God protected us and it just took long to get home. We are leaving for Lima next tuesday and tommorrow we start classes, Clark is teaching us. I will try to get our itinerary. Thank you for your prayers. Love Christopher

Back from the mini-outreach

hey, we got back from the mini-outreach on Sunday. It was good. We got up early on Thursday and traveled to Nalta via bus, then we got on our boat and traveled to the property that YWAM has. We set up camp and then went to a small village not that far away, by boat. We went around to all the houses and talked to the people, they all speak spanish. In the evening we held a church service where some of the youth preached and others did drama, I was in the dramas. The next day we went to a bigger town and took the whole day to do around the same thing except we had a kids service in the afternoon. Evangalism is challenging for me, but I think i will get more courage with time. It is amazing how these people live. You either live off the jungle, like fruit and that kind of stuff or off of fish. If you get enough you can sell it if you take it to Nalta. They work hard and live simple lives. We met some very strong Christians on Saturday. We always are working with an established church. We did pretty much the same thing on Saturday to. Every night we went back to the YWAM property and slept in out tents and hammocks. On Saturday night i woke up to the sound of my neighbor throwing up. It turns out that half the team got sick. I don´t know if it was something we ate or what, a few people are still sick. Some how i dodged the bullit and i didn´t get sick. Tommorrow we find out our outreach teams. On Monday we leave for the river again, this time traveling seven hours by boat, pray for us and for the people who we will be going to. Thank you for all of you prayer support
Love you, Christopher