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

Week 8ish?

hey everyone,
I didn´t get a chance to go to the internet cafe last weeked but i managed to make it today. Last week our teacher was from Trinidad. His name was Farouk Mohamad, he was very wise and had a lot of great things to share with us. The two main topics that he talked on were faith and worship. It is great how every teacher who comes to us has had different life experience and through that they are able to share what they have learned. This week we have a teacher from Canada/U.S. but he was born and raised in Japan. Some things that you can pray about is that some people have been getting sick, i am not sure if it was food poisoning or what. Two of them had to go to the hospital, but they are both better now. Just pray that we would have good health. Also the leaders of the DTS have a lot of work to do. All of the cordination with the churches in the towns we are going to is dificult. Just pray that it would all work out and that they won´t be to stress about it. Next Thursday we are leaving for a mini-outreach in the jungle. I am not sure what we will be doing but you can pray for the people who we are going to and for all the staff and students of the school. We will be returning on Sunday. Another thing that I am sort of anxious about is we don´t know how our outreach teams will be broken up. I have become friends with alot of people so i know some of us will be on seperate teams. I will not find out until we go to Lima. Just pray for the leaders and thay they will have guidance in choosing the teams. Thank you for all of your prayers. God Bless. From your brother in Christ, Christopher

Sorry for not posting

hey everybody,
Sorry I have not been updating my blog lately, but i have been very busy. Last weekend we had a mini-outreach in Iquitos. We worked with a local church and we cleared land for them to build on. We used macheties and shovels. After that we went and put on a presentation a neighborhood. My outreach will be much like this. We will be doing mercy missions, or meeting the physical needs of the people and the church, but we will also be doing drama evangalism. As we travel from town to town we will be hosted by churches. These churches will give us food and have work lined up for us to do. We will be doing drama evangalism in that town and then hooking them up with the church that hosts us. This way the people we reach will be given someone to disciple them. It won´t just be a commitment they made because they saw a drama and then we leave and nothing happened. We are hoping for it to be a changing dicision for these people and the church will support them, because we will not be able to. We got some good new that we recieved a donation that made us able to dig a well for a community along the amazon river. I don´t know all of the details exactly when we will be doing this but it will happen. The base has the equipment and we do it by hand, i am hoping to get pictures of it so i can share it with everyone when i get home. Thank you for your prayers. This week was my birthday, i am now 20. On my birthday only a few people said anything, like they forgot about it, but after lunch they had a surprise party for me. I am going close to all the people here. I am getting used to the cultur and I enjoy it. When i get the intinerary I will post it on here so every one can pray for the town i am in, that would be greatly appreciated. Mom said that people are asking about the blog and I am glad that i can stay connected this way. Another prayer request that i have is for the leadership of the base, they are going through some changes and your prayers will help. My spanish is still rough but i think i am learning. Thank you for all of your prayers and the support you have given me so far.
Love Christopher

Week Three

The teachers for this week were Marcos and Diana Buser from the Cartegena YWAM base. Marcos is orginally from switzerland but married diana and is now running the school in Cartegena, Columbia. They taught us about inner healing and how it is an important if you want to grow closer to God. We had a time of sharing and everything was very good. Other than that not to much happened this week. I finished the second book we were supposed to read, it was by Loren Cunningham the founder of YWAM. It was the story on how it started, I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for your prayer. Love Christopher

Week Two

This week Ricardo and Marilu Rodrigoz came from Columbia. They are in charge of all of the YWAM bases in this area. The teaching was about interpersonal relations also know as dating. It was a good week. On Friday nights we have a social time when the leaders plan something fun and we do it as a group. This week we went to Quistacocha which is called a zoo but it is more like dangerous animals behind chain link fences. It was cool to see the different animals, I held an anaconda. There was a lake there and we went swimming and then played volleyball. Some days our food is bland at the base so Aaron and i decided to make salsa. We went to this huge open air market that looks like something you only see in magazines. I cant even describe what it was like. Everyone told us to be carefull with our wallets because that is the worst area for pick pockets. I maybe able to get pictures of it sometime we´ll have to see. Today I went to a CNI game which is the professional futbal, or i should say soccer team. They lost one nothing but it was still fun to go to. Things are going great, your continual prayers are appreciated. With love, Christopher.