PERU | Thursday, 30 Apr 2009 | Views [234] | Comments [2]
Peru Mission is partnering with Hogar de Esperanza, the orphanage just on the outside of town. It is a home of hope for 41 children. This afternoon we took our team of three doctors and we played with the children and also gave half of them a quick ... Read more >
PERU | Wednesday, 29 Apr 2009 | Views [172]
Today was another busy day with Peru Mission. We welcomed a physician from New Zealand that is here working with us for a month in the clinic in Winchanazao. Welcome David O’Byrne! You may recall an earlier blog where I mentioned meeting a doctor on ... Read more >
PERU | Tuesday, 28 Apr 2009 | Views [284]
Today I went and visited the woodshop with the Ueltschey’s. The “woodshop” is what most of us call our Parish furniture project. Parish made a trip to New York to a furniture show and is returning this May. In between, Tucker Robins has been to Peru ... Read more >
PERU | Monday, 27 Apr 2009 | Views [138]
The Ueltschey’s have been visiting us this week from Tupelo, MS. Marcus is a physician and his wife
Whitney is a physical therapist.
They have both been working in our Clinic in Winchanzao and have been a
real blessing to the community there ... Read more >
PERU | Friday, 24 Apr 2009 | Views [330] | Comments [3]
I made it to Trujillo! And no worse for the wear. The only bumps along the way were a piece of luggage that didn’t make it to Lima, the ATM ate my card the first time I used it, and my flight didn’t land at 6:30 like it was supposed to in Trujillo ... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Monday, 30 Mar 2009 | Views [378] | Comments [1]
It is my last week in Guatemala. I am not sure I’ve even had time to properly process all of
what I’ve learned while here. I
tried to give you a small taste of things Guatemalan. I thought of one other thing I didn’t mention today. ... Read more >
Tags: guatemala, holy week, xela
GUATEMALA | Monday, 23 Mar 2009 | Views [342] | Comments [5]
I cannot believe that I have been here for two months
now. It has truly flown by. I have learned so much. Just today at lunch, the mother of the
family I am staying with was telling some other students living here that when
I came, we could ... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Wednesday, 11 Mar 2009 | Views [274] | Comments [2]
School and work are going well. You may not realize that I am doing some work from Xela for Peru Mission--thanks to the wonder of the internet! In addition to the Short Term Teams I will be coordinating, I am assisting Josh Eby with the intern process ... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Sunday, 1 Mar 2009 | Views [385] | Comments [8]
Another week of school is behind me. Friday we went to the market in San Francisco. It is the largest market in Guatemala and was very interesting. They had everything for sale from clothes, to house wares, to food, to live animals, to just ... Read more >
Tags: el remate, flores, san francisco, sunsets, tikal
GUATEMALA | Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 | Views [368] | Comments [3]
I need to do better about updating this blog. There is so much to say, but I’ll try
to find some brevity—who am I kidding?
There is nothing brief about talking to me or my writing! :)
Since my last blog, I’ve completed 2 and ... Read more >
Tags: guatemala, hot springs, markets
GUATEMALA | Tuesday, 10 Feb 2009 | Views [388] | Comments [5]
Today, Tuesday I went to two small towns outside of Xela with my teacher, my friend Courtney, and her teacher. The four of us took a city bus to catch a chicken bus. We then took 2 chicken buses to San Andres Xecul. Why, you may ask, would you take ... Read more >
Tags: churches, guatemala
GUATEMALA | Sunday, 8 Feb 2009 | Views [291]
This past weekend I went with the school to a fair-trade
coffee farm. It is called Nueva
Alianza and is outside of Retalhuleu, a town southwest of Xela. I’ve tried to pinpoint on the map as
close as I can. It was an
incredible weekend ... Read more >
Tags: guatemala, nueva alianza
GUATEMALA | Friday, 6 Feb 2009 | Views [294] | Comments [3]
It has been a good first week of language school. I am so thankful for all the many
blessings God has graciously bestowed upon me! And thankful for all of the prayers that are sustaining
me.
My host family is truly wonderful! I ... Read more >
Tags: language school, xela
PERU | Tuesday, 13 Jan 2009 | Views [583] | Comments [1]
We are home. .. well, almost all of us! And I think I speak for all when I say, we miss peru! Everyone, but Tasha. She is still there. She is scheduled to fly out tonight at 6:50 pm. And won't get back to Kiev until tomorrow sometime. Please ... Read more >
PERU | Friday, 9 Jan 2009 | Views [385] | Comments [1]
We are thankful for another beautiful day in Peru and the chance to serve our Lord, the king! Camp Day 3 was even better than before. We all had a blast! We arrived at camp and as usual this week, the campers started arriving PROMPTLY on time at ... Read more >
PERU | Thursday, 8 Jan 2009 | Views [360] | Comments [2]
Twin Lakes Peru Day Two was a HUGE success!! Thank you Lord for such a wonderful day. We arose and went to camp to have our morning devotional and set up for the children. The children arrived and the organized chaos ensued! How great and awesome ... Read more >
PERU | Tuesday, 6 Jan 2009 | Views [499] | Comments [1]
Today was an incredible day of camp!!! We had 240 people there including the staff and missionary families. I think it was about 170 kids including the orphans. . . even some little ones that wouldn't normally come to camp, but after visiting yesterday ... Read more >
PERU | Monday, 5 Jan 2009 | Views [628] | Comments [1]
Praise God for an awesome day in Trujillo!! We have had a truly incredible day. First we had breakfast here at the hotel and that is always enjoyable. There are the staple, eggs, bread, cereal and it is interesting to see what our hot option is each ... Read more >
PERU | Sunday, 4 Jan 2009 | Views [325] | Comments [3]
Today we arose to a beautiful sunny day in Trujillo! Our God is an Awesome God! and we enjoyed worshiping him with the Peruvians and Missionaries here in Peru. We did not have our trusty bus Bob today, he (the bus and our driver Ilias) had the day ... Read more >
PERU | Saturday, 3 Jan 2009 | Views [475] | Comments [6]
Did you know that Lima has SEVERAL indian artisian markets? I will get back to that. . . Everyone arrived in Lima safely last night. Thanks to our prayer warriors that all connections and flights were made and ALL our luggage made it! Praise the ... Read more >
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