This month I ask you to join me in praising God for what He has done.

• Safe travels and arrival in Perú .
• I am able to communicate well in Spanish.
• I am adjusting to the elevation, climate change, and new everything.
• Ministry here is a blessing.

God has done so much in the last month it will be difficult to fit it all in this one letter. Things went fairly smoothly for my travels. At Lima, God provided for me to check-in on my flight to Cusco with a couple who only had one suitcase each, which meant I didn’t have to pay for my third bag. What a blessing!

I arrived in Cusco on June 4th and definitely felt the elevation (10,700 ft). That week I was blessed to stay with a retired missionary in Cusco and to be part of a Ladies Congress attended by some 200+ women from across Perú. The next Sunday, June 8, I traveled an hour and a half north west of Cusco to my more permanent home in Urubamba. The church here welcomed me warmly with a fellowship after church. Also, that night a man named Walberto, who had been coming for a while, was saved. It has been a huge blessing to join up with the ministry of Ken and Sharon Loveall and their family. They have been such an encouragement as I am adjusting to what God has for me here.

Since I arrived, we have had a Family Conference with a visiting evangelist, Randy Chovan. He also taught a class in the seminary on Evangelism and Discipleship. We kept busy, translating and grading tests and running him and his family to most of the churches in the area so they could share in the blessing. Shortly before he left, Julie Thompson, a college student, arrived to join the ministry for the next 6 weeks. On June 19th, Pat and Wendy Campbell arrived to teach two modules at the seminary - Baptist History and Visuals and Pedagogy. They returned home the first week of July to Council Bluffs, Iowa. They were a huge blessing to the ministry here and we are praying that the Lord will bring them permanently when they retire. On Sunday, June 29th, we baptized 8 in the river (remember that it’s winter here—talk about a step of obedience). Walberto invited his staunchly Catholic wife to come to church and the baptism and she agreed. She was back Sunday night and was saved as well. PRAISE THE LORD for what HE is doing.

Sharing God’s love IN the Andes,

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