Blog written by Christian Roderick with Adventures in Missions.  Follow Christian at http://christianroderick.theworldrace.org/?isFunction=alerts

In case you hadn’t already made this assumption, man month has been an absolute blast so far.  I really do love all the women on our squad but it has been really refreshing for us to have some time to “bro out” and just have some man time.

Our living situation kind of caught me by surprise a little bit.  When we got off the plane in Bangkok and walked out of the airport, I just about melted.  It was about the same temperature that it had been in Africa but the humidity was INTENSE.  Walking through the sliding doors of the airport felt like walking into a wall.

I typically use long distance travel days as days to remind myself that I do have at least a little bit of stylishness left in me.  In general, you kind of just have to wear clothes that make sense on the race.  However, travel days sometimes include long amounts of time in airplanes and airports (e.g. air conditioning); thus, I generally dress up a bit.

Let’s just say that within two seconds of walking out of the airport in Bangkok, I 103% regretted rocking my denim and plaid look.  Within a matter of minutes, I was wearing more sweat than I was wearing clothes.

Suffice it to say, it is very very hot in Thailand this time of year.  This is actually the hottest month of the year for Thailand.  So surely we would have A/C of some sort right?  We would have a way to escape the heat right? We would at least have fans right?

Imagine my surprise when our living situation turned out to be more along these lines:

My neighborhood.

My crib.

The neighbors.

It has definitely been hot here (right around 100 degrees Fahrenheit each day) with high humidity; but it actually gets cool enough at night that it’s ok for sleeping.  We are living a decent way outside of the city as well on a big piece of land recently purchased by the ministry we are working with.  We actually have set up our tents in the middle of a mango and tamarind orchard.  I had never heard of a tamarind either…they look like this:

There is a small house here on the property that houses a married couple who actually went on the race a couple years ago!  It is really fun having American’s for contacts and Brian and Beth are super legit people with huge hearts to see God work here in SE Asia.

God’s been pulling a “God” and teaching me a lot of things that I thought I already knew.  Even in just this first week, He has been teaching me a lot about being a man.  He and I have been talking about what it looks like to be a man who deals with the sin in his life like a man and not a boy.

The 8 of us men here are doing a Bible study together over 1 John this month.  I don’t know how familiar you are with 1 John but, in case you’re at the “not at all familiar” level, the book talks a lot about the love and grace of God right after it talks VERY strongly about the gravity of sin.  In talking through some of the stuff in this book, Jesus has just really been reminding me how completely unacceptable any little ounce of sin should be to me. 1 John says things like “No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him” or “No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”

We haven’t gotten a chance yet to look in depth into these verses.  At this point we have just looked at the book as a whole and the first chapter.  However, even just looking at this book from a broad perspective, I have been super challenged.  John gives no room for grey areas.  We are either living in the light or we are living in the dark.  We are either living in sin or we are living in righteousness.  1 John seems to really communicate the gravity of sin.  The writer doesn’t give any room for sin to just be a part of our lives.  That’s what I get from reading it overall.  We will see what God starts saying as we dig into the meat of it.

Coming into this month with the men, I knew that God wanted to do something awesome with this group of guys.  Some of what God had been speaking to me about was BEING MEN instead of BOYS.  He was talking to me about what the difference is.  One of the things He showed me was that MEN do not live consciously in sin.  So many men go through life being VERY aware of the things that they struggle with whether that means the typical guy struggles of lust and other sexual sin or whether that is a struggle with lying or pride or WHATEVER. Most of us men are well aware of the sins that have a hold on us.

However, MEN do not live consciously in sin.  Ideally, we would be able to be men who just share everything that is going on inside of us; everything that we are struggling with.  Most men aren’t good at that though.  Most of us are significantly better at hiding behind expertly-crafted masks, counting on the fact that we know how to make it uncomfortable for other people when they try to get past that mask.

Men are good at passively communicating to people that we have no interest in anyone trying to remove our masks.  Just leave the mask where it is and tell me how good I look in it.

Something that God showed me a while ago though is that this fear of getting real and letting the REAL person of Christian Roderick be seen is an issue that is pervasive amongst the men of my generation and maybe the couple generations ahead of us.  It’s turned a bunch of would-be MEN into BOYS wearing man-masks.

The thing that sucks so much about these masks is that most of us men have no idea how to drop the mask.  We have no idea how to drop our guard and just SHARE what is going on inside of us.  Thus, part of being a MAN is being in a community of MEN who will help you chip away at your mask.  Part of being a MAN is surrounding yourself with other MEN who won’t let you pretend like you’re not fighting a battle against sin.

That was my heart for this month with these 7 other men.  I wanted us to be able to grow together as men who will not be happy looking around the room and seeing 7 other masks.  We hate masks.  We all know though that the easiest way to get rid of the stupid thing is to have 7 other men take their sledgehammers to it with me.

Part of being a real MAN instead of a real BOY is surrounding yourself with other MEN who are just as malcontent with the sin in your life as you either are or wish you were.  And in that, part of being a MAN is fighting for your brothers to be free from the masks that they hide behind.  It is the oldest battle in the book.  What did Adam do the moment that he sinned?  He got his hide on.  We are fighting against that same natural tendency.

All that said, I am really excited that we are studying through 1 John as a group of men.  This book has, right off the bat, begun to challenge me in the way that I view sin.  It has reminded me of the gravity of every little bit of sin that allow to have a hold on my life.  I don’t want it.  I don’t any of it because the way that I get to “ABIDE” in Jesus (whatever that means…hah I’ll get back to you after we talk all about it), I need to be free of sin!  That sounds insane but it is what I want to be striving for and it is what I want to be fighting for in the men that the Lord places around me.

So yeah, that’s kind of the tone that Jesus has been setting for me the past week or so.  This month seems like it is actually going by fairly quickly but we still have a couple of weeks together as men and I know that the Lord has so much more for us.

I guess that if I was going to give any men out there any advice from the advice that Jesus has been giving me, it would be this:  do NOT be ok with even a tiny bit of sin in your life.  As men, we know when we have sin in our lives that we have decided not to deal with.  Don’t be that BOY who lets sin just sit there with a hold on you.

That said, the easiest way by FAR to get out of sin is to go to some men around you that you trust and ask them to HELP you obliterate the mask-crap that you hide behind.  Surrounding yourself with men who WILL dig into you and who WILL make you tell them what is really going on is just part of what it means to be a MAN.

Ok, well now that I am finished with this blog post, I’m going to get to work on making a video from the last couple days that we have had here in Thailand.  WATER FESTIVAL.  Get ready, it was awesome.  Should be here in a few days if I can get the internet to post it.  Love you all.  Miss this girl more than I’ve ever missed anything ever:

YOUTH VISION INTERNATIONAL

MISSION / VISION

TRAIN

OUR VISION:TO REACH OVER 1,000,000 CHILDREN AND YOUTH WITH THE LOVE OF JESUS; BY HELPING TO TRAIN AND EQUIP CHILDREN AND YOUTH WORKERS TO ESTABLISH MINISTRIES FOR THE YOUTH OF THEIR NATIONS.

OBJECTIVE:RAISE UP, TRAIN, AND EQUIP 5,000 YOUTH AND CHILDREN MINISTERS PER YEAR AROUND THE WORLD. SHOW AND TEACH HOW TO DO YOUTH AND CHILDREN CRUSADES, CHILDREN’S CHURCH, CHILDREN’S AND YOUTH BIBLE CLUBS, ESTABLISH YOUTH MINISTRY FACILITIES, AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CLASSES IN THE SCHOOLS

EQUIP

LEARN PRACTICAL METHODS OF HOW TO GRAB AND KEEP THE CHILDREN’S ATTENTION AND HOW TO GET THE YOUTH TO OPEN THEIR HEARTS TO RECEIVE THE WORD AND THEIR HEAVENLY ASSIGNMENT. OBTAIN TOOLS TO GET THE JOB DONE SUCH AS LANGUAGE SPECIFIC CHILDREN’S AND BIBLE SCHOOL CURRICULUM, OBJECT LESSONS, ETC.
OBJECTIVE: GIVE HANDS-ON TRAINING AND TOOLS TO FACILITATE NEW EVANGELISM OUTREACHES THROUGH CHURCHES, MISSIONARIES, BIBLE SCHOOLS AND ORPHANAGES. ASSIST IN ESTABLISHING BIBLE SCHOOLS FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN’S WORKERS AROUND THE WORLD.

IMPLEMENTATION:YOUTH & CHILDREN WORKERS CONFERENCESYOUTH & CHILDREN CRUSADESESTABLISH YOUTH CENTERSTRAIN BIBLE SCHOOL STUDENTS

ESTABLISH

ESTABLISH (E STAB’LISH) TO CAUSE TO BE OR HAPPEN; BRING ABOUT.
ASSIST IN FACILITATING YOUTH CENTERS, ORPHANAGES, CHILDREN’S CHURCHES AND BIBLE CLUBS, AND CHILDREN AND YOUTH WORKER TRAINING SCHOOLS.

IMPACT:CRUSADES: 50-80% OF THE YOUTH AND CHILDREN RESPOND TO THE GOSPEL BECAUSE OF THE STATE OF THEIR HEARTS AND BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.

TRAINING: ONE YOUTH OR CHILDREN’S EVANGELIST, TRAINED-EQUIPPED & MOBILIZED, WILL REACH 500 – 10,000+ YOUTH AND CHILDREN IN THEIR LIFETIME. IT IS HAPPENING EVEN NOW IN AFRICA, ASIA AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
TRAIN, EQUIP, & ESTABLISH 100 YOUTH & CHILDREN WORKERS TO REACH 50,000-250,000+ YOUTH & CHILDREN SALVATIONS.

Welcome to our newest missions partner YOUTH VISION INTERNATIONAL!

Check them out online at www.youthvisioninternational.org

Blog written by Kip Deaton of Adventures in Missions.

January 17-
It’s our first day of ministry and it’s been raining for 3 days because of the cyclone that’s in Mozambique right now. The bus we hire picks us up at 1p to take us to the hospital to meet Allison, our contacts wife. She shows us to the baby ward and with our translator close by we proceed to pray for the children and parents that are living in the children’s room at the hospital. After an emotionally exhausting hour all I want to do is crawl into bed and cry the rest of the day. “What will happen to the girl with cerebral palsy whose been abandoned? Will she get to eat this week? Will her diaper be changed today? Why won’t anyone pay attention to this little girl?”

Dealing with my broken heart and trying to ignore the pain that hour caused, I’m told our day isn’t over. We have one more place to visit, the Hope House. I don’t know much but I’ve been told it’s where people with HIV and TB live. Totally not excited about this we get out of the bus and proceed to meet the director, Sister Elsa, a nun from India. We break up into teams of 3-4 and get assigned to our ‘houses’ ensuring all 27 houses get a visit from us that day.

All the instruction we’ve been told so far is to not ask if they have HIV, a very touchy subject in Swaziland, and to pray for them and possibly sing a song. We step into our first house. There is a shy woman sitting on her bed while her teenage daughter sits on the opposite bed and Gogo (grandma) sits on the sofa. I introduce myself and shake her hand while something changes inside of me.

She tells us she’s battling cancer. What started as breast cancer has moved into her lungs. We didn’t get any more specifics, trying to respect her privacy, but it’s eating me up inside to know this woman better. We pray and sing and ask her if it’s okay to come back and see her later. Enthusiastically she says of course!

The next house we go to is a fatter lady sprawled out on her bed. She’s singing when we enter the house. We wait patiently for her performance to end and the first words she says to us is “where are your shoes?” …we had left them at her door because we were drenched, we continue to introduce ourselves and comment on the song she sang. Adamantly she can’t get over the fact that we’re standing in her house with no shoes on…I instantly think of my Grammie and all her lectures on staying out of the rain and bundling up in the cold. I smile inside, I like this woman already.

After spending a short hour house hoping at the Hope House praying and singing over the people there, I know THIS is my ministry this month. It’s not going to be convenient, I could easily stay at the homestead and walk 10 minutes to the Care Point to see the kids and call that my ministry and be just fine with that. But no, I’m not going to take the easy way out this time. I’m going to intentionally strive to come see these people everyday, they’re 30 minutes away from where we’re staying and there’s no other way but to get public transportation to see them.

January 24-
It’s been a week now and 4+ visits later I wake up in the morning and can look forward to walking 30 minutes to the road to wait for a bus that may take 45minutes to show up, to ride the 30 minutes to get into Manzini, to walk the 20 minute walk from the bus rink to finally make it to the Hope House; all to spend a few hours with new friends, learning their stories, sharing music, playing games, talking about scripture and dreams and children. Yes, the Hope House is my ministry and I thank God for pushing me to not take the easy way out this time. In return, my reward is 2 new friends, 2 more sisters in Christ, 2 more people I look forward to being reunited with once we’ve made it home to Heaven.

“As you learn more and more how God works, you will learn how to do your work.
We pray that you’ll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul –
not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory strength that God gives.
It is a strength that endures the endurable and spills over into joy,
thanking the Father who makes us strong enough
to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us.”
- Colossians 1:9-12 MSG

walking to the road to catch a ride into town

that dirt road on the left is our road

our adventure day, waiting 45minutes and then we ended up hitch-hiking…whatever works

Our friend Cosi, one of the tenants at the Hope House. She’s leaving this week.

Playing Crazy 8′s with our new friends.

Zandile and her girls. Pray for her, she’s battling cancer and has
the brightest spirit I’ve ever seen. I love her.

This is why I love the Hope House, getting goodbye waves from Zandile.

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Are you ready to let God take control of your business and it’s finances?  Are you ready to see God take your business to the next level?

Most of the time we find ourselves working frantically trying to figure out what we can do to increase revenue, reduce cost, increase margins, etc, and we forget that God is on our side and wants us to be successful.  God wants our businesses to flourish and our finances to increase, but He also wants to know that as He increases our business endeavors that we are going to give back into furthering His endeavor of sharing His love around the world.  Sounds simple right? Well it IS! Put yourself in God’s shoes.  Why would God not want your business to increase and be blessed when He know that as He increases your business that you will give back to Him?

Yes, the bible warns against the dangers of wealth.  But the danger is not in the wealth, it is in the love of that wealth. Jesus speaks in Matthew to a rich man that is trying to earn eternal life. The man wants to know “What good thing must I do to get eternal life?” Jesus replied “obey the commandments” and “if you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.”  The bible says the man went away sad because he had great wealth.  Jesus then turned to his disciples and said, “I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”.  Many people believe that this passage of scripture is saying that money and wealth are evil, but the point Jesus is making is the man loved his money and wealth too much to give it up when asked to do so.

God wants us to be wealthy! Not wealthy so that we can boast and show off, but wealthy so we can fund the work of the kingdom.  God is looking at our hearts and is going to use people and businesses he can trust. Many times we forget that “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.”  God can’t use your businesses to the extent He desires if you are not willing to “sell everything and give to the poor”. Does this mean he will ask us to sell everything, probably not, but it does mean he wants you to trust and follow Him to the extent where you would.

This concept is simple, but it is the application of the concept where we often miss it. It’s easy to tell ourselves, “As God increases my business I am going to give more back to the kingdom” or “I’m going to give a percentage of my revenue to God”.  This sounds great, and then our bills start coming in and our inventory costs were high this month and payroll processed this week and our receivables are late and on and on…  All the sudden our commitment to God has slipped down to the “if we have anything left” category.   When really the commitment we made to God should be at the top.  This is the type of trust God desires, a commitment to put him first no matter what the circumstance.  When we do this and God truly knows we put him first, the sky is the limit for what he can do with our business.

This campaign is not a ploy for Soul Mission to get money; this campaign is simply a way to get businesses and business owners to think about what you are doing for the kingdom of God as He blesses you.  Soul Mission is an avenue that God has placed here for your business to really trust him.  For us at Soul Mission the premise is simple and biblical, Paul speaking “Not that I are looking for a gift, but I looking for what may be credited to your account”.  Yes, we are going to fund mission trip and yes every donation helps, but as important for our ministry, is teaching the concepts of trusting God with every part of your business, including the finances.  Something we say a lot around here.  “As you give into what God is doing, God WILL give into what YOU are doing” God will not let you down!

Here’s how to get involved!  Click on this link  “DONATE” to be taken to the donate page for the Soul Mission website.  Now you can either sign up to give via credit/debit card or you can download a PDF of our pledge card to fill out and send in with a check to our Soul Mission offices.

Thank you for taking the time to read about our heart for businesses and missions!  We know the wonderful things God has in-store for you and we are excited God has chosen us to present the opportunity!

God Bless,

Alex and Kelsey Little

Scripture References:

• Matthew 19:16-24
• Luke 12:48
• Philippians 4:17

Let me begin by telling you that I have not been sick in almost two weeks! How much higher is my quality of life you ask? MUCH higher. I also just came back from a pretty great holiday season that was both restoring and rejuvenating.

Last month was downright exhausting. We had two trainings, one Freedom Training with the 50 we rescued on Thanksgiving and one Leadership Training with a group of 30 that have just finished our two year Aftercare Program. These trainings are so encouraging to see, because I get to see how IJM’s work is truly changing lives. I am constantly thanking God for allowing me to do this work that has been a dream for so long…I can’t believe HE is allowing me to do it! Leadership Training was awesome because I got to see all the differences between people just entering the program (Freedom Training) and people who are just coming out of the program. The people at Leadership Training were a blast. They are the clients who have been elected within their villages to be the “leaders” and the points of contact for IJM within their villages. It was such a blessing to see the confidence, independence, and better physical health that these clients had after at least two years of freedom. Our Aftercare program is working! The week after Leadership Training, we had Freedom Training, which I have written about before. Freedom Training is the program we put on for our clients within 30 days of their rescue. They learn about their rights as a human being, how to not get rebonded, and many other important skills. This Freedom Training was a blast. We were all still exhausted from the previous week of training, but this group was energized and excited about their 3 week old freedom. This is a group that had been in bonded labour their whole lives, as their parents had and as their grandparents had. This was generational bonded labour. I also liked this group because they found me very entertaining. I’ve been learning some Tamil, which they loved. I can’t imagine why. Apparently I have an accent when I speak or something like that….All this goes to say that I love my job. I love seeing the results of my co-workers hard work and I love seeing people come to freedom and start dreaming of a future. It. Is. Beautiful.
This past month was emotionally exhausting as well. Missing Christmas and Thanksgiving was just rough. I tried to invent some Christmas cheer, but it was a difficult task. It got to the point where I would search for places that I had heard had Christmas decorations. Thankfully, a week before Christmas, the mall met my needs.

Pretty incredible, right? I was very pleased.

Yes, we did ride the train.
A few days after the hunt for Christmas Spirit, I set off to Sri Lanka. I have nothing, but positive feelings for this little country. Sri Lanka offered me endless Christmas cheer (decorations everywhere and they are even a Buddhsit country!!!!), hours on beach, elephants, some of the kindest people around and a time of restoration…not to mention I was surrounded by some pretty stellar people. It was an awesome Christmas vacation. If I couldn’t be at home, I might as well be in Sri Lanka.

These trips were so good for my soul. It was great to just be in fellowship and community with so many wonderful people. I think community is my love language.

Moldova = LEGIT

You know life is good when you don’t even have enough time to share all the stories of how awesome God is.  This week has been incredible though…as all weeks spent in intense pursuit of the Lord are if you can keep the right perspective.

I have never before been so in love with Jesus.  I feel like we have had a lot of worship times on this trip now and I have had a lot of quiet times where I have asked the Lord for just a bigger or deeper revelation of His love for me.  Today though, He gave me something weird.  It was like he gave me a revelation of how much I LOVE HIM now!  He showed me my heart and let me see how much further I have fallen into relationship with Him over the past couple months.  It was sick.

One more story that is awesome.  Last night, my teammate Kacie Lester was in charge of feedback.  Jesus gave her such a cool idea for what to do with our team.  Kacie had each of us take a sheet of paper.  She then gave us each a marker (assorted colors…I got gray).
We then each wrote down all of the lies that the enemy has been feeding to us over the past week or so.  Some of them were lies that we have spent some time believing, others were just ones that we were sick of fighting against.  After we were finished writing them down, we each went around and read ours aloud to each other.  Then the other 5 would speak truth to each of those lies!  It was super sick!

After we were finished with going around the circle.  We went as a group out to the squatty potty (hole in the ground with a wall around it which is our bathroom this month) and each took turns going into the squatty to do whatever business needed to be done.  We then each wiped our butts with our lies and threw them down the crap hole!  Now whenever the satan (people in Moldova always put a “the” before “satan” which I have kind of adopted…he’s just a THING…a nasty thing) tries to speak these lies to us as we go forward, we can just look him in the “face” and say, “hey, douchebag…I wiped my butt with that lie already.  Shut up suckka!!!”

I love it.  Kacie is legit and she hears from the Lord in a really cool way that always just brings such life to our team.  You should check our her blog too (link on the side of my page)…i’m sure that she will write this story out in a much funnier way cause she does stuff like that.

OK, so I have also attached a video which I hope you all enjoy.  The pig fat that I eat in it blows my mind.  It was literally a 3 inch thick slice of pig fat with the skin (hair) on it still. Sick the freak out but it was good.  (good and raw!)  I am so crazy about my team still.  These people are exactly who I needed to walk with for these months at least!  I love them each dearly and I would love for you to check out each of their blogs (links to the left). I am also really enjoying getting closer to some of the guys with us this month.  Kyle Markel is a BALLER.  He is the team leader of another team and the dude is just FULL UP on wisdom and knowledge of the scripture.  Love the dude and I am excited to walk out another 9 months with dudes like him.

I love you guys.  I really do. There are like 60 people that come in my head when I say “i love you guys”.  I can see the list of people who follow my blog and seriously, I really do love you guys and I miss you guys.  I miss my family, my close friends, my coworkers at GT, and (if i’m being honest) my lady Leah most of all.  Next time I post, I might be on my way to NEPAL!!!

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We are Skip and Carol Hedrick and we would love to share about some of the mission work the Lord has lead usto be involved in.   In 2003 we began to partner with Tito Sevilla in Peru.  Awe Star Ministries had taken a team to Peru and discovered that the Lord was working in a mighty way drawing people to salvation, but there were few strong Christian leaders, very few pastors and almost no evangelical churches in the northern half of Peru.  We felt called to go and be of help with whatever was needed.  We fell in love with the spiritually hungry people who seemed to be ready to know the Truth that could set them free.  That first year we helped to start two house churches in villages where no church had been.  We also prayer walked around another village with no known believers.  Many people came to know the Lord that year as we had the privilege of sharing Jesus with them on the streets, in their homes, at the 2 afternoon VBSs, and evening crusades.

Every year since then we have had the privilege getting to return to serve our Lord in Peru working in some of the original church plants and in many other villages along side Tito Sevilla and young pastors who are discipling the new believers. The Lord has grown almost all of the churches to the point of needing larger places to meet and the believers are growing in their faith.

This year we were invited back once again to serve in Peru with Tito.  We were very excited and willing to go, but our financial situation was not very good because of various circumstances.  We began raising funds by praying, doing odd jobs outside of our usual ones, selling fundraising t-shirts, and having a mammoth garage sale.  God did bless all of these efforts, but the price of our airline tickets for the trip greatly increased over what we have ever paid in the past.  We believe the Lord brought Alex and Kelsey Little into our lives to help make this mission possible (no pun intended).  They told about Soul Mission and their desire to help missionaries and encouraged us to apply.

We want to say thank you once again to Soul Mission for allowing the Lord to use them in this way and help us with the expenses for our trip!!!

Needless to say, we were both able to go.  This year we had the joy of working the first week up in the Andes Mountains in the village of Huamachuco.  There we helped with follow-up from the Awe Star Ministries team by talking with people in their homes and on the streets.  We held “Total Family Ministry” in the afternoons, which included children, youth, ladies and men’s Bible studies.  Then in the evenings we held church services in the new church that had just started in February this year and had 7 members.  Many more people accepted the Lord and have started attending the church now.  We were able to spend time with the adults for a few days helping them to study God’s word, understand how to lead their families and become faithful church members.  The second week our team divided to work in two different villages near Trujillo.  We did the same type of work sharing Jesus in the villages and working to enlarge the house churches in Las Delicias and Manuel Arevolo.  We were able to give paperback New Testaments to each new believer.  The Lord was glorified and that is what really matters!

Now that we have returned home, a huge piece of our hearts is still in Peru.  We know that the Lord allowed us the privilege of seeing glimpses of His glory as people came to know Him personally.  That desire to share the gospel is still a strong part of our lives.  The Lord worked both in and through us but He wants us to continue being available to Him everyday no matter where we are.  We know we must be obedient to the Lord and be on mission all the time.

Soul Mission, thank you again from the bottom of our hearts!

Skip and Carol Headrick