The work on the Huambutio clinic has begun!

Scott and an enormous pile of yeso (plaster)


the work on the roof begins!


Anjanette, Carlotta and Toto standing outside the clinic

Praise the Lord we are starting to renovate the building in Huambutio which will be used for the clinic/cell church.

It is so exciting to see the work starting, currently the roof is being plastered, then all the walls will be plastered and the floor will be tiled before dividing the walls and installing the sink, furniture and medical equipment.

We have been planning this project for a long time and it is wonderful to see the dream becoming a reality!

holiday club pics week 2

Despite the rainy season every day new people have attended and we continue to build up our contacts with folk who live in the community which is very exciting. We would like to say a huge thank you to Ampthill baptist church who are covering the cost of the youth and children's holiday clubs for the whole of this month.

Holiday club report

Thankyou for praying with us, the first week of our February holiday club has been great. We are excited that we have come into contact with some new families and have had some good conversations with the church's immediate neighbours.Every day new children have attended and some have returned which has been encouraging.

In the morning whilst we run the kids holiday club we have been serving tea coffee and cake for the parents, it has become an impromptu coffee shop and a number of our neighbours have come in to chat with us , one of whom then attended our church prayer meeting for the first time last night .

We have had a number of church members help out and it has been great to have so much activity going on in the church building. Whilst the action team and Cecilia have been running the club in the mornings Anjanette has been walking around the neighbourhood with Sylvia giving out fliers and inviting people, we were excited that one lady who lives near the church invited us into her home to pray with her.

In the evenings we are running a club for young people and are pleased to see some new faces joining the group, we pray that after this month when school and college restarts and we go back to the weekly youth meeting pattern that many more young people will get involved in the church's activities.

We are very blessed to have this opportunity to run a holiday club for a whole month, please continue to pray with us that many will be touched by God's presence this month through this venture.

February holiday club

This month the action team are running 2 holiday clubs. Every Monday Wednesday and Friday in February 0930-1130 El Puente will run a kids holiday club then 6-8pm one for young people.

Many schools and institutions run "vacaciones utiles" in January and February and children are signed up for 2 months of daily sports, music, language classes in locations all over Peru. Many of the activities are exhausting and expensive. Our holiday club is free and we pray that many children and young people in the community will attend and have a marvellous time.

Please join us in praying for this big event and especially for the action team who have worked really hard preparing the activities.We long to make more contacts with families in the local area and we pray that this will help us to do so.

Peruvian Baptist Assembly and ladies conference

We are now back from the annual asamblea which was held this year in Lima.
It was great for the whole BMS World Mission Peru team to be present and to have the opportunity to spend quality time with our Peruvian brothers and sisters from many different churches in the convention.

Anjanette attended the ladies conference for the first few days after which Scott and the children arrived and joined in the asamblea.

Jess and Sam also had a lot of fun running around with their new friends ,some Peruvian children who were present at the conference .

We were able to participate in the presidential elections and it was good to hear Pastor Domingo the new President share his vision and aspirations for the coming years.

Sometimes being so far away geographically from other baptist convention churches we feel quite isolated here in Cusco; attending the conferences really helped us to feel part of the wider Peruvian baptist convention family and we have made some tentative plans to meet up with other pastors and churches on different occasions in the coming year.

Here are a few photos that Anjanette took at the ladies' conference.

Family beach holiday

Life has been very hectic and at times quite stressful these last few months and it was great to get away from rainy season in Cusco to enjoy the Peruvian summer for a holiday.

We spent the week at the beach in Northern Peru (2 flights away from Cusco) with some of our friends .

Jess and Sam are now very confident swimmers, we enjoyed seeing red crabs scuttling and collecting shells on the beach, we saw sea horses and turtles in the ocean, Chef Scott cooked fish, shark, octupus, prawns and scallops for us , Anjanette read 4 books and a wonderful relaxing time was had by all!

Las Islas Ballestas

penguins


sealions


pelicans


the giant candelabra geolyph 595 feet long , etched into the ground at a depth of 2 feet is visible by boat


We spent a week in Paracas where Scott led the EMM conference and Anjanette looked after the mission workers' children. The highlight of our time there was a boat trip out to the Islas Ballestas, it was great to see the famous Candelabra and the wildlife, we enjoyed watching the pelicans penguins and seals in their natural habitat. Visiting Paracas is something we have wanted to do since we moved to Peru and we were delighted to have the opportunity to spend the week working with the EMM missionaries and to visit the wonderful islands too!