And the work begins........

 

 

 

 

Today was a very exciting day. Scott and a team of volunteers from the States had a smashing time as the work on the new church building commenced. Today they knocked down some of the walls.

We plan to completely destroy the existing adobe house before we begin the construction.
We are so grateful to our amazing provider God for all that he is doing at El Puente Iglesia.

Jessica's 10th birthday

Hard to believe that our beautiful baby girl is turning into a lovely considerate young lady. We had a lot of fun celebrating her 10th birthday . Thanks for all the well wishes.

Choclito

We have enjoyed harvesting the corn we grew in our garden. Maize is one of the staple foods here in the mountains and right now it is readily available in the shops, markets and in the streets! Our Columbian friend also taught us how to make tamales and you can see Sam grinding the corn in one of the photos.

The Eye Clinic is now open!

Over the last 4 years since Anjanette has been working at the La Fuente Clinic in Cusco she has seen some huge changes. When she first started there the only services on offer were family medicine and paediatrics. Over the last few years we have added dentistry psychology physiotherapy and recently we have opened a commercial pharmacy.

This weekend we celebrated the inauguration of the Eye Clinic. Luz de Vida is an eye clinic built next to the La Fuente clinic run by our good friend and opthalmologist  Nathan. What a wonderful service to now offer to patients, the staff at the eye clinic explain to the patients  how God can restore sight from spiritual as well as physical blindness and we are so delighted to celebrate the latest addition to the services we can now offer our patients.

Please join us in thanking God for this amazing new clinic and the dedicated staff who work there .

Back from the beach

We have just returned from a fabulous family holiday, we spent a week at the beach with some friends in the North of Peru. We really enjoyed feeling the hot sun and escaping from the  rainy season in Cusco.

We have returned refreshed and relaxed, with our batteries recharged grateful for the opportunity to enjoy time together and to experience God's wonderful creation.

Now we are gearing up for the return back to school and our busy work schedules. March 1st in Peru is a bit like September 1st in the UK when everyone gets back into their routines ready for  the new school year. Please pray for Jess and Sam as they go back to school after a 10 week break!

Celebrating Valentine's day Peruvian Style

Pastor Scott and some of the men from church organised a meal for their wives to celebrate "Dia del amor." We ate a delicious meal and played games and had a great time celebrating together, in true latino style each person took it in turns to tell their spouse how much they love them, for us reserved brits it was quite a new experience!

Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication

 Jess and Sam outside the existing building

 the adobe bricks inside the building should be easy to knock down.

 First service at our new site for El Puente Iglesia

 Dedicating the site to God

 sharing Communion together

We ended our day of prayer and fasting by sharing the Lord's Supper together at the site of our new church building. Even though the building will soon be completely destroyed and rebuilt, it was great to meet together to worship and thank God for his faithfulness and to dedicate the new site to him. As you can imagine it was quite an emotional service for El Puente Iglesia!