This month’s ministry for December is going to be exciting and very unique! We’ll be celebrating Christmas with tribes of the amazon people in the jungle! Its going to be a hot and humid one! As we prepare to leave to a place where it is unlikely to have internet access, let me brief you with what we currently know will be happening. But keep in mind, this is the World Race, and things change as often as the hour!
We are currently in Lima, Peru in a hostel waiting for our military transport by plane to be scheduled to leave. We believe this is going to happen sometime tomorrow, so we’ll be spending one more night in Lima, Peru. This military transport was a deal we got with our ministry, and is a much cheaper way to travel there. If we can’t secure this transport, we’ll be taking a small Van barely fitting the 10 of us for 20 hours of driving. Lets hope that is not the case!
When we land at the airport tomorrow, we’ll be taking a bus for an hour to the town of Rio Tambo. Don’t bother looking it up on google maps, because it doesn’t show up the exact town we’ll be in. In this town, we’ll be sleeping on the floor of the town hall (probably a single large hall?) where we will be using our tents inside as a mosquito net. We’ve yet to confirm if there are showers there. It is going to be hot and humid, so malaria and dengue fever is a high risk. Water here is not safe to drink or to brush your teeth with. We’re also not allowed to swim in the rivers. So pray that we’ll be safe and healthy!
After spending about a week there, we’ll be moving into a smaller village to do ministry with the local tribe. We believe we’ll be sleeping in their school, so even less chance of showers. There doesn’t seem to be any café’s either, but there are little stores that sell pop apparently. Coffee might be on the downlow this month too!
In terms of ministry, we’ve been told we might be getting up early in the morning before it gets hot out to do 3 hours of manual labor work to build a home for the orphans and widows there. Then in the late morning and afternoon, we’ll be ministering to the locals, evangelizing to the tribes. We’ll also be preparing a Christmas event where we will do a play of the nativity scene. Possibly with the use of puppets that we’ll make. We’ll also be teaching the widows ways to start their own business in clothing making as that is something that can help them be self sufficient.
In the end, we are servants of God, so we are going to take on whatever ministry God has given us. And we are super stoked about it! Because every time we allow the Holy Spirit to use us as a vessel and be the hands and feet of Jesus, we get to see such amazing things. So please pray that our hearts will continually seek God, and that in everything we do, we do it out of love. Just as this bible verse that we spent time to meditate on!
“12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”
Colossians 3 : 12 – 17
Thank you, my beloved friends and family, for partnering with me on this amazing adventure with God!
