Family Camping

It was a blessing to be able to bring a tent from the States with us. It has been used for camping in the Mountains and can not be found in any stores here in Andahuaylas. 

 Our family decides to camp out in the yard together.

 The children set up an area for a bonfire by collecting the wood and bricks.

 Our family tent from Walmart.

 We enjoy roasting marshmellows for our S'mores over the fire. The liked it when their marshmellows made torches.

 The nights get much colder than the day here in Peru.

 Nathan finds a snake in the backyard. It is not often you see one of them in the high altitude but the Amazon is just on the other side of the Mountain range.

 Just behind our house we see many neighbors walking by carrying bundles of a variety of items along with many animals.

 Our neighbor is here preparing for the winter nights by chopping up wood to burn. The Peruvians here in the valley are hard working.

 Another neighbor here is preparing her land for gardening.

 Nathan is having fun playing with the neighbors cat. He knows that his dad would not care to own one.

Church ministries

Jaime's Family is one of the families in the church

 The Lord's Table is prepared in the church.

 The Bible Institute first starts with bringing in the teacher for a week of classes and than following up the remaining classes via internet on the big screen with microphones on the tables for interaction.

 Pastor Rafael Ramirez will be starting up an Evangelism and Discipleship course this week that will run every Tuesday for two hours via internet. Jon has been put in charge of monitoring this class. 40 people have signed up for the class already from the church.

Church 3rd Anniversary

The church has celebrated their 3rd year anniversary with a banquet and a conference. This is Rebecca at the market where the chicken is purchased.

 Nisha is baking the cakes for 250 people. This is a challenge of cooking in the high altitude of the Mountains.

 Other church people assist in preparing the meal for the banquet.

 Chickens are prepared for cooking as Corn on Bleu.

 Cakes turn out and taiste good.

 200 adults and 60 children show up for the anniversary celebration.

 The church is located on a main street and many times has pedestrians looking in the windows of the church.

 The nursery becomes over-crowded at times.

 The children are in the church while the adults are in the banquet hall next door.

 Matthew and Nathan running the games for the children during the anniversary.

 Milagros is helping cook the chicken.

 Pastor Rafael Ramirez from Venezuela comes to speak at the conference

 Everyone seemed to enjoy the food and fellowship at the conference.

Jon introduces new activities to Single Adults Class

Jon has introduced new activities for the Single Adults to participate in every week.

 Fern is a missionary from New Zealand here to minister in the church.

 Teatherball is introduced for the first time and has been enjoyed by many at the church.

 Cooking in the Mountains is done many times over an homemade fire.

Jon uses the rocket launchers to knock down coke bottles while the teams try to catch the rockets.