- New photo albums (password required)! A book Rach and i contributed to, Stories from the Ends of the Earth, is here! Please go to the SWO store and request one. I think the price is about $5-$10.
We had a wonderful family reunion on the Outer Banks of NC with Rach's family and mine.- Rach, Fisher, and i made it to Iquitos, Peru. Safe and sound.
- We have 5 students in the Xtreme Team training (2 more if you count Rach and i). Please write them a letter! Details below.
- Rach had plans to get a root canal and laser eye surgery in Lima, but were only able to do the root canal.
- PrayeRequests below.
Lasik: (extras for the readers)
Dear adopted children of God,
As many of you know, Rach and i (as well as several other SMOi missionaries) have contributed some stories from our overseas experience to a book called Stores from the Ends of the Earth. After over a hundred hours of work from othe
r contributors, designers, editors, photographers, and my wife (who did most of the work); we finally have produced a book. It is sold in the SWO store online and in the camp's Snack Shack. Special thanks goes to Le Print Express of Winston-Salem who donated 100% of the design time for the book and gave us a discount on the printing.
We have just spent a week with the Roberts family and the Penderg- family on the Outer Banks of NC. Highlights of the vacation included an evening at The Lost Colony drama, deep-sea fishing when my dad and i caught two white marlins at the same time, and my father-in-law teaching me to use a cast net. From their we drove to Miami and boarded a plane to Lima.
In Lima, Rach was planned to have a root canal and Lasik surgery on her eyes. She had the root canal, but still has sharp pain (please pray). After her eye exam for the Lasik surgery, we discovered that her prescription has regressed to a -8.5 and a -9.0. Unfortunately Lasik eye surgery can only correct vision down to a -8.0, meaning if she got it she would still need glasses. This comes at a huge disappointment because we had been saving for this for quite some time. This Lasik was to cost $300/eye! There is a more expensive type of Lasik that would have worked, but the cost was 5 times higher! We reluctantly ordered Rach a new set of contacts so she can see again.
Now, we are finally in Iquitos! The Xtreme Team training is underway and we've met the students and helped teach them one class so far. Rach and i will be teachers at times and students at times. Out hut is going to need a lot of work as three termite nests the size of basket balls are growing under the thatch roof. We're going to town today to get some supplies. Eliseo, Pedro, Felix, Nestor, and Juan are the Latino students in training to become missionaries in Peru and beyond. If you speak Spanish great, so-so, or not at all, please take twenty minutes this week and write some of them an encouraging letter. Though they come from Peruvian churches, many of those churches are unable to or unwilling to encourage their brothers in taking the Gospel to those who have never heard. Tell them you're praying for them. Tell them about yourself and how God is using you in the States. Share some Scripture with them. Expect replies!
Please mail those to:
Xtreme Team
Apartado 151
Iquitos
Peru
PrayeRequests:
- Praise God for getting us to Peru
- Praise the Lord for great friends in Peru
- Praise God for the 5 young men in training
- Pray that Rach's tooth pain would subside.
the penderg- family