Perú Update
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August 2010
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Jackson’s Home
As some of you know, our newest addition to the family made
his appearance a little bit earlier than expected. Jackson Hall was born July
28, 2010 (Peru’s Independence Day), about 8 weeks premature, at 4.1 pounds and
17 inches. Bekah began having complications about a week before this, which has
now been diagnosed as placental [...]

Dear Pastor and Praying Friends,
We thank you so much for your prayers this past month concerning the 2010 Medical Clinic. Amazingly, with that large of a group, there were no major problems. We thank the Lord for this.We were able to see and treat 1800 patients, who, more importantly, were also able [...]

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Here are a few pictures from the clinic.

The group outside of Igleisa Bautista Omega

Press Conference

Our makeshift clinical rooms and a few workers

First day

A little more of the first day chaos

Mrs. Carlson in action

Dr. George in action (a little graphic)

The most important part, the gospel room

The gospel was not constrained to a room!!!! (this was a [...]

Dear Pastors and Praying Friends:
March 3rd we had officially been in Arequipa for one year. We thank the Lord for all that he has done in that one year. And we also thank all of you for all you have done; your prayers, support and friendship.
We lack only about a month and a half before [...]

Here are a few pictures form Sunday.
It was our official launch day for “Iglesia Bautista Omega”.
We had 166 in attendance!!

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Tonight was a very special night. I had a meeting with a young man that I have been working with for a while, Anthony, and his mother, Maruja. I was very nervous about this meeting because we were meeting to discuss Anthony moving in with us due to some family problems. Well, long story short, [...]

Immediately before the service started tonight I was asked by Chris if I knew of anyone in the church who would be interested in working with the children (4-12year olds) during our midweek service. Well, when he asked me the first person that popped into my mind was myself, so I volunteered. I think he [...]

We had a fantastic night last night at Church with 81 in attendance (AWESOME for a Thursday night!!)! One of our visitors was the girl, Faye Murry, in the picture above with Bekah and I. This picture was actually taken at our house about 5 hours later (1:45am). After hours of questions and talking, last [...]

It was one year ago yesterday when Bekah and I got off a plane in Lima, Peru.
Highlights of our first year:

Became legal residents of Perú (Feb 28, 09)
Arrived in Arequipa (March 3, 09)
Began language school (April 09)
Hosted two medical clinics where 3400(+) people were treated physically, and heard of their need to repent and believe [...]