Missionary Report May 2017

Recent Events

January

During this time I worked in the Segadores office as the treasurer and doing various reports. I had to coordinate the work from Lima with our disciples in the native community so that they continued teaching the children.

Also I was coordinating the teaching team in Pariachi (Lima) in regards to the bible teaching for the children who come from the nearby settlement on Saturdays. 

February

We had the evaluation and planning meetings for the Segadores ministry.

I had a trip to Jaen to visit a disabled boy who for years Segadores has been supporting for his health and other necessities. He was beaten on his head and the hand of God intervened to heal him.  This year he came to Lima to study accountancy in the university.

I took a holiday to the Amazon region to visit my family. 

March

I took a trip to Pucallpa to support and accompany the missionaires, Adina and Marcus.  Marcus had to travel to the interior of the Ucayali area.

I visited the children’s ministry in Pariachi (Lima) to see the advancement of the work. The children are praying for the unreached tribes of the Amazon jungle.  

We helped with the school supplies for the abandoned children in the native community of Aoti.  Two of our missionaries travel to the community and attend to their needs in coordination with the native leaders. They risked their lives due to the flash floods. 

Help with the school supplies for the missionary’s children: We also attended to the school supply needs of the missionary children and also the children of our native workers. Some of them were affected by the El nino and storms.  They lost clothes and all that they had. 

April

In the native community again: Arriving without advising them, we went to the children’s room at night time and we found the team in charge doing an activity to raise funds for a new fridge for the children. They said to us, “why didn’t you tell us you were coming?” We replied, “it is better like this.”  Natalia said, “it will be like this when the Lord returns.”  I love how they learn about God by these little experiences in their lives. It is a joy that Victor and his son, Romulo, are going every Sunday at 6am to another community, Chontakiari.  It is a two hour trip to take the meeting, it is with the intention of planting a church.

In the absence of Victor I had to teach the young people without a translator but the young people said that they understand Spanish. At the end of the programme Victor returned to the Aoti community as quickly as he could to translate the teaching and so he could also learn more by listening to what I was teaching. When I’m not in the community he does a review of the lessons which he has learned during my time there.  Zila and Cristina are also teaching children in other rooms. 

Teaching sessions with the adults: Three times a week we hold a devotional teaching time with the adults. We are teaching about salvation, faith and God’s grace through Christ. We see that they are really happy when they understand what we are teaching. 

Night sessions: We teach the same themes with graphics and a lot of children, young people and adults come.  Some leaders have asked us to teach about salvation.

Extending the gospel further: We take school supplies and clothes for the children to Chontakiari. We went there to strengthen the work Victor Soto is doing. The chief of the community said we should go and live there because the door is wide open. We are always receiving invitations from the unreached communities asking for missionaries, and with sadness, we don’t have the missionaries to cover all the necessities. The students and teachers come to a community house to listen to the history of creation. We covered the teaching up to the third day of creation. The teacher said to us, “why don’t you teach up to the seventh day of creation?” I explained that we are going to return. This time adults came with more confidence to listen to God. We distributed school supplies according to the needs of the children. The adults received clothes. I asked them if they ate snakes and they responded, “We only eat the Shushupe snake (a kind of poisonous viper) and the meat is very tasty.”

 In this community we found Adolfo – a young man who was disabled three years ago in an accident and lost a leg. Now we are praying that God will provide for a new prosthetic leg.

Personal Life

In teaching the Word of God in the community every day I have got to know Him more.

With the lack of committed missionaries the few that are working in the communities have poor health. My back problems have got worse and and it is difficult to do the work as treasurer for Segadores and at the same time travel to the communities to work with the children and women. 

My family 
My father is 87 years old and is unwell with dementia. All of the economical costs become my responsibility because my brothers and sisters are also going through health problems.

Peter Hocking was in the region recently and visited my father to encourage him and strengthen him in his life. 

My niece, Harvis, is working for Segadores as secretary.

Prayer and Praise Points

1) I ask that you pray that God will continue bringing change to the lives of the children, youth and adults in the native community. 

2) That God will provide for the tickets and materials we need to buy in order to teach the tribes.

3) That God will provide for the prosthetic leg for Adolfo. 

4) That God will provide economically to help with the treatment for my dad.

5) That God will provide for the petrol for Victor’s motorbike to be able to go to the Chontakiari community to teach the Word of God.