Jesus Loves the Little Children

The children's ministry in CC Lima had a celebration for the kids who had their birthdays in March and April and May this year so we had a teaching and then had cake and Inca Cola. It was good.

John and Pilar Bonner's 25th Wedding Anniversary

John and Pilar Bonner have been following and serving the Lord in Lima, Peru for approximately ten years bringing their 3 children who are all out of the house growing up, studying, and getting married in different parts of the world now. They celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with the CC Lima, Peru church family Sunday night on the 18th of April. It was a beautiful thing. They had slideshows of them through the years together and their kids all made vids for them to see. It was a blessing for all to see the faithfulness of the Lord in their marriage and their lives together and it was a blessing even for the simple fact that a lot of us girls got to dress up. We had a great time. The Calvary Chapel Pastors from all around Lima and Peru came and prayed over them near the end of the service. And they even actually had a mariachi band come up and play a few songs (Pilar is originally from Mexico) so it was in total a real fun and awesome night.

"Veintiséis" Dorm Steward[ing] Spring 2010

The semester is winding down with few days more than 2 weeks left. The Lord has blessed me with the opportunity to be a dorm steward this last semester. One thing that is true is that part of filling this role is learning to die to yourself and know that the Lord is in control of everything and as long as we are faithful to the task and good stewards with for example, even enforcing the rules even though it might not be something you like doing or comfortable with, He will give you peace.

Our room 26 will forever be in memory as an awesome room in which I met and grew along side some sweet sisters in Christ. We had much to learn from one another. I was "lucky" because both of them, are probably the neatest and most organized girls on campus which proves well during dorm cleaning days ;). It has definitely been a beautiful season this semester thanks to the Lord who put these girls in my life. Go"Veintiséis"!

March in Recap

Classes as usual convened the past few weeks in March. The way they do classes here is by a block schedule where they have a class that instead of running throughout the whole semester as a weekly class they concentrate the course into two to three week increments.

I joined my only class that I would take with the student body this semester in March, Systematic Theology (I had 2 other Audio classes: Ephesians and Psalms that I basically had to revert to home schooling mode with both of them took two weeks worth of my time to do).

I have been thankful for all this time that I have been here. The Lord has been growing me and showing me many different things that are important in my relationship to Him and it has been awesome.

For the last week of March to Easter Sunday, I went with 7 other students from the Bible college as a team to a city called Huanuco for our mission trip. It was definitely a trip that was ordained by the Lord because of the fact of the provision personally for me that He showed me and for the provision for the finances for the trip itself because we were short but the Lord provided the difference with money that one morning showed up in our leaders Bible. The Loes definitely had to show us how to depend on Him fully and rely upon the Spirit's leading and hold fast to the truth of His Word and being able really resting in His presence.

We did gospel dramas, sang worship songs, fellowshipped with the believers there, and really had great opportunities to evangelize.

Here is a link to see more pictures of what we got to do http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/album.php?aid=49462&id=1072064647

Church Anniversary at the Park and Baptism

This was, I believe, the 8th Anniversary of CC Lima and we all went to a Park outside of Lima to have an all day picnic event and baptism.

Lunch with Some Awesome Sisters

Yesterday during lunchtime myself and a few of the girls who are going to the Bible College( mostly at night since the American/"gringo" students have their classes in the morning). It was a beautiful day "Estaba una hermoso dia" and we took lunch together and got to share our testimonies and talk about the many things the Lord did to get us where we are now in our lives. It was just a real awesome time of fellowship and real fun. These girls are really creative we did all kinds of poses, as you can see. :)

Concierto

This past Sunday night was the Surf Camp Concert that ended the Week. The American students were not able to join the Surf Camp this year but we were able to at least attend the concert it was really well done. These guys are really good at what they do and they do it as unto the Lord and that's awesome. The surf camp is usually geared for evangelism and there actually were many who became saved this year. The group from CC San Diego came and it was awesome to see them because my family and i used to go to CC San Diego when we lived there so it was good to catch up with some of these awesome servants of the Lord. Sammy Sandino taught during the whole Camp and shared from the Word for the concert. It was a really awesome time :)