Pastors Convention

May 30, 2010

Hi All,

Hope you are doing well. This past week we had our first session for capacitating the pastors of our churches. It was very exciting as this has been another dream come true for me. The National Superintendent and the District Superintendent of the Wesleyan Church of Peru flew to Iquitos to teach our pastors in the Amazon area for 3 days. It was absolutely awesome with 22 pastors and their leaders attending.

(Pastor Felipe Jordan--National Superintendent)

At first I was a little disappointed as 3 of our churches didn’t show up but I then got caught up in the activities. The pastors were so excited as they also have been longing for direction. They kept telling me they were beginning to

understand things in a different way and had such a hunger to learn more. I had to ask the Pastors from Lima to go a little bit slower as many of the people from the jungle have around a 6^th grade education due to the professors coming, teaching for a while then leaving when they receive their check. Don’t get me wrong, these pastors are very intelligent people but just were not given the educational opportunity that is offered in more highly populated areas and they have such a desire to learn more.

Yesterday the session ended with 2 people getting baptized in a swimming pool here inIquitos. Yesterday was also my birthday and I awoke at midnight to balloons breaking and all of this noise outside my door. My dentist had just given me this bite guard to wear at night so I quickly had to take that out so I wouldn’t scare anyone and answered the door to all the people singing me happy birthday. It was so sweet. I thought that was the end of it but when we came back from the baptism, they surprised me with cake and soda. As I was blowing the candle out, the District Superintendent pushed my face in the cake and broke eggs on my head (a Peruvian tradition).

It was hilarious. We then had to say our goodbyes and the church feels empty again but with many plans ahead.

This next week, Lucy and I are headed to Tamshiyacu, Santa Ana and Nuevo Triunfo to visit our churches there. After we return, we will be headed to Amazonas to our church there where I am going to teach some computer classes. The government gave the kids laptops which is awesome but a bit funny since they do not have electricity there. Apparently they are a type of laptop that you charge the battery separately and the school has a generator so they charge them there. The church is trying to save to buy a generator so they can have lights and a keyboard for their services. I am looking forward to teaching as they said no one knows how to use them and it will be fun to be able to place this tool into their hands.

(Me with Pastor Daniel Bocanegra--District Superintendent--also cake and egg culprit)

After we return from Amazonas, we will have to get ready for the team coming in July. Lucy, Gladis, Pastor Leiter and I are also planning on doing a lock-in for the kids in Iquitos and a children’s program where Lucy is going to dress up as a clown in Tamshiyacu. I am still kind of feeling like “so much to do and so little time” but I know God has it all in His hands. I asked Pastor Felipe (National Superintendent) and Pastor Daniel (District Superintendent) if they could start sending some outlines for the pastors as guides for preaching so that even as they are preaching, they are learning. It is an exciting time even though it always feels like 2 steps forward 1 step back. I just have to remember that it is all in God’s timing and not my own.

Thanks to all of you who wished me Happy Birthday on facebook. It really meant a lot to me when I opened up my email and saw more than 50 messages for my birthday. May the Lord richly bless you as you have me. Hasta mas tarde.

Dios les bendiga ricamente,

En Cristo

Kayleen