Amazonas

June 18, 2010

Hi All,
Lucy and I returned from Amazonas yesterday. It was an awesome trip. The church there is really growing and flourishing. Sometimes I like to go there for selfish reasons as it is nice to get to see some positive results from the work here. The church there used to be mostly children and women but now there is a fairly large group of men and they are doing all of the teaching and preaching and have just started a discipleship program from some material that I downloaded off the Spanish Wesleyan website.



When we arrived, we did a children’s service and then I went swimming and played with the kids then had a service that night. The next day, I taught computer classes to the kids until their batteries ran out. They are simple little computers but have quite a bit built in. They have a microphone, video camera and quite a few programs but isn’t your basic windows interface. I had a lot of fun teaching them although some of the kids already knew most everything. A lot of adults came too and we had a great time.


Last year the church bought the house next to it so that Lucy and I would have a place to stay when we came and so they could use it for Sunday school classes. This was the first time we slept in it. When we came back from bathing, I was in the other room changing when I heard some kids screaming. When I went out to see what it was, I saw a huge tarantula on the wall. Lucy kept telling me to get closer and closer when I was taking the picture but then she tells me to be careful because they can jump a good distance. The neighbor came with a broom to kill it but when she knocked it off the wall, it came right after me (maybe it didn’t like it’s picture taken) and I started to scream as well as the kids so it was pretty chaotic. The woman’s husband told me the bite from a black tarantula is like a snake bite and that some people die from their bites. I was glad that we had seen it and it wasn’t in my bed that night.


Little Kayleen is going to turn 2 on Sunday. I can’t believe how fast the time has gone here. The other little Kayleen in Requena is going to turn 1 in July and they are going to travel here so I can see her.(pictured here: Little Kayleen with her sister and another little girl)


We arrived back in Iquitos last night and will be heading out to San Juan de Sinchi Cui on Monday. From there we will be going to do the children’s outreach in Tamshiyacu and then the July team comes… I am so excited.

Lucy, Pastor Leiter, Gian Franco, Gladis and I have been having devotions every Monday and Friday. I was talking last week about all the tourists that come here looking for drugs, shamans, witchcraft ect. and we decided that we are going to pick a time when the five of us go out and talk with these people. We want to let them know the church is here if they need help. We don’t really have any financial help but we could always help make phone calls ect. in case of emergencies.

Well, I guess I better get busy. The women’s group here is going make a meal for Father’s Day and I need to help. May God continue to richly bless you.

In Christ
Kayleen