Hi All,
Hope this email finds you very blessed. I know I have been by my stay here and am so grateful to God for it.
This past weekend we celebrated our 4th
Confraternidad. This is a time when all of our churches get together
and celebrate a time of fellowship and a time of learning. It is one of
my favorite times of the year here because all of these people are very
special to me and they live very far from each other. Lucy and I are
the only ones that get to see them throughout the year so it is very
neat when I get to see them all together. It has really developed unity
among the churches and now they pray for one another and are concerned
about what happens in those villages and churches. 
We held the conference in the village of Amazonas which is a 2 hour bus ride to Nauta then about 45 minutes by boat. All of the other churches came to Iquitos first and we all took a bus together. There were about a hundred adults in the conference and around 50 children. The amazing thing about this year is that we had participation from
all of our churches. This is the first time for that to happen.Four women, pastors and leaders, came from Lima to help teach in the conference. Teo, who is Pastor Felipe the National Superintendent’s wife, worked with the children, Marleni de Casteñeda who is studying theology, Marleny de Sosa who is a leader in the church in Zarate, and Jessica de Yalta, who is the National Women’s group President were the other women who came to teach. It was such an honor to have such a talented group of women.
The
theme of our conference was “In Christ we are light and salt for the
Amazon Region” with subjects such as the doctrine of holiness,
evangelism, the mission of the church and stages of sin. Also we had
devotions in the mornings taught by the local pastors and put into
practice what we had learned by going door to door evangelizing. The
final night of the conference we had a banquet, communion and a talent
show and the next day we terminated the conference with 11 people being
baptized. With sad goodbyes, we returned to Iquitos where Jessica de
Yalta preached in the service there.
This
is the final large event of the year here. The rest of my time here
this year will be spent visiting the area churches until I return to the
states. I will be preaching in Iquitos this Sunday so please pray for
me. Lucy has classes the next 2 weeks so we will not be traveling for a
while. Thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers. Please write.In Christ,
Kayleen`
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