Grace

Where to start....

   Prayer..."Dear God, Thank you so much for the privilege to come here to Peru and serve You.  Thank you for allowing me to have this opportunity to minister and love the people here.  God thank you for this amazing week that was full of all your great blessings.  Please help me to seek you more and to fall in love with you more each day." 

"Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins."  1 Peter 15:19-20

  Last weekend like I told you we weren't able to go to the zoo, but we did go to a retreat like center about an hour outside of Lima.  We were supposed to leave at 8:00 but seeing as we are in a South American country we left at 9:00. 

  I had rented a bus to hold 50 people.  But there were over 70 so some people had to take a different bus.  But we all got there about the same time. 

   We played tug of war, had a three legged race, water balloon toss, played soccer, basketball, and everyone went swimming."   We had games testing the students memory of the Bible Verses...We had prayer and worship and Alejandro one of the Peruvian teachers shared a wonderful message with everyone from the Bible.

  We spent virtually all day there and had an amazing time of fellowship and relaxation.  (Thanks so much Mrs. B)

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Finals Week 

  So my last class ended last night it was bittersweet...I am so happy as all of my students passed to the next level, but I am a little sad because I won't be their teacher anymore. 

   I know that the Lord has His hand in all of this though and that He has raised up great teachers with talent and most importantly love for Him. 

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Conversation Club

   Perhaps some of you are unaware that we have been having a conversation club every Friday.  It has been such a great class because it is so unconventional, many times we would go to the park, or to an ice cream parlor, or to my apartment or an apartment of a student in the class. 

    It has been such a blessing to really just sit down with them and listen about their lives and their experiances.  To pray with each of them and see God working in their lives. 

   Abel is a student from this class and shared with us this last week that he has just started reading his Bible again for the first time since he was a little boy.  He said that because of the classes and how we are always talking about Jesus and the Bible he wants to learn more about Him and He is realizing that there is something missing in his life.  Please keep him in your prayers...his whole family is Mormon and he doesn't realize the difference between Christianity and Mormanism yet. 

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Last Days in Lima

  Not counting today I have 11 days left...I have so many things that I would like to do before leaving and many people that I would like to spend time with.  Please pray that the Lord will give me enough time to finish all of my obligations and have time to spend with everyone. 

   Please also keep Rachel Mach in your prayers.  She is going to be taking my position when I leave.  I have been training her, but this coming week she will be gone on a mission trip and I will be leaving three days after she gets back.  The next semester starts May 5th.  So there is a lot for her to do and a lot for me to teach her.

   There are also going to be two classes going on every morning and three classes being taught simultaneously at night. There are more and more people coming which is a blessing, but the space that we have for classrooms is very limited. Please pray that the Lord will provide another location for the English school if that is His will. 

   Also an announcement!  We are going to be having a Basic class starting on Saturday and it will be using the new Christian curriculum that another English teacher and I developed last semester.  We will be using stories from the Bible to teach English and Godly principals. 

  God's doing amazing things...and I know that He has great things planned for Bullhead City, Arizona as well.  *smiles*

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THANK YOU!

Without your prayers and support over this last year none of this would have been possible. 

"Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.  And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching."  Hebrews 10:23-25

Thank you for being part of this ministry!

May God richly bless you and keep you...En Cristo, Grace

If you are interested in supporting me as a missionary please go to http://www.sgwm.com/missionaries.php?id=143 you can donate online at this website. 

Where to start....

   Prayer..."Dear God, Thank you so much for the privilage to come here to Peru and serve You.  Thank you for allowing me to have this opportunity to minister and love the people here.  God thank you for this amazing week that was full of all your great blessings.  Please help me to seek you more and to fall in love with you more each day." 

"Bretheren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins."  1 Peter 15:19-20

  Last weekend like I told you we weren't able to go to the zoo, but we did go to a retreat like center about an hour outside of Lima.  We were supposed to leave at 8:00 but seeing as we are in a South American country we left at 9:00. 

  I had rented a bus to hold 50 people.  But there were over 70 so some people had to take a different bus.  But we all got there about the same time. 

   We played tug of war, had a three legged race, water balloon toss, played soccer, basketball, and everyone went swimming."   We had games testing the students memory of the Bible Verses...We had prayer and worship and Alejandro one of the Peruvian teachers shared a wonderful message with everyone from the Bible.

  We spent virtually all day there and had an amazing time of fellowship and relaxation.  (Thanks so much Mrs. B)

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Finals Week 

  So my last class ended last night

Well...so I thought that we would be going to the Zoo tomorrow.  But we aren't going to be going there because they didn't end up giving us the discount.  Which initially I was prretty bummed about. 

   But the Lord took complete control of everything and provided a new location about an hour outside of Lima where a student of mine helps maintain an orpahanage retreat center.  I asked her if we would be able to use that location since no one is there this weekend and she said YES! 

 It has a pool and grass and a basketball court and large barb-b-que.  We are going to be playing tug of war and having potato sack races tons of games like that.  But most importantly we are going to be sharing the love of Jesus with the numerous non-believers that are going to be coming. 

  We are going to have a time of worship and prayer...I know that the Lord is going to do amazing things.  Please keep it all in your prayers. 

 Thanks so so much...together we are reaching our world for Christ....

 Grace

And those who know Your name will put their trust in You;
For You, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You. Psalm 9:10

I can not even begin to describe what a blessing this month has been, but I will try. 

A little background….My parents were divorced when I was about 3 years old. My mother has been an absolutely amazing example to me of a Godly woman. She raised me with a strong foundation in the Lord and for that I am eternally grateful.

During my time here a Peruvian family has befriended me and it has been such a blessing to spend special occasions with them…Christmas, my birthday, their birthdays, New Years, Easter. Well it just so happens that this last week was the parents 30th wedding anniversary, so all their children and I planned a surprise for them. We took them out to Friday’s for dinner and then got them a hotel room for the night. They weren’t believers when they got married, and they’d never spent the night at a nice hotel. We decorated the room and they were so surprised! Pedro even carried Juanita over the threshold. I never got to do these kinds of things for my parents, and this family wouldn’t have had the resources to do this themselves. I know that they were blessed and so was God’s heart in seeing 30 years of faithfulness and obedience. So thank you for being a part of that special day!

English classes: As of this date we only have two more weeks of English classes until the end of this semester. I have seen the Lord’s hand in this program since its foundation. People are getting saved and growing closer to the Lord.

It is difficult to leave something that I love so much, but I know that this is God’s timing as He has raised up another director of the school. Rachel will be taking my position and teaching 3-4 classes, also another American missionary named Natalie will be teaching a class and the Lord is still raising up national bilingual Peruvians that would like to be part of this ministry.

With all of that said and done I will still miss each and everyone of my students, some I have spent more than 180 hours with so we are all very close. The Lord has done more than let me be an English teacher he has made these classes into families and friends.

Last night I threw a costume party for all the English students and Bible college students. It was a great success. There were about 50-60 people here. I took all my furniture out of my room and everyone was dancing together. It was beautiful to see the interaction and fellowship shared in the body of Christ.

The end of the semester party for the students at the Zoo is next weekend!! Please pray as many of them will be bringing unsaved friends and family and this will give us an opportunity to reach out to them and show them the love of God.

Returning to the mission field…I will be going to another mission field called Bullhead City, Arizona in three and a half weeks. There is so much that the Lord has put on my heart to do there. Please join me in prayer as I would like to reach out to the Latino population in my town. There is a huge barrier in our city dividing it racially through language, culture and economic status.

During this next year please pray about continuing to support me as a native missionary to my own home town. I will be entering a new culture once again as I face re-entry shock into American culture and reaching out to the huge Mexican population with the love of Jesus Christ


Thank you so much for all of your prayers and faithful support. I would love to come and visit each and every one of you. I will be creating a video and power point to share what the Lord’s been doing here.

Please pray for the Lords provision as there is a $100 tax when I leave Peru, also the airline that I am flying home with has a charge of $100 for my third piece of luggage. I still have 3.5 weeks here and there is a lot to do and a lot more that the Lord wants to do!

Thank you, I love you all so much and am looking forward to seeing you!!

En Cristo, Grace