Busy Bees - Peru 2010

Please pray for our mission team today (Monday, June 28th). We have an extremely busy day ahead of us as we prepare for the teaching conference to begin tomorrow.

After breakfast, we’ll gather in the hotel lobby at 8:00 AM for a team meeting and to break out into three groups. One group will finish shopping for additional craft supplies for the conference. Another group will work to purchase thousands of copies of the some of the conference materials. We purposefully wait to do this shopping and copying in Peru. The up-side is that we don’t have as much weight to pack and take with us from the U.S. The down-side is that we only have a day and a half to get these things done before the conference begins tomorrow at 2:30 PM.

The final group will be preparing the Church for the conference. This involves things like cleaning, sweeping, moving pews up and down flights of stairs, setting up tables and chairs, etc. Of course, all of this is done in the higher altitude of Huancayo which is a bit difficult, but the Lord is our strength! At some point later in the day, all the groups will come together at the Church to finish the final touches of preparation like putting together the conference binders and such.

So here’s how you can specifically pray for us today:

• Unity – Please pray for a spirit of unity and servanthood for each team member as we volunteer for groups and all work together to get the job done.
• Open Doors – Please pray that we’ll find the right supplies at the right prices and a place to make our copies at a good price with a quick turn-around.
• Strength – Please pray for God to give our bodies His energy as we labor in His Kingdom work (Colossians 1:28-29).

Of course, we realize that all of you at home are extremely busy as you also begin another week, and we want to lift you up to the Father as well. I know, for example, that some of the Believers at Woodland Park Baptist Church in Hammond, LA are beginning a VBS outreach in our community this week. So we’re praying for you, too!

May we all remember God's words of promise for whatever looms before us today and every day of our lives:


“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint” (Isaiah 40:28-31, NIV).

God is faithful and sufficient for all our needs today and every day (Lamentations 3:22-26; 1 Thessalonians 5:23-25).