Packing

Wednesday night was our packing night.  We stuffed 6 suitcases with ministry supplies (and additional supplies were shipped to our 7th team member to pack) with special attention to where the supplies will be used and whether they would be used with the women or the children.  Some  of our supply suitcases will have to be left behind in Lima when we travel to the mountain and jungle regions so we had to plan for that as well. If we need to, some of the dresses and baseball caps will be left with the local missionaries for later distribution to the children when they return to those regions again in December.  While we'd love to see the children receive these gifts, I'm sure it will bless the local missionaries' ministry to be able to hand them out later, so all is well.  We unfortunately learned that we will be unable to go to the Compassion International site in Oxapampa because it has been raining a lot and the roads are bad.  While we are disappointed not to see these children I'm sure God has plans for the extra day we will have with the women and children in La Merced.


I want to say a special thank you to all who collected baseball caps and beanie babies, made pillowcase dresses and dolls, helped us to cut yarn and stuff bags with necklace supplies, and trimmed scripture cards for us to take.  You were a tremendous help and are very much a part of this trip and blessing these women and children. It is so much fun including you in our work. I'll cherish the memories of women running back and forth wrapping yarn around 8' tables, cutting it, draping it around necks to be counted while others stuffed over 600 bags with 6 strands each!  Also a big thank you goes out to those of you that have sent money to help us with the cost of the ministry supplies.  The last I heard it looked like we would reach our goal.  It would be a joy to further fund scholarship money for the poor pastors who have to travel to receive the training at SETA with any extra money that comes in.