Archive for August, 2008

I would like to ask you to pray for Wilber and Sujei Hallasi. They are working in Moquegua, Peru starting a church. They are supported by Operation Nehemiah, this is a group of churches and individuals in Peru that have decided to give to see their country reached with the gospel.

They are packed out in their current building, they are seeing souls saved and lives changed. One of the pastors just went to preach a revival for him and wrote me to tell me that they had right at 60 people for their first anniversary.

This week I received an email that his 18 month old son has pneumonia. Please be in prayer for him that the Lord will provide for the financial needs for him to be treated. If you would be interested in helping me with this need, please feel free to write me and let me know at gardner@uttermost.net. May God continue to bless you in all you do.

Chris Gardner

Last week we had an interesting time in Lima. I had a 13 hour layover in the city of Lima. Lima is a huge city so I figures I would go out and pretend to be a tourist. No doubt that going around like a tourist is much better than sitting in the airport. So I went out and spent some time looking at the ocean from a mall in Lima and things of that sort.

On my way back to the airport, I had my laptop backpack. I had left everything else in the airport storage area. On the way back to the airport we were on the main road and the traffic had everything at a standstill. Then I looked up and right in front of us about 6 cars in front of us I saw 4 guys with spark plugs in their hands. We were in two lanes of traffic they had two guys working on each lane. They were walking by and busting the windows of the vehicles out and taking their bags out. As they approached my vehicle the driver rolled the windows down so that they didn’t bust them. I watched as they started to take my laptop out of the car and in a moment where all sanity left me I decided to get out and try to keep my laptop. I got out and fought, (this isn’t recomended by the way) after fighting for a bit my laptop fell from about 5 feet in the air. When I heard the thud it made my heart sink. Well after it fell to the ground the guy pulled a knife and explained to me the fact that he would leave the backpack but that he wasn’t walking away empty handed. I decided very quickly to give him the 100 bucks I had in my pocket because you could tell that this wasn’t the first time he had used a knife.

I thank the Lord that nothing worse happened and that I got to keep my laptop even though it is definitely scarred now. I got on the plane thinking thank God that I am headed out of Lima and to the safer regions of Peru. A few days after arriving in Arequipa I was told something that made me start doubting the safety of Arequipa as well.

Be in prayer for your missionaries. They go through some crazy stuff on the field.

Chris

Well, today is my Dad’s birthday. I thank God for the parents he has given me. We live in a day and age where men of character are found few and far between. I thank God for all that I have been taught not through what he has told me but by the life he has lived. I do not know of anyone in the world that I would prefer to learn from over my Dad.

I thank God that I know him a little better than most, 33 years of seeing and following the steps of a man of integrity. Dad, thanks for all you have taught me and shown me through your life. I can never thank you enough for all that you have done. I love you, Happy Birthday.

Chris

Well, I had the privilege of being down in Peru for the Youth Conference this week. We had a wonderful time. It was great to see all of our friends again and to be able to be around the people that we love. We had the privilege of having Jeff Bush (missionary to Argentina) here with us. He did an INCREDIBLE job. I don’t think we could have asked anyone to come to Peru and do better than he did. I thank God for having the privilege of knowing and calling him my friend. I can only imagine all that we will see God do through his life. There was no doubt that the hand of God was on him as he preached.

We had a great time together and saw God do many wonderful things throughout the Conference. We saw over 40 souls that accepted Christ and we were told of 8 men that were called to preach. Pray with us that we will soon be able to be back in Peru living and doing the ministry he has called us to do on a daily basis.

Chris

Well, after attending services last night at Vision Baptist Church, my wife took me to the airport. I left to come to Peru around midnight and arrived at 6:30 am. My flight isn’t leaving until this evening so I decided to leave the airport and go to Starbucks here in Lima. Yeah, crazy mission field I know. They have free wifi so I decided to stop by and get some work done that way.

Please be praying for the Youth Conference. There are many many people coming from all sorts of crazy places. Pray that we might see many souls saved and that we would see many young men surrender to full time service.

This will be the first time in a long time that I am not at home for my birthday tomorrow. It is so amazing to be home now, the only bad feeling is knowing that I have to return to the states next Monday. Pray that the Lord would allow us to return to Peru soon. God bless in all you do.

Chris