Posts Tagged ‘church’

Well I thank God for the privilege of being a part of the ordination service of Renzo. He is preparing to head to North Africa where he will preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. I thank God for the privilege of working with men that have a heart for reaching the world with the Gospel.

I had the privilege of preaching one of the messages that evening and being a part of the presbytery. If you like photos, sign up on Facebook to be a friend of mine and you can get photos of just about everything going on here in Peru. We are excited to see what God is going to do. We are thankful that we had the privilege of teaching him in Bible College and are excited to see what God is going to do in your life.

Chris

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We had a great time this is my first service where I was able to be back and preaching at Omega. We had amazing services. We had 82 in the morning and 77 at night. We are excited about all that God is doing.

The Waye family has arrived here on the field and are trying to catch up on sleep after not sleeping for 24 hours. Keep us and them in your prayers that God would use their time in Peru in amazing ways.

This morning I preached out of I John 3 and then in the evening we preached about the Holy Spirit and the need for his power and guidance in our lives, in our churches and in our pulpits. We had a great time and I am already looking forward to Thursday. Tuesday I have tons of meetings starting at 8 am and so far I have meetings through 8 pm. Hopefully Wednesday will be a little slower. Keep us in your prayers that God would use us here in Peru for his honor and glory.

Chris

Well we are looking forward to having Chris Waye and family arrive in Peru tomorrow. They will be here for 6 months on an internship program with us. Pray that God will use their lives in amazing ways and that they will be able to do well in their language learning and in the time that they will be interning here in the country. I am praying that God will allow us to see them grow in amazing ways and maybe God will give them direction in the exact field where he wants them to go.

I want to thank Pastor Derik Lawrence and Victory Baptist Church for allowing us to have them here with us. They come from this amazing church and I count it a privilege to work with them.

We are so thankful for how God is using the ministry here and allowing us the privilege of training others to be a part in reaching the world with the gospel.

Well I went to the states for 20 days. God gave us the privilege of trying to raise support. I am so grateful to say that we have raised right at $300 a month. God is so good to us here we have seen him do amazing things even in the middle of a recession. Please continue to pray that God would use our lives and ministries to bring honor and glory to him alone.

I returned on the 1st of March and had the privilege of travelling with April Baker (long time friend and partner in the ministry) and with her uncle Greg Metcalfe. Greg is in the movie industry and came down to try and get enough footage together to do a video of the ministry here in Peru. After a week he has decided to return again in June to get more footage. He was a great blessing to have down here and for a man of his level of talent to donate time to try and help us out was mind boggling. Keep him in your prayers that he might have clarity on putting the video together.

I want to personally thank both April and Steven Baker (thanks Steven for letting her come) and Greg Metcalfe for coming down here. We had a blast and are looking forward to the result from the time we put into recording.

Well, this has to be one of the saddest blogs I have had to write. I just got a call from Wilber, he told me that his 6 month old daughter has stopped responding to the treatments that the doctors have been giving her. Suhjey almost died due to pneumonia while pregnant and God worked a miracle. At the hospital they called her Lazarus because there was no hope for her and she made it.

I would like to ask you to pray for Wilber and Suhjey that God would give them peace that passes all understanding. I cannot even understand what the family must be going through. I would like to ask you to pray about helping out with the expenses of the funeral. I honestly have no way to help them and I know that all of their money is gone now because of trying to fight off pneumonia for Suhjey as well as for Pamela. The funeral will cost somewhere around $1500. Please pray that the Lord would provide that for this dear pastor and his wife. I have attached some pictures so that you can see Pamela.

Wilber called me and thru tears explained to me how he knew that God gives and God takes away. He is an amazing man of God and has stood through very hard times. Please keep them in your prayers. Here are some pictures.

Chris

God has been so good to us. Graduation was on the 4th of December this year. We are so thankful for the privilege God has given us to train up young people. We had 12 young people graduate and we are excited to see what God is going to do with their lives. If you are a regular supporter of the Bible College can I tell you that you are investing in probably one of the best ministries I know of when it comes to the fruit that comes from that ministry.

Out of the graduates, we have Braulio Zavaleta. He has taken over a dying church during his senior year and has done great things there in Chivay. Chivay is a small city up next to the deepest Canyon in the country of Peru. It has a lot of tourists go through there and about 5,000 people live there. He is out of Faith Baptist Church and God is using him in great ways. We also had a young man named Dennis Melgar graduate. He is going to Ecuador and is planning on working with Bro. Raymond Bradley and will be starting a church in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Alex Gutierrez is going to work in his church for one more year then go to the north part of Peru to start a church. He is currently praying about Trujillo. Pray for the graduates that God would use their lives in an amazing way. We are so thankful for being able to work with them.

We had the privilege of having Rudy Johnson come preach for us from Pisaq, Peru. He has been used of God in amazing ways here in Peru. He is 78 years old and has the attitude of a 30 year old. He is still dreaming and doing great things for God. He has been in Peru right at 50 years and has had the privilege of growing the two largest churches in the country. Both churches ran over 1500 people while he was working in them and they are still very strong churches to this day. He has trained up many men and women to serve God. It was a great privilege to sit around and hear war stories from a man that has been used of God through the years.

God bless.

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 marks the 4th happy day. 4 years ago my wife and I set out on an incredible adventure. We became parents to two of the sweetest children in the world. Jacob and Hannah came into our lives on the 26th of July, 2004. We never had planned on adopting. Our thoughts were “we will have kids at our convenience”. God had other plans. Almost every day I thank God for the fact that we weren’t able to have children. Because if it weren’t for that hickup we would have never experiences the wonder of my princess and my tiger. My little Hannah looks at the world with such sweetness. Her loving spirit amazes me. Jacob, well he is all boy, he wants to go after whatever he decides to do with everything that he has. Reminds me of myself in so many ways. He still doesn’t understand how bad that push can get him in trouble.

I thank the Lord for 4 wonderful years with my precious children. I hope and pray that they will serve the Lord with all they have. Thanks for reading today, I know I am just a proud dad. Jacob and Hannah, thanks for giving me the privilege to hear you call me DAD. I love you guys.

Chris