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Peruvian Electrocution Therapy:

220V electricity running into shower head to produce hot water. If you accidently touch the shower head you get a real ZAP! Even reaching over to adjust the water pressure (turn the knob while standing under the heated water) can cause your body to be a conduit. Visitors beware!

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Messiah in Cuzco???

We met a man here in Lima to whom we witnessed. We were shocked to hear his beliefs. He claimed to be a Jew that not only believed in the New Testament but also that Messiah had come, and was living in Cuzco, Peru! He even had photographs and a statement of [...]

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Arrival In Lima, Peru

Greetings friends! We have arrived in Lima and things are going well. The children were just great on our travel day (Tuesday, November 3rd). We awoke at 4am after three hours of sleep to load up all of our luggage and run to the airport. We crashed in bed (which [...]

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Close to Departure

Dear Friends,
We are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for our move to Peru. We will finish itineration in less than two weeks, and then it is time for packing. Everything is still going well with the visa process. We have reason to [...]

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Peruvian Visa Process Begun

Dear friends,
Things are visibly wrapping up now. We were blessed to itinerate in Arizona over the last several weeks. While here, we completed one part of our visa application-the apostille process for two of the children’s birth certificates. We have to travel to the Peruvian consulate in Chicago next to get another [...]

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90% Budget Raised-Preparing to Leave

Friends,
We are so close to finishing up deputation/itineration! Thanks for all the prayers. Our next step is to make the big move to Lima, Peru to finalize our resident visas. God has really blessed us with some great helpers in Lima. In July or August we plan to make a trip [...]

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75% and counting!

We have just wrapped up our final missions services for 2008 and are somewhere around 75% of our needed monthly support. We are now pausing as we await Judith’s final month of pregnancy and allow her time to recuperate after the birth before we begin itineration in 2009.
We plan to be itinerating in part [...]

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Praise Report - Hitting the 70% Mark!

The Lord has continued to speak to saints across this country regarding supporting our ministry on a monthly basis. We have now surpassed the 70% mark, meaning we have received pledges that slightly exceed 70% of our needed monthly support budget to begin resident missionary ministry in PerĂº.
Thank you everyone for your prayers and [...]

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Itinerating USA

Hello to all our friends. We have begun to get the word out that we are heading for PerĂº. Our newsletters will be mailed out on this coming Monday giving a lot more information. Thanks to all who have prayed for us as we have sought the Lord. Now that we [...]

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Venezuela Trip Delayed

As published through our e-newsletter in January, I (Joe) had hoped to make a trip with Bro. Akers to Venezuela during the latter part of February to visit the work he founded, and which we assisted him prior to our departure from that country. Now it is evident that [...]

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