Lifepoint Church (Ohio) to Pararin, Tapacocha and Cotaparaco

This weekend a team of 6 from Lifepoint church and their translator Fernando will arrive and be working in the Cordillera Negra.
The team has asked that you pray with them for the following:
1. To establish healthy relationships with new government officials in our villages.
2. God would provide places to stay in all three villages that we hope to minister to.
3. That we would be be able to quickly determine Gods activity and join Him in what he is doing in the villages.

(Pictured above from high on the mountain, the villages of Cotaparaco and Tapacocha can be seen. PHOTO CREDIT - Carly Frazier)

Ingleside to Santa Cruz, Huaylas and Macate

On Sunday the Ingleside team (Carter, , Jaime & Mijail)  will be traveling down the valley and then back into the mountains to visit pastors and leaders in churches they have partnered with over the past years. We’ll be going to the Santa Cruz district, then Huaylas and on to Macate and Huanroc. The team requests you pray for them as follows:
“We are planning to do pastor encouragement, training and discipleship on this trip in response to the Great Commission. In addition, we will be planning the January Pastors conference as well as introducing the pastors/ leaders in Macate to "Training Pastors International", which is a 4-year seminary actually on site in Macate. Please pray that the Holy Spirit would be at work among these pastors and leaders.”

Thanks to those who pray!

Special Prayer Request

Today I have a special prayer request. Recently we had 2 of our short term missionaries in Recuay discover a very distressing situation in a village near where they were working. It involves 4 little girls who have had a serious skin condition since birth. The children have unsightly blisters and scaling about there bodies. They are cousins with 3 from one family and 1 from another. For now, the parents of the 3 have declined any help. We have arranged for the other girl to go with her parents and a national missionary to Lima for diagnosis and treatment.
I have included 2 photos. One is of Elisabet who is 8 years old. She apparently attended school for a short period of time but was teased by her classmates and now no longer attends. She is extremely shy and the smile you see in the photo is very rare. In a way, she will going to see the doctor for her cousin's also since it seems likely they suffer from the same problem. The other photo is of María, the national missionary who will assist them in Lima. She serves in Yungay for now but hopes to serve in Africa one day.

Please pray for:
1. Safe travel to Lima
2. Wisdom for María as she guides the family to their appointments.
3. Comfort to the parents and Elisabet as they encounter the big city of Lima.
4. Wisdom and discernment on the part of the doctor's as they try to diagnose the problem.

Thanks so much to those of you who faithfully pray....and to Victor C., Erick J. and Mindy for helping make this happen, ALL of you are numero 1!