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!

Semester Missionaries in Recuay

This week in the Huaylas Valley we welcomed 2 young ladies and their translator who will be serving in Recuay until early December. They will continue the work of the summer missionaries and look for new opportunities.
Pray for Becca and Meagan and their translator Carmen as they adjust to the new culture. Also pray for them to build relationships with the adults and children as they make disciples.

Lifepoint and Chillicothe

Today a team of 5 and their translators are making their way to the Cordillera Negra. They will be serving in Pararin, Tapacocha and Cotaparaco for the next few days. This will be a vision trip of sorts for the group from Chillicothe. Pray for Jonathan, Carly, Charles, Cole and Terry as well as their translators Javier and Jerry. Pray they will connect with the people and identify more people hungering for God. Pray for the Chillicothe team as they learn the culture and seek to determine if these places are where God wants them to serve.
(above is a photo of the mountains in the area)

Carhuaz ~ Universal City and National Partners

Tonight a team from FBC-Universal City, TX arrived in Carhuaz. They will be serving alongside national partners from the Church in Lima and Carhuaz. A number of translators will be assisting them for the next 5 days. While there they will split into 10 groups to evangelize and assist with the local food program. Universal City has been working in this area for several years and is now in the process of passing the ministry off to local Believers.
Pray that the local Believers will catch the vision and continue the ministry without outside assistance.
(Shown above is a dance group at one of the many fiestas and below are some of the translators that will be serving.)

Pray for the New President of Perú

Today, Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso, will take the oath of office and become the new president of Perú.
“Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence” (1 Timothy 2:1-2).

Also, pray that all people will come to know that our hope is not in government or men, but in Christ.