To be Christ to the WHOSOEVER

I want to go ahead and apologize for not updating sooner. I know that there are a good many parents watching this blog for a post about how we are doing here in Peru, including everyone in the Summit Nation family at home.

Let me tell you what God is doing here in Huarochiri, Peru.

We arrived in Huarochiri Monday evening around 7:30pm or so, and ate beef and noodles (which we just had again about 10 minutes ago). Then we discussed the next day´s events and went to sleep.

Tuesday, Kevin and Pollett´s teams (Twinkie, Alyssa, Brandon, Whitney, Trey, and Rebecca) went to San Lorenzo de Quinti, a town about 45 minutes drive from Huarochiri and they were able to meet some people in the town and begin to build some future relationships with them as well.

My team (Gloria, Amber, Shebly, Sonja, Christie, Ricky, Jacob, and Michael) split into two teams as well and the smaller team (Ricky, Christie, Sonja, and myself) went to the hospital to meet with Dr. Anna. We were able to deliver 70+ toothbrushes for the dentist office (which is in the hospital) to distribute. The other team went to the Elementary school and were able to begin playing soccer and basketball with the children. After our small team met up with them we had a conversation with the principal and setup a time for Wednesday that we could come back.

We then went to prayer walk around the town of Huarochiri, and some of the team played with children, while Ricky and myself met with the local priest. He basically asked us "Why are you here?", and we responded well, enough for him to allow us to continue to work in the town and minister to the people to share the love of Christ.

After that, we all gathered in the square and played soccer, freeze tag, and hide and go seek with around 50 children. One of the women at the end of playing said "Thank so much for playing with the kids, our children have not played like this for a long time". Which was really encouraging to hear. We then went to the high school where we were basically told that we were not welcome there, and then went to prayer walk around again.

Today we went to the school at 8am and were able to go into each individual classroom and present the gospel to the kids! Which is amazing to be allowed to do that! Kevin and Pollett´s team went down to another village: Ayucupa (sp?), and had an amazing time with some people, but will be going to San Lorenzo again tomorrow to play soccer with the kids there.

Tomorrow my team will be heading back to the Elementary school to hike up the mountains and have a field day of sorts. We were able to provide food for lunch for tomorrow for the children, and should be there from 8am to 3:30pm tomorrow, followed by soccer with the adults at 4:30pm. Most likely, we will play in the square again tomorrow.

Friday morning we will be heading back to Lima to have some time to rest and have some fun as well.

Saturday night we will board the plane and head back home to arrive in Charleston between 12pm and 4pm (allowing time for traffic).

There are phones here in Huarochiri, and I know some of the students have contacted their parents. Most of them have facebooked people, and they are taking many pictures and videos (enough that you will be able to experience the culture entirely). : )

Some people have gotten a little sick, minor stomach aches, sunburns, bug bites, etc, but everyone is doing very well, especially those who have never been out of the country or even on a missions trip.

I would like to thank everyone that supported this trip by giving financially, and in your time, but mostly in your prayer. People are being ministered to here, and we believe that Summit with God´s help can do the work of the Lord here and see these people join in a relationship with Christ.

We do miss everyone, and we long to be home of course (we are very tired), but as Paul would say "we are fulfilling what is lacking in Christ suffering" for their benefit. So that while they cannot "see" Jesus walking around, we pray that they would see us and know Him.

Thanks again, and I´ll update as soon as possible (though I don´t know when that will be). : )

Nicholas and the Peru Team
Summit Church