Almost time to go!!

July 11, 2010

Dear Friends,

We are less than one week away from our mission trip to Trujillo, Peru. It is amazing how quickly the time has passed since we first began planning this. Saturday morning, we will meet with the rest of the team, carpool to Charlotte, board a plane to New Jersey, change flights to Lima, Peru, and then, after collecting our luggage, spend the next 10-12 hours on a bus traveling through the night up the coast to Trujillo. And that’s just Day 1. Then the real work begins!

When we get to Trujillo, we’ll meet with some of the interns for Inca Link who will give us our schedule for the week. We know that our time will be distributed between working on the construction site building the orphanage and accompanying house, playing with the kids in the daycare, and working in the local dump. I think we both have our parts we’re looking forward to the most; for me - the construction work and for David – the daycare. (Yes, I’m totally serious on both parts!) But I’m guessing that it won’t be so easy to separate our favorite parts when we return. We’re going with no expectations other than to be used by God in service to the Peruvians in the community, and in the process of helping them do whatever they need from us, I think any expectations we could form will be exceeded. More than stunning scenery or daring back road adventures, I suspect that, as clichéd as it sounds, our strongest memories we bring back from this trip will be the expressions on the faces of our new friends we get to work with, both Peruvian and gringo :)
But how will you know? I hope to send out an update on our trip shortly after our return and let you know what all was accomplished while we were there. I’ll try to have some pictures, too, so you can see what we were working on and for whom. We can’t wait to meet them!

If you have sponsored us financially, thank you so much for making this possible! If you would like to but haven’t done so yet, there is still time. We have almost, but not quite, reached our goal of $4500 for the two of us. You can just send a check made out to Alliance Bible Fellowship for any amount, and be sure to put "Amy and David’s Peru trip" in the memo line. For everyone who is supporting us in prayer right now, we are equally grateful to you. We ask that you continue to lift up our team and the people to whom we will be ministering while we are gone.

We can’t wait to get there, and we know that our ten brief days in Peru will fly quickly by, but we’re praying to make the most of every minute we have there and share as much joy and love as divinely possible. Thank you for joining us on this journey!

Through His Love,
Amy and David