Hello friends!
Since the middle of May Martin and I have been in Canada where we are getting ready for our wedding (which is just 12 days away!) and making connections with churches where we are planning to hold information nights. My mom has been keeping Martin busy in the garden where he is learning lots of new skills, and I am learning new organizational skills and making lots and lots of phone calls! We are enjoying our time here, but we are also missing our friends in Peru.
We started a Sunday school program in Huaricolca shortly before leaving, and it has been taken over by our friends Karina and Oscar, who recently got married! Karina and Oscar are both teachers and are members of the church we are working with. They are a great help to us, and also great friends. So even though we are here, the work we began is continuing, and we plan to jump right back in once we return to Peru, which will be on July 13th.
Thank you for keeping in touch with us, hopefully we will see some of you on this trip, some of you we may already have seen! If you'd like to talk with us while we're home in Canada, please email me, or call me at my mom's house!
God bless you!
Our land!
Ok, it needs to be flattened out and the hole filled in, but that's ok! It starts at the tiny green bush and goes back further than the white temporary bathroom, and goes over to the trees which you can't really see. It's definantly big enough, and it was donated by the municipality!
Our land and our neighbours!
The church was recently built with the help of a team from the US, and the hole beside it is where our building will go!
And the knot gets tied!
June 20,2009
Sunday school kick off party in Huaricolca
In April we had a party to kick off the Sunday school program that we are starting in Tarma. The church has been in existence there for about 10 years but this is the first time there has been a regular children´s program.
Playing games at the party
Treat bags from Canada
We were able to buy these for the party with the money raised at my Mom´s birthday party. Thanks very much!
Treat bags at the party in Huaricolca
mmm, the only kind of useful Canadian money in Peru!
School kids in Huaricolca
Ticlio (the highest point on the road from Lima to Tarma)
The altitude here is 4669 metres above sea level. We were dizzy when we got out to take pictures here. There was lots of snow and it was very cold here!
From Lima to Tarma
This trip is just beautiful. I am in awe of God's amazing Andes mountains.
Jeison
One of the little guys from Ayas.
Ayas
We are helping with Sunday school in Ayas, a nearby farm town. There were about 25 kids and this was the second week. These kids are shy but excited and eager to learn and play.
The Andes
This is on the road to Huancayo, which is about 2 hours from Tarma. We went here on a day trip.
The road to Huancayo
People working in their field
Kids either hang out at home alone while their parents are working in the fields, or they go to work with them.
Martin learning to weave!
This guy is a weaving artist! He is willing to come and teach our kids.
A view of Huaricolca
Who are we?
- Denise and Martin
- Denise is a Canadian who visited Peru and fell in love with the children there, and also with Martin! Denise is a teacher from Ontario, but now lives in Tarma as a missionary and is working on setting up Centro Ruhamah, together with Martin. Martin is from Lima, Peru, where for five years he was a professional taxi driver. He is fearless in the face of traffic, but turns into a clown when faced with children. He has a deep love for the kids of his country and in addition to making them laugh, his desire (and Denise's too) is to show them God's love and help them have a better life.
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