Mission partner with Strandtown & Holywood Baptist
J-D Lovell and Peter Lockhart on mission trip to Peru.
J-D Lovell and Peter Lockhart on mission trip to Peru.
Follow their trip on
PERU-VISION.blogspot.com
We have both finished packing, and when you get to
read this we will soon be or are flying out to Peru.
We have been asked to do a prayer letter.
Not just that you know what we are up to,
or that we get to tell you of the great time we are having,
but because this trip is an opportunity to really get involved in what God wants us to do, Mission. Because of this we
need all the prayer so that we can do our best to serve God and bless others over there in Arequipa City with the kids of New Hope Children’s Home.
Thanks for all the donations. I am happy to say that I have donations for all the homes and youth work that I will visit in Peru & Colombia. Peter Lockhart will be with me in the first home. Please pray for:
· Safe journey to Arequipa. As we have four flights to catch, so much could go wrong.
· That we both get in to the hang of Spanish and the culture of the place.
· That we get settled in to the home quickly and our roles as interns.
· Health and Safety in Peru for us and the youth that we will be with.
· We will be with four other interns from U.S.A. That we all get on well and work together.
· That we allow Christ to get more centred in our lives and that this may affect what we do.
· That our time out there will be a blessing to the home and ourselves.
I want to quote a bit from the New Hope Ministries’ news letter from this past December.
“Who are the children and how have they suffered, how do we receive them or choose which ones to receive, what happens when we have to turn a child down, how do we help them heal through their hurts? I want to dedicate a part of this letter to answer some questions about our children, and help you understand better the work of New Hope Children`s Home.”
“The phone rings and on the other line is a judge from the village of Hunter. He has a 10 year old boy that was found abandoned… could we take him in? We are so full right now and have no beds available. We have to say we will get back to him if we are able to. We hang up the phone, and not 5 minutes later another calls… they have 4 children, 2 girls and 2 boys from 2 years old to 12 years old with no father and abandoned by their mother… could we please help them. I talk to Debbie and we just cry because we know this is only Monday… there may be more requests before the week ends.”
“How do we decide which children to take in? This is so difficult… You see, how do you say no to a frightened 10 year old boy… or to a family of 4 children abandoned by their mother?? In the last 13 years since we began New Hope we have lost count, but we have had to turn down at least 1500 children…”
So again please pray for us as we help and be part of the lives in New Hope children’s Home. I ask you to pray for David and Debbie Bolos the directors, especially for Debbie as she has been taken very ill and had to be taken back to the U.S., so they will not be there for most of the time we are there. So more prayer for the team and workers as we serve our lord with the kids.
You can download the New Hope newsletter from the blog and any of our updates. Prayer letters will come every month.
read this we will soon be or are flying out to Peru.
We have been asked to do a prayer letter.
Not just that you know what we are up to,
or that we get to tell you of the great time we are having,
but because this trip is an opportunity to really get involved in what God wants us to do, Mission. Because of this we
need all the prayer so that we can do our best to serve God and bless others over there in Arequipa City with the kids of New Hope Children’s Home.Thanks for all the donations. I am happy to say that I have donations for all the homes and youth work that I will visit in Peru & Colombia. Peter Lockhart will be with me in the first home. Please pray for:
· Safe journey to Arequipa. As we have four flights to catch, so much could go wrong.
· That we both get in to the hang of Spanish and the culture of the place.
· That we get settled in to the home quickly and our roles as interns.
· Health and Safety in Peru for us and the youth that we will be with.
· We will be with four other interns from U.S.A. That we all get on well and work together.
· That we allow Christ to get more centred in our lives and that this may affect what we do.
· That our time out there will be a blessing to the home and ourselves.
I want to quote a bit from the New Hope Ministries’ news letter from this past December.
“Who are the children and how have they suffered, how do we receive them or choose which ones to receive, what happens when we have to turn a child down, how do we help them heal through their hurts? I want to dedicate a part of this letter to answer some questions about our children, and help you understand better the work of New Hope Children`s Home.”
“The phone rings and on the other line is a judge from the village of Hunter. He has a 10 year old boy that was found abandoned… could we take him in? We are so full right now and have no beds available. We have to say we will get back to him if we are able to. We hang up the phone, and not 5 minutes later another calls… they have 4 children, 2 girls and 2 boys from 2 years old to 12 years old with no father and abandoned by their mother… could we please help them. I talk to Debbie and we just cry because we know this is only Monday… there may be more requests before the week ends.”
“How do we decide which children to take in? This is so difficult… You see, how do you say no to a frightened 10 year old boy… or to a family of 4 children abandoned by their mother?? In the last 13 years since we began New Hope we have lost count, but we have had to turn down at least 1500 children…”
So again please pray for us as we help and be part of the lives in New Hope children’s Home. I ask you to pray for David and Debbie Bolos the directors, especially for Debbie as she has been taken very ill and had to be taken back to the U.S., so they will not be there for most of the time we are there. So more prayer for the team and workers as we serve our lord with the kids.
You can download the New Hope newsletter from the blog and any of our updates. Prayer letters will come every month.
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