Peru Part 1-the journey there

What a week. The Lord is so sweet to us. Despite the fact we deserve the wrath of God, He instead showers us with His love and favor. You are too sweet, Lord.

So we arrived in Lima at midnight the first night only to wake up to a terrible earthquake that had hit Japan. (http://www.operationworld.org/japa) Watc

hing the news as houses and animals were caught up in a terrible amount of debris on TV, a warning issued along with it that a possible Tsunami could make its way to the South American Coast by 8pm that night. But in the Lord's sovereignty, it did not hit the coast of Lima hard by any means and only the beach itself was closed to disappointed surfers.

So with tsunami warnings out of our head we trekked 8 hours by van up over the Andes mountains East of Lima into the jungles of Peru. I'm told if we had gone a little further East we would of been caught up in the jungles of Brazil. Needless to say, an adventure like I'd never experience awaited us. and God just keeps getting bigger.

I'll tell more tomorrow :). But I feel there is so much to write about this story better come in pieces! But He sure did amazing things on this trip. Changed our hearts and hopefully broke them for a new people. Can't wait to tell you all more when I'm more awake and if not for your own interest, then at least a reminder to me at how strong the God I serve is.

thanks Benton

y'all miss me yet? gosh. it's been so long since i last wrote! thankfully though, i have not fallen off the face of the earth...

anyhow. just wanted to share a little bit about His faithfulness! Last Sunday I went to and spoke at a small town church in Benton, Alabama. You don't know where it is? I didn't either.... But amazingly the Spirit knew and showed up and showed out.

After sharing my story that night, and without asking, the 15 adult memebers in attendance, and possibly 15 children, took up a love offering. At the end they said, "here's some gas money".

wow, i thought. after a quick glance i read $127.00. amazing that 15 people gave that much. that's almost 10$ a person

crazy enough. i didn't read the check right. and low and behold 2 days later I saw the check again. I was a little off, as they had given me $1,270.00. WHAT?! incredible! and the awesome thing was that was the exact amount needed for both my Peru trip and a conference in Orlando that I planned to attend this next week. How incredible and sweet of the Lord! And how amazing that this church, this body, listened to the Spirit and gave obediently! Oh He is sooo soo good to me! What a sweet reminder of His provision for me financially even though what He did for me on the cross was always enough. Such a Mighty God we serve!