Team Carter's Big Adventure

This week, the Lord has been giving me (Jen) a lot of awesome, but crazy dreams and the interpretations of them, so that’s been really neat to dive into this week.  Spent “Prayer for the City” (PFC) night doing what we do best, praying for the city and worshipping together.  It seemed way appropriate since we forgot that Wednesday was Halloween (until we got out of language school and the Plaza was filled with little kids trick-or-treating at the tourist stores).  It made us miss trick-or-treating as kids, but then later one of our missionary friends that came to PFC (who has been a missionary kid in the jungles of Peru her whole life) informed us of what really happens in Peru on the 3-day festival of Halloween, Day of the Living and Day of the Dead. In a nutshell, we heard of lot of creepy things of the enemy that happen (which isn’t worth repeating here) and instead we wanted to give God all of the glory (since he has dominion over these days anyway)! As we worshipped, an incredible peace filled the house almost to the point of all of us falling asleep (YES!).  Most of you will be familiar with this because of the email that we sent out and now we’re going to tell you how God answered those prayers. So get ready to exercise your faith muscles and enjoy!

On Thursday (the day after Halloween) David and another person on staff, David Snyder, went on a faith adventure because God wanted them to try and find a boy and a family in a village that David S. went to last year. They had a general idea of where the village was but not the name of the village or even the boys name.  All they had was a cell phone picture of the boy and a general idea of where the village was (near the airport).  They took a taxi part-way past the airport  and walked up into mountains, through brush on a winding trail over hills and through villages leaving the city behind, praying the whole time for God to show them the right place and asking many along the way if they recognized the boy.

After a light rain and 3 hours of walking, they came to the village of Willcarpay (sounds like “will-co-pie”) and asked a group of boys if they knew the kid and they said, “Yeah, that’s the kid in the house over there.” They found the house, David S. got nipped by a dog but the same kid and his twin sister recognized David S. immediately and ran up to him.

They played with him (Anderson) and his sister, Jackie. God rewarded their faithfulness with an incredible adventure and an amazing lunch of cooked corn and beans in a chili sauce and a tour of the families cui (guinea pig) farm. People like these are often time the most affected by the horrific things that go on as a result of the Kingdom of Darkness. Based in relationship (really big for us), this demonstrates that in situations where there are those willing to walk in faith and be obedient there is no such thing as small impact.

Shining Bright, Team Carter