I’d say that it’s Winter weather. We’ve skipped autumn completely. And Cusco lacks our favorite “pumpkin spice” flavor at this time of year.

Speaking of coffee….A HUGE thank you to everyone who supported us by purchasing coffee over the past few weeks! We think it was a successful fundraiser this time around to pay for some of our traveling expenses when we go home to South Carolina for a month. If you are a little sad that you didn’t purchase coffee this time around, no worries; we will do it again the next time we plan another trip home.

Over the past few weeks YWAM Cusco staff has been getting together promotional materials together to advertise our September DTS. We are about to start a HopeMob campaign to crowd-fund for some of our necessary expenses to run the school (ex. books, classroom tables and chairs, and the bunk beds for the girls’ apartment). Praise: we were able to buy mattresses to outfit the bunk beds in the 3rd floor (boys’ apartment for DTS)! If you feel led to contribute to our school needs for this coming September DTS, please let us know and we can direct you on how to do that.

PRAISES:

1. We’ve had a lot of interest in our bilingual DTS for this fall. This includes Peruvians and international students from all over the world who have been contacting us about our school.

2. Kristina, from YWAM Cartagena (Colombia), came to visit us this week to encourage us and share her vision of Cartagena’s School of Strategic Missions. Super encouraging to see Latinos mobilizing to work in the Middle East and Asia. They are able to work and spread the Gospel where most Americans or Europeans cannot.

 Kristina, who leads School of Strategic Missions in Cartagena, Colombia (she lead an outreach team of Latinos to work in India)

3. David and I have been doing “treasure hunts” (or prayer outreaches) in the city every Tuesday.  We’ve seen a lot of fruit being able to intercede for people and the city of Cusco. We have also made friends with a few of the street vendors who are starting to recognize us each week and start friendships with them.

Prayer Points:

1. Pray for the students beginning to apply for DTS.

2. Pray for more staff to join us (especially for Latino/as).

3. Our landlord, Roque, is in the process of purchasing land/house for us to rent. Pray that all of the paperwork will be released in his name by the end of the month and for speedy repairs on the house so that it will be move-in ready by the end of August.

4. Pray that our time home in SC will be a time of rest and a time of encouragement. We don’t want to exhaust ourselves when this is supposed to be a vacation.