Peruvian Finger Puppets that need a good home

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GREAT FOR TEACHING AIDS, BIBLE STORIES, TOYS, and more! (Hey, it’s Christmas in July)!

David’s parents are in Cusco and will be with us until the 15th and have generously agreed to bring back some finger puppets from Cusco to cut down on shipping costs if we mailed them ourselves. If interested the prices are follows:
Individual puppets =$2 each
Pack of 5=$8
Pack of 10=$15
Plus $2 for shipping on all orders

**All puppets will be chosen at random because I can’t guarantee that my Peruvian friends have specific animals/characters.**

Orders can be emailed to me: Jennifer.a.weed@gmail.com.
Please include a mailing address per order so that your puppets can come to your house.
You may pay via PayPal by clicking on our yellow “partner with us” button located on our “partner with us” page. **please add an additional 3% to your order to include for Paypal fees**

You have until July 14th at 9:00am EST to place your order.

My in laws will return to SC on the 15th and I will give her the mailing addresses and she will ship them to you. One MUST pay beforehand 🙂 thanks for your overwhelming support and love friends!

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Family in Pucamarca with Spirit-Led Expeditions

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David and I got a chance to catch up with some of our family in the village communities of Chinchero and Pucamarca last night. For about 9 months, Spirit-Led Expeditions (ran by our friends, Eric Lovin and Jen Smith) have seen God do amazing things in such a short period of time. 9 months ago they sent a short-term team from Georgia, USA to share the Gospel and spend a week serving in this community. They witnessed Pucamarca having no discipleship classes or training for believers, little to no church involvement and no growth. There was nothing going on in this town.

Fast forward 9 months: God has connected Eric and Jen with Pastor Ciriaco (a pastor in Chinchero), together with Pastor C they have graduated a class of 15-20 youth/adults from their 13-week discipleship program, they are starting on a 2nd level discipleship class, the community President of Pucamarca has joined their group, they have all-night prayer vigils once a week, volunteers in the class are stepping up to lead outreaches and kid’s Bible studies and the community is planning to run a soup-kitchen to feed their own village. God did this in 9 months. That same group from Georgia is coming back this summer and the Lord is going to show them so much harvest and fruit from their previous efforts!

Baby Andrea

 

This is Pastor C’s newest addition: 5 month old Andrea! I got to hold baby girl for an hour. She was super entertained by my “gringa skin” and a sleeve of plastic cups. Pastor C’s 4-year old daughter, Rebekah, is peeking around the corner.

Last night we got to meet with two very enthusiastic teenagers: brothers, Elisban and Joel. These guys are on fire for the Lord and very “wise beyond their years”. The Lord is so creative in how he is using youth to transform communities like Pucamarca and the rest of the world!

Thanks Eric and Jen for inviting us out to see what God is doing in Chinchero and Pucamarca! We are so excited for you guys and for the Quechua coming to Christ! God is moving!!

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Left to right: Eric, Joel, Celia (his mom), Elisban and David

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Jen Smith helps Julio (Joel and Elisban’s little brother) read a chapter in Esther

 

Welcome to Winter

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It’s FREEZING in Cusco! Our seasons are opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, so we’re bundling up in layers in Cusco, while our friends back home are all transitioning into a summer at the beach.

Image 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.

Love Coffee?

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100% Organic, 100% Peruvian

We are taking pre-orders for 1-lb. bags of 100% organic, Arabic-blend, Peruvian coffee from now through May 15th. $16 a bag (both whole beans and grounds available). *We are only bringing home coffee to the States for orders that have paid by May 15th.* You may place orders through our PayPal button  (also on our “Partnering with Us” page.) Please specify the quantity and if you would like whole beans or grounds. Also, add your mailing address so that we may ship it to you if you do not live in the state of South Carolina. (We will bring your coffee to the US the first week of June). Thank you for your support! Buy one for yourself or bless a friend this month : )