When God moves.....

    What a blessing it was to be a part of our first youth event at the Oasis Youth Center! The church from Iquitos put on quite the event for the youth here in Nauta. There were short dramas, interpretive dances, a short sermon, and lots of music.  The attendance started out a little low but in typical jungle fashion as the dramas began and the volume of the music was raised the people started to come to see what was happening at the old “Oasis disco tek”. When it was all said and done there was around 100 youth and adults getting to witness what God had done with what was once a bar. At the end of the event there was eight people who received Christ.  After praying with these eight I was talking to one of them who happened to be a bit older than the rest. He told me that he used to frequent the Oasis bar quite often and had just happened to be walking by this night and saw what we had going on. It interested him so he came in and was touched by the Holy Spirit and received Christ and wants to turn his life around. What a mighty God we serve and what a blessing it is to see His work being done.

    Preparations continue for our travel to language school in November. This will be a month long school which is located in the southern part of Peru. We are extremely excited about going to this school and getting better with the language.  After a year of immersion, we feel God is telling us the next step is getting into a structured language school setting and learning how to put the vocabulary together so we can better our communication skills.

   Thanks for the continued prayers and we look forward to updating you soon.

Through the eyes of a child.....

So today Carmen made this awesome video. It is her outlook of what the last year in our family has been like. What an amazing gift to see our journey through her eyes. To see what matters most to her. I see family, friends, animals, and lots and lots of joy, laughter, and smiles. Through all our worries and struggles of the past year...this is what stands out. I love this amazing girl and am humbled by her  daily. I also love the song she chose to explain this video...Appreciated! Please watch this video and enjoy our journey through her eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGtOHbOJ1Rk

Jungle update

It’s been quite a while since we have made any updates here, so here goes to fixing that problem. At the end of last week Amy and I (Joel) came down with some sort of stomach flu type thing that had us both captive to either the bed or the bathroom. I am feeling much better now and Amy seemed to be on the mend also until BAM! Yesterday she seemed to have been struck again. We’re hoping this time its only for the day. Carmen took it all in stride and continued to do her schoolwork, and help take care of her sick parents. We love that girl’s independence.

There is a vocational institute here in Nauta that teaches different classes such as tourism, secretarial, and agricultural, as well as other trades. Part of the tourism class is that they teach the students English. We were invited by the teacher and have begun to help teach the English part of this class. Along with us helping teach English the teacher has agreed to work with us on our Spanish.

Our prayer for the youth center has been that other people would catch our vision for reaching the youth here in Nauta and if this were going to happen it would need to be done through local people. In other words we have a building you can use, we can help with the program, but culturally we need help to come up with a program that will work for them. Well, This Saturday there is a team of 20 youth coming out from a church in Iquitos to put on an event for the youth here in Nauta. They plan on showing up here around 2pm and will head out into the town to round up and invite the youth to come. The program will begin at 5 and run for approximately 1 ½ hrs. This is a huge blessing and a direct answer to prayer. They’re bringing the program, we’re providing the building.

October Newsletter

So we finally got our newsletter completed! Click on the link below to read how God is using Junglemaster here in Peru.

McGee October Newsletter