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.