Robert came home from Chincha, a city hit the worse by the earthquake last August, and told me about a beautiful little girl named Carol.  He said that something was wrong with her, she couldn’t walk or talk though she is…

We just finished an incredible week of ministry in Chincha.  We cleaned up rubble in Pastor Desi’s church and Compassion project compound from his house and classrooms.  Then we went to a baby church from this church’s pastor’s home and…

Our youngest daughter, Kelsey, was married this summer in both a civil ceremony and later in a christian wedding.  The civil (official) wedding must be done first before the christian wedding is allowed.  That is the way they do things in Peru.   Ricky…

As our ministry team walked around Santa Domingo with members of the church, we knocked on doors and talked to folks we came in contact with.   We approached an old man standing on the street to share Christ’s love…

After such an unusual Christmas experience in Peru, I kept asking people how they celebrate Easter here.   I mostly got blank faces.    A peruana from the Villa El Salvador church said that those who don’t know Jesus drink…

Sunday Robert and I returned to the Christian Missionary Alliance church about 4 blocks from our apartment.  An elderly couple share the pupit, in the English speaking service, once a month.  I missed their previous sermon.  Antonio spoke on the first few…

On February 28th the Lord gave us the precious gift of our first grandchild, Eliora Marie Thomas.  Eliora means, “God is our light”.  She waited until Kelsey and I returned to Connecticut from Peru on the 18th of February, and…

God has blessed us with a home of our own.   On January 10th we moved into an apartment in San Luis, Lima.    It is on the 4th floor of a 4 story apartment building.   Though it was built…

On the 31st, Robert and I visited a Christian Missionary Alliance Church 2 blocks from Ricky’s house that has a noon service in English.   It was their 3rd service of the day, the others being in Spanish.   There…