Hilda and Gordan

Jill and I had the opportunity to visit one of the hospitals in Arequipa last week.  Here is our experience in Jill’s words.  …”One of our 40/40’s (college age missionaries), Nohemy went in for surgery on her foot.  I went to visit her and toured the hospital and the pediatric department.  As we visited one of the children and his mother, I saw a deep look of despair on her face.   The next day, I woke up for my early morning prayer and felt the Lord speaking me to go back and talk again with the mother and ask her how I could pray with her. 

When Robin and I visited with her and asked how we could pray-her eyes began to tear up as she shared how she had recently lost two brothers, and now her sister was in the hospital across town and her son, Gordan was there on the pediatric floor recovering from cleft palate surgery.”

Gordan is pictured in the photos and has several other medical problems, including still being unable to walk at the age of 18 months old.  Jill shared the plan of salvation using the EvangeCube, Hilda listened intently.  We prayed with her and Jill asked if she would be open to a home visit from some of the 40/40 missionaries.  She responded positively and stated that she doesn’t have many family members nearby.

Jill, Mapi and Henerietta have since visited Hilda in her very modest home.  She is very open to learning more about God and the Bible.  She is eager for her husband to attend church with her.  She is now meeting weekly with the 40/40’s and finishing her lessons out before the next week.  PLEASE say a pray for Hilda, Gordan and her family as you read this.  She is one of many whose lives are being touched by God via your support and PRAYERS.

Serving Him with you,

The Watters

Now for the rest of the story...

If you were able to make it to the end of my loud, bumpy, amateur video I'm sure you noticed what looked like Tom digging a grave!

After our church service in Morro Negro we were walking down a dirt road, lit only by the moon...which we decided was God's flashlight.  We heard some commotion at the side of the road and when we got to the edge of the road and looked down, we saw about 4 or 5 Peruvians attempting to get a VERY large cow out of a ditch.  The legs of the cow were buckled under her and she could not move.  Tom and Kurt got down in the ditch to help push, not a car, but a cow to a place of mobility.  It took at least 30 minutes of heavy pushing with a few other Peruvians stopping to help.  They dug and pushed this cow with much effort out of the mud and ditch.  A small side note that the pictures do not show, is that we think the cow was also constipated...at least,  mucho gas.  As you could see in the previous video post, these cows are this community's livelihood and they were very grateful to finally have their cow unstuck.  While riding back to the main road on the back of a flat bed truck of total Peruvian strangers, and God's flashlight still shining, Tom thought of Matthew 12:11&12 "He said to them, if any of you has a sheep (or cow?) and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?  How much more valuable is a man than a sheep!  Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath." 
Encouraging you to find 'your cow' that God places in front of you and "do good", this next Sabbath...and know that it can be smelly and messy at times!

The Watters

Our First Church Service in Peru

Tickets are booked!

We want to thank you all for your prayer and financial support.  We also wanted to let you know that we will be leaving Boise early July 4^th and arriving in Lima, the capital of Peru, the  evening of July 4^th at about 11:30pm. 

Thank you so much for getting us this far in the journey.  Even though we are truly just beginning, the last few months have been quite a journey in themselves.

 

Our prayer requests:  renters for our home, home for our dog, Roxy….oh, and maybe a little sanity thru the next few weeks!  :)

Praise: funding and peace thru the process

Financial update: Our monthly expenses are now covered in pledges.  In addition to our monthly costs, we have about $9,000 in one time fees, which include the Spanish language training that we’ll be taking the first 3 months we’re there, apartment set-up and plane tickets home.  We will be working on raising this amount over the next two years. 

Trusting Him,

The Watters

Psalm 143:8

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
   for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
   for to you I entrust my life.

Waiting and Wanting to GO!

Many of you have asked how the fundraising is going for the Peru ministry.

We need about $450 more per month… so we have a ways to go, in a short amount of time.

We have had to delay our departure date until God further supplies, perhaps through

many of you.  If most of you can give at least $25 per month for two years,

you will be able to help send us on our way to start fulfilling God’s mission for us in Peru.

We need YOUR help to partner with us…TODAY!  Please don’t think that others will

just do it and what you could give would not really help, because IT WILL!

How do you donate?

Go to:  extremenazarene.org/watters

Click on the donate button and you will be able to enter information and amount along with the date you want to start your giving. MONTHLY   sponsorships will sustain us through the two years. All funds are for missional use only.

                                                  How do you keep up to date on our ministry?

                                      Go to: http://journeywiththewatters.blogspot.com/

                                                and click the follow tab on the right side (email or Google connect)

extremenazarene.org/watters

PERU UPDATE

Answering the call of God on our lives to go to Peru has not been an overnight decision. We have deliberated, prayed and talked to many people. It seemed like a strange decision to uproot our family and quit our jobs when things were going well. But God continued to pursue.  We looked at our family and our own personal desires and said, “Are you sure, God?”  Still, we have not been able to get away from the fact of His call on our lives. So, we will be going to Peru. We still need your help to get there. There are a few things we’d like you to know.

The Church of the Nazarene endorses Extreme Nazarene and the work they are doing in South America..  However, each Extreme missionary is responsible for raising all their own funding.   We would like to share with you where we are right now financially.

We are a little over 60% of the way to having what we need to support a family of five in South America. We still need to raise  $20,000.. We plan to leave the USA on June 15^th, but can’t until we reach at least 80% our financial support goal. 

 “Reoccurring” donations from those who would commit to support us monthly for two years are very appreciated. If you decide to partner with us in this mission to Peru, click the DONATE button next to our picture at the top of this page(or the hyperlink at the upper right of the blog page). That will give you the next screen, which will guide you through the online giving (monthly or a one time gift). All funds are processed thru Crowne One and used for missional expenses only.

We are getting closer to having enough air miles to get our airline tickets! We have enough donated sky miles for three tickets…just two to go! They can be funded either as a “monetary one time donation” or donated as sky miles(via email twatters@extremenazarene.org). Each ticket cost  approx. $1,400.

God is moving in a marvelous way in Peru. Many are accepting Christ and are having physical needs met who have never experienced this kind of outpouring of love. We cannot wait to be a part of the mission team in Peru! We will keep you informed as we work. Your contributions will be used to love and care for the less fortunate thru this ministry.  Blessings. 

Support Letter