Thursday, June 9, 2011

Simon and Rebecca's Journey to Peru

Preparations...


Hola Diane
I get very excited too to meet these two young children.

Be a great experience for them. They will be like my two children. Here, will be very busy with the many volunteers, but I will always try to have an extra eye for them. Please notice them, that if there anything that may need, they can feel free to let me know. I am here to help. We also have a nurse who is always taking care of our volunteers when they get sick. Anyway, here are many pharmacies here.

Ginet Ambulay
Parroquia Santisimo Sacramento
www.santisimo.org

Santisimo Sacramento parish offer daily breakfast for more than 1,600 kids. And this morning Fr. Joe went with us to visit them.

We have 60 beds. And just let me know the dates of your possible visit. Normally, we have missionaries for this time, but we always can find rooms.

This is a safe environment. We have a good group of workers who are always caring and attending the missionaries and guiding them with their daily jobs. Also, we account with a staff of nurses and they check and take care the missionaries when they not feel good.

Our Santisimo Sacramento parish is well known all over the city of Piura, especially Fr Joe Uhen.

Things to do:

Pray: daily prayer groups in the chapels and daily Eucharist with the people, Weddings, Baptisms, Eucharistic Adoration

Build: a home, a chapel, a school room

Deliver: food packages, beds & blankets, clothing

Gather: children for activities and crafts, families for a picnic

Heal: work with the parish health team, a medical or eye mission, speech therapy, wellness education

Visit: the elderly, the orphanage, your adopted family, the sick, families still unknown, a village at night, sleep in a bamboo home

Play: Fiestas, traditional dances, Soccer, Volleyball

Teach: English to the parish English group or at the local school, other useful skills

Help: the parish lawyer, at the drug rehab program,

Invite: youth to the movies, a group to the ocean

Serve: at the breakfast kitchens, through projects yet to be discovered

Greetings to you, Ginet!

June 7...On their way to Peru




Simon Batenhorst and Rebecca Jeffrey are on their way. They are scheduled to catch flight 2316 on LAN Airlines departing Lima at 7:15am tomorrow (Wednesday) morning and arriving in Piura at 8:50am. This arrival time may be a little earlier than what we first reported. We can be reached at 402 991-9663 if there are any problems. They travelled pretty lightly; each one has just a carry-on rolling suitcase and a small backpack.
Thank you for your faithful communication. They are excited and just a little nervous. We hope they are a blessing to your work. We will be with you in prayer!

Jenny & Tim Jeffrey


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