Day 8

Today was a great day.  Construction in the morning!  We finished our 75th bag of concrete and made over a 100 bricks!  WE MADE A DIFFERENCE!

However, there is a big goal ahead.  In order for the school and home to open, the cafeteria must be completed!  Please pray that God would meet the need so that the school and home can open in time!!!

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Grace + Peace in the heat!

Jon


“Hey bros just wanted to check in and give a little idea on whats going on here in Trujillo today.
These past couple of days have been tough with the lacking of sleep and all but I think just getting through it and realizing the motivation for it all has just opened me up to something god has been putting on my heart. God could not have made it clearer to me these past couple of days that he wants me here giving all I have to serve him. Its a great feeling to have a since of where i’m going in life, to know god has placed me on a path loaded with missions. Im excited to know what other missions are in store for me but I have that much more motivation in me now to continue on in pursuing god and reaching out to others and showing them gods love. I want all to know that the impact that is occurring here is not only to stay here but to come back and impact all of ridgeway and much more. Thank you so much for your continued prayer and god bless.  Grace + Peace.”  Tino S.

“My week in Trujillo didn’t start out the way that I planned on it starting. As soon as we flew over Lima I started having a ear ache which didn’t stop hurting until Tuesday. Looking back I wondered how I got through construction, however I worked my butt off regardless of all the pain. Everyone was great to me, everyday I must have heard the words “how’s your ear” at least 50 times a day! People prayed for me continuously and it felt great to see the people I have been with for years care so much about how I was doing.
Aside from my ear infection, my time here has been amazing. Most of the time we did double days of construction and I started out the week by making bricks which sounds easy but its not. Monday came and me and three other girls decided that we were going to do what the boys were doing and make cement. The boys didn’t seem too thrilled about this and definitely did not think that we had the strength to shovel and push the cement back and fourth. However, we did and they were so surprised to see this although it was very tiring. Our group has been amazing in how we’ve come together and worked as a team through all the hard work we have been doing. We have a lot of memories built from the past week and I hope to see our group adventure to other parts of the world someday soon to show Gods love to other people. Thank you guys so much for all your support and prayers, see you all in a few days!” - Kathryn L. (:

“ “Enjoy serving the Lord, and He will give you what you want. Depend on the Lord; trust Him, and He will take care of you.” Psalm 37:4-5
My biggest lesson from the week: Be Here Now.
Before coming on the trip, I had a mindset that the answers to the decisions I was facing in my life would all be revealed to me during these 10 days in Peru. I’m not sure why I thought like that, but the first day here, I was convicted and shown how I needed to be living in the moment. Jon Weller (the assistant director of Inca Link) told us to truly be living here now. I took this to heart, and asked God to help me to truly live in the moment, and to focus on my service here, and not all of the decisions I had to make back at home. Ever since then, my eyes have been opened to so much about myself and about my relationship with God. God has shown me that I don’t have to have everything figured out, but that I can just trust in Him. Also, He has revealed to me that maybe an answer won’t be concrete, and God is giving us a choice. I think that the bigger choice is being able to allow God to use us no matter where we go.
This week, I have learned to truly rely on God, and to not rely so much on myself and my own abilities, or on what other people can offer me, but to instead love God with all of my heart, soul, and mind, and to help others to do the same. I also have seen that my passions are MY passions, and that God has given me these passions in order to serve Him. An intern at Inca Link named Amber said “You can’t be passionate about something you don’t know about”, and that has impacted me so much since being here in Peru. I have learned that I am truly passionate about children, and that was revealed to me through working with the children at the day care, and the joy I feel from being around children in everyday work. I also learned that I have a passion for the Alburgue project that we are working on, and the vision that the Inca Link staff has for these children has become my vision. I never would have learned that I have these passions if I hadn’t known they existed.
This week, I have been so proud to be a part of this group (The Well). The love and unity and support that is overwhelmingly present in these people is amazing, and contagious. The team unity that we seem to have has been a dream of mine, and I am so thankful that I have been present to witness this unity. I have been so blessed by the conversations that I have had with people in our group, and the prayers and love that have been given to me by others.
I love Peru. I have felt so blessed to be here, and it feels like home. I have learned that whenever I am serving God and truly living in His presence, it feels like home. I was so blessed when yesterday, the youngest Kimbro son (a missionary family here) told us “Welcome Home” when we arrived at the worksite. That made my heart feel so warm, and it truly summed up my feelings. I already miss it here, and I haven’t even left yet. How weird is that?
I am trying to take the lesson of “Be here now” home with me. I realize that I need to be happy with what I have, and learn that God truly is enough (scratch that, more than enough) for me. Thank you for your prayers and love, and I can’t wait to see everyone in a few days!” -Allie A.