Servants of the Good Help

08/27/2025

Anthony spent yesterday with the bees. He inspected the hives and we have honey! Thankfully we don’t have to worry about winter so we are able to harvest it. FYI- we are in our winter here and the bees are flourishing. We had an empty hive and last week he found that it is now full of new bees. This is so exciting!!

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08/25/2025

Here is a list of items we need for the mission

08/13/2025

Tune to Channel 5 News at 12:40pm tomorrow for Taylor’s interview with Millaine Wells. We are so excited for this opportunity!

08/10/2025

Last night I led a memorial service for the one year anniversary of the death of a grandmother. Her family attends church weekly with us and the grandchildren attend Mary’s Little Champions and they are also preparing for baptism.

After the service we always offer a snack. This is the custom to sit together and share a small meal together on such anniversaries. Usually we serve crackers and soda. As you can see from the photo, the crackers are dunked into the soda before eating. I still can’t make myself eat them this way but our children do.

An interesting fact is that saltine crackers are called soda crackers in Peru. I find this funny since they usually dunk the crackers in soda.

08/05/2025

We spent last week visiting the sick, the elderly, widows and single mothers. We were able to give each house a bag of food supplies. Each visit was very blessed!

07/30/2025

We just uploaded our first blog post on our website. Take a look at one of the special things we do here.

Once a month, we throw a huge birthday party celebration. Why?

07/21/2025

Our medical clinic has been a huge blessing for the people. They now have a place to receive treatments! We are so thankful to have a nurse on-site daily to tend to the needs of your people Lord!

06/22/2025

Happy Feast of the Most Precious Body and Blood of Jesus! We love to celebrate Corpus Christi!

Spanish tradition is to create beautiful images of the Holy Eucharist on the ground using natural materials. Today we used flour, oranges, ashes, beans, wood shavings and flowers to draw out our image. All of the materials can be eaten by animals when the feast day is complete.

Our monkey and dogs were eating the flour as we were spreading it out. Sweetie, our monkey, ended up having a white beard on her face. She also tried to steal all of the flower petals we were using. It was hard to keep her away.

After the service Sweetie helped herself to the flower petals. Our cows enjoyed eating the oranges.

Please celebrate this Holy Day in a special way today!

06/18/2025

We are keeping busy. We continue to feed the children Monday through Friday. We also throw one big birthday celebration each month. The kids especially love this day because that means special cupcakes made by Katie and no classes!

We have also had a few special remembrance Liturgy of the Word Services for deceased relatives this month. After the service we offer snacks and fellowship for everyone in attendance.

We had our yearly inspection of the soup kitchen. Of course it rained leading up to the day which then required the inspectors to walk through the mid to get to us. It was a good experience for them because we have the only soup kitchen this far outside of the cities. They had the opportunity to experience first hand how the children live daily. It was an eye opener for them! We received high marks on our inspection!

We also have two visitors from Texas this month to help with the mission. They are a pleasure to have with is again!

Please continue to pray for our family and the people we serve!

05/08/2025

We are so excited for Pope Leo XIV! We had the privilege of meeting him in Chiclayo, Peru on July 16,2019. He was excited to hear about our mission work but he teased us for being Packer’s fans. Yes he is a bears fan.

Let us all join together to pray for Pope Leo XIV!!

02/24/2025

Yesterday marked our tenth anniversary as missionaries in Peru for the Prelatura de Moyobamba. We have been so blessed to serve the Lord!

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01/13/2025

We have been busy at work. The Peruvian school year ended December 20th. On January 6 we started our summer school program. The children are so excited to spend their mornings with us. We working hard at letter recognition with the younger children and reading with the older children. The children struggle a lot with reading and writing. We are going back to the basics.