Hi friends,

Denver and I bounced through the jungle on the furagoneta with Dennis, who is one of the parents at the children’s home. For some time I have been wanting to visit the La Roca church at San Juaquin that Dennis is pastoring. This 2 weeks ago an opportunity opened for me to visit and to see the oven project.

It’s about an 18 kilometer ride up the paved road and about 6 kilometers through the jungle on a dirt trail if it is dry and a muddy one if it rains. It rained while we were in church and Denver and thought we may have to spend the night there. We fishtailed and careened down some of the hills but fortunately we made it out.

The brothers at San Juaquin have built an outdoor oven out of bricks and clay to make bread. They fired it up for me to see it in action. After burning wood for an hour it was hot enough to bake bread. Unfortunately we did not have any dough to put into it. Some of the bread will feed the children here at the home and but a lot of it is to sell. Right now they mix and roll all the dough by hand and only bake on Saturday until the funds arrive for more equipment. Once they have the equipment they plan to
operate it daily and peddle the bread in the local village and also up and down the Amazon River. The money that this project makes will fund the mission’s boat and the local missionaries who are establishing more churches along the river.

I plan to go along with the brothers from San Juaquin to a new village in April to witness to whoever is there. Perhaps a new church will start there!

This past week we focused on the house. We worked at painting and laying tile in the shower and around the sinks. Wednesday which is our day off, we went to Iquitos to shop and celebrate my birthday.

Two new children arrived last night at the children’s home. Alejando and Luis are the new boys that are around 10-12 years old. We don’t know much about them but they are fitting in with the other children well already this morning. School starts tomorrow morning. We as the staff look forward to school because it helps occupy the
children. What a blessing it is to see them growing up and learning.

Thank you for your interest in this work and for praying for us.

Stan