Nauta, Peru – from the Marañon River

November 2019

Hi friends,

October has been a busy month.  Like we mentioned last newsletter, we finished school around the middle of the month. Because doors closed for us to serve at the children’s home in the jungle, and because we were asked to help serve with Dennis and Ruth Lacoursiere, we returned to Iquitos/Nauta area to collect and disperse of our personal things there.

We enjoyed seeing the kids at the children’s home as we packed our stuff.  We also spent time with other missionary friends in Nauta and in Iquitos.  While in Iquitos, Denver and I visited Cleser and Jolita and family. Cleser helped me several months on the chicken project. When their youngest son was born last November, they named him “Denver” also.

As we close this chapter of our work in Peru we reflected on the many good things that happened:

• Our family learned another culture first hand
• We made many new friends both Peruvian and from other missions
• My goal of helping the chicken project be successful was realized and I was able to create an instruction guide for this project
• We learned many valuable lessons in relating to others from a different culture

We are looking forward to serving with Dennis and Ruth Lacoursiere, missionaries from Canada.  They are part of Christians in Action Missions International and have been serving in Peru for 40+ years.  We are technically not joining Christians in Action Missions International but will serve alongside of Dennis and Ruth, keeping the same connections that we have with Good News Fellowship in Alabama, our previous sending church group.  We are excited to join the leadership team both at the main church, and also at the outreach church in Jose Olaya, a community on the outskirts of Arequipa.  During the last several months the small church at Jose Olaya has almost doubled.  It is exciting to see this happening even though we had little to do with its sudden growth.  As always, it is God that gives the increase.

Please keep us in your prayers as we seek to follow God’s leading.

Blessings,

Stan Schrock