The months are flying by and already it’s time to write about what has been happening last month. We are heavily involved in several churches. In September, the church that is meeting in our house asked Ruth and I to do a marriage seminar. We have not done anything like this before and our Spanish is not that good, so we turned them down for a month or so. But they kept asking. God started convicting me with the story of Moses, how he gave the excuse that “he couldn’t speak” and God asked him, “who made man’s mouth.” So I gave in and told them that we would but that I needed 4 weeks prep time between classes. I did not have much material for this class in Spanish so I knew it would all be from scratch. And there are cultural martial differences that also add to the difficulty of this subject.

And then God sent an “Aaron & Miriam”, a Venezuelan couple that have a background in counseling to help us. So starting the first week in November we started a marriage class. We knew that 4 weeks apart was not ideal before we started and after the first week we decided it wasn’t going to work. So we have classes every other week. Efraín and Mariel have been a huge blessing helping us in correcting our Spanish, knowing the hot topics in marriage for the culture, and being an encouragement to us when in reality, they could probably teach it better. We plan on having a total of six sessions with the last one being a special one for the couples.

Are workshops are also open! We call them “Talleres en Acción” or Workshops in Action. Ruth has several a week, teaching neighbor girls and youth from the church how to bake. The pastor’s wife has also been coming along. The time they are waiting for the cakes and cookies to bake is used for discipleship. The other week one of the girls who was dealing with a lot of depreciation, mainly because of the pandemic, gave her heart to the Lord! Its great to see God working through the workshops already.

I’m teaching one student in the carpentry shop. I have others that have asked but with the teaching load and other responsibilities, I just don’t have the time. I hope that after the holidays I’ll be able to take on several more students.

We also celebrated Thanksgiving with different US missionaries and their families in our house. Some had not celebrated it for several years US style. Other missionaries are such a blessing and an encouragement to us.

Prayer Request

• Pray for the marriage classes.
• Pray for the workshops and the students.
• Pray for Camila, the young girl that just received Jesus.

Christmas blessings,

Stan & Ruth Schrock

Here is a link to a short video about our work here in Peru.