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Our Last Three Months of Ministry and Upcoming Time in the US

Our Last Three Months of Ministry and Upcoming Time in the US

The last three months have been intense. In particular, Katie has been doing really special work. In October she went to the Connections conference in Brazil, visited our house church’s missionary in a mountain community of Apurimac, and worked in a medical campaign in Cusco. Between those things we hosted an alumni group as part of Harding’s celebration of 100 years. All of that led into an incredible November. She got to go to two of four sessions of a personal finance course that Paty did with a group called Féminas, a group of women with tough lives, most of whom are sex workers. Katie and Paty have been building relationships with them over the last couple years, and at the end of the personal finance class the women suggested a Bible study as a next step. See more below in the article about CUDA and please pray for that opportunity!

Recommendation: Jonathan Sacks's The Dignity of Difference

Recommendation: Jonathan Sacks's The Dignity of Difference

A few years ago, I listened to an interview that Krista Tippett did with Rabbi Sacks for On Being. Sacks’s questions about “making room for difference” and “seeing the image of God in one who is not our image” became guiding questions for my life in Peru, for thinking about dignity and difference in a world where George Floyd is murdered by police while the world watches, for the process of learning through travel. I began a doctorate program a few years ago and I chose to research the impact of studying abroad in Arequipa (with Harding University Latin America) in terms of intercultural spiritual formation. That is, spiritual formation in God’s diverse world is intercultural—and travel heightens the opportunity for that. It was only after I finished my research, writing the dissertation, and defending it that I had time to actually read the whole book. 

That's it, That's all - Issue closer and pictures

That's it, That's all - Issue closer and pictures

Well, that’s all I’ve got. Thank you for joining us in prayer. For those at Cedar Lane and Central who support us directly through giving to those churches—thank you. We’re more convinced than ever before that we are where we need to be, thankful for the chance to be a part of God’s mission here in Arequipa. Let’s just all do our best to show the love of Christ whenever we get the chance. That infinite, unknowable, boundless, Ephesians 3:14-21 love of Christ that changes everything. If you’re looking for something to read…