Peruvian - Canadian weddings, and updates

Well I figured it's time for an update post. I swear I'm trying to be writing more frequently and shorter update posts while things are fresh on the mind. Honestly.

Yesterday was my Canadian friend Jason and his Peruvian bride Rocio's wedding, which would make it my first Peruvian wedding I've attended since being here. Heck it would be my first Peruvian-Canadian wedding I've been to ever. It coincided with the trip my pastoral leader Stephen Best, his brother in-law Ray and Bob, all from my our home church in Canada came down for. It may not be my place to go into details on a public blog, but I will say it's such an encouragement to witness this wedding as it speaks of a testimony of restoration and what God can do with peoples' lives and to see what God has done in Jason's life is truly awesome.

This week and next I'm also not taking any Spanish classes, in order to be flexible with helping out with the guys down visiting from Canada, and to just go on errands with Ron Smith that have come up. Earlier in the week I went with him to meet with the publisher about the costs of reproducing 7 Spanish titles of Derek Prince books. Since he's unknown down here, we don't know how hard or easy it will be to this, but it sounds like the publisher is willing to put 1000 copies out. The publisher's husband also is the director of a very large radio station in Lima, Radio Pacifico, and in order to promote the books is interested in helping us put the 15 minute Derek Prince teachings on the air. So he's producing 3 different versions of an episode, and we're sending them to DPM in the USA to see which one they're willing to pay for, and then the teachings will help sell the books and put the deliverance teaching ministry out there--a badly needed ministry over here in Lima. We also have big aspirations to duplicate this model into the other Spanish speaking countries in Latin America. Who knows where this could go from here.

So please keep that in prayer, as we believe that DPM will be willing to finance this and things will go forward. In case I didn't mention it on my blog or on the FYOH podcast, we are their official Peruvian representatives and own the rights to 7 of their titles. Other ones are owned by a ministry in Ecuador. Later today (Sunday) I'm meeting Stephen, Ray and Bob at their hotel to come over to Centro de Fuego--our church plant in Lima. The other night we took them with us outside of town for Stephen to share a word with the leaders and pastors going to the Bible school we're involved in. They're there taking some DVD classes put on in a pastor's church there because typically, 80% of pastors in Peru have never had any form of theological or ministry training, but are in ministry to fulfill some kind of need and this school of maybe over 50 pastors represents many different denominations.

We had a huge Holy Ghost blow out and they seemed to love it. During the prayer time afterward many pastors got baptized in the Holy Spirit for the first time and speaking in new tongues, and there was just such a desperation and a hunger for the presence of God that was really exciting to see God do in our midst. Much weeping and crying out for God. This kind of stuff stirs me up, and helps give me high expectations of what to expect to see God do in the months to come as we lead up to the conference in August.

Well, I need to be going and getting ready for this afternoon. Thanks for reading and praying.