Praises from Our Early Days

Amazonian Wednesdays 🌴

Remembering God’s faithfulness. This one is from back in April 2005 ☺️

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Sharing April Praises!

• The six-month period of Missions School practicum is drawing to a close, and our new semester will start this month. As our students are reporting in from their time working out in the field, we are excited to find that a total of seven new jungle churches have been started by our students in the last couple of years, including this practicum! 
  
  
• Thanks to a generous gift coming from a couple in Family Christian Center of Munster, Indiana, our Peruvian church network, ASIEL, was able to contribute to the construction of two new church buildings out in a remote part of the jungle, a location eight days away by boat. These two congregations had a little bit of money to start their buildings with, but needed a lot of help to be able to complete them, and they are thrilled to have received this blessing! Between the two churches there will be a capacity for 470 souls, which allows for a growth of more than three hundred percent over their current size. (One of these is a brand new ASIEL church for tribal people!) 
  
  
• As part of our students’ practicum, they organized and held a conference for tribal people, the biggest one of its kind that ASIEL has held. Around 250 came, representing about six tribes. As a result of this conference, visits by the students, and the two church buildings we contributed to in the area, the tribal people in that area are opening their hearts to us and to the gospel, after being closed to outsiders for a long time! 
• This month, the National Evangelical Council of Peru–a large organization where all the Bible-believing churches of the Peruvian nation come together for Kingdom purposes–held a meeting in our city, Iquitos. Representatives of this body have been doing a long term study in our region since 1993, tracking the growth of the gospel here.
  
  At the meeting, they had my father-in-law, Jose Arimborgo, stand up to be honored as one of the leading promoters of the good news in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle. Through the study, they came to the conclusion that ASIEL, which he founded and leads, is the second most effective organization in making new disciples and planting churches here in the jungle where we are working. (First place went to an international organization that has a lot more funds and resources available to it—we are just a local organization!) Out of a total of twelve missions associations working in the Peruvian Amazon, God has put special grace on the ASIEL, to such an extent where a national Evangelical board is taking notice. We want to give Jesus all the glory He deserves for this!